If you look back a decade ago, when META Group Executive Directions analysts were mining the implications of their credibility-dependency matrices and Vivaldi Advisory founder Bruce Rogow was talking about long marches once the cleanup was done, it was clear … Continue reading
Facebook appears to be lost. The company has its sights set on growing in the mobile space, but is having challenges in execution. Waze Acquisition Facebook recognizes the importance of mapping, and wants to acquire Waze. Waze makes software that … Continue reading
It’s the outcome Microsoft feared, and it’s coming to pass. Enterprise buyers are staying away from Windows 8. So much so, in fact, that the product will be “relaunched” in an attempt to break down the opposition. Windows 8 — … Continue reading
It is nearly impossible to separate the drop in the stock price of Apple and its significance in the phase of the product cycle for the giant. Since the iPhone 5 was released, the stock market assigned a value of … Continue reading
The technology game goes through waves. Some periods are filled with innovations; others, it seems fairly quiet. Right now it’s one of the quiet periods. The core models for getting work done are established. Public cloud, private cloud, server farm. … Continue reading
Apple has been in the news recently due to the announcement of their second quarter earnings report. Apparently the results met analyst expectations and yet there have been various news articles – some positive but some also predicting future doom … Continue reading
There are Apple fanbois. And there are Android fanbois, mostly around the Samsung Galaxy. Don’t get me wrong, both the iPhone and the Galaxy are good devices. But they’re also both maxed out. Several years ago I conducted research into … Continue reading
This could be a very good year for the buyers of technology products and services. It’s not necessarily going to be as good a one for the sellers. All the economic warning lights are lit, from slowdowns in job creation … Continue reading
A hacking into the account of the twitter account of Associated Press caused stock markets to drop temporarily. The fake tweet claimed an explosion injured the U.S. President. On April 23, after the tweets were posted, accounts that trade stocks … Continue reading
Two companies exemplify one of the challenges for IT professionals trying to sort out information about market potential. In both cases, a great deal of the information that’s out there right now is actually driven by the stock market — … Continue reading
The Dutch tulip mania bubble of 1637 was reborn as Bitcoin. This began in mid-March 2013 and and continues today. As many already know, during the golden age, contract prices for tulips rose as unsustainable levels. When we are taught … Continue reading
If you did a public opinion poll in enterprises on the subject of “bring your own device”, you’d find two very different results. Users, by and large, are in favour. IT professionals, by and large, are not. (Of course, when … Continue reading
Outsourcing of people, offshoring of functions. None of these is new. No one much bothered to make a big fuss about any of them, though. The affected employees here in Canada tarted up their résumés and eventually found something else. … Continue reading
Google Plus Daily published some traffic and opinion figures that illustrates what we already know. Facebook activity is declining, while Google+ is picking up. Users should be aware that the site could have some bias over Google, but what site … Continue reading