FCC admits CableCARD a failure
Yep, total failure. There is no real 3rd party marketplace for CableCARDs and what the network operators provide is limited in functionality while costing the same as a set top box (e.g. Comcrap’s CableCARD doesn’t support on demand). On top of everything else, the signal processing capabilities in the CableCARDs was suspect, in my own [...]
McKinsey Bids Adieu to Anil Kumar
Late this afternoon, a Reuters story hit the wire confirming that Anil Kumar, a former McKinsey Director, was no longer with the firm following an internal investigation. Reuters quotes an email note from McKinsey spokesman Michael Stewart noting tha…
Silverlight 4, Azure, Gears “death,” and Flash SaaS SDKs – RIA Weekly #67
This week, it’s Silverlight 4, Azure, Google Gears “death,” Flash with Salesforce and RIM, and more. The full roster of Coté, Ryan Stewart, and Mike Downey are back for this one.
Key Themes and Hot Topics: Negotiating with Analyst Firms (Part 1)
Situation Room — From the Ivory Tower in Boston (or Stamford, CT)
We have received dozens of client inquiry calls from concerned parties
looking for advice on how to negotiate their 2010 agreements with
Gartner and AMR Research. Now that th…
Transcripts – FedEx Critical, IBM SAFE
Transcript available for two recent videos: FedEx Critical tracking and IBM SAFE.
UK’s Carbon reduction commitment legislation – the shape of things to come globally!
Screenshot credit Tom Raftery – data from NASA
The world is getting warmer. 2008 was the 9th warmest year on record. 2009, barring a sudden, severe, global cold snap, will end up being the 4th or 5th warmest year on record and with El Niño coming on in the Pacific, 2010 looks likely to set [...]
The Turkey Cloud – IT Management & Cloud Podcast #60
Amazon has two updates, one of which John is very excited about, Tivoli Monitoring expands into the cloud, and John posits the myth of auto-scaling.
Dangers of Social Media
Today’s show was a bit late in getting going (sorry about that was unavoidable) but once we did get started we focused on the the dangers of social media how perhaps our approach to these topics should be considered in regards to how the younger generations view we we do in relation to what they [...]
Friday Rant: A Solution for Groveling IT Professional Looking for Work: Move to India
A few weeks back, the comments section of Spend Matters was hijacked by a handful of protectionist nutcases. I won’t delve into the specifics in this column but needless to say, it’s a good thing for the pro H1-B Visa camp that it’s most vocal op…
EMC and the Cloud, Or Le Nuage et Le Petit Prince
I went to an EMC analyst event yesterday to find out more about the firm’s cloud strategy. Unfortunately I left with the impression that the company really needs to get its story straight. Cloud is an extremely nebulous term, and as such must be treated with care in marketing, but also product development.
EMC was keen [...]
