Roundup of Mobile Apps & App Store Forecasts, 2013
Faced with shorter time-to-market schedules, challenging cost constraints, and ever-increasing customer expectations, manufacturers are accelerating their use of mobility applications. They’re also using them to galvanize production, finance and selling strategies into a unified direction so customers’ expectations can better set and exceeded. One manufacturer’s CIO summed it up well when he said they hit [...]
Your Glass Watson
I was discussing Watson, the IBM super silicon brain that won Jeopardy! the other day with a reporter writing an article. Around the same time, I was also looking into Google Glass, the wearable computer that enables people to record what they see and to see what they’re recording through a teeny tiny screen mounted [...]
Google Glass and Data Privacy
Remember when the meteor hit Siberia a few months ago? There was awesome video of the event on all of the news outlets and we all wondered how that happened given the early time of day and the randomness of the event. The answer was stranger than the act of nature it reported on. Apparently, [...]
Facebook Home is not these 5 Things from the Past
Facebook Home is going to change the way we live our lives on our mobile phones, perhaps. May be. May be not. I am reminded of so many attempts to: Turn eyeballs into action on PCs. Turn blank web browser homes into ad units, home pages, pre-loaded apps. Ability to read email/messages etc without starting [...]
21 Most Admired Companies Making IT A Competitive Advantage
All enterprises, regardless of what they produce or the services they deliver, are really information businesses. The accuracy, speed and precision of IT systems means the difference between winning or losing customers, keeping supply chains profitable, and solidly translating new concepts into revenue-producing products and services. The world’s best-run services businesses have customer-driven IT as [...]
Getting A Head Start On Five Factors Reshaping E-Commerce
The best e-commerce websites have an innate ability to quickly define customer expectations then exceed them by delivering excellent experiences. In the highest-performing e-commerce businesses mobile, social, globalization, cloud and legacy order management systems are all galvanized around that common goal: delight the customer and earn their trust. After reading Gartner’s report Market Insight: Three [...]
Microsoft’s Cloud Strategy and Roadmap Evident at Convergence 2013
Kirill Tatarinov’s keynote at Microsoft’s Convergence 2013 marks a subtle, yet very significant shift in how this technology leader is marketing itself to partners and the outside world. They are humanizing their marketing, messaging and products. Gone is the Spock-like precision of presentations packed with roadmaps, mind-numbing metrics and intricate feature analysis. The Nick Brophy [...]
Google’s Story That Google Reader Traffic Declined Is BS When You Put That Traffic Alongside Google+
It wasn’t hard to read between the lines–I’ve been calling Google’s decision to drop Google Reader a Microsoft-esque decision made to try to push customers to their other products, and especially to Google+. Google’s story that it needed to be done because of declining traffic is BS when you look at the real numbers. Buzz [...]
6 Ways The Pundits Are Dazed and Confused About Google Reader and RSS
One of the you-betcha-surefire Pundit strategies is that when something is getting a lot of heat, like the current flap over Google dropping Google Reader, you can get a lot of attention by disagreeing with the crowd. You want to do so in the most colorful possible way, in fact. It’s a common form of [...]
Google, If You Think I’ll Move From Reader to Another Google Product, Drop Dead
Just got the news that Google Reader will be turned off July 1. Realistically, I should’ve moved after the first time they brain-damaged it and I railed about it, but I stupidly stuck to it. Now I’m sorry. I’m not the only one, Om Malik says it is his second most used Google application after Gmail. [...]
