Doing More Business with Mobile Devices
People of a certain age may not comprehend this but it’s hard to conceptualize the feeling of liberation you felt when you made your first business call from a mobile device. Suddenly there was no more returning to the office or ducking into a phone booth (remember them?) to make a call. Just whipping out [...]
Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.
Business Insider reminds us that today is the 30th birthday of the original IBM PC: the computer’s brain was a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 processor (for my younger readers, it’s Mega not Giga) and it had a grand total of 256K RAM (again, it’s not 256 GB, not even MB, but Kilobytes). Yet it was a [...]
Mobile Data Analytics
Over the past couple of years I have met with several startups that offer analytic solutions for mobile data. I have not invested in any of them. I had felt that the data captured from feature phones and early generations of smartphones was not rich enough to lead to interesting and distinct analytics. For example, while data captured from a mobile web browser such as sites visited, pageviews, time spent browsing could be analyzed, we didn’t need a new company to do that. Omniture could do that just fine. However, the new smartphones capture more interesting data. These data sets…
Making Consumer Technologies Help Enterprises Create A Winning Edge
There’s a revolution taking place in the IT ecosystem today. When more and more focus is put on innovation, its evolution, growth and in managing innovation while looking through what conventional collaborative mechanism in fusion with powerful mecha…
IBM rolls out its mobile credentials
IBM says the mobile market is around $250B and is looking to grab a part of the pie.
