Today’s CMO’s Need a Swift Kick in the Bu… Digital
“I don’t want to belong to any club that would accept me as one of its members.”
Yet here I am, a member of the Don’t Do a Good Enough Job Selling the Value of Marketing club.
GreenTouch release tools and technologies to significantly reduce mobile networks energy consumption
Mobile industry consortium GreenTouch today released tools and technologies which, they claim, have the potential to reduce the energy consumption of communication networks by 98% The world is now awash with mobile phones. According to Ericsson’s June 2015 mobility report [PDF warning], the total number of mobile subscriptions globally in Q1 2015 was 7.2 billion. […]
Anxious for the real release of Windows 10
As everyone knows by now, the new version of Windows will ship the end of July. I signed up and placed some earlier beta build (through the insider program) on a machines back in January but then had to move on to other efforts, so I never really got back to look at it closely. […]
Cloud Software and Business Modernization Part Two: Customer Experience
Building and executing on a customer experience (CX) strategy is one of the most pressing areas of business modernization. The Internet has created new interaction models and channels, as well as created an expectation of immediacy. Companies are struggling to keep up with the expectations and new interaction models. The explosion of new and changing […]
Voice recognition project completed at UTD
Every semester I try and work with some students at UTD by facilitating a ‘capstone’ project. It’s another dimension of my support for STEM education. Yesterday, they gave their presentation to their professor and class. This semester the project was creating an Android based speech recognition solution to facilitate a Voice-based Inspection and Evaluation Framework. […]
And not Or
I was in an exchange the other day with some folks talking about their perspective that all companies need to be using cloud computing. I agree, but my view is slightly different. My perspective is that depending on the company’s size, needs and applications they will likely continue to have in house systems. It’s not […]
Quips: The Long Tail On Intel’s Latest Earnings
Latest Earnings Reflect Macro Trends In PC Shipments, Data Center Growth, and IOT Industry bellwether, Intel, reported earnings per share of 41 cents versus 38 cents per share year over year. Revenue came in flat at $12.78 billion versus $12.76 billion. The continued secular PC slump and late entry into mobile chips still drives into […]
Service Innovations over time…
I was in an exchange with Jim Spohrer (of IBM) the other day about Service innovations and he gave me the following lists dealing with service innovations: Top Ten Service Innovations in all of History 1. Division of Labor – an entity gets to do more of what they do best, and less of what […]
7 Questions to Help Look Strategically at IoT
There are still many people who view the Internet of Things as focused on ‘the things’ and not the data they provide. Granted there are definitely some issues with the thing itself, but there are also concerns for enterprise, like the need to monitor the flow of information coming from these things, especially as we […]
Event Report: Inside the #SXSW2015 Phenom – Meerkat
Tweeting Live Video Takes Center Stage At #SXSW2015 Live video service Meerkat’s launch may well rise above the fray at this year’s South by Southwest (SXSW) convention. After slews of invites the two weeks before, the service has taken off. Early users have found three major use cases as SXSW has proven to be the […]
