Hello, 2010 Calling
Three and a half years, 900,000 apps and 300+ million tablets sold later, it has occurred to Microsoft that their business model of a PC centric world may not be appropriate. So whatever part of the...
View ArticleWell, I guess we will not be fighting over the remote control anymore
If TV sales are dropping globally, what are people doing with their time? Use of video is not dropping. My kids have not been allowed to have televisions in their rooms but this has not stunted their...
View ArticleBones, Where did you put the tongue depressers?
Can anyone be a great technologist if they did not watch Star Trek? When you listen to everyone’s vision for the future, it always goes back to Gene Roddenberry. We already have the tablets replacing...
View ArticleDr. Google, I presume?
Is the medical industry about to learn what Microsoft is learning about competing with Google? Selling a service regulated by state governments limits new competitors and ways of doing things....
View ArticleHow many riders have survived the Citibike program beside me?
…Apparently, all of us, so far! I think that the reason for so much surprise is the struggle in the street among the drivers, the cyclists and the pedestrians. As I am all three, I see the difference...
View ArticlePay Attention, Every Day!
“Plan your work, work your plan.” is a problem when management does not track performance against plan. The bigger the gap between performance/plan creates a greater need for change. So the longer...
View ArticleHey Kids, what time is it?
It is not Howdy Doody time. I still wear a watch out of habit but my kids almost never wear one. The difference between the time that I take to turn my wrist versus taking out my phone to check time,...
View ArticleWhich Way Did They Go?
As we remember from history Lewis and Clark made the first map of the then recent Louisiana Purchase. In all they created 140 maps. Google’s Street View project is underway to create a pictorial map...
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