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The Cloud Wars

July 9, 2009

The cloud wars will pick two camps against each oth­ers: on one side, advo­cates of appli­ca­tions run­ning on the desk­top; on the other advo­cates of appli­ca­tions run­ning in a browser.

Is Ownership Passé?

May 4, 2009

In this first piece in a series, I look at own­er­ship vs. rent­ing, the result of a num­ber of obser­va­tions through­out the last few months.

2009 Predictions: Hardware

January 5, 2009

Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gad­gets will be com­ing this year and the trends they will engender.

Disruptive Technology

April 22, 2003

Bright­hand reports about a new piece of soft­ware that allows to make calls using a Pocket PC and a Wi-Fi card. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment that could turn Wi-Fi into a very dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy for the mobile phone indus­try and may explain why com­pa­nies like T-mobile are plac­ing bets on the phe­nom­e­non, cov­er­ing them­selves in case other revenues […]

Tivo and Digital Media Servers

April 9, 2003

Back when they came out, I said that tools like Tivo and Replay could change the face of tele­vi­sion watch­ing. A cou­ple of years ago, I assumed that game boxes would be the new home media cen­ter. What I missed, though, was the end run that Tivo was doing around the game com­pa­nies. With yesterday’s announce­ment that they would […]

Cisco acquires Linksys

March 20, 2003

Today’s announce­ment about Cisco’s acqui­si­tion of Linksys is one that leaves me scratch­ing my head a lit­tle. What is the logic behind this? Could this rep­re­sent a change in Cisco’s strat­egy? Or is it a real­iza­tion in the part of the net­work­ing equip­ment ven­dor that its future may not be enhanced by mov­ing into the now heav­ily depressed […]

Internet in France 2002: An overview

August 19, 2002

Last week, I was in France for a short vaca­tion. Dur­ing that time, I got a chance to talk to peo­ple locally and get a bet­ter idea as to what was going on within the Inter­net mar­ket in France. Here are a few obser­va­tions based on my under­stand­ing of what is going on. Strong Growth France had been a leader in terms of […]

The Convergence Game

November 18, 2001

This week, Microsoft launched the Xbox, a new gam­ing sys­tem that takes the Red­mond giant into another mar­ket. Today, Nin­tendo is unveil­ing the Game­Cube, their new entry in a bat­tle they have fought with Sony for many years. With these new gam­ing sta­tions enter­ing the mar­ket, a new war is start­ing and in the end, it is a war […]

It’s Connectivity, Stupid!

May 11, 2000

Here in New York City, I take my wire­less con­nec­tiv­ity for granted. The same thing was true of my trips in Europe. Car­ry­ing a cell phone and a wire­less Palm has never really been a prob­lem and, for a while at least, I was con­vinced that the wire­less rev­o­lu­tion was upon us any minute now. Last week, while on a busi­ness trip […]