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6 Stages of Cultural Impact

July 16, 2010

Mea­sur­ing the cul­tural impact of a cor­po­ra­tion in 6 easy steps.

Fauxpenness

August 26, 2009

Some com­pa­nies pre­tend to be open. Intro­duc­ing the con­cept of Faux­pen­ness, a def­i­n­i­tion, and some exam­ples from cur­rent companies.

2007 Predictions

January 1, 2007

This year marks the 10th anniver­sary edi­tion of the TNL.net pre­dic­tions for the year ahead. In past years, I’ve been bat­ting above 50 per­cent in terms of pre­dic­tions, except when it comes to nam­ing what will hap­pen with spe­cific com­pa­nies. The trends are gen­er­ally cor­rect (or in some case, early) and I always look at this […]

2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

Why Apple should consider Wintel

November 19, 2004

Last week, two major events showed the decreas­ing power of the Oper­at­ing Sys­tem: the first one was the release of Fire­fox and the sec­ond was the release of Kon­fab­u­la­tor on the Win­dows plat­form. All this got me think­ing about how we relate to our oper­at­ing sys­tems and in par­tic­u­lar, about how I relate to the operating […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

SCO vs. the world

December 18, 2003

One of the nice things about orga­niz­ing events filled with geeks is the fact that I get to hang out with peo­ple that are smarter than me. The dis­cus­sion on Tues­day cov­ered a wide num­ber of sub­jects but most of the fas­ci­na­tion came from what to do with SCO. For those not famil­iar with the bat­tle, SCO […]

Mozilla after AOL

June 4, 2003

Over the past few days, I’ve been spend­ing time cov­er­ing what hap­pens now that AOL and Microsoft have set­tled their dis­pute. How­ever, one area that I have not cov­ered is what could hap­pen to Mozilla mov­ing for­ward. With the new agree­ment, AOL has received a royalty-free license to use Inter­net Explorer for the next seven years. Since […]

Transmeta Changes the Landscape

January 19, 2000

Mor­ph­ing soft­ware could allow com­puter chips to change based on soft­ware upgrades. A new com­pany, Trans­meta, enters the space and could rede­fine how chips are produced.