Our best wishes to you, your families and friends for a Happy, Healthy, and Prosperous New Year. Much of 2012 was a stimulating hike through the emerging computing technology (ECT) landscape; with the last month or so being an exciting...
Ratcheting up the “Flops”, the US regains Supercomputing Leadership. Keep the Innovation Flame on!
This week’s big supercomputing story – It’s Red, White and Blue and … Green too! This past Monday (June/17), as I was sitting outside; reading and enjoying the nice sunny weather on the East Coast, I received an...
Even Bigger than the Internet
The cloud is changing everything. The change is even bigger than the change we saw from the Internet. It will change how every business operates. That’s what a cloud computing expert told me – Roger Krakoff, founder and managing partner...
What Difference Does it Make?
What differences does it make? That’s the first question for every entrepreneur and innovator. The country – and the world for that matter – is buzzing with new start ups. Most of them will fail of course and it won't...
The New News: Vox Populi
A new Greenpeace campaign targets Apple’s cloud computing products, as it looks to “clean the cloud around the world. A smooth animation of a timelapse of planet Earth from ‘Electro-L’, a geostationary satellite orbiting 40,000 kilometres above the Earth. A...
The New Communication: Electronic, Social & Mobile Media
For some years, I had six phone lines on each of two instruments and a phone at one ear or the other – sometimes both – many hours a day. I also had a third instrument with my private line...
The New Advertising: Frictionless Sharing
Privacy – “the ability of an individual or group to seclude themselves or information about themselves and thereby reveal themselves selectively,” according to Wikipedia” – has become a marketable commodity for millions of consumers, it seems. Given the right “value...
A Time for Transformation, not Mere Change
Once upon a time – about a year ago - traditional publishers fell in love with the colorful screens of mobile devices as a solution to their battle with the popular assumption that information on the Internet wants to be...
Simply Pure and Purely Simple – Systems, Stacks and Clouds
I recently attended the IBM IMPACT conference. During the keynote, an IBM executive remarked (and I am paraphrasing) – It is very hard to make technology simple. This is a very profound observation. This morning (May/2), comfortably perched in my...
The Pure Thing
Yesterday, I watched from the comfort of my home office, IBM’s PureSystem – “Unveiling of a New Computing Era” announcement in New York City. After the initial background business discussion by Mr. Steve Mills – Sr. Vice President and Group...