Author: Tom Nolle

Apple is always a wonderful target for rumors, and the current one is that the company is getting into the TV business for real, launching not only a service but a line of TV sets that would link to it.  The idea has the media agog of course, but no matter who is supposed to…

RIM has demonstrated why it’s never a good idea to rest on your laurels in a market you’re not leading in the first place.  The current-model Blackberries sold OK but older models were down in sales and the PlayBook was a disaster.  Now the company is pushing for a next-quarter refresh, the line of everyone…

The FCC is finally going to publish its net neutrality ruling (some time in the next couple of months), and while the move isn’t going to change a darn thing in ISP behavior (people have been complying anyway), it will open the door for a flood of appeals of the ruling.  It’s also likely that…

About a half-dozen years ago, Juniper made news with a series of aggressive cartoon ads that stuck it to arch-rival Cisco in various ways.  Now Cisco is apparently taking that same tack, at least to a degree, with a website that’s a pretty clear swing at Juniper.  The focus of the site is the claim…

Well, Carol Bartz is done at Yahoo, and that’s a truth that has mixed implications for the market.  Yes, it’s true that Yahoo has continued on its downward slide since Bartz took control.  But there’s a bigger question here, which is whether there is/was anything that could be done to stop that.  That question has…

One of the more interesting wrinkles in the ongoing tablet wars is a decision by more cable companies to back away from any commitments (on their own or as MVNOs) for wireless capabilities.  There was a time when everyone thought that the quad play was going to be a major requirement, so how did this…

Dell has used a couple of software conferences as bully pulpits for some of its own cloud announcements.  The company is making a major cloud move, one that they obviously hope will elevate them to the status of a “real” computer company (they rank number three in our surveys as what users think is a…

The ever-changing focus of the consumer electronics folks is now shifting from Google/MMI to the upcoming Amazon tablet, which could be introduced in as little as a month.  The details of the technology aren’t known, but they’re probably less important than the price point.  If Amazon brings out an iPad-sized unit for under $300 they…

Verizon has taken what may be a very important and evocative step toward maturing its enterprise cloud strategy with the purchase of privately held CloudSwitch.  The significance of the move is hard to appreciate without an understanding of just what the heck CloudSwitch is, so I propose to start with that. The classic vision of…

Sprint’s shares were up yesterday (well, so were a lot of shares) on reports that it would be offering the iPhone 5, and there were also rumors that analysis of app logs for that phone showed it was compatible with both GSM and CDMA networks.  I wonder now if that’s a further indication that Apple…