Let’s face reality here. For a decade now, we’ve had a vision of the future as one of a romp through a vast collection of entertainment, funded by advertising that we all try to never notice. The fact is that all the ad metrics in the world don’t prove that anyone actually sees an ad,…
In yet another move that could be called “cloudy” in more ways than one, Dell is buying Wyse, a former terminal vendor who now specializes in “thin clients”, which I guess is what they call terminals these days. It seems to me that there’s a lot of questions about this kind of move, and that…
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The mobile industry is still digesting the fall of RIM, and today there are suggestions that range from RIM getting bought by Microsoft as their handset arm to RIM adopting Android to join the mainstream. I even heard one story that says that Apple was going to license iOS! Good luck betting on that one….
There’s a lot of complicated wording in these areas on many sites, all sorts of talk about click-throughs and what constitutes an actual serving of an ad, and how someone might suggest a topic. Well, we have good news for you. Our own situation is a lot simpler. We absolutely do not accept ads, and…
Anyone who thinks that being a giant, THE giant, in your market makes you safe needs to be looking at RIM this morning. The fabled Blackberry vendor has sunk to a loss, replaced its CEO, and is clearly in a world of hurt, and the reason is that it forgot the simplest rule; which is…
This week’s activity seems to me to be pointing to the future course of network equipment. On the one hand, we have Huawei reporting $32 billion in sales, good growth year over year, and demonstrating that networking from their perspective is a value market. On the other hand, we have Cisco making moves (including its…
Comcast is joining with the telcos in offering a hosted PBX and UC product, and the move is significant both for the overall competition in the UC space and for the evolution of voice and UC overall. Cisco is expanding its Jabber UC, and also linking it better with telepresence. Sprint is partnering with Cisco…
If demand-side issues are driving changes in the industry, then it’s fair to ask where the industry is going. We talked yesterday about the major drivers, and today I want to talk about the major technology shifts a bit more. In particular, I want to make the connection between the changes in opportunity and the…
We’re hearing a lot about the changes in networking, in IT, in pretty much everything technological. Likely there ARE going to be tumultuous changes, but if we want to understand them, to get the planning-for-the-future process right, then we need to understand what’s driving them. We tend, in the IT and networking world, to focus…