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…
We’re heading into the fall now, and with the change in season will come a new period of technology-strategy planning for both enterprises and the service providers. I’ve tracked the former group with a formal fall survey since 1982 and the latter since 1991, and the results of the surveys are always interesting. This year…
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…
The Justice Department has filed an anti-trust suit to block the AT&T acquisition of T-Mobile, a move that is raising all manner of comment on both sides of the issue. With all deals like this, the question is whether the consolidation is bad for the consumer to the point that justifies blocking it. Is 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…
Over the last three weeks I’ve been developing an application note on multi-screen video based on the open-source Java framework I launched three years ago. One of the steps along the way was to send the note to operators for comment, and the results that I’ve gotten from that process have been very interesting. What…
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…
Steve Jobs has finally decided that his health won’t permit him to head Apple, and has passed control to Tom Cook, the Apple COO who has been the administrative head since Jobs took a leave early this year. I met Steve twice in my career, once very early in Apple’s rise and again after he’d…
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…