Facebook is the latest in a line of mediocre technology companies that were at the right place at the right time. Continue reading
Category Archives: The Post PC Period
Here I discuss life in the post PC period. I will cover both the effects on companies and individuals. Most of the emphase will be on the consumer.
Do I really need to travel with seven devices
This is nuts. Look what I am traveling with: 1)Macbook Air, 2) iPad, 3) Kindle Fire, 4)Kindle, 5), iPhone , 6) iPod Touch and 7) AppleTV. In addition I carry various thumb drives, a digital camera and wear a flitbit. And guess what? They all do different things well. Continue reading
Steve Jobs Bio: A review sort
I just finished Walter Isaacson’s bio of Steve Jobs. I would say it is informative but not insightful. For tech junkies, especially of the Apple genre, the book has detailed information about the history of Apple and especially how product and business decisions were made. This history is presented in a clear and factual manor. … Continue reading
Facebook stop stealing my blog posts
I listened to an interesting interview (aren’t all) on Fresh Air about the war between google, amazon, facebook and apple (notice Microsoft was not even mentioned. By the author of this article on the same topic in Fastcompany Magazine. Clearly many companies are fighting to control the user/customer. When I was at Intel in the … Continue reading
Intel secures its future (maybe)
I believe that security and protection of information is both an opportunity for Intel and by its absence a limitation to Intel and all the other computer companies. Continue reading
Built to Blast
The days of building a company to last may be over. Now we are building companies to blast. Continue reading
Facebook: Take the money and run!
I really enjoy Facebook. But actually what I really enjoy is interacting with my friends. I probably don’t really like the company Facebook that much. Continue reading
What my wife can do that Facebook cannot
My wife has been feeling like she is a bit of a Facebook widow. She asked me to think about the things that she can do that Facebook cannot. So here is a list Continue reading
iPad Day One
For sometime I have felt the iPad would become the black-hole of media and all media would be sucked into it. Continue reading
Bill Gates and me
As you probably know, Bill Gates is leaving the employment of Microsoft the company he founded in 1975. Bill and I have had overlapping lives. I actually started working on computers a few years before Bill (being 10 years older then Bill helped). And while I am not Bill Gates I can imagine what it … Continue reading
Two Thirds Done 