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- Are you a widget or are you a business?
- In this Web 2.0 world where every on-demand service can become a widget, where is the business?On Saturday afternoon I spent 3 hours looking at YouTube videos through FaceBook. YouTube became a $1.6bn widget on FaceBook.Will the winners be the companies such as FaceBook, or their competitor, that manages to...
- Tags: Trend watch, Disruptive
- Blog posts 2007-07-16
- Why Silicon Valley has to break the Telco/Cable Comms Cartel
- Silicon Valley is teeming with established companies and startups whose services and products require communications services. Some of the startups are called Web 2.0 companies, or social networking companies, social media companies etc. It doesn't really matter what they are called, they all require a communications component to unlock the...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, IT strategy, Disruptive
- Blog posts 2007-07-10
- The Trojan Horse iPhone
- The Telcos have become the biggest obstacle to the development of new technologies and services. They have become the most backward elements in our society when it comes to rolling out new technologies, applications, and services. They have filed lawsuits to stop public wireless networks, and they constantly seek to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Enterprise IT, Disruptive, APPL
- Blog posts 2007-06-28
- Tibco and why IT really does matter again
- I really should spend more time with my sponsors of SVW. I spent most of Tuesday at Tibcos user conference, catching up with the the companys business strategy team and having some great conversations, and thinking I really should spend more time with my sponsors. Tibco, Infineon Systems, Intel, Edelman...
- Tags: Enterprise IT, Disruptive, Business strategy
- Blog posts 2007-05-02
- A proposed unit of "innovation/disruption"
- I was discussing innovation Wednesday evening with my old buddy Tom Abate from The SF Chronicle. These chats always provide lots of fodder for posts.And in talking about innovation I began to wonder if it was synonymous with disruption. I think it is, because if innovation is not disruptive it...
- Tags: Business strategy, Disruptive, innovation, Silicon Valley
- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- Innovation inflation
- About 15 miles south of San Jose, down a country lane, and hidden behind one of the scenic rolling hills of "Steinbeck country" is IBMs Silicon Valley research and development labs.It used to be called Santa Teresa Labs, opened in 1977 with about 3,000 square feet, housing about 1300 researchers,...
- Tags: Business strategy, Disruptive, IBM
- Blog posts 2007-02-21
- Harvard Business Review: 20 top ideas that challenge what you know
- The Harvard Business Review has a list of top 20 "Breakthrough Ideas for 2007." Some interesting, ideas here that are counter-culture in that they challenge accepted thinking in many different areas. Siobhan Ford from HBR says that the list is free to read for all of February and that the...
- Tags: Disruptive, Emerging Hotbed
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- FAST AdMomentum offers web publishers their own ad network
- FAST Search and Transfer, the European based search giant, today announced software that allows online publishers to serve contextual ads to their readers. The FAST AdMomentum software could increase ad revenues by more than 200 per cent for some publishers, compared with large advertising networks such as Google AdSense and...
- Tags: Enterprise IT, Media/Blogging, New Rules, Disruptive, advertisement
- Blog posts 2007-02-05
- Will private equity funds gobble up tech and then the rest of corporate America?
- This is a question that I think is one of the most important ones around, because of the massive amount of global capital and the stunning investment returns from taking public companies private. Is it a good trend?Here are some issues:- Will companies emerge leaner and meaner from private equity...
- Tags: Disruptive, private equity
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- Google's one square-inch business model...
- Googles ambition is to have a searchbox in front of someone all the time. From that small rectangle of user interface, maybe it measures 1 square inch, Google has built a massive business. Microsoft owns far more user interface real estate than Google--youd think it would be ahead of...
- Tags: Real estate, user interface, Microsofts, GOOGLE HAS, Googles ambition, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
- Gartner predicts hasta la Vista for future Microsoft OSs
- Gartner predicts the bleeding obvious: Vista will be the last Windows.LOS ANGELES Reuters - Research firm Gartner Inc. turned soothsayer on Wednesday by predicting that Windows Vista will be the last big release of Microsoft Corp.s Windows operating system. Source: Gartner predicts Vista to be last major Windows - Yahoo!...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Disruptive, Business strategy
- Blog posts 2006-12-14
Additional Resources
- Sequoia bets on enterprise apps in the cloud
- Big-hitting VC firm Sequoia Capital has invested in SaaS pureplay integrator Appirio, making a bet that bringing cloud applications to the enterprise will prove to be a disruptive opportunity. by Phil Wainewright
- Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, Professional Services, Sequoia Capital, Appirio, Cloud Computing, Phil Wainewright
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on board
- Yahoo, Icahn settle proxy fight: Icahn on boardIcahnThe cancer of the communications industry. He's almost so big the body can't reject his attacks and soon the it will die along with it's customers, not to mention all the jobs lost. Maybe he will sell it's soul to another country before...
- Tags: Corporate governance, board, Icahn, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-21
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home pageStock Tip: Get out of Legg Mason fundsTime to put down the crack pipe Legg Mason."We would prefer that the company and Mr. Icahn reach a mutual agreement on the composition of the Board and end this disruptive...
- Tags: Corporate governance, Legg Mason Inc., Icahn, board, Yahoo! Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Legg Mason takes Yahoo's side vs. Icahn; Yang takes campaign to home page
- Updated: Yahoo's argument that billionaire investor Carl Icahn is a short-timer with no clear plan to run the company has won over a key investor: Legg Mason. In addition, Yahoo CEO Jerry Yang is taking the company's campaign to its home page. In a broadcast to employees...
- Tags: Jerry Yang, Legg Mason Inc., Board, Yahoo! Inc., Carl Icahn, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Obama calls for comprehensive cyber-security measures; looks for a national cyber ninja
- Update: It would seem that Richard Stiennon agrees with me on the concept of a group of experts to advise, also on keeping away from spending ridiculous amounts of money. Cyber-terrorism... ah, what a fancy buzz word that is. Defined on Wikipedia as: "The premeditated use...
- Tags: John McCain, Cybersecurity, Security, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Microsoft's search ambitions are its Vietnam
- Is Microsoft fighting an unwinnable war with its online business and search obsession? It's a valid question and one that needs to be asked. At some point you have to wonder if Microsoft's Google envy is its Vietnam. As Mary Jo Foley noted Microsoft's answer to its...
- Tags: Business, Microsoft Corp., Investment, Finance, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- New hybrid delivery security architecture
- Secure Computing's Ken Rutsky tells how to integrate Software-as-a-Service SaaS, virtualization and appliance security offerings to let users get exactly what they want. “In the past, CIOs deployed their own self-contained application architectures on their own servers and storage systems. This old model is giving way to a hybrid...
- Tags: Appliance, Software, Software-as-a-service, Platform, Information Technology, Advantage, Hardware, Model, Service, Architecture, Organization, Delivery Security Architecture, IT Security Professional, Delivery Platform, Software As A Service (SaaS), Tools & Techniques, Cloud Computing, Security, Emerging Technologies, Management, CIO, SaaS, virtualization, IT appliances, service delivery, IT management, Ken Rutsky, Secure Computing
- News items 2008-07-16
- DOT11 Monitor (exe)
- Enterprise Wi-Fi deployments have become mission critical. Mobile users are dependent upon a robust radio frequency RF connection between their mobile client device and the network infrastructure. Disconnects between the mobile client device and the network infrastructure are disruptive, and, because of the nature of the radio frequency signal, can...
- Tags: Monitor, Mobile, Radio Frequency, Radio, Oberon, Mobile User, Advertising & Promotion, Network Technology, Marketing, Networking
- Software downloads 2008-07-10
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OS
- Why you'll have a long wait for Microsoft's next OSPerhapsbecause I said best bitsThe next OS from Microsoftshould employ the best bits of what is available, whether they are Microsoft ideas or not - most of the best ones have not been. For example, it should at the very least...
- Tags: Operating systems, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-07
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