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ZDNet Author Biography: In May 2004, Tom Foremski became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper, the Financial Times, to make a living as a full-time journalist blogger. He writes the popular news blog Silicon Valley Watcher--reporting on the business of Silicon Valley.Tom arrived in San Francisco in 1984, and has covered...; more about Tom Foremski »

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Are we seeing a disturbing trend in "blackmail" innovation...?: I've been thinking about the acquisition of a Silicon Valley startup, Ribbit, by BT, the giant British telecoms firm. Ribbit started out in classic form as the vendor of disruptive telecom technologies. Ribbit declared itself "Silicon Valley's First Phone Company" - a...; Tags: silicon valley, innovation, telecommunications company, ribbit, telecom & utilities, leadership, telecommunications, telephony, strategy, management, networking, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-08-04
First Data Could Allow User Generated Financial Credit Reports: At the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference I spoke with Michael Capellas, CEO of First Data, which processes about one-half of all US credit card transactions. He said that the company collects massive amounts of financial data and that this part of the business is just ten percent...; Tags: financial, first data corp., financial data, financial accounting, finance, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-31
A glimpse into the future of the Internet: The best panel I saw at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference was "2018: Life on the net." The moderator was Quincy Smith, CEO of CBS Interactive. On the podium was Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Chairman of Six Apart...; Tags: panel, ceo, internet, corporate communications, marketing, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-30
Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?: I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...; Tags: mr., venture capital, investment, finance, financing startups, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-23
Intuit cut 575 jobs - is this "user generated unemployment?": The other day I reported that Brad Smith, the CEO of Intuit, had asked his managers to see which jobs could be cut because there were volunteers among Intuit's 50m users that were doing a better job -- and for free. These seem to be the emerging business benefits from...; Tags: job, intuit inc., unemployment, recruitment & selection, human resources, workforce management, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-23

Telcos hurting national interest says Vint Cerf - Father of Internet: I spoke with Vint Cerf at the Fortune Brainstorm conference in Half Moon Bay. I asked him about net neutrality and the problems created by Telcos in trying to own the gateways to the Internet. Here is the video, the quality is very high contrast because of...; Tags: vint cerf, internet, telecommunications, telecom & utilities, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-22
Updated:Will social media lead to user generated unemployment?: [Updated with video.] I'm spending a few days at Fortune Magazine's invite-only Brainstorm conference. It's an excellent lineup of speakers and the audience is full of top tech industry luminaries. Brad Smith, CEO of Intuit, was just on stage and he spoke about trying to harness...; Tags: intuit inc., social media, recruitment & selection, benefits, payroll solutions, human resources, workforce management, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-21
Intel's Centrino 2 + WiMAX could break the Luddite Telcos: I was at Intel's Centrino 2 launch on Monday and I'm hoping that Centrino 2 can do the same thing Centrino 1 did for WiFi but this time for WiMAX -- make it a reality. The timing for Centrino 2 to be a change agent for WiMAX,...; Tags: intel centrino, telecommunications company, intel corp., wimax, wi-fi, wireless, processors, semiconductors, hardware, components, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-16
Intel's Sean Maloney talks about the "fog" of online marketing: I was recently over at Intel as part of the Intel Insiders group of leading bloggers pulled together to offer marketing advice to the world's largest chip maker. Sean Maloney, the number 2 exec at Intel and Chief Marketing Officer spoke about the "fog" of marketing online. ...; Tags: intel corp., marketing research, marketing, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-09
MSFT's acquisition of Powerset is not about search: The recent $100 million acquisition of Powerset, the semantic search engine company, by Microsoft looks to be more to do with advertising than beefing up the software giants' search capabilities. So far, Powerset has only demonstrated its technology against Wikipedia. It's a neat exhibit but it is...; Tags: acquisition, yahoo! inc., contextual advertising, msft, search, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-07-04
Could some uses of OpenID create a large privacy issue?: I just finished a news story about VeriSign's (NASDAQ: VRSN) secure OpenID services chosen by Microsoft for HealthVault users. The story discusses VeriSign's DNS services and its OpenID services and asks if this is a problem or a feature. Is this a possible privacy issue or could the two technologies...; Tags: dns, verisign inc., privacy, domain name, openid, domain names, security, networking, internet, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Online Rule #1: Online fights . . . don't!: Online rule: Don't get into a fight with anyone online. This one is adapted from a recent Twitter experience in which I got into a twit fight with a twit... This paraphrases a Confucius saying: Don't get into an argument with an idiot because people passing by...; Tags: fight, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-30
Bill Gates: Saving the world is easier than saving Microsoft?: I was shocked when I first heard that Bill Gates was going to move much of his time away from Microsoft and devote it to giving away money. MSFT is doing well financially but its short to long term prospects are challenging to say the least. The...; Tags: steve jobs, bill gates, microsoft corp., tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-27
Sun's fuzzy carbon math...: Dave Douglas is Chief Sustainability Officer at Sun Microsystems and he writes a monthly column in "Environmental Leader." This month he writes about a concept he calls "Peak Carbon." This is his definition: Peak Carbon is the point in time after...; Tags: sun microsystems inc., math, dave douglas, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-23
An answer to AP's anti-blog policy: quote freely but carry adtribution link: Associated Press upset a lot of people with its new policy of restricting the use of its news stories in blogs and other web sites. But I have a proposal that could benefit everyone that creates content that is re-used or quoted by others. My proposal is...; Tags: associated press, internet, web site development, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-21
Can Silicon Valley's San Jose find its way?: San Jose suffered a massive calamity just a few years ago that cost it 225,000 jobs - nearly one quarter of its entire population - the worst job loss anywhere in the US since the Great Depression. The dotcom dotbomb from 2001 to 2003 was a period...; Tags: san jose, recruitment & selection, human resources, workforce management, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Build a better search engine then what?: If you could build a better search engine than Google what would happen to Google? Nothing. GOOG can monetize search better than anybody else. That's what the recent YHOO/GOOG deal is about. Google has the best monetization platform for search...; Tags: monetization, google inc., search engine, search, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-14
GOOG CEO says "Don't Be evil" is misunderstood: This is interesting. Take a look at this story in which Eric Schmidt, CEO of Google, says the company's mantra of "Don't be evil" is often misunderstood. Reuters' Eric Auchard: Google CEO talks of good, evil and monopoly fears In an on-stage interview with...; Tags: eric schmidt, ceo, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-11
San Jose's hipster festival: Zero 1 - Art on the Edge: For at least five days San Jose, California, is the hipster capital of the west. It is Silicon Valley's answer to Sundance and South-by-South-yawn-West. Here is a flavor of what's in store (video by Lucaso and Laura]: ...; Tags: festival, san jose, steve dietz, ryoji ikeda, corporate communications, virtual reality, sales force management, marketing, emerging technologies, sales, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-06-03
Silly media interviews serious media: Dan Farber talks about CBS CNET: Hat tip to Dennis Howlett for this one: The unstoppable Loren Feldman interviews the immovable Dan Farber Editor-in-Chief of CBS News.com. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GIYy3jddnG4 by Tom Foremski; Tags: cnet networks inc., media, cbs broadcasting inc., advertising & promotion, marketing, tom foremski; Blog posts 2008-05-23