That’s One Small Blog for the Internet…
…one giant leap for me! Now, I think this might be something like the 193,846,963rd blog in the world. Luckily for me the Gartner branding affords me the luxury of being able to cut through a little...
View ArticleMarket Share Just Isn’t What It Used To Be
I was pouring over the transcripts of Steve Ballmer’s interview at the Churchill Club last week when I ran across this answer in relation to Microsoft’s position in the mobile phone market: “…if you go...
View ArticleKeeping Down With the Joneses
Was it just me? Did anyone else notice that the defining experience of the credit boom was the mind-numbingly boring dinner conversation? Surely I wasn’t the only one enduring story after story of the...
View ArticleWill Business Users Save IT Budgets?
A consistent theme that appears in any discussion around Software as a Service (SaaS) is the extent to which these products are brought into organization by business users rather than IT departments....
View ArticleSteve, Android is a Feature, Not a Product
Steve Ballmer was in my part of the world last week and while speaking at Telstra’s annual investment day made a statement about Google’s Android that will doubtlessly get a lot of mileage in the...
View ArticleButt Out IT! Facebook "Productivity Loss" Is No Concern of Yours
Like my colleague Anthony Bradley, I also speak to a lot of IT departments worried about people wasting time on social networking sites like Facebook. But Anthony is a much nicer guy than I am. Oh...
View ArticleUnwanted Emissions? Blame It On PowerPoint…Or The Dog!
Well, it turns out that the ballyhoo over the 2 Google search = 1 cup of hot tea’s worth of CO2 emission is turning out to be hot air itself. It turns out that the 7 grams of CO2 per search was a...
View ArticleWhen the Pink Slips Drop, So Does The Penny
With Microsoft’s announcement of their financial results and the impending reduction of 5000 employees – their first major layoff – I find myself thinking back on one of the more profound experiences I...
View ArticleWhat Happens When Google Goes Bankrupt?
No, this is neither a prediction or an imminent possibility! But I’m just wondering – what if Google went bankrupt? I think this question is extremely pertinent in the light of our current economic...
View ArticleIt’s The Business Model, Stupid!
The media’s obsession with layoff tallies is starting to remind me of the body count reports from the Vietnam War. But I just read an article “Half -a-Million Job Cuts: Is There a Strategy Behind the...
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