Visa 2000
The upcoming trip to China requires a visa and the visa application requires a passport photo. The instructions were clear that it should not be a “home photo”. I was anxious to get the application in the mail and was confident that the processor of the application would not reject my photo printed from the […]
IBM Happenings: December 2006
The month of December at IBM was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. I was particularly interested to see that IBM and Circuit City Stores, Inc. are exploring how to apply virtual worlds and 3-D environments to retail business models.The result could lead to new growth areas. […]
iPhone
A friend of mine who knows a lot about investing told me years ago to not confuse a great company with a great stock. Apple Inc. finished the day at $97 per share which is 42.79 times earnings and represents a market capitalization of $83.4 billion, roughly double the value of Motorola. So I am […]
Taxi, Please
If you have ever been to New York City or seen a movie with a taxi scene in New York City then you know what it can be like to get a taxi. This past week I learned about a totally different process. After a day of meetings at Opera Software in Oslo, Norway, it […]
Power to the People
There has been a lot of discussion here in the blog and in Net Attitude about "Power to the People". The "power" discussed had to do with empowerment made possible by the Internet. To get connected to the Internet requires another kind of power — electricity. Although some improvements have been made there are still […]