Five Percent (2006)
At a speech in New Orleans on Monday I said we were just five percent of the way into the Internet — that of all the things that could simplify our lives and save us time, only five percent of them are here so far. New companies such as Pandora are pressing the envelope to […]
Update
There are some pictures from the New Orleans trip in the photo gallery. Red Herring ran a story called “Net 2016: The Web 10 Years After” in which a number of us were quoted. See in the news. If you haven’t tried Pandora and you are in the U.S., Australia or New Zealand, I highly […]
Preservation
After finding four official National Geodetic Survey benchmarks during an interesting walk around downtown New Orleans, it was time to meet at Antoine’s for dinner. The famous restaurant has been continuously operated by the same family since 1840. Through wars, the Great Depression, epidemics and storms, the culinary treasures continue to be served. The French […]
IBM Happenings: April 2006
The month of April had the normal slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and corporate initiatives. Being “tax” month, the company announced a new solution for optimizing tax auditing. IBM’s Tax Audit and Compliance Solution uses advanced analytics to help revenue agencies zero in on questionable tax returns. There was also a milestone […]
Intellectual Property
On Monday and Tuesday of this week a number of analysts and consultants gathered with IBM at an intellectual property briefing in Greenwich, Connecticut. Not as glamorous as the meeting in Rome but exceptionally interesting. The term intellectual property reflects the idea that the subject matter is a product of the mind and that legal […]