Protecting the Status Quo
CD and record companies did not like it when Napster et al started distributing MP3 digital music files because it threatened the status quo and the companies’ business model. Book publishers did not like it when Amazon started selling books for $9.99 because the new digital books threaten the status quo and the publisher’s business […]
The Physical Internet
In August 2008, I had the pleasure to visit Greenland for the Konference Sarfarissoq in Nuuk, the capital of Greenland. The conference was hosted by Tele-Post Greenland, and the focus was the impact of the submarine cable which would soon bring broadband Internet to Greenland. A traditional kayak enabled the symbolic landing. A month after my […]
Where Were You When…?
November 1995 (edited September 11, 2003, November 23, 2011, and November 22, 2013) Most of us remember vividly where we were on September 11, 2001. In my case, I was in Danbury, Connecticut in the board room at Bristol Technology meeting with their CEO, Keith Blackwell. Remember where you were when you first heard that […]
The Internet of Things
Home automation is a broad term. I would define it simply as automating things in your home. The age-old and most trivial example is the “automated” coffee pot that is programmed to turn on at a certain time, and when you arrive in the kitchen the coffee is ready. At the other end might be […]
Apple Events
As usual, the Apple Keynote to introduce the new iPad Air, Mini, Mac Pro, and free software was done with great marketing aplomb. Tell them what you are going to tell them, tell them, and then tell them what you told them works every time. Also as usual, the financial analysts are missing the point. […]
