Supernova 2008
3-6 billion mobile phones with up to ten sensors each. Trial with 150 students driving around and providing anonymous information about where they are, how fast they are going, etc. and have it centrally integrated and then made available to everybody who is driving.– traffic prediction. Further out possibilities include tracking of influenza through personal […]
Roku
About fifteen years ago one of my children worked at Blockbuster. One day I told him that Bockbuster would be history because people would be downloading their movies from the Internet. Yeah, right Dad. Ok, I was a bit ahead of my time. In the intervening years there have been numerous companies started to offer […]
IBM Happenings: May 2008
The month started out with the Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles and then was filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The list of announcements made during the month is below. One of the most interesting things IBM did in May was to release a Global […]
Microcapital
The final speaker at IBM’s Business Partner Leadership Conference in Los Angeles was Nick Donofrio, the company’s Executive Vice President for Innovation and Technology. Always an emotional, enthusiastic and at times nostalgic speaker, little did the audience know that the next day IBM would announce that Nick will be retiring on October 1 after a […]
CEO Titans
IBM Business Partners Leadership Conference May 1, 2008, Los AngelesNotes by John. R. Patrick The accelerating integration of global economies IBM committed to becoming a global integrated enterprise. BRIC plus 60-70 others The emergence of a new computing model IBM remixed it’s business to move to higher-value spaces away from low margin high volume products. […]