Open, Please!
As more and more things move to email and the web, financial services companies are showing signs of advertising frustration. Since their email gets blocked by our spam filters or we just hit the delete key, they continue to rely on paper mailings. Solicitations to take out a loan, get an investment advisor, set up […]
IBM Happenings: September 2008
The month of September was a month, as usual for IBM, filled with a slew of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The list of announcements made during the month is below and the complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. Included was the revelation that IBM scientists […]
NASA 50th
There are more than a billion Internet users in the world and tens of billions of web pages. Things were quite different in 1994 when I first showed the world wide web to the senior management team of IBM. Most of the web sites at that time were government or education related and my favorite […]
Greenland – Part 4 (The Cable)
Last month’s Konference Sarfarissoq in Nuuk was hosted by Brian Pedersen, the CEO of Tele-Post Greenland, and the focus was the impact of the submarine cable which will soon bring broadband Internet to Greenland. A traditional kayak enabled the symbolic landing. The big news since my August trip is the actual arrival of the Alcatel […]
Route 7
Someday I will ride the entire 308 miles of U.S. Route 7 but this Tuesday it was just 120 miles of it. The day was perfect for a motorcycle ride — not too hot, not too cold. The north-south highway runs from Norwalk, Connecticut to northern Vermont near the Canadian border. As I was riding […]