Update: May16th, 2012 Tom Friedman of the NYTimes is climbing on board and calling it a Revolution. See here. US Universities may have just crossed a tipping point – or should I say 4 tipping points. First David Brooks at NYTimes has written a Martin Luther-like manifesto calling into question the efficacy of college/university teaching …
If you have been in the airline, media or electronics business in the past 10 years you have experienced Business Disruption’s accelerated pace. Check the Business RIP notices at Wikipedia. But the following articles in Forbes about the impending and ongoing demise of Sony, Best Buy and Eastman Kodak in the face of the best …
Back in 2008 Picnik was cited as one of the best online image editing sites in the business. Two years later in 2010 there was another review no less enthusiastic about Picnik after Google bought the software and added it to Picasa. Other recent reviews put Picnik well above such competition as SplashUp and even …
Free online university courses have really hit their stride this quarter. Courses from Michigan, MIT, Stanford, University of California at Berkley are available now. Free course material has been available from a variety of sources. Near and dear to this blog and web developer are the w3schools set of tutorials on all key coding in web development …
Steve Jobs as manager is being featured in an article by Jobs biographer, Walter Isaacson, in the the Harvard Business Review. Clearly, the piece by Isaacson is an apologia. Even the NYTimes has picked up the story because there are a wide range of attitudes towards Jobs management style. As a onetime Mac User I …
Apple is reserving the right to sue Kodak into oblivion is the headline at AllThings Digital. Once Steve Jobs opened the patent lawsuit “magic box” in Cupertino, Tim Cook seems not able or even remotely inclined to close the lid on the lawyers. This legal maneuvering will have real implications for the rate of innovation at …
Update:Penn-Olsen, a Chinese Tech watching website is reporting that Chinese Hackers say release of massive amounts of data was just a joke. The data released on the internet last week was already widely available in hacking circles, according to Wan Tao, the founder of a popular hacking online community. Wan told the Dongfang Daily that …
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A computer operating system is very close to a natural monopoly. Controlling the dysfunctional effects of such monpolies has proven very difficult. A simple monopoly occurs when one supplier provides 60% or more of the product in a marketplace. Monopolies do not have to be dysfunctional. However, in profit maximizing markets there is a strong …
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Adobe management has a major problem – the operating platform where 50% of its sales come from, Apple, has had top executives sabotaging Adobe’s products and market position. Worse, this abusive behavior has been going on for decades. True, the idea of development neutrality of Operating System vendors is at best only ethically binding [which …
Call them like the GOP sees them – the Job Creators, the Fortune 300 largest businesses in the US. As the NYTimes describes here, the top US Businesses are not paying their fair share of government taxes and support. And given that Corporations are People and certainly do benefit mightily from government programs they are remiss …
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For the past few years admirers of Hewlett Packard as envisioned by the two founders, William Hewlett And David Packard, have had to endure so much unseemly tumult at the top. This is definitely not the founder’s enlightened HP Way. The following Dilbert cartoon catches the madness: But the humor is truly black. Is the …
Our sister publication, theOpenSourcery.com, did a story on the day the Google buy out of Mototrola was announced. Unlike the markets which punished Google stock with a 3% drop that day, theOpensourcery was much more positive about Google’s buy of giving the following five reasons: 1)Google is going to operate the company as is and …
This is a Fake Apple Store in China There is a story circulating in the business press about a new case of blatant piracy in China – fake Apple Stores are cropping up all over China. For the past ten years since China was admitted into the WTO and obtained most favored nation status for …
Nowhere is the disruptive waves of change emanating from rapid developments in electronics more evident than in photography markets. 150 years of chemical films came to a close in the late 1990’s and early 2000’s with the rise of digital cameras[just ask Eastman Kodak]. Now separate video and still cameras are merging as both compact …
News Corp International is the name of Rupert Murdoch’s media empire that stretches from his native Australia [owning many of the largest Australian newspapers] thru Europe with many interests based in England [including Harpers Collin Book Publishing, Sky Italia and other Sky TV networks, several newpapers including the Sunday Times and the just now defunct …
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If anything should have been learned from the Financial Meltdown of 2007-2009,it is a childhood lesson that your Mom repeated count less times – playing with fire and other things techie you don’t completely understand…. oops make that derivatives and other complex seccurities while under the influence of extremely high leverage can be very detrimental …
