The world of computing has been turned topsy turvy by mobile devices – light, mobile, long-battery life and most important – touch screen operable. Smartphones and tablets from Apple have lead the way; but now the Wintel Empire Strikes Back with ultrabooks , convertibles and 2-in-one PCs. But what may shape this latest twist in […]
This blog recently took a look at the lead Sony has in the wearable device market which is currently only a minuscule overall market. But according to Forrester, 30% of consumers are interested in wearables. All the big boys – Apple, Google, Microsoft, Samsung among the computing leviathans are openly or otherwise working on wearables. But
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The writing on the PC Wall is ugly with not just a 14% decline in year over year sales in 1Q2013 but 4 straight quarters of sales declines as well. This trend has hit Intel as the primary PC chipmaker doubly hard because Intel has failed to break into the mobile chip market where smartphone
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Maybe not the writing, but the following graphics will create no great cheer in Redmond. Look at the Trends for Microsoft languages based on the Tiobe Index First, Apple’s Objective C is surging in popularity. But of greater concern is the peaking of C# and Visual Basic. Python is now more popular than VB. But
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Logan and Parker are the names of the next generation mobile CPU/GPU chips coming from Nvidia. This party has wondered if Moores Law which see a doubling of CPU chip performance for the same cost roughly every two years can be sustained. This is important because Moores Law which drives electronics but is stretched to
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Startup technology firms are still abound despite the emergence of three controlling heavyweights in electronics and computing: Sphere 3D with Glassware 2.0 – SaaS cross platform delivery Here in Sphere 3D’s own words is their value proposition in any device support: Consumers can gain complete access to fully functional software versions, allowing PC productivity software
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Samsung leads the Smartphone Market in the US taking over from Apple. But Samsung has leading or near leading positions in the appliances, TV, compact camera, and other electronic device markets. They, not GE nor Phillips nor Sony are currently the first innovators in bring the Moores Law powered electronic chip revolution to consumer products.
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The Emergence of Computing’s New Big 3 Apple, Google and Microsoft have become the dominating Big 3 in the Computing Industry “For the past 30 years Computing has been Consumer-driven” – Ben Acelman In case you have not noticed, there is a new Computing Reality – Apple, Google, and Microsoft have become the BIG 3
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No less an authority than the Economist shows that under Democratic Presidents the stock market has outperformed by a wide margin what was accomplished by Republican Presidents. And this GOP poor economic and stock market performance goes back 80 years. The fundamental problem is that Republican Presidents have had poor economic policy and tolerated
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Irans says it is developing nuclear power for peacful purposes. Given the $2B in annual spending on enriched uranium which could be converted to nuclear weapons, Iran could devote those funds to leading the world in developing RE-Renewable Energy for Desalination which looms along with associated grain food shortages as the number one problem facing
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Shark Week was last week and I am not talking about the GOP Convention. But Financial Shark Week is being resurrected this week in the Wall Street Journal and the NYTimes. It started with Andrew Ross Sorkin noting in the Dealbook section of the NYTimes, that Facebook’s IPO-Initial Public Offering of stock was priced too
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One could look at the financial numbers and quickly proclaim Apple is at the top of Computing Computing’s Big 3 Companies Company Annual Revenues Market Value Quarterly Dividend Apple $109B $622B $2.65 Google $38B $220B $0.00 Microsoft $74B $256B $0.20 IBM $107B $226B $0.85 Oracle $37B $156B $31B Source: Google Finance Apple dominates Microsoft in every
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Windows 8 has received some very bad notices from diverse sources – John Dvorak at Marketwatch and a PC Gamer Tim Edwards among others are some of the salient ones. Despite these nay sayers ye Editor is very optimistic about the success of Windows 8. I think the nay-sayers are protesting too much about the learning curve for
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With the announcement of Microsoft’s Surface, now all the major OS vendors have moved all-in in betting to take the Consumer Computing Crown. Microsoft Surface is more than a tablet – Surface Pro is a laptop PC No more side bets through proxy hardware or software vendors, Apple, Google and Microsoft are now building everything required for
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The following letter of resignation by Greg Smith from Goldman Sachs published at the NYTimes appears to provide proof that the Finance Vulture Culture has survived despite the onslaught of Bush and Obama administration legal prosecution cases against the financiers responsible for the Mortgage Meltdown and Financial Crisis. Now to be sure this Survival of the Fittest extends beyond
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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
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My brother Mark has done very well by his investment in Apple stock over the past decade. Given the recent, relatively substantial downturn in Apple stock PE ratio he received an investment advisory from ye Editor. Here is the jist of those remarks. I think Apple is at a crossroads– they could have become the major desktop PC
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Over and over again, the world is seeing an anguishing and paradoxical debate over the Deficit Conundrum . Simply stated, nation after nation has allowed bubbles of inflated values to occur, accumulate and eventually topple their economies. The classic bubbly case is the overinflated housing markets in the US and parts of Europe that burst
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