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I Want … iPhoneTV
Take the iPhone, but replace the screen with a 40 inch HDTV screen and put it in your living room. What do you get? a TV a high-quality speakerphone bypassing the telcos a live window to grandma (“HDTV videoconferencing in your living room”) a stereo a movie rental kiosk a game console Now, next time […]
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The Fundamental Remaking of Several Industries
@parislemon neatly summarized today’s news about H-P getting out of the PC business: HP To Apple: You Win. I hope he meant more than tablets, because the victory of the Apple model is much broader. Just a few days ago, Google caused a major earthquake with the announcement that it would acquire Motorola, one of […]
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Today’s “Nymwar” Protests: Grass-Roots Dissent By The Governed
Who gets to decide what your name is? Upon birth, your parents pick your name, just like they decide what food you eat and when to take a bath, as it is appropriate for parents of infants. After you grow up, naming rules are very different by jurisdiction. In Germany, where I grew up, it’s […]
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Four Competing Visions of PaaS Evolution
I spent some time recently trying to understand how platform-as-a-service efforts might evolve from here. The OpenStack Design Summit this past week, and the Talk Cloudy To Me event of the Silicon Valley Cloud Computing Group on Saturday were particularly helpful. I figure I might as well blog what I found… which is four competing […]
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NoSQL and the End of the SQL Cash Machine
A techie debate is raging on the relative merits of relational vs. so-called NoSQL databases. I have a techie opinion and a stake in the debate, but in this post I’d like to make a business prediction that has nothing to do with the technical merits of one vs. the other at all. It’s only […]