Johannes Ernst on August 18th, 2011

@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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Johannes Ernst on July 19th, 2010

Seems there’s a new kid in town. The old kid was the Open Stack for identity and social media protocols, or as I sometimes referred to, the Open Pile. Today, Rackspace and a few other companies apparently announced a new Open Stack, which has nothing to do with the old one. Instead, it appears that [...]

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Johannes Ernst on April 5th, 2010

The first time I heard of an “unconference” I was very sceptical. No program? No speakers? What kind of conference is that? Well, it’s the kind of conference in which you skip sitting in the audience falling asleep because the speakers drone on or the panelists are just trying to get you to buy their [...]

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Johannes Ernst on January 21st, 2010

Sounds like the Obama government is picking up the cause of what Nick and I called the Digital Deal. Amazing! This is powerful stuff, coming not from some fringe group but from the US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton. Here are quotes from her speech today: Franklin Roosevelt … delivered his Four Freedoms speech in [...]

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Johannes Ernst on December 2nd, 2009

Or should have said “spot the similarities”? Today, two pieces of news came in right after each other: The US Federal Government’s Beacon Community Program has been given $235 million of taxpayer money for “… interoperable health IT and standards-based information exchange within and among providers, hospitals, and populations” “within 15 diverse communities throughout the [...]

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