It is my observation that one of the hardest things to do as a businessperson is to look into the future and be able accurately see a picture of how things are going to be. As I sit here today, I had no idea I would be paying over $4 [...]
Google just announced a set of gadgets and standards under the moniker "Friend Connect." I am really intrigued with what they are providing with this effort. The main concept is to provide a set of tools that can easily be dropped into any Website to add eCommunity type features. Because [...]
I was talking to a new friend of mine, Louis Wing from BeyondROI, recently about email marketing trends and statistics. He was a founder at a company that dealt exclusively with email marketing from the application service provider standpoint. We spoke in detail about his views on email campaigns, technology [...]
There are already a lot of iPhones on campuses nationwide, but this time they are being given free to incoming freshmen at Abilene Christian University, in Abilene Texas. Faculty will be given the iPhone and the school will pay for the data plan, while the students will have to pay [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that Apple's iPhone and the Nokia Tube cell phone are both really more than cell phones; they are mobile computing platforms. The idea of mobile computing is an important one in that as it becomes a ubiquitous, and almost unnoticed technology, our ideas of [...]
Apple has done an excellent job selling the iPhone as a commodity the stylish need. Even before Apple announced the impending Exchange tie-in for corporate America the iPhone was the darling of many IT types; not to mention the entire designer and engineering communities. But now Google and its many [...]
Tiny Pictures, a San Francisco based company, is moving the social network to your cell phone. This is important to the corporate world for a few reason, some of which are not obvious. With the proliferation of smart phones accessing the Internet, and with almost every cell phone having an [...]
I was not sure we should even write another post on this potential deal, but I was giving a speech today in Florida and someone texted a question wanting my opinion onto the screen, so I take it people are still intrigued. I have had some time to read the [...]
I have been under the weather this week, but I wanted to write a quick post about some interesting items. So let's dig in. Toshiba has given in and stopped trying to compete against Sony's Blu-ray system in the high definition DVD market. Normally I think that competition is good [...]
Microsoft Outlook is a good application. It combines my calendar, contacts, email, notes and even tasks; all in a friendly Microsoft tool. I mean how great is that, right? In fact compared to Lotus Notes, Outlook is amazing, but Outlook could be doomed anyway. You see, Outlook is not cool. [...]