When Did the Sun Set?
The story of Sun Microsystems is a great one. It has great characters (McNealy), great battles (open vs. proprietary, David vs. Goliath), incredible vision (the dawn of the dot.com), drama (the bust of the dot.com), and tragedy (the Oracle acquisition). Oh yeah, one of the best of tech logos. Well, the drama continues. Oracle reports [...]
Privacy and Loyalty Clubs
Most of us don’t know when we’ve been hacked or how much of a trail we are leaving. But our corporate secrets may indeed be much bigger than a product protype and are risk of privacy invasion is much broader than a bar.
Microsoft Killed the Netbook – not the Tablet
What we have here is a case of the victors writing the history book. We learned recently that Dell decided to discontinue selling Netbooks. Netbooks? You remember them – the small, inexpensive notebook-like computers with a lightweight operating system. They came in a few different flavors of Windows and Linux. They were the rage a [...]
Wanted: CIOs
Coming up at Enterprise Connect will be the 2nd Annual Innovation Showcase. Enterprise Connect is the biggest UC, Voice, VoIP, communications event each year for enterprise communications. In addition to all the major vendors – there’s lots of CIOs and buyers there too. Last year, fairly last minute, we created the Innovation Showcase, to identify [...]
Mind Blown at Defrag
Defrag is an unusual conference. The simplest way to describe it as TED for geeks. Lots of these tech folks are really smart, and when given a forum to speak about whatever they want might result with interesting ideas. The conference creator, Eric Norlin, figured there is no shortage of cloud, social business, mobile, etc. events, but [...]
TalkingPointz Report:NEC Published
The first of several TalkingPointz reports on UC vendors is now available. NEC. Previously known as Nippon Electric Company, but NEC changed its name in 1983. I thought I knew NEC pretty well, but it’s amazing how much you learn when you really focus on a single vendor. I started at their Dallas Executive Briefing Center [...]
Yes, Content Trumps SEO & Links But Get Your Technical House In Order
Bob Warfield, a fellow Enterprise Irregular writes a great post about how superior content trumps SEO and links as a means of driving traffic: For marketing, content trumps SEO and links back to your site. That’s not to say there is no value in SEO or links, just that if you have to choose or [...]
Tech Stocks, Some Interesting Trends
So Greece is imploding, the flow on effects to the greater Eurozone (and even farther afield) are unknown. Wall Street is down and it’s fun to look at how tech stocks are doing… . Microsoft, down 2.37% on heavy trading. One million iPads and Apple is still down, even so more than Microsoft. What’s going [...]
