Happy Birthday, Personal Computer. Rest in Peace.
Business Insider reminds us that today is the 30th birthday of the original IBM PC: the computer’s brain was a 4.77Mhz Intel 8088 processor (for my younger readers, it’s Mega not Giga) and it had a grand total of 256K RAM (again, it’s not 256 GB, not even MB, but Kilobytes). Yet it was a [...]
Old meets new world: enterprise UX
A few days ago, I got a message from Derek Singleton of Software Advice telling me about a survey they’re conducting: Ten Consumer Web UI Themes We’d Like to See in Business Applications is what it is called Software Advice apparently is a company offering free advice for software buyers, and although I don’t have [...]
NetSuite Fights Hairball Epidemic with New Release and Edgy Marketing Campaign
NetSuite’s marketing team has been known for their edginess, starting from pranks like the SAP for the Rest of Us Party during SAP’s annual conference to staging a shootout at the anti-SAP Conference or releasing edgy videos a’la Mac vs. Windows. Today they are doing it again, by establishing the Hairball Institute for Business: (The [...]
What is next for computing when people have gone mobile?
Image via Wikipedia If you own an Iphone, an Ipad, an Android phone, or any of the other highly connected mobile devices, you get a very good idea of where computing is going. The problem is that we are still stuck on the same paradigm when it comes to services and work. Chained to a [...]
Courier & Foldable Tablets are Neither Innovative Nor “Different”
This is a sad “I’ve told you” moment, as I predicted the death of dual-screen tablets, be it the one by MSI or Microsoft’s Courier, which has just been canceled. Says Frank Shaw, Microsoft’s VP of corporate communications: At any given time, across any of our business groups, there are new ideas being investigated, tested, [...]
Dilbert on Web Design – and more
Hm… I think I know which website they may be talking about: No kidding… yes, I know it’s April Fools Day, but this is real – an accounting SaaS provider , no less. I once speculated on a brave new business model: Ugly Service taking commissions from the sunglasses industry… but this is beyond imagination. [...]
The iPad is the Computer for Rest of the World
Most of the industry has been underwhelmed with the iPad launch. I for one, actually think this is a great device. It may not be for us, techies, but for rest of the world, it is going to be a great device. This is a device I can hand it my grandfather and he won’t [...]
User Interface and Cloud Computing – Part 2
Editor’s Note: Shankar Bharadwaj is an Information Technology professional with more than 16 years of experience in the industry with experience in diverse platforms. He works for Microsoft in Seattle. He will be writing a two part series on User Interface and Cloud Computing. We at Cloud Avenue may or may not share his views [...]
