
ON that Personal Computing Nirvana Again
This will be a fairly short post – because all I do is refer to this piece I wrote recently: Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer Why bring it up again? Because Walt Mossberg just validated the concept: Today’s best smartphones are really hand-held computers. They […]

Motorola Takes Us a Step Closer to Personal Computing Nirvana–and it’s Not Even a Computer
It took five years, but the personal computing nirvana vision I first heard from Zoho CEO Sridhar Vembu is becoming reality. The concept that I discussed in The Cell-Phone Aware PC May Be a PC-less PC, and other posts is simple. Instead of a plethora of situational devices with redundant computing capacity, carry around just […]

NTP is the New SCO
NTP, the shell company whose only business is to extract ransom from real businesses does not sit on the $600 they extorted from RIM. They are now suing just about all the smartphone industry: Apple, Google, HTC, Microsoft, LG and Motorola. Is NTP the new SCO? Related posts: NTP Sues Apple, Google, Microsoft And Others […]

Crowdsourced or Elite Unit Innovation?
A classic dilemma for companies is determining the best way to foster innovation. There are many good books with different approaches. Clayton Christensen’s Innovator’s Dilemma has influenced a generation’s thinking about innovation. He focuses management and entrepreneurs’ attention on the Big I: disruptive innovation. One outcome of the popularity of Christensen’s book is the awareness […]