Palm’s new Foleo
How to botch an announcement I've been thinking about email lately (see Email value management and What is email?). So it was interesting to see that Palm managed to bungle the announcement of their "next big thing" the email companion called Foleo. They pre-announced...
Proud plumbing
So why did Cisco buy social-networking software provider Tribe? John Chambers, Cisco CEO, is quoted in the D/ blog on the Wall Street Journal website (it might be open to non-subscribers, but I'm in an airplane right now and can't check) "A lot of this social...
Home RAID vs backup?
I got into it today on ZDnet with one of the other bloggers, George Ou, who published Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers. As I believe that RAID is an idea whose time is coming to a close, I responded with Why home RAID won’t fly. So far, ZDnet...
What is email?
Mirrorworlds for the masses David Gelernter's company, Mirror Worlds Technologies, tried to put an interface on Windows that reflected how people actually remember and link their experiences, rather than some CompSci metadata accommodation. The company ceased...
WhoseLifeBytes? Gordon Bell in The New Yorker
I wrote about Gordon Bell's MyLifeBits project a year ago. Gordon Bell, now of Microsoft Research, was once the CTO of Digital Equipment and a pioneer in computer networks and clusters, among many other research initiatives. Now The New Yorker is writing about him and...
Segmenting techies
You always knew techies were different. . . Market segmentation is a black art. Some people believe that markets can be finely segmented in ways that are meaningful over time. Perhaps because I spend a lot of time marketing leading edge stuff I believe that segments...
The innovator’s dilemma in technicolor
Watch it play out - again - in storage This morning's Wall Street Journal has an article about startups - I won't link to it because subscription required - where they note that a number of real companies have bought from startups lately. Why? Now corporate tech...
Intel’s best and worst
Over on ZDnet Monday I posted RAM to avoid: hot, expensive and slow. I wrote about Intel's ill-fated attempt to get Fully Buffered DIMMs accepted as the memory standard for servers and workstations. I got started on the topic because I'm thinking of buying the FB-DIMM...
What is VMware worth?
From the whatever-people-will-pay department My colleague at Data Mobility Group, Walter Purvis, sent me a link to a Barrons blog which summarizes the thinking of several analysts on the issue of VMware's worth. Let a thousand flowers bloom There is some disagreement....
Patent update for engineers
Don't read the "EMC has Ph.Ds?" series! Or at the very least avoid reading the patents I reference. I may have already said too much. Microsoft's FUD-slinging on Linux shines some light on patents Good article with some great quotes on Cnet (disclosure: I'm a paid...
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