I’ve signed me on as as a regular contributor to the Forbes.com news site. I’ll be writing about how mobile intersects with social and cloud to change business. My first post launches today. You can find the post here and...
Read more »The Future Of Customer Experience As Illustrated By RightNow
This week at the RightNow Summit, CEO Greg Gianforte showed a demo of the future of the customer experience. This video (my recording of it here) was fully in line with my vision of the mobile integrating with social and...
Read more »Where have all the acquisitions gone? Permira buys Genesys
As we enter into uncertain economic time, I’ve noticed a disturbing trend in the tech markets – the spinco. Over the last decade, large vendors were spending millions, if not billions, of dollars making high profile acquisitions. At the time,...
Read more »Motorola Solution’s Safir Chats With Lopez Research About Enterprise Tablets
Tablets have been all the rage in the enterprise market recently. But the tablets that have gained serious traction in the market are consumer tablets. This left me wondering is there such a thing as an enterprise tablet and if...
Read more »Statistics on the State of the Latin American Wireless Market
Every year I look forward to hearing Erasmo Rojas, Director of Latin America & the Caribbean for 4G Americas, discuss the state of 3G/4G in LATM. This year was no exception. According to Mr. Rojas, Latin America (LATM) is the region with the second largest number of...
Read more »4G Deployment Update From 4G Americas
Neville Ray, the Chairman of 4G Americas as well as Chief Technology Officer for T-Mobile USA, addressed a packed room of industry analysts to discuss the progress of 4G over the last twelve months. There are now 193 4G networks (defined...
Read more »Entrepreneurs Forge New Business in AT&T’s Foundry
The world of entrepreneurship has changed. When we were building today’s Internet, hardware start-ups were all the rage. Hardware start-ups needed 10s of millions to get started. Today, many start-ups are software-oriented. These start-ups are focused on providing layers of...
Read more »Start-ups Enter the Xone at Vodafone’s Innovation Center
Last week, I attended the opening of Vodafone’s new innovation center in Redwood City called the “Vodafone Xone”. The Vodafone Xone center provides technical expertise and test facilities for start-ups to create proof-of-concept trials quickly. I’d like to note the...
Read more »Where do the Palm assets land?
HP is killing its PC and mobile division and paying $10B to acquire Autonomy. While it is alot of money, defensive plays are expensive and analytics is the next big wave. Also, given the rules on repatriating money, it isn’t...
Read more »Google answers the call for patents but will hang up on Moto’s phone business
Today Google announced a $12.5 billion acquistion of Motorola mobility. With such a competitive handset market, one may ask why Google is paying so much. The answer is simple, 17,500 patents in the mobile market. The battle of the smart...
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