If you are in the enterprise software business and your competition has a major product that not only has 95% of the market but is so standard that many think no work can be done without it, what would you do? If you are IBM and the competitive product is Microsoft Office (which is second […]
Read MoreThe good Stunning display Full technical compatibility with BMW’s in-car Bluetooth telephone interface Uses iTunes to manage music content Thinner than the Motorola Razr Replaces several devices (great for travel) The jury is out “Innovative” multitouch user interface (slow for typing) Only uses iTunes to manage music content The bad Wi-Fi from iPhone causes in-car […]
Read MoreIn the knowledge economy, it is hard to imagine the concept of time standing still. E-mail, instant messages, phone calls, voice mails, text messages, social networks – these all move time ahead at twenty-first century speed. But time standing still? That couldn’t happen. 12 days ago, I found out it could indeed happen. Some of […]
Read MoreS. F. Spira, born Siegfried Franz Spira in Vienna, Austria in 1924, passed away September 2nd. Everyone knew him as Fred but also as the founder and CEO of Spiratone, a company that started out as a small photographic laboratory in the 1940s and grew to become the largest supplier of photographic accessories in the U.S. […]
Read MoreThis past May, with great fanfare, Palm unveiled the Foleo, a laptop that included a paradox at no extra charge. Palm billed the Foleo as a “smartphone companion.” Indeed, at its launch, Palm co-founder Jeff Hawkins explicitly acknowledged the shortcomings of the smartphone form factor for doing intensive e-mail. With a 10.2″ color screen and […]
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