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Resistance is futile - Oracle to assimilate RIM? This is a great article sent to me by a colleague - Jonathan Fisher.  This sort of follow's up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could...

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Have Microsoft lost the plot? Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement - so note the question mark. Peter Drucker wisely noted, "Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation." High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least...

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#Cisco Cius video - this is one serious service for... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEk2MI4ZGlQ&feature=related

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#Cisco enterprise desktop game changer - Cius tablet... This is a great move from one of the mega vendors. Recently Cisco unveiled its Cius tablet PC running the Android 2.0 OS aimed squarely at business users. This is a game changer. As you will see from one of my previous posts - back in Siemens over a decade ago, Cisco pulled the market as it changed the desktop paradigm for voice 10 years...

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#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers - choice is... I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry 'pans' out within the telco / carrier market - the hosting industry has quite literally gone 'pete tong' since the BPOS drive against partners. The market is full of technical 'diatribe' - everything...

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Aug

28

Paul Allen sues Apple, Google, Facebook, others over Web patents

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This is super interesting …. check this out. I really cannot believe this guy when he is worth as much as a small country, should be fun to watch unfold …. its sort of the same as the RIM issue some years back. Licensing companies with the sole purpose if making money through IP.

A firm owned by billionaire Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen today sued Apple, Facebook, Google, YouTube, and seven other companies, charging them with infringing patents filed more than a decade ago.

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Aug

20

Resistance is futile – Oracle to assimilate RIM?

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This is a great article sent to me by a colleague – Jonathan Fisher.  This sort of follow’s up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could be a significant acquisition for Oracle. Clearly a long shot, costly and complex but with the current position of RIM sat on an island that is slowly being eroded it could be a very good home.

Software advice has done a great post of which companies Larry ‘could’ assimilate next check it out

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Jul

27

Have Microsoft lost the plot?

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Category : Apple, Cloud, General, Google, hosting, Industry voices, Innovation, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, People

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Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement – so note the question mark.

Peter Drucker wisely noted, “Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation.” High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least appropriately channeling innovation. Since technology markets are in perpetual change, and since the Internet has accelerated change, the key goal of marketing becomes tracking change and anticipating where this will cause money to flow.

Innovation requires vision and leadership -Microsoft has lost both. Gates had the vision, Jobs has the Vision and the ability to execute. Ballmer is an operations guy and for 10 years even when Microsoft have been out of the spotlight they have slowley been committing suicide – innovation and importantly the ability to make it happen which requires the vision to carry through.
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Jul

07

#Cisco Cius video – this is one serious service for enterprises

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Jun

29

#Hosted Services – the right recipe for growth, prevent the lock in.

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The hosted services market has now reached that point of maturity where hosted exchange vendors are ten a penny. Personally I started in this market back in 2003 when margins were ‘rich’ for hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, BlackBerry etc and subsequently went deeper into the vertical SaaS industry because I saw the writing on the wall. We built the business fast because we focused on value – we targeted lawyers, accountants, professional services industries – we not only gave them a great messaging solution, we partnered with software vendors who would offer them compliance, security and services like BlackBerry. These were not Microsoft technologies but services the market actually wanted. Continue Reading

Jun

10

Zuckerberg – blood on the pacific

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On the 23rd May, Facebook and aka Mark Zuckerberg fell apart @D8, the focus primarily down to Calacanis focused on Facebook and the dreaded word privacy.

This video captured by the budding press who are clearly vying for a story shows it all.

It’s worth a watch http://d8.allthingsd.com/speakers/mark-zuckerberg/full-session-video/

May

12

Backfire for Jason vs Zuckerberg ?

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Yep, we all know that Jason quite likes the sound of his own voice. Damm, he’s a new yorker, journalist and passionate tech so really what do you expect.

It’s not that I agree with him on every point he makes, far from it. The reason I and many thousands of others are part of his mailing list is down to one fact alone – he speaks his mind. Well actually so do most of the tech crowd out in that there silicon valley – Winer, Arrington …..

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Jan

20

The battle of the big guns ……

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Category : Apple, Cloud, Free Thinking, General, Google, HP, IBM, Industry voices, Microsoft

Working on this one!

In the past 15 years working in the land of information technology, you could see the patterns forming in front of the train. Who was going to take on who, the battle for supremacy in the world of IT services.

First a rant that came to mind – I really hate those adverts on TV that say ‘retrain and learn to use one of those computer things and you will make great money’ – they should be banned for misrepresentation by the advertising commission. All they are good at is marketing to those people who get suckered into the imagery of corporate life they throw in front of you. The facts about working in the IT industry – whether you are software, hardware, carrier, applications, services etc etc etc etc is that its a hard slog. A new level of competition, serious hours (working time directive my **** that’s cooked in 3 days) and you are dealing with some of the most intelligent people in the world. Seriously, some of the people I have worked with are super bright – they write software like the stuff that enables us to do this, write systems that can make millions and loose millions in a second (not so bright). Continue Reading

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