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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

30

Finding the ‘legitimate problem’ in sales – Kermit and Grover

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Yep, I am quite mad or I would rather prefer to be seen as lateral!

That said I was just looking through a post on a connection profile on Linkedin on the

It’s funny right, however this rather satirical (not the right word but I like it) clip from the Muppet’s really hit the chord for me - I am going to follow up on a post, so just put this in as a place holder for the time being.

Little furry salesperson Grover - It goes around trying to sell Kermit earmuffs when he doesn’t have ears and a tothbrush when he doesn’t have teeth! marvellous, a stroke of brilliance and it seems that Jim Henson hit the hidden messages long before the Simpsons - I was just too young :)

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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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Jul

27

Have Microsoft lost the plot?

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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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Jun

17

What is the cloud, its an opportunity to think like our children

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I was talking to my nearly 7 year old son the other day. As a ‘reward’ I let him have my old G5 mac in his bedroom to satisfy his thirst for knowledge. Before he was 4 he could click the little blue ‘e’ find toys r us and create a combined Christmas and birthday list of every combination power rangers and doctor who he could find. He is fascinated about how it all fits together and asks those questions ‘why’, what is a browser, can I watch all the doctor who episodes, how do you make software, where does it comes from? ……

Question – if you put 20 kids in a room and asked them to tell you about technology today, in 5 years or even 10, what would it look like?

My own interest in technology has made me actively encourage my kids interest in their mission for knowledge – their playroom could run NASA 20 years ago with their sky TV, Xbox and Wii plus the two hamsters who live on the shelf, who at night run the world aka Douglas Adam’s Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy -aka Mice.
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Jun

16

Start up is where real people management happens ….

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I had a fantastic meeting today with Campbell Urquart who owns – the Urquart Partnership.

He is a ‘rapport’ builder straight out of the trap – he got me a coffee and a piece of strawberry cheesecake! But in all seriousness, I have the utmost respect for people who run their own business. I immediately warm to them because they understand and I know they have felt the ‘pain’ that you can only feel when you have salaries to pay, staff to motivate and a goal to achieve, why you did it in the first place.
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