Archives for August 2007
Until you’ve been round the block a few times, if you own (or work at) a hot company, you believe that there’s only one direction for the valuation to go; and that’s up. People have been saying that Facebook shouldn’t sell out for $6B, because it’s soon going to be worth much more. [...]
Nokia has just the world a taster of its new iPhone competitor. Check out the YouTube video below.
As you can see, the new Nokia phone has a large touch screen, gesture-based interface. That gesture-based user interface (UI) has been one of iPhone’s unique value propositions to the end user: that is, the gesture-based [...]
A few days ago, popular tech blogger Robert Scoble posted a series of videos in which he discussed why he thought that a combination of companies like Mahalo, TechMeme and Facebook could take on Google in search in a few years. The response has been pretty shocking.
People have seemingly universally (slight exaggeration, perhaps) [...]
In my last blog entry, I said that a surrogate marker for recognising a great CEO is that they’re not afraid to ruffle a few feathers. Just a few days later, as if to exemplify my point, Sun’s CEO Jonathan Schwartz has done exactly that on his blog. In an entry entitled [...]
The world of business is full of so-called “professional CEOs”. You probably know the type. The thing is - I’m not quite sure why they’re called “professional” because they tend to be particularly ineffective in their jobs. So often, these people lack the ability to do anything other than run their companies [...]
If the reports are correct, after its first day of trading, VMWare now has a market cap of around $20B. That’s a rather high value for a company that’s on track to have revenues of only $1B this year. Of course, right now, VMWare’s revenues are growing at a massive [...]
Is it just me, or is the new Apple iMac actually a step backwards in terms of design, compared to the previous white iMac? The keyboard, especially, doesn’t look that usable to me; and, to my eyes, the black surround of the LCD panel makes the whole system look dated. Is this [...]
HP really know how to make a bad impression with their current and potential customers - the company seems to have a tendency to offer appallingly low-quality lectures on IT strategy. Memo to HP Executives: if you give customers such low-quality advice, they will assume your employees are idiots, and stop listening. [...]
As soon as people got their hands on Update 2 of Java 6 at the beginning of July, people running Java on Windows found what I would say is a show stopper bug. It’s not surprising it didn’t take long to show - it’s a biggie. I noticed it myself within a few [...]