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The Strategic Importance of Intel’s New CEO
This morning Intel finally announced the successor to current CEO, Paul Otellini. Otellini steps down later this month and new CEO, Brian Krzanich, who is currently their COO, will then become CEO.
Here is a short background on Krzanich:
Brian M. Krzanich …
Making the Cloud Safe for Consumers: Time for Apple To Step Up [Updated]
This has been the Year of the Cloud. Apple, Microsoft, and Google, the three companies that matter most to consumers, have all been rushing headlong to establish personal clouds that will link consumers’ data across multiple devices, making it available …
Why Microsoft’s Development Must Be More Open Than Apple’s
Matt Rosoff at Business Insider writes that a principal reason why Microsoft reveals a lot more about its development process than Apple does is that Apple is a consumer products company while Microsoft is a technology company.That’s somewhat oversimplified, but …
Apple After Steve
Everybody has heard the news by now: Steve Jobs resigned because he “could no longer meet my duties and expectations as Apple’s CEO.”
In his letter of resignation to the Apple Board of Directors and the Apple Community, Jobs wrote: “I …
What If Apple Puts A-Series Processors in MacBooks?
Apple Insider posted a bit of news around the rumor that someday Apple may use its own A-Series chips in products like the MacBook Air and MacBook Pro. When Apple made the move to design their own ARM …
My Advice to HP: Give All the TouchPad’s Away
Shock and Bewilderment swept the industry as well as the tech journalism and blogger community yesterday. HP announced that they are not just looking to spin off their PC business but that they are also discontinuing all webOS hardware which …
Why Google had to buy Motorola
At the end of the year, when I made my predictions for the New Year, I stated that I believed Google would buy Motorola Mobile. And last week, Ben wrote here in Tech.Pinions about why he thought Google should buy …
Check Out The New Tech.pinions Recommended Reading Section
We have added a new featured section to the homepage called Recommended Reading. In this section we will link to other opinion pieces that we think are essential reads.
Clicking on the the title of the article will take …
Tech.pinions is Featured in FlipBoard and Pulse News Apps!
We are pleased to announce that our site Tech.pinions, whose sole focus is to provide industry leading analysis and thought leadership for the technology industry is featured prominently in both the FlipBoard and Pulse news apps.
These …
The Stage is Set for An iPhone Christmas
Data from Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster was released Monday that resulted in similar data to research my firm has been conducting. The conclusion of Munster’s data is that there is huge pent up demand for Apple’s next version …
Can Google TV be Saved?
As of yesterday Logitech has been offering their Revue Google TV set top box for $99. I was at Logitech’s media day where they launched the Revue and I remember the mumblings from the media and analysts when …
Make Competitive Smart Phones or Get Out of the Market
We all know the world is moving from feature phones to smart phones. This is happening in some regions like the US and Europe faster but it is happening at a global level.
The latest …
Why It Matters that Apple is the Number 1 Smart Phone Manufacturer
Data came out this morning from Nielsen providing insight to the current smart phone operating system market share in the US. There are several observations about this report that I want to make.
First off, although this is …
Americans Elect’s Online Nomination Is a Recipe for Trouble
Americans Elect, a group that promises a new way of nominating a candidate for President in 2012, lept into prominence in recent days with a ringing endorsement from New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman. I don’t propose to debate the merits …
A Librarian Looks at the JSTOR Download Case
A Tweet by Nilay Patel (@reckless) of Verge called my attention to an intelligent post giving a librarian’s perspective on the charges against Demand Progress’ Aaron Swartz. Swartz faces federal felony charges for allegedly using unauthorized access to the …