Archive for January, 2013
The Opinion Cast Round Table: Blackberry Its Past and its Future
This week the topic of choice is about RIM. Our Tech.pinion columnists get together for a lively discussion about Blackberry, the company formerly knows as RIM. We explore how they got to where they are and what they …
The Enterprise Is Important. Let’s Get It Right.
One of the most striking features of much tech writing today is its near total ignorance about corporate software and systems. Except for sites like ComputerWorld and others that specialize in the enterprise, reporting is sparse and when it appears, …
Blackberry: The Charge Of The Light Brigade
Yesterday RIM, now renamed Blackberry, introduced the Blackberry 10. Tech.Pinions columnist, Steve Wildstrom, is cheering for Blackberry as are many Tech.Pinion regular readers and millions upon millions of others. Does the new, re-invented, Blackberry stand a chance? Or is Blackberry …
BlackBerry Delivers a Product: Now It Has To Sell It
Gartner analyst Michael Gartenberg nicely summed up the first day of the rest of BlackBerry’s life: “Good launch,” he tweeted. “Now it’s all execution.”
After what seemed like an interminable pregnancy, BlackBerry (the new corporate name; Research In Motion …
Business and Social Media: The Good and the Ugly
I had an interesting little experience this morning with how customer services organizations use social media well and badly.
I was headed to New York for the BlackBerry 10 launch and took the first train on the Washington Metro Red Line …
Apple and the Burden of Bigness
A lot has been written lately about “exponential growth,” nearly all of it wrong. If you want to see what real exponential growth looks like, check out the graph of Apple’s revenues and profits . And this tells an …
Leaving the iPhone- How Windows Phone 8 Stacks Up
Approximately six weeks ago, I made the decision to stop using my iPhone 4s and immerse myself in Android, which I did for about a month. I wrote about that here. After Android, I wanted to try out Windows Phone 8 …
I’ll Take My Hardware With a Side of Software
Despite some people loathing CES, I actually happened to enjoy the show this year. I go to CES mostly to meet with our clients, gather data and market intelligence, and search for trends. CES always includes hidden gems; you simply …
Cheering for BlackBerry
On Wednesday, Research In Motion will launch its bid to save itself with the redesigned from the ground up BlackBerry. I’ll be at the launch event and I will judge the new hardware and software on their merits, still I …
What Tech Company is Healthier Than Apple?
When it comes to understanding the stock market, I acknowledge I am no expert. I am not a financial analyst and my research is not directed at those making stock bets. Yet if I was to put myself in the …
Apple’s Transparency
I don’t hear the topic of transparency brought up nearly enough. I asked the question in my column today of what company is more healthy than Apple and now I ask what company is more transparent than Apple? The cost …
The Opinion Cast Round Table: Apple and Wall Street’s Distorted Expectations
After a somewhat surprising and somewhat predictable day stock wise for Apple post earnings, the Tech.pinions team share their thoughts on Apple’s earnings. We hit topics like why Wall Street is so backward, what this means for Apple going …
Miscellaneous Musings On Apple’s Earnings And The Future Of Personal Computing
Yesterday Apple released their earnings for the fourth quarter of 2012. It is important to note that Apple had 14 weeks, as compared to the normal 13 weeks, in their year ago fourth quarter. In order to equalize results, all …
Apple and Imperfection
Near the end the dot-com bubble, smart investors finally realized that a major problem with tech stock pricing was that dozens of companies were priced to perfection: Their stock prices were so high relative to the underlying financials that only …
A Quick Take On The Surface Pro
First, let me say that the Microsoft does not get enough credit for the hardware build on the Surface RT. Microsoft had little experience in bringing out a hardware product and they got the hardware right and they did it …
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