Category: Technology

Here is exactly what Tim Cook needs to do with Apple: turn it into IBM!

The thing about us consultants is that we give advice even when nobody asked for it.    The world’s biggest company surely doesn’t need my help.   Even more so since I have historically and openly criticized it at every corner.   But, like my friends always say, I probably have a secret wish to… Continue reading Here is exactly what Tim Cook needs to do with Apple: turn it into IBM!

The legal limits of Facebook privacy and internal checks or balances

For those outside of Greece, the case yesterday of someone getting arrested for making a Facebook page probably sounds a bit like some Muslim fanatic in Iran.   It is not quite the same in some ways though it is true that Church and State are way too close in our country.  Interestingy no major… Continue reading The legal limits of Facebook privacy and internal checks or balances

The precursor to Facebook groups 450 years ago worked much better

A ridotto was pretty much like a Facebook group.   It gathered like minded people around a topic.   It was private, like a club.   Any of you who have visited Florence might have seen the plaque commemorating the Camerata, a ridotto which met at the house of Giovanni Bardi di Vernio.   They argued and talked, and gossiped… Continue reading The precursor to Facebook groups 450 years ago worked much better

Oscar Pistorious, Olympic cheating, mobile phone processors and the PC upgrade problem

When I first read that an athlete was using “blades” I thought they meant servers.  Blade servers are rack mountable computers.   For anyone involved in computing infrastructure part it is part of the everyday lingo.   You try to find the best combination of CPU power, SSD storage if you can and other nerdy… Continue reading Oscar Pistorious, Olympic cheating, mobile phone processors and the PC upgrade problem

Mobile revolution in perspective

Some people on the planet feel the need to bring some balance to this debate.   Not that there is much debate.   Everyone seems sure that mobile devices will conquer the planet.   Apps are growing like mushrooms.   Many with less meaningful content than an edible fungus.  This doesn’t stop marketing departments investing… Continue reading Mobile revolution in perspective

Apple doesn’t break the rules; it doesn’t have any!

What is Apple’s mission statement? Apple designs Macs, the best personal computers in the world, along with OS X, iLife, iWork and professional software. Apple leads the digital music revolution with its iPods and iTunes online store. Apple has reinvented the mobile phone with its revolutionary iPhone and App Store, and is defining the future… Continue reading Apple doesn’t break the rules; it doesn’t have any!

Mac vs PC: is anyone ever going to run proper benchmarks again?

OK, it is a sign of age.   Do you remember back when people actually tested computers for their performance?   I especially fondly remember Charlie White’s heroic efforts.   He is now high up the Mashable food chain and doesn’t “attack” Macs anymore…. heck he writes about them like everyone else.   But who… Continue reading Mac vs PC: is anyone ever going to run proper benchmarks again?

How social networks are improving the whole software industry

Few people realize how important the Google Plus “Real names”policy really is.   Maybe it’s just me having spent so much energy taking advantage of Facebook’s completely chaotic structure over the past years.  Sure, it ran contrary to most Facebook official policies but any business person would be an idiot not too.  What?   You… Continue reading How social networks are improving the whole software industry