Tag Archives: IBM

A New Tech-Enabled Sales Model

Just about every organization in the world is involved in some type “selling.” The product could be a widget, a service, donations, or content, and in every case, it has to be “sold” to someone. I happened to start my … Continue reading

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The Power of Platforms

The announcement of the Google Wave platform and all the early descriptions of the role it could play in building Web based applications has me thinking about the power of platforms in general. I think an important concept for us … Continue reading

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SciFi Tech

I want to draw your attention to some technology developed by the impressive Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT’s Media Labs. They have built a working model of what could be described as the 3rd generation in personal data assistants. You … Continue reading

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Information Technology And Sustainability

The Internet is generally thought of as a tool that is used by organizations to transact business, or by individuals to communicate, research or get entertained. For those of us that are concerned about the sustainability of the Earths resources, … Continue reading

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The Crowd Is The Cloud

People are talking about the Internet morphing into a Cloud based technological organism, but it has always been a Cloud of sorts.  It is just lately that we are all becoming part of the Cloud.  Micro-blogging has erupted into an … Continue reading

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The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the ‘Cloud’ at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways.  The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and … Continue reading

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Microsoft and the Cloud

At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing.  This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, … Continue reading

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The Next Generation of the Internet – Third Installment

One thing that easy to forget is that we actually have the next version of the Internet in operation at the moment.  It is called the Internet2, and is a very clear picture as to where the commodity Internet we all … Continue reading

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Apple in the Enterprise

Apple may not be known as an enterprise commodity, in fact, unless you are in marketing or creative you most likely don’t have a Mac on your desktop, but on one front adoption might be about to grow. A few … Continue reading

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Apple’s Assimilation of the World – January 13, 2008

I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC’s since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for … Continue reading

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