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Apple iPad vs. Android Xoom: Judgment day arrives
Summary: A personal journey deep into the heart of the iPad and Xoom tablets. Which side won? I’ve been an iPad fan since Apple first released the ubiquitous tablets; with instant-on and long battery...
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The new MacBook — fashion statement, or statement of direction?
Just over a week ago I was in my local Apple Store with a few other people looking at the new MacBook, rather than with a larger gaggle checking out the Apple Watch for the first time. Interestingly...
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McDonald’s CSR Commitments Go Multi-tier – But is the Fast Food Giant Ready?
McDonald’s recently announced an important commitment to sustainability by moving to eliminate suppliers that engage in any potential deforestation practices in its supply chain. For quick background...
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell As we have pointed out here many times, the main cloud providers (particularly Amazon and IBM) are doing a...
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Ethical issues on the horizon for digital assistants focused at children?
This week, I was part of an innovation panel at a large Dallas based IT manufacturer and during the discussion a new product for children was mentioned. Cognitoys is the company that makes a huggable...
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Radical UI
In the last few weeks, I have had a chance to visit Oracle UX design lab, talk to Infor’s design agency and interview folks about Fiori for my sequel to SAP Nation. I also had a chance to see a...
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Taylor Swift & L’affaire Apple In The Digital Universe
As known for quite some time, Apple is working to get its new streaming music service, Connect, up and running. It followed what is generally taken as the standard way of launching things: offer the...
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The Content Bubble and the Greater Fool
Not long ago a vendor asked a friend of mine to speak at a conference. Analysts speak at conferences all the time so the request was not unusual except in the conditions attached. There would be no...
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Digital transformation: What the $#%&@! is a business model and why you...
Serious discussions of digital transformation invariably turn to business models and the changing relationship between a company and its customers. Alex Osterwalder, image courtesy CXOTalk Business...
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The unbearable lightness of enterprise software launches
A reader of SAP Nation 2.0 commented it read like a “slow-motion train wreck”. It starts with the incredible excitement and expectations when S/4HANA was launched in February : “This is the biggest...
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Jeff Weiners dystopian comments
Image credit: Microsoft On Monday as I was going through the first edit of my book on automation, I heard of the whopper Microsoft bid for LinkedIn. I then read CEO Jeff Weiner’sletter to employees...
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Apple iPad vs. Android Xoom: Judgment day arrives
Summary: A personal journey deep into the heart of the iPad and Xoom tablets. Which side won? I’ve been an iPad fan since Apple first released the ubiquitous tablets; with instant-on and long battery...
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Equinix rolls out 1MW fuel cell for Silicon Valley data center
Equinix is powering one of its Silicon Valley data centers with a 1MW Bloom Energy fuel cell As we have pointed out here many times, the main cloud providers (particularly Amazon and IBM) are doing a...
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