Article archive - page 4

If software is a race to $Zero, how do you create revenue?
Wednesday, September 29th 2010
Commodity values always drop towards their cost of production. Software eventually drops to $0 in value so how do you create revenue?
A 5 minute read (1.3k words).
Thingstreams - the future of product / consumer dialogue
Tuesday, July 20th 2010
As consumers engage more directly with each other, how to brands understand what is happening in the "backchannel"?
A 5 minute read (1.3k words).
A telling quarter for Android
Sunday, June 27th 2010
Most people looking at the mobile and smart phone sector focus on unit sales as an indicator of performance - I suggest that one also needs to look at apps. The number of available apps is a metric that shows developer…
A 4 minute read (1.1k words).
Why Google is a more "typical" business than you think
Wednesday, June 23rd 2010
There's been some interesting reportage over the last couple of weeks around whether Google's decision to remove Windows from internal use as a supported desktop has wider ramifications for the future of Windows in…
A 3 minute read (679 words).
Adobe - Narayen's kingdom for a plan...
Tuesday, April 13th 2010
Adobe's public fracas with Apple over lack of flash on iThings and Google open sources VP8 - it's been a tough couple of weeks for Adobe with no signs of getting better. Cries of "My kingdom for a plan" may just about to…
A 6 minute read (1.6k words).
An Open Internet call to arms
Tuesday, March 23rd 2010
Having watched the trainwreck that is the Australian Internet Filter and Senator Conroy's single minded obsession to go down in history as the "man who removed free speech from Australia" I can't help but notice two…
A 3 minute read (883 words).
iPad - ALMOST great
Thursday, January 28th 2010
The iPad hardware is outstanding in its simplicity but is a little weak presently on the software but will get better.
A 2 minute read (458 words).
2010: The year the Netbook turns into the Web-book
Sunday, January 3rd 2010
2010 is set to be a bumper year for Consumer Electronics. With people spending less outside the home they are focusing more inside and as just about everyone now has some monstrous TV it's the little things that count…
A 3 minute read (696 words).
Why I'm interested in AWS Spot Prices for EC2
Tuesday, December 22nd 2009
There's been a lot of chatter going on around the intertubes over the last couple of weeks since Amazon Web Services released their Spot Instances pricing model for EC2. In a nutshell - AWS have created a compute market…
A 3 minute read (885 words).
2010 will be the year Apple and Google have a cage fight
Sunday, December 20th 2009
The pre-match slanging is pretty much over and the location of the fight has been chosen. 2010 is going to be the year Apple and Google finally stop dancing around and actually get in the ring. Unlike a nice clean…
A 2 minute read (635 words).