You have to think like a Nokia exec. They were a leader in smartphones but now have no viable smartphone OS. Somebody ports Android to their smartphone hardware The correct response is to delay the release of the next…
Microsoft is all about the cloud now - so the phone will run WP7 which will provide a remote desktop client to allow you to connect to your PC at home, where you can use IE to browse the web.
It's difficult to see a revenue potential that justifies a $50Bn valuation. There are 2Bn internet users at the most generous estimate - for half of those $1 is a large amount of money. It's difficult to see how…
Real geeks use milli-fortnight
So a foreign car gets blamed when old people stand on the gas instead of the brake - and a bunch of lawyers and politicians jump on the bandwagon. That couldn't have been forseen - it hasn't happened for a generation.
I still find it hard to believe that a website with no income whose sole purpose is to allow you to throw virtual sheep at your friends can have more value than all the real engineering companies in America put together…
A requiem for the engineering dream. Next we will hear that HP is using VAX as the name of new printer ink
Suppose you have a 'democratic' country where the same party has been in power since independance. The party leaders have got rich by telling everyone else the country is booming - when it was all a property scam. Now…
There is a famous film set in my home (small mining) town about dissafected youth in the 60s. At one point the teacher says that if the kid doesn't start working hard he will end up just working down the mine. In the…
Personally i'm relying on those falling educational standards we keep hearing about. I may be >40 but I can actually read and write, something which seems challenging for new graduates.
The trouble is that they might get confused between overthrowing our stalwart allies in the war against terrorism like Mubarek and start thinking that there is no real difference between a dictator for life and a…
You have to think like a Nokia exec. They were a leader in smartphones but now have no viable smartphone OS. Somebody ports Android to their smartphone hardware The correct response is to delay the release of the next…
Microsoft is all about the cloud now - so the phone will run WP7 which will provide a remote desktop client to allow you to connect to your PC at home, where you can use IE to browse the web.
It's difficult to see a revenue potential that justifies a $50Bn valuation. There are 2Bn internet users at the most generous estimate - for half of those $1 is a large amount of money. It's difficult to see how…
Real geeks use milli-fortnight
So a foreign car gets blamed when old people stand on the gas instead of the brake - and a bunch of lawyers and politicians jump on the bandwagon. That couldn't have been forseen - it hasn't happened for a generation.
I still find it hard to believe that a website with no income whose sole purpose is to allow you to throw virtual sheep at your friends can have more value than all the real engineering companies in America put together…
A requiem for the engineering dream. Next we will hear that HP is using VAX as the name of new printer ink
Suppose you have a 'democratic' country where the same party has been in power since independance. The party leaders have got rich by telling everyone else the country is booming - when it was all a property scam. Now…
There is a famous film set in my home (small mining) town about dissafected youth in the 60s. At one point the teacher says that if the kid doesn't start working hard he will end up just working down the mine. In the…
Personally i'm relying on those falling educational standards we keep hearing about. I may be >40 but I can actually read and write, something which seems challenging for new graduates.
The trouble is that they might get confused between overthrowing our stalwart allies in the war against terrorism like Mubarek and start thinking that there is no real difference between a dictator for life and a…