The Internet industry has spent almost 20 years now beating the crap out of disintermediation, which as we all know is the elimination of middle men from commerce, bringing producers and consumers in direct contact. As the market has grown and widened and tools have improved and got cheaper the nature of disintermediation has changed, [...]
As the go-to source for all news relating to bufferbloat, I’m glad to announce that the first of several possible solutions to the problem will shortly be available, just in time to save the Internet from self-destruction. What, you didn’t know the Internet was self-destructing? Well it is. Bufferbloat, my #1 prediction from 2011, is [...]
[youtube]http://youtu.be/Y1AJungBLTM[/youtube] More theaters are being added every day but the fact of Hollywood life is that this film is viewed in the market as having already come and gone in 2011. You and I may feel differently, so please share that view with your local theater. The larger commercial opportunity, I’m told, is Video-on-Demand, which [...]
As promised, Steve Jobs — The Lost Interview is returning to theaters from Magnolia Pictures with a new print restored literally with rocket science courtesy of MotionDSP. The first U.S. and Canadian play dates are below. If people go to the film there will be more theaters added. Video on demand and a DVD will [...]
So after five parts and hundreds of reader comments, what will IBM look like by the end of 2015? It will look like Oracle. With earnings per share meaning everything and a headcount mandate that can’t be achieved without totally transforming the company, IBM is turning itself into something very different. Gerstner’s service business that [...]
When I was growing up in Ohio, ours was the only house in the neighborhood with a laboratory. In it the previous owner, Leonard Skeggs, had invented the automated blood analyzer, pretty much creating the present biomedical industry. Unwilling to let such a facility go to waste, I threw myself into research. It was 1961 [...]
Last in a too long series of columns on what’s wrong with IBM. Enough horror stories, already! How do we just fix IBM? Well it can’t be done from the inside so it has to be done from the outside. And the only outside power scary enough to get through the self-satisfied skulls of IBM [...]
Third in a long series of columns about what’s wrong with IBM The current irrationality at IBM described in my two previous columns and in the comments so far from about 300 readers is not new. Big Blue has been in crazy raptures before. One was the development of the System 360 in the 1960s [...]
Part two in a long series of posts about what’s wrong with IBM IBM’s 2015 plan was hatched to deliver $20 earnings-per-share to the delight of Wall Street. IBMers were offered a carrot, a few shares of stock granted at the end of 2015, as a reward for helping them achieve that target. It [...]
