I like Sarah Lacy, I kind of felt for her when she was torn apart for her interview of Facebook founder mark Zuckerberg last year. True she came across that time as something of a sycophant – but she…
Interesting news that Microsoft president of its Platform and Services division Kevin Johnson is leaving the company. Apparently he’s heading over to become CEO of Juniper Networks, the manufacturer of networking hardware. As Om reports, this hire, and some…
I love mobile data – I use it plenty but I’m not of the evangelical school that says that mobile data will replace fixed data for everything. It was really interesting (and refreshing) to read Scott’s post giving his…
A big barrier to all the good changes that networks communities can bring, is the speed at which the gatekeepers and validaters allow their world to be changed. The fact is that there are a lot of project management…
The Xero crew have a quandary right now. As the graph below shows, The percentage of their users utilising ie6 is fairly small. ie6 also has some inherent flaws in terms of security and current standards compatibility. Because of…
I was a little flummoxed to read that Levi Strauss, the venerable Jeans maker, reported a 98% drop in quarterly net profit last week. Well I wasn’t flummoxed about the drop in profit – these are difficult times after…
A couple of announcements of late have me scratching my head in wonderment. First comes the post by Bernard Hickey about MissionOn. I posted about MissionOn back in February (yes, you saw it here first) and my appraisal was…
Stacey Higginbotham wrote a provocative post that fired up a lot of people detailing 10 reasons why cloud computing won’t take of within enterprise. The post is great – but more importantly there are some exceptional responses from different…
GigaOm pointed out a couple of new pieces of research about broadband penetration, speeds and consumer demand in the US. It’s a pretty interesting report but there are a couple of parts that stand out for me; Low income…
I noticed the other day that Saasu have changed their pricing strategy – after comments from their customers, they determined that a much simple pricing structure was in order and delivered one. It seems there are two distinct strategies…