On February 28, 2014, Mia Saini of Bloomberg TV briefly interviewed John Thompson, Microsoft’s new Chairman. Saini includes some questions about Mr. Thompson’s other significant current venture, Virtual Instruments. But this post will only speak to a few of the… Read more ›
Blackberry’s QNX OS scored a big win at Ford this week. If readers have yet to catch up with this news, they can read about it in an article written by Craig Trudell and Jeff Green, which was published on… Read more ›
To date, Google’s Android business unit has claimed to be the sole significant representative of open source O/S options for mobile devices. Leaving aside, for the moment, whether Android’s O/S architecture really complies with OpenSource standards, or not (I don’t… Read more ›
February 24, 2014 was not a good day for news about Microsoft. Ford announced its intention to stop using the Windows Embedded Automotive 7 technology. On the same day, Dave Their published an article on the Forbes website, Xbox One… Read more ›
On February 4, 2013, HP announced the addition of an HP Pavilion 14 Chromebook to its product family. Several business quarters have passed since the announcement, but, HP earnings reports (and the webcasts of management presentations), to the best of… Read more ›
On Saturday, February 15, 2014, The New York Times published an article by Claire Cain Miller, titled ‘The Plus in Google Plus? It’s Mostly for Google’, Miller clearly presents a challenging component of the type of highly effective personalized search… Read more ›
On February 12, 2014, at the VMware’s Partner Exchange meeting, VMware and Google announced a joint marketing effort. Filip Verloy sums up the effort in a sentence: “Yesterday at VMware’s Partner Exchange (PEX), VMware announced that it is joining forces… Read more ›
VMware’s CEO Mr. Pat Gelsinger participated in a panel discussion during the last day, February 13, 2014, of Godman Sachs’ Technology and Internet Conference. Mr. Gelsinger was joined, for his presentation, by Mr Don Duet of Goldman Sachs, Co-Chair of… Read more ›
Many enterprise IT organizations, and their peers in the public and not-for-profit sectors have embraced software prototyping. A review of the components of an industry-standard software prototyping procedure can provide decision-makers with the qualifiers they need to choose the right… Read more ›
In an article written by Rolfe Winkler, titled “Android’s ‘Open’ System Has Limits”, which was published by the Wall Street Journal on Wednesday, February 12, 2014, Mr. Winkler notes how Google has deftly won concessions from Android OEMs. These concessions… Read more ›