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Mike Chapman has written a post about me seemingly out of nowhere, and far more flattering than I deserve. Here’s an excerpt: Later, as I got to know whurley better, I learned that he is literally a virtual crystal ball into the future of technology. I imagine that he can see around the next technological curves [...]
The New Year’s still in diapers, and already several technology battles are heating up–the most interesting in the smart phone arena. Computing is clearly going mobile, and he who owns the smart phone software market may own the next decade. Think Microsoft dominating the office application space. Ever since I put together [...]
I think I need to grow a multi-billion dollar company, only to start mistreating my customers and ignoring them when they complain. Maybe then I can get my hands on some of this bailout money rolling out of Washington like an ocean wave. Out of touch with your customer base? No problem. Not making your [...]
Popular print media outlets are dying. It doesn’t matter if you’re a small town rag or the world’s best-known brand, progress doesn’t discriminate. How bad is it? The New York Times (which owns the Boston Globe and many regional papers) owes $400 million more than it has on hand. Both the Detroit News and the [...]
You know, BusinessWeek asked me about Apple potentially open sourcing the iPhone over a year ago. Since then: nothing out of Apple, despite mounting pressure from projects like Android that are vying for Apple’s throne. With Christmas only days away, I’ve only got one thing I want to ask Santa Jobs for, and it ain’t [...]
Hey, is your economy down? All right, bad joke, but it is the country’s current collective bellyache. 760,000 jobs lost already this year according to the Bureau of Labor. Businesses are frantically jettisoning people-weight just to stay afloat. Times are tougher than Chuck Liddell. I think I saw my old CEO in line at the soup [...]