'technology' Category
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Mobile BI
August 29, 2010It is only a matter of time until a whole new ecosystem sprouts up resulting from the convergence of traditional enterprise business intelligence concepts with the mobile world. Of course, like any new domain that often begins with an easily-hyped buzzword, it is not until a few articulate thought leaders provide some cogent analysis on […]
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Portfolio company opportunities: BoosterMedia
August 5, 2010If you’re interested in joining a dynamic, young company in the domain of social and casual gaming for mobile, these job openings may be of interest. All positions are based in Utrecht, Netherlands, though there may be some partial flexibility on working location. Sales Manager Mobile Advertising and Partnerships Software Engineer Freelance casual game developer […]
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The end of second chances ?
July 25, 2010One of the great virtues of technological progress is that it enables people to reinvent themselves. An ex-convict can use a pc and a stack of used cd’s to mashup a hit rap song. A cobol programmer can re-train himself to develop lucrative mobile apps for the iPhone. A Greek immigrant can run for political […]
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Blogs behind the paywall
July 2, 2010There is an interesting debate raging on Charles Bremner’s blog about The Times’ (the UK newspaper for which Charles Bremner blogs) new pricing policy. The Times and The Sunday Times this week began charging for access to their websites. Readers must pay £1 for a day’s access and £2 for a week’s subscription. It’s definitely […]
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The content farms are coming !
June 27, 2010The French intelligentsia has discovered the content farm model, and it’s not happy. Well-financed, maturing, and in some cases reaching the liquidity climax (Demand Media’s approaching IPO, Associated Content’s acquisition by Yahoo), the content farm model in the U.S. is not without its critics. But as evidenced by Yahoo’s commitment, AOL’s birth of a business […]
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A game for the ages (literally)
June 8, 2010I’ve written in the past about the perennity of casual games like Bejeweled and BubbleShooter, and their inevitable shift toward mobile. Then about two weeks, Google featured a Pac-man applet on its home page, which resulted in an estimated $120 million of lost productivity, but gave me a boatload of enjoyment while I was waiting […]
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Your brain on technology
June 6, 2010Today’s New York Times Technology section holds an article about the effects of digital overload on the human brain. Bursts of information from bouncing between social media, email, mobile apps, rss feeds, and phone calls undermine a person’s ability to focus (no surprise there). Humans have a primitive impulse to prioritize urgent items over important […]
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Virtualization: myths and realities
June 14, 2009Is virtualization the next revolution that is sure to take over the current desktop and server paradigm ? My favorite expert on this subject, Jeanne Morain, has spent time with the people whose viewpoint really counts – the architects and engineers that use technology every day to solve real world problems. As vendors we can […]
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The 4 C’s of Universal Clients – in or out of the Cloud
May 18, 2009Jeanne Morain offers a great explanation of how the new paradigm shift both in and out of the cloud is more user centric around Universal Clients for the desktops. The monolithic era of tightly coupled OS, Applications and Data can no longer survive and thrive in today’s technology-dependent world. Let us not forget Vista and […]
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Silicon Valley, RIP
October 9, 2008Sequoia Capital, arguably the smartest venture capital investor in business, is sounding the alarm and asking its portfolio companies to buckle down for what could be the worst economic downturn of their relatively short lives. Read more from GigaOm
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Innovation for the rickshaw pullers
September 20, 2008This month’s IBEF newsletter highlights a low-budget innovation that could fundamentally improve the lives of millions: Manoj Mondal is the inventor of the crank pedal – he successfully tweaked the pedal of a bicycle to an extent that it generates almost double the torque (force multiplied by the distance from the centre) than in normal […]
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Millenials
July 17, 2008Today, Millenials is the fastest-growing segment of the workforce, expanding from 14% of the workforce in 2004 to 21% today, or nearly 32 million workers. Applicant pools are larger today than ever before as more people pursue higher levels of education and are therefore better qualified for professional careers. However, due to technological advances, notably […]