Significant Changes
The 5S will be my eighth iPhone and I can’t wait. I got up at 2:55 AM last Friday to place my order online. When I got to the very last step, a message appeared saying “Your carrier has a policy that shipments of the iPhone can only be made to your billing address of […]
Apple iPhones Five
As usual, the Apple management team did a great job in presenting their new products at yesterday’s keynote. As happened after the launch of the iPhone 4S two years ago, CNBC and others gave the company a lukewarm reaction saying there were no breakthroughs, but rather minor tweaks to what existed. Consistent with my view […]
The alphaWorks Group (on Facebook)
Thanks to David Gee for adding me to the alphaWorks group on Facebook. I am honored to be a member. I searched through the past 17 years of my blog and found a lot of references to aW. Perhaps the most meaningful is one from 2006 when I had attended the tenth anniversary of alphaWorks. […]
Browsing the Web in the Nineties
Quora is a site that strives to “answer any question you might have”. A Quora member recently asked “What was it like to browse the Web in the nineties?” Great question. Brian Hayashi, CEO of ConnectMe 360, decided to provide the answer. He did a very nice job of it, and with his permission, I am […]
A Universally Connected World… everything and everybody (2012)
The MIT Technology Review this week had a nice story about how GE is promoting the idea of an “industrial Internet”. This is a really good idea. A number of us at IBM have been talking about “millions of businesses, billions of people, and trillions of things” connected to the Internet for quite a few […]
