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JUNE 18, 2012

As he introduced the Microsoft Surface tablet this afternoon, Steve Ballmer kicked off by pointing out Microsoft has long been a hardware player. He is right of course. Lots of accessories – mice, webcams. Lots of devices which did not.

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JUNE 1, 2012

Gery Menegaz’s bio says he is an “Executive IT Architect” for IBM. The small print says his columns for ZDNet including the recent one on clouds don't necessarily represent IBM's positions, strategies or opinions. Except that they do. His first.

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JUNE 26, 2012

Much as I admire Apple and have profiled them favorably in my books, our household has no iPhones. Plenty of iPods/iPads/iTunes but no iPhones. I refused to pay the AT&T premium for the iPhone, and then the Verizon premium. The.

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JUNE 11, 2012

As Apple convenes its developer conference in San Francisco, it is a good reminder on the new war for talent between Apple, Google, Amazon, Microsoft, RIM and others. In my new book, I devoted a chapter to these new ecosystems.

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JUNE 27, 2012

Is it just me or is it the season for all large vendors to start praising the cloud? From Verizon’s Uppernet commercials to John Chambers at Cisco Live, it is a mandatory sound bite for every industry marketing event. Every.

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JUNE 25, 2012

In New York today, Oracle announced its Customer Experience (CX) strategy. It has been evolving nicely in several Oracle briefings a few analysts have had over the last few months. It reflects several realities organizations face – homogenizing customer relations.

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JUNE 15, 2012

Paul Sweeney has been tweeting a question I raised earlier this week. Can Enterprise Software (or enterprise technology in general) point to examples like the iPhone which apparently caught RIM, Microsoft and other competitors by surprise and took them years.

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JUNE 11, 2012

In the 2005 parody of the music industry, Be Cool, the Harvey Keitel character indignantly points out he cannot lose one of his artists “A – she’s under contract B – she’s under contract” If the movie were made today.

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JUNE 29, 2012

What a pleasant surprise to see Business Insider wake up to enterprise tech, and even say “it’s really the stuff that’s changing the world” as it lists the “50 Most Powerful People in Enterprise Tech”. The cloud is well represented.

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JUNE 24, 2012

on the New Florence blog Summer Innovations – Cordina frozen drink pouches OneCognizant: System of Engagement meets System of Record Mobile Innovators Rapid Charging EVs Mobile apps for the bottom of the pyramid A millennium of math.

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JUNE 15, 2012

I loved this Curt Monash update on Workday. Fittingly I saw it courtesy of Naomi Bloom, another market watcher who can talk object models and multi-tenancy architectures all day long. They remind me of colleagues in the 90s at Gartner.

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JUNE 13, 2012

….But I hope that it gets better as we go…. 3 Doors Down is coming to town this weekend and I have always found their “Here with you” both depressing and inspiring about the lonely life on the road. Kudos.

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JUNE 8, 2012

I first met Larry Ellison, briefly, in 1997. I have watched him infuriate competitors, drive analysts to drink, generate more quips than all boring tech execs put together. Over those 15 years I have also learned to look beyond his.

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JUNE 10, 2012

I like Workday’s 10 reasons to work with them. They don't call it a customer bill of rights but in many ways it is their commitment to their customers.

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JUNE 18, 2012

It’s good to see three non-vendor, non-traditional analyst firm events survive and grow. Enterprise 2.0, GigaOm Structure and LeWeb are all this week and again in the Fall. All have grown a loyal patronage over the last few years. More.

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JUNE 5, 2012

“The advertising industry is evolving and growing at an incredible pace, moving increasingly toward online and IP-served platforms, which dramatically increases the importance of software for this industry,” Guess what: Steve Ballmer of Microsoft said that in 2007 when they.

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JUNE 8, 2012

The last part in the series from Sukumar Rajgopal, CIO at Cognizant. The kick off column was here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here and here is Part 4 “We started envisioning the Meeting Concierge app to streamline.

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JUNE 6, 2012

on the innovation blog SapphireNow registration innovations Sleep and Creativity The Fortune 500 issue – soaked with technology Mark Zuckerberg’s net worth, er network The Lytro dissertation Social Security Statement goes on-line.

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JUNE 4, 2012

Couple of weeks ago we had a young visitor who lost his keys playing basketball. He had important documents in his car he needed the next morning, so at midnight we called AAA. I managed his expectations – the tow.

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JUNE 17, 2012

on the innovation blog Happy 75th, Golden Gate Bridge Energy AND water from wind Man made waves Leap Motion Answer Plots A tale of two cities.

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JUNE 28, 2012

I spent several months on a project in Holland in the late 80s. That meant several drives and train rides along the countryside and tulip fields like the one below. The New Florence blog feels as lush, and as diverse.

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JUNE 20, 2012

Jessica Park sings the praises of Amazon for helping her with her self-publishing career. Saved her life may be a bit too exuberant, but then again who am I as an author who uses traditional publishers to question that enthusiasm?

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JUNE 13, 2012

Judge Richard A. Posner of United States Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals recently blogged: “The institutional structure of the United States is under stress. We might be in dangerous economic straits if the dollar were not the principal international reserve.

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JUNE 12, 2012

IBM’s PR firm sent me a story idea about the Charleston Police Department using its analytics for “predictive policing”. It looked a very good candidate for New Florence, except that 6 months ago I had already posted about predictive policing.

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JUNE 13, 2012

On the New Florence blog “Net Promoter” applied at Amex Your flight Avatar Re-inventing Car Pooling Some light reading on SAP HANA Next-gen Heads Up Display Sprint’s HD Voice.

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JUNE 10, 2012

on the innovation blog Nike’s “body led design” for NFL uniforms Cloud based medical voice transcription Look Ma No Commercials When Jobs met Bezos, Doerr and Kamen The Factory Floor as Classroom Safeliite: Mobile Windshield Repair

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JUNE 3, 2012

On the New Florence blog The Puzzler’s Dilemma Sorry, George Clooney The Mile High Bar Flying Virgin America The evolution of the public library The NBA Nerds

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America 186

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JUNE 8, 2012

Part 4 in a 5 part series from Sukumar Rajgopal, CIO at Cognizant. The kick off column was here. Part 2 is here. Part 3 is here. “Early adopters really liked the key features of the MVP – web apps.

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JUNE 20, 2012

on the innovation blog Wearable Devices HP Discover The Big Jambox Sonos at 10 Digital Cat and Mouse ESPN at Indy 500.

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Technology 207

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JUNE 13, 2012

SAP plans to celebrate HANA’s first anniversary next week. Wait a minute – first anniversary? At SapphireNow 3 years ago, Dr. Hasso Plattner’s entire keynote focused on in-memory analytics. Of course, he hedged “that's me as a professor talking. I.

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