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The Future of the Home Entertainment PC

The consumer electronics industry has had a hard time with standards. Each manufacturer has its own specialty and few components work well with products from other companies. CE products have a mixed ease-of-use record. The most famous problem is probably the VCR which had the ability to time-shif...

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The Evolution and Death of the Laptop Computer

With the Zotob virus allegedly being spread by improperly patched notebook computers and bringing down an impressive number of news sites last week, the future of the notebook computer, at least as we now know it, may be changing dramatically. As far as direction, strangely enough, it is once again ...

OPINION

PC Alternatives for the Future

This week, let's look ahead at changes coming in hardware over the next few years and the players driving those changes. It is certainly time for a change. In 1984 we had two PCs in the business space, Apple enjoyed 40 percent market share and had two innovative designs (the Apple II and the Mac) -...

OPINION

Emerging Alternatives to Windows Vista

Last week I focused on Windows Vista and how things didn't look particularly good for that product, at least not right now. I also mentioned that neither Apple nor Linux was likely to be able to take advantage of a Microsoft stumble. However, I didn't explain why, in addition, I was focused on the ...

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Windows Vista: Killer Product or Dud?

There is no doubting the importance of Windows Vista, formerly known as "Longhorn" and the successor to Windows 95 through XP, as it forms the foundation for Microsoft's future fortunes just as its predecessor did for the company in years past. Vista will be Microsoft's strongest response to competi...

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Morale Is Good: HP, Google and Microsoft

Last week HP laid off 14,500 people and most determined that this was actually a good thing. In a way I think most of us have forgotten how hard a layoff of this size can be on any organization and how disruptive a drawn out process can be. At the same time, however, my heart goes out to the HP empl...

OPINION

Gateway: Sun’s Next Acquisition Target?

We spend a lot of time forecasting the death of Sun these days. Employees have probably forgotten how to spell the word "morale," acquisitions seem more focused on distracting stake holders from clueless executives, and there often seems like a plan to develop more never-to-be-executed, silly strat...

PRODUCT REVIEW

HP’s Big Bang Launch: Innovation Applied, Sony Targeted

One of the big problems for complex companies is the ability, or inability, to use expertise developed in one area in another. This is one of the reasons complex companies like Sony often fail; they have all of the disadvantages of that complexity and don't really get the anticipated synergies or e...

OPINION

Protect Your Freedoms in Face of Power Misuse

On this day in the United States we celebrate our independence from what was reported to be a very oppressive government. Of course, since the victors get to tell the story and it all happened even before my time, I have little doubt there was another side. History may seem black and white, but I ...

OPINION

The Race That Wasn’t: Choose Your Partners Wisely

I just had one of the most surreal experiences in my life. I attended, as AMD's guest, the F1 Race in Indianapolis where 14 out of the 20 cars racing, including the Intel car, left the race after the parade lap. Sharing the experience with me was a group of AMD's closest friends, mostly actual IT p...

OPINION

HP Girds for War: Dell, PalmOne Are Targets

A lot can be drawn from watching the initial moves of a new CEO. In Carly Fiorina's case those moves were building an empire and driving a fast path to becoming the largest company, as well as the most visible CEO, in the segment. Both goals were achieved, but afterwards Fiorina lost focus and ult...

OPINION

PowerPC to X86: Will Apple Survive the Move?

Finally, after sending signals of this move ever since Steve Jobs re-took Apple's helm, the company last week announced that it will move to the x86 platform. While I had clearly anticipated this move for some time I also expected their execution, once announced, to be much more rapid than it will ...

OPINION

Technology Battles at Taiwan’s Computex

Computex in Taiwan is the showcase for technology coming out of, and into, this country. Much like Comdex, it, and CeBIT in Europe, are the shows that have defined high technology throughout the world. The vendor battles here are no less dramatic than the vendor battles were at Comdex, and, strang...

OPINION

The Most Powerful Labor Union in the World: Linux?

For several years a number of us have been anticipating the emergence of a Software Labor Union. The argument has not been whether it will emerge but what form it will take. The conditions for forming technology unions have never been better. In many companies there exists a huge difference in com...

CONFERENCE REPORT

E3 Review: Prepare To Be Amazed this Holiday Season

E3 is the conference to go to if you are into gaming. Computer games, console games, even phone games are here, and the show is all about demos and entertainment. No place else in the world lets you try out not-yet-released titles, see characters and equipment that only exist in the virtual gaming...

OPINION

Xbox 360: Like Sony and Apple’s Illegitimate Child

The very first thought that crossed my mind when I saw the new Xbox was that this is probably what would have resulted if the rumored merger between Sony and Apple had been successful. It borrows heavily from design elements common in the most aggressive products from both companies and seems to mis...

OPINION

IBM Cuts 13,000, but Maybe It Should Have Laid Off One

A few months ago the Harvard Business Review did a piece on CEOs and pointed out the average tenure of an external CEO was 18 months, which suggests that a lot of CEOs are simply not qualified for the job they were selected for. Recently the HP board came to the conclusion that their high profile C...

OPINION

Apple’s Tiger vs. Windows XP 64-Bit Edition vs. Linux

On Friday Apple released its "Tiger" operating system into the marketplace. Borrowing heavily from what we had seen in Longhorn (Microsoft's next version of Windows) last year, Tiger is an impressive piece of work. I'm not one of those who thinks that using a competitor is a bad idea, particularly i...

OPINION

IPod’s Dirty Little Secret and the Power of the Internet

Apple currently enjoys a market position that they haven't had since the beginning of the PC era. I often wonder if the Microsoft folks chuckle about the problems Apple is having as a result, problems that Microsoft has enjoyed for some time. When you dominate a segment, like Apple does with the iPo...

OPINION

How Linux Saved Microsoft

I've been looking back this week and recalling almost a decade ago when a little company called Netscape prematurely slapped Microsoft upside the head and by so doing better positioned Microsoft for the future. Granted, I'm sure Microsoft would have loved to avoid the related litigation that contin...

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