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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...
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...
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...
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...
With the passing of Pope John Paul the II comes an opportunity to look back -- as well as ahead -- at the kinds of technological changes that can occur in 30 years. In the late '70s we didn't have cell phones or GPS navigation systems; cloning people was the stuff of science fiction stories; and IB...
Transmeta makes for an interesting Silicon Valley case study. The net of its announcement last week is that it will continue to be with us indefinably. This company has an amazing history, and its story demonstrates the opportunities and mistakes that can surround a high-profile startup in Silicon V...
With last week's release of the Sony PSP in the U.S. market stealing the spotlight from the ("old-news") Apple iPod and details of the XBox likely to emerge at the upcoming E3 gaming conference, it is time to take a real look at how gaming is driving the future of PC technology and entertainment. Pe...
In the years I spent running one of IBM's internal audit teams, I developed a methodology for testing organizations to see if they were likely to have problems. At every executive level, you have to be able to trust the people doing the job, but you also need to make sure there are controls so that...
I mentioned last week that I was expecting the other shoe to drop this week at the Game Developers Conference 2005. That shoe was the next generation of the Xbox game machine, and it dropped like an atomic bomb. The collateral damage from the resulting explosion could be extensive. It may even ta...
Last week was a busy week. It started with the Intel Developer Forum and ended with an American Press Institute roundtable on the future of media. We'll cover the second event another week because there were two things I saw while at the Intel event that I believe are potentially market breakers.
As we move well into the spring semester, more and more kids are thinking about life after college. Those that prepared wisely already know where their first jobs will be. Those that didn't may, at least for a while, need to get used to the question, "Do you want fries with that?" Although the indu...
This last month saw a number of dramatic changes, not the least of which was the involuntary departure of HP's CEO, Carly Fiorina, and the voluntary departure of her closest supporter, Alison Johnson, who was largely responsible for turning HP into a marketing powerhouse. I'd like to relate those tw...
This week is the RSA Conference 2005, and today I'm doing one of the opening talks at a Trusted Computing Group lunch. I'm trying to find a nice way to say that I think the most common approach to security problems these days is completely whacked, but I have struggled with the "nice" part. Here ar...
2005 will see two big waves of new laptop computers. The first, based on Intel's new Sonoma platform, rolled in last week. The second, based on AMD's new Turion processor, is still several weeks off. Sonoma is the code name for Intel's Centrino bundle, which remains one of the most effectively sold...
Last week we talked about a number of platform companies that could drive the future of the personal computer. This week we look at PC hardware, and we will talk a bit about some of the unusual products that are already on the market. Most are built by small companies focused on unique segments, but...
This month we've seen a number of vendors present their views of the next generation of the personal computer, starting with the traditional PC vendors at CES and ending with Apple at MacWorld. Let's spend this week talking a bit about the different camps. While it goes without saying that each is ...
It was rather hard to find true convergence products at CES. Most vendors are still too enamored with technology and not excited enough about building a truly consumer-oriented, appliance-like offering. I wasn't particularly excited about Apple's announcements either, but I'll leave that to another ...
As I was working up my impressions of the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas last week, one thing became painfully clear: The most important vendor, from the standpoint of interest, wasn't even there. Not since the beginning of the PC era has Apple had this much attention. While much of th...
It is almost the New Year, and I'm sure many of us will be glad to say goodbye to 2004. It is traditional to make New Year's resolutions, and I'd like to suggest some for the companies that make up the high technology segment. It's always interesting to have a few bad years, because you something t...
The end of this year marks the halfway point in the first decade of the twenty-first century, and the tech industry has already gone through a number of dramatic changes. Compaq has ceased to exist as a company, having been fully integrated into HP, while IBM has gone the other way, divesting itself...
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