Is Facebook the AT&T of the 21st Century?
Two communications giants. What makes them similar and different? AT&T as Ma Bell ruled the roost as the biggest communications company for over a 100 […]
Technology
IT + OT = IoT
The promise of the Internet of Things (IoT) to create unprecedented economic value is a dominant topic of recent technology & business stories. What would it take […]
Couch Computing: A Dummy’s Guide
It’s a Friday night. I am perched on a cozy corner of my couch, wine on one hand, my smartphone on the other. The smart […]
SDN & Biology
Lately, Software Defined Networking (SDN) has become de rigueur in the computer networking world. Before purpose-built networking devices came in to existence, networking was done […]
Parlez-vous PaaS?
Several years ago I visited Parfumerie Gallimard in Grasse, France. Grasse is famous as the perfume capital of the world and Gallimard is the 2nd […]
Analytics & Woolly Mammoths
Lately, we in the technology world are bombarded by the word Analytics at every turn. We have endless debates verging on theology about the distinction […]
The X2X World
Ever since my car got heated seats, every winter I wish that it would start to warm the seat 60 seconds before I got in […]
Anatomy of the Virtual Social Network
In previous posts on utilities, I talked about the evolution of common utilities like water, gas, electricity, and lately computers (Part I), and utilities that connect […]
Utilities: Roads & Networks
In Part I of this series on utilities, I talked about consumable resources such as water, gas, electricity, and computing. We looked at their evolution […]
Utilities: Water & Computers
A few years ago we were traveling in Portugal and passed through a beautiful town called Óbidos in central Portugal. Óbidos, an old Roman settlement, […]