For Craig Cline – who could see the shapes forming in front of the train. I share my experiences and thoughts on the internet, hosting and wireless technology
Resistance is futile - Oracle to assimilate RIM? This is a great article sent to me by a colleague - Jonathan Fisher. This sort of follow's up on my post on OpenOffice. Oracle has been quietly in the background building up a significant portfolio of enterprise plays. Considering all the posting I have been doing on RIM that is a accumulation of thoughts over quite some time, RIM could...
Have Microsoft lost the plot? Before you put pen to paper on a topic like this you have to challenge yourself before you make such a bold statement - so note the question mark. Peter Drucker wisely noted, "Business has only two basic functions: marketing and innovation." High tech is uniquely a product of both. Inbound marketing leads to innovation, or at very least...
#Cisco Cius video - this is one serious service for... httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEk2MI4ZGlQ&feature=related
#Cisco enterprise desktop game changer - Cius tablet... This is a great move from one of the mega vendors. Recently Cisco unveiled its Cius tablet PC running the Android 2.0 OS aimed squarely at business users. This is a game changer. As you will see from one of my previous posts - back in Siemens over a decade ago, Cisco pulled the market as it changed the desktop paradigm for voice 10 years...
#Hosting automation for Telco / Carriers - choice is... I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry 'pans' out within the telco / carrier market - the hosting industry has quite literally gone 'pete tong' since the BPOS drive against partners. The market is full of technical 'diatribe' - everything...
Jul
06
Category : Amazon, Apple, Azure, BlackBerry, Cloud, General, Google, hosting, Microsoft, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators
I was holding off on this post until a few things had passed but this is a really important one, its actually vital to how the hosting industry ‘pans’ out within the telco / carrier market – the hosting industry has quite literally gone ‘pete tong’ since the BPOS drive against partners.
The market is full of technical ‘diatribe’ – everything is about the Cloud in the IT industry. The reality is that it has been going on for years in various shapes or forms. Continue Reading
Jul
06
Being a Manchester firm, my old lawyers and also someone I tried to do business with (unsuccessfully I may add) – I just keep following the press. Really, same old story it was that building.
In reality the legal market has been inefficient for too long – these types of things were bound to happen. Partners happy – they made their money, I feel sorry for the staff
Halliwells: the inside story | News | The Lawyer.
Jun
29
Category : BlackBerry, Cloud, Feature it, General, Google, hosting, Industry voices, Microsoft
The hosted services market has now reached that point of maturity where hosted exchange vendors are ten a penny. Personally I started in this market back in 2003 when margins were ‘rich’ for hosted services like Exchange, SharePoint, BlackBerry etc and subsequently went deeper into the vertical SaaS industry because I saw the writing on the wall. We built the business fast because we focused on value – we targeted lawyers, accountants, professional services industries – we not only gave them a great messaging solution, we partnered with software vendors who would offer them compliance, security and services like BlackBerry. These were not Microsoft technologies but services the market actually wanted. Continue Reading
Jun
23
I love this video – really clever but looking back how very wrong 
Jun
21
Category : General, iPhone, Mobile Devices
Literally as I am posting, its doing its thing with my mac. Saying its backing everything up and going through the process of wipe, install and restore. These are nervous times and I shall report back with progress.
Jun
18
Look what I found in my loft- it’s like a graveyard of technology up there.
I think I got this in 2003- tablet, 1kg in weight embedded Microsoft CE. Funny-WLAN on an optional card, no USB and infrared.
Too early! Vision spot on.
That said apple did bring out a tablet over 10 years ago, so technically first.
Jun
17
Category : Cloud, Feature it, General, hosting, People
I was talking to my nearly 7 year old son the other day. As a ‘reward’ I let him have my old G5 mac in his bedroom to satisfy his thirst for knowledge. Before he was 4 he could click the little blue ‘e’ find toys r us and create a combined Christmas and birthday list of every combination power rangers and doctor who he could find. He is fascinated about how it all fits together and asks those questions ‘why’, what is a browser, can I watch all the doctor who episodes, how do you make software, where does it comes from? ……
Question – if you put 20 kids in a room and asked them to tell you about technology today, in 5 years or even 10, what would it look like?
My own interest in technology has made me actively encourage my kids interest in their mission for knowledge – their playroom could run NASA 20 years ago with their sky TV, Xbox and Wii plus the two hamsters who live on the shelf, who at night run the world aka Douglas Adam’s Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy -aka Mice.
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Jun
16
Category : BlackBerry, General, iPhone, Mobile Devices, Mobile Operators
I just picked up these two articles – very interesting. Will post up later some thoughts …..
Jun
16
I had a fantastic meeting today with Campbell Urquart who owns – the Urquart Partnership.
He is a ‘rapport’ builder straight out of the trap – he got me a coffee and a piece of strawberry cheesecake! But in all seriousness, I have the utmost respect for people who run their own business. I immediately warm to them because they understand and I know they have felt the ‘pain’ that you can only feel when you have salaries to pay, staff to motivate and a goal to achieve, why you did it in the first place.
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