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Personalized Music: Imagine!
For decades, as consumers and lovers of music, we have only had a choice of the medium of music to purchase: Do we buy a record, a CD, a track? Do we stream or do we listen to streaming playlists? No matter how much we love music, we really have not had a choice in ‘curating’ or…
Billions of Things and Cyber Security
Over the last many months, I have been engaged in great conversations with colleagues about what cyber security will look like when we have billions of things connected in our future hyper-connected IoT world. How do you control and manage cyber security and illegal access when you will have tens of billions of connection points?…
Layoff+: Tech Company Mega Layoffs plus Remote/Virtual Workforce
Fall of 2022 will without a doubt be when the major tech companies worldwide will do two things in parallel. 1. Layoff an unprecedented number of employees. AND 2. Slowdown and most likely freeze hiring at full tilt. The combination of these two events by themselves is significant, but we have seen this before. Layoffs…
Disruptive Technology is ALWAYS Greeted with Doubt, Skepticism and Rejection
Every disruptive technology is greeted with doubt, skepticism, and rejection. That is the normal trend. In 2002-2005 when as the founder of my startup ConnecTerra Inc, by all accounts the world’s first official IoT company, I started talking to folks about how everything would get on the internet and the economy would be shifting. As…
Business Etiquette – Even on Zoom!
This is not a debate about whether to Zoom or not-to Zoom. Clearly the virtual, remote, and emerging hybrid business environments are surviving via Zoom, Teams, etc. Whether we are having a meeting via Zoom or in person, there are still some polite manners that should be required. For example, if ½ the people…
Steve Jobs, We Miss You! Without You, Apple is Not Innovating!
When true attempts at innovation fail, desperate attempts of pseudo-innovation take off, often demonstrated in pointless new product introductions and fake-hype. This is exactly what Apple did in the announcement of the release of the iPhone 14 last week, which is lacking any interesting innovation elements. This was perhaps even worse, as Apple attempted to feed…