Apple iPhone… Please Start Innovating and Imagining Again!

Apple has been one of the great innovators of our age – there is no arguing that! But, what is happening at Apple Computers today (and for the last ~10 years) is less than what I’d expect from the tech giant. Incremental innovation is all I’ve seen, and we’re witnessing the decline of a great…

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AI and Music (XdMind Inc.): The Journey Has Begun!

AI and Music

  Over the last few months, we have heard the term “Generative AI” and Music a lot. Sometimes also referred to as AI-generated music, non-musicians using computer algorithms effectively producing music, vs. artists, musicians, music labels, and studios. Clearly, this can be a bit alarming, if one assumes there will be an immediate replacement of…

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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…

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Billions of Things and Cyber Security

cyber security for our changing world

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?…

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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…

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Why is Your Company Resisting Using AI???

AI

This article in Financial Times refreshed a question that I have been struggling with for a long time: Why are companies hesitant to use AI? AI is all around us and everyone has heard about it. Large companies with massive engineering staff are refusing to use AI, and I think this article points out one…

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Personalization: Where Are You?

data

My passion for data has always been to harness information into useful insights in order to improve services and delight customers, not to collect, archive, then never change business models. My personal data is stored by almost all my vendors, yet no vendor has yet stepped up to use this data (anonymously) to vastly improve…

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Netflix: What Is Your Comeback Plan?

Netflix

Over the last 6 months, we have seen a 70% drop in Netflix’s stock price, taking its biggest hits in the last few weeks. It was clear this would happen and I will explain why, but first, this begs the question: Why was Netflix so unprepared? Netflix is respected as one of the most innovative…

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Zoom, Teams: Why Not Innovate Mindfully and With More Impact?

Microsoft Teams - Zoom

In March of 2020, the world changed. Within days, one of the largest digital evolutions happened, globally! Tens of millions of people around the world, at the same time, reverted to virtual communications, instead of in person. Digital became the norm; Zoom and Microsoft Teams exploded. Given the trajectory ahead, it was clear that the…

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