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IBM’s Entry into Social Networking
Smart move, as IBM enters social networking. Anyone who has experience with large enterprises, knows, how tedious it is to locate people with the right expertise. Thus, I envision a LinkedIn equivalent which serves less as a tool for recruiters to find candidates, but more as an internal expertise locator, should be an absolute killer
Nokia in India
Market Share of the handset market: 79% 4 Major Segments: Live – New Users Connect – More evolved users who look for more functionality, features and connectivity. Accordingly, phones in this segment would have GPRS, camera and music capabilities. Achieve – Enterprise users who need to have business functionalities in their phones. Explore – High
Palm’s Turnaround Formula
With the iPhone announcement, we enter an era when all the other smartphone providers need to now sit up and define their own clear positioning and path forward. With Steve Jobs working his PR machine, and the media lapping up the show and tell, it is imperative that Palm, for instance, decides where it goes
iPhone and the Future
by Frank Levinson, Guest Author When I was sitting with some friends recently, we began talking about Apple’s introduction of the iPhone. We all felt that this product was one with much more promise than many we had seen in the last few years. Why? From the most straightforward view, the features in the iPhone
The Yahoo! Turnaround Formula
Red Herring included the possibility of a buy-out of Yahoo! this year among its top predictions. ‘Business Week’ rated Terry Semel recently as one of the highest paid chief executives with one of the worst returns to shareholders. And yet, I have said it for a long time, that Yahoo! is a superbly underleveraged asset
Should Google Power Yahoo Again?
Here’s a superb post from Rich Skrenta on Google, the third wave of computing, and how Yahoo should go back to its original model of licensing Google’s technology for Search, Adwords and AdSense. Whether or not you agree with that last conclusion, you must read the post. And then, ponder the question on the future
Yahoo, eBAY, Microsoft, AOL
Once again, the media is calling for big acquisitions. This time, Merrill Lynch Analyst Justin Post says that Microsoft should acquire Yahoo. On the other hand, there is also speculation about Yahoo buying AOL from Time Warner. John Battelle doesn’t like this option. I said, a year back, that Yahoo and eBAY should merge. Since
Future of EDA: Addendum
Recently, Gartner fired their EDA research team, part and parcel, with veteran analysts Gary Smith and Daya Nadamuni. Here’s John Cooley’s report on the departure with comments from many industry stalwarts. This takes out the last remaining independent analyst that covered EDA as an industry. There is a problem in EDA. Small $4 Billion market