KPLU: Has Google lost its way?
27 April 2011From KPLU Radio and NPR: Why has Google lost its way? Mark Anderson (CEO of Strategic News Service) says the company began with a search engine, but no real business plan. Now, it needs to focus on what it can do best and not try to do everything. Here’s what Mark predicted last December: Google [...]
SNS: Economic Cyberwar: The New Security Mandate
28 February 2011In order to fully appreciate the SNS concept of “Economic Cyberwar,” one should start with the idea that the form of war preferred by mercantilist states is not militarist, but economic. Any military conflict is the result of poor planning, and reduces the economic success of the mercantilist, since exports are the prime source of [...]
SNS Predictions for 2011
28 December 20102011 Top Ten Predictions The Smartphone Market Breaks in Two: Secure / enterprise, vs. consumer / entertainment. Android dominates – and balkanizes – the consumer Smartphone Market, with Apple close behind offering its Monolithic Operations. RIM and XX dominate the Enterprise. XX should be Microsoft, but Apple gets it. Carriers Grab Power: Google has interrupted [...]
The Untold Story of Google in China
10 July 2010A great deal is being made of Google’s just-received renewal of its Chinese internet content license, which allows the company to continue to operate (until further notice) without censoring its searches, if I understand properly and am being given accurate information by Google, by offering a “choice” splash page at the Chinese Google homepage. Chinese [...]
KPLU Radio: World War III in Cyberspace
23 February 2010From NPR and KPLU Radio: If you think your computer is safe because you’ve installed anti-virus software, you’re wrong. If hackers can break into computers at the Pentagon or Google, they can also sneak into your laptop. Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson believes the world is at war and the battlefield is in cyberspace. [...]
What Is China?
13 January 2010The following post is a reprint of last week’s January 4 issue of the Strategic News Service Technology Letter. At the request of our members, we are hereby authorizing distribution of that issue to the general public. If you find this blog useful, please point to it in your own blogs and writings. This issue is [...]
Tech Trends to Expect in 2009
12 December 2008From BusinessWeek: Mark Anderson predicts the year’s coming developments, from expanded home entertainment to voice recognition to new, lightweight netbooks Read the article and watch the video.
Google’s Future
12 May 2008My friend Richard Waters from the FT interviewed me the other day; he wanted to talk about Google’s future, now that the MS deal with Yahoo had apparently fallen through. Specifically, he wanted to talk about whether Google would come up with the next big thing, to keep its momentum going. I reminded Richard that [...]
The Secret MS vs. Yahoo! Plan
30 April 20081. MS stars quit the company and go work for Google. 2. Yahoo stars, ditto. 3. MS disses Yahoo, calls off bid; Yahoo stock first ever to achieve negative numbers. 4. MS stock doubles. 5. Yahoo, now linked at the hip to Google and with a valueless stock, drifts aimlessly through the Saragasso Sea of No Strategy. 6. [...]