Tech Trends to Expect in 2009

12 December 2008

From 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 2008

My 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 [...]

The Secret MS vs. Yahoo! Plan

30 April 2008

1. 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. MS buys Google.  Gets Yahoo [...]