The next monopoly?
31 May 2011From NPR and KPLU Radio: Microsoft is appealing a $1.3 billion fine from European antitrust regulators. But its antitrust worries in the United States appear to be over. The consent decree with the US Justice Department expired May 11th. A lot has changed since Microsoft crushed Netscape in the browser wars of the 1990s. This [...]
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 [...]
KPLU Radio: Microsoft and Nokia: will this marriage work?
22 February 2011From NPR & KPLU Radio: When Nokia decided its Symbian operating system wasn’t the path to success in the smartphone market and started looking for outside options, it found two major suitors: Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 and Google’s Android. The Friday before Valentine’s Day, Nokia announced it was hooking up with Microsoft. Will this marriage [...]
How to Fix Microsoft
29 June 2010Under the KPLU title, “Is Microsoft in Trouble?” I thought some of our more astute readers might find an interview I did with Dave Meyer today of interest. I prefer to use the title: “How to Fix Microsoft,” since almost all of the piece, and all of the thinking beforehand, was focused on this question. [...]
Australia Week
18 January 2010Most people following SNS know that I picked Australia several years ago as a future source of economic growth and success, and this has worked out exactly right so far. Since then, I have joined the Australia American Leadership Dialogue, and met with PM Kevin Rudd, Deputy PM Julia Gillard, and most of the current [...]
SNS Predictions for 2010 Released from New York
12 December 2009Update: The audio of Mark’s presentation is now available. [42min MP3] FRIDAY HARBOR, Washington, December 10, 2009 - Mark Anderson, CEO of Strategic News Service, released his predictions tonight for 2010 at the fifth annual SNS Predictions Dinner at the Waldorf=Astoria in New York. The global press in attendance included Bloomberg, the Financial Times, Business [...]
Microsoft’s Mysterious Year
29 July 2009From NPR & KPLU Radio: On this month’s Future in Review with Mark Anderson [of Strategic News Service], we look at a challenging year for Microsoft. The company has been struggling with European antitrust issues and its first-ever layoffs. But there’s plenty of optimism about Microsoft’s new operating system, Windows 7. Mark spoke with KPLU’s [...]
An Open Letter to the Board of Directors
13 April 2009An Open Letter to the Board of Directors Last week, I gave a keynote talk at the CRIM Crystal Ball Conference in Montreal, and the speech seemed to be really well received. I had decided ahead of time that the best way to talk about today’s problems was to have a frank conversation about how [...]
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.
Companies on the Road South
18 November 2008I mentioned last week at the WTIA Predictions Dinner that Jerry Yang’s act of refusing Microsoft’s $33 / share offer for Yahoo! may have been the greatest disservice to shareholders in recent memory. That followed an earlier prediction in the SNS newsletter that Yahoo! stock would act like a reverse rocket if they turned down [...]