Technology continues to lead the economy
26 July 2011From NPR and KPLU: Economists say the recession ended in June, 2009, but for many of us, it’s hard to tell the difference. Unemployment remains high and the economy is growing slowly. This month on “The Digital Future,” Strategic News Service publisher Mark Anderson and KPLU’s Dave Meyer look at the bright spot of the [...]
SNS Predictions for 2011 on BBC World Service
4 January 2011From the BBC: In this programme Mark Anderson predicts the way the technology winds are blowing in 2011. Mark is the technology commentator who runs Strategic News Service. His trend spotting emails are subscribed to by some very influential people in the high tech industry. The magazine Fortune once described him as one of the [...]
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 [...]
BBC Global Business: Here comes 2010
6 January 2010From BBC Global Business: In Global Business this week Peter Day is in conversation with Mark Anderson, CEO of Strategic News Service(SNS). In what is becoming a ‘Global Business’ tradition Peter Day learns some of his Top 10 predictions for 2010 and looks back at how successful last year’s predictions were. About this programme by [...]
KPLU Radio: 2010 Technology Predictions
29 December 2009From NPR and KPLU Radio: When it comes to making predictions, it’s hard to beat Mark Anderson. Last month, the Strategic News Service publisher predicted Intel would face antitrust charges. Now, the Federal Trade Commission is suing the chip giant for using anti-competitive tactics. KPLU’s Dave Meyer asked Mark what he’s predicting for the New [...]
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 [...]
Mark Anderson’s FiReGlobal Conference
30 September 2009From NPR and KPLU Radio: What’s the best way to attract more high-tech companies to the Northwest? That’s one of the key questions being raised at next month’s FiReGlobal conference in Seattle. Strategic News Service publisher (and KPLU commentator) Mark Anderson is hosting the technology conference. He spoke with KPLU’s Dave Meyer. Listen Now.
Prediction: Tech Sector Will Recover First
30 June 2009From NPR & KPLU Radio: On this month’s Future in Review with Mark Anderson [of Strategic News Service], Mark predicts the technology sector will recover before the rest of the economy does. He tells KPLU’s Dave Meyer to keep an eye on computer chip sales. Listen Now!
Washington’s smug tech industry needs kick in butt
14 May 2009From Techflash: University of Washington computer science professor Ed Lazowska is known as a straight talking rabble-rouser who doesn’t pull many punches. And he certainly lived up to that reputation today at the OVP Venture Partners Technology Summit, criticizing everything from the state’s inability to adopt a broadband policy to a culture of mediocrity at [...]