Meg Whitman reveals how badly HP was managed, hints at pain to come in their most recent analyst call. It is truly disheartening to see a giant fall this way. And especially so having worked there for some time. The lack of central leadership left individual units to figure out things for themselves. The company’s [...]
Here’s why Steve Jobs wanted to go thermonuclear against Google for copying the iPhone. If all this is true and laid out neutrally it does suggest a breach of trust. In 2001, when Google was a three-year-old start-up with roughly $50m in revenues, Google’s co-founders met Steve Jobs and wanted him to become Google’s CEO. [...]
This is extreme slow photography. Almost at the speed of light. Ramesh Raskar presents femto-photography, a new type of imaging so fast it visualizes the world one trillion frames per second, so detailed it shows light itself in motion. This technology may someday be used to build cameras that can look “around” corners or see [...]
Here’s Samsung’s step-by-step guide on how to copy (or is it how to be ‘inspired’) by the iPhone. It is true that every product draws inspiration from competition but this is fairly extensive. Most of the features in question are design features. Which kind of raises the question ‘should design be protected’ in a technology [...]
Few days ago I shared a post on how as companies grow they lose their innovation mojo. Here is the inside story of how that happened at Microsoft. Must read. [For the time constrained, here is a nice summary. Same soure.] This is also a retelling of the Nokia and Xerox story. In those years [...]
In the medium term at least. Asked about their focus on India this is what Tim Cook said (scroll right to the bottom of the link). Asked about the market for its goods in India, Cook remarked that while he “loves India,” the multilayer distribution structure of the company’s markets “really adds cost to getting [...]
So Nokia it seems is the new Xerox. Well, was. They had the designs for a touch screen smartphone with internet capabilities and a tablet way back but let those rot. Only for Apple to come around and steal the market. A second time. Frank Nuovo, the former chief designer at Nokia Corp., gave presentations [...]
There is a very interesting observation about “Hardware Companies Will Have To Quit The Tablet Market In 2012“. The basic premise of the argument being content providers can undercut on hardware price and make it up via content sales. Which means Apple, Amazon and Barnes & Noble are perfectly poised while the HPs and Dells [...]
The iPhone 4S seems to be headed to India. Aircel has this page up on their website where they say they will start accepting pre-bookings from November 18th. This is the first indication I have seen of the 4S coming to India. Is Apple becoming a little more friendly with India? Wouldn’t be surprised considering [...]
The iCloud website is live with a link to setting up iCloud on iOS devices. Maybe I see it because I access it from my iPad. The link gives a 404 right now, but should be live soon.