All Entries in the "Trends" Category
Walked in to Buy a Playbook and Walked Out with a Xoom
Research in Motion’s (RIM) Playbook has been hyped so much over the past 6 months that it was time for me to see one in person. Since there are no RIM stores, showcasing RIM products with RIM trained sales people – I had to go to my local Staples. [Disclosure: This was a purely a [...]
Can Yahoo Regain Its Baller Status?
I started trading stocks in 1995. My interest quickly gravitated towards internet related stocks. Fortunately, there was an abundance of investment choices. Netscape IPO’ed in 1995. Yahoo followed in 1996. Many others would become tradeable over the next few years. However, if I had started trading in 1990 or even 1994 my choices would have been very [...]
Ad-Think: My Beef with Google
Give me a little time to set this up, but I think that it will be worth the read. I have been using Twitter since 2009. After my first 5 or 6 tweets to Shaq went unanswered, I began chatting with people like Chris Selland. As they say, Facebook is for people that you went [...]
The Evernet – The Next Bubble
Sooner or later we will collectively agree on a name for the next era in computing; post-PC, Social Local Mobile (SoLoMo) and mobile computing are names used quite often. A few days ago I was introduced to a new term – Evernet. According to whatis.com: The term Evernet has been used to describe the convergence of wireless, broadband, [...]
Where Mobile, Social and the Cloud Meet
In the mid-90s, I worked for a company that sold software to many of the companies in the midst of the desktop internet revolution. As I would leave the sales calls, I would call my broker to buy stock in those very same companies. Unbeknownst to me at the time I was laying the groundwork [...]
Avoiding Losers in the 3rd Era of Computing
I can’t recall hearing the term “post PC” before Steve Jobs used it while unveiling the iPad2 in February. However, a quick search led to a Steve Jobs quote at the D: All Things Digital conference in June 2010: I’m trying to think of a good analogy. When we were an agrarian nation, all cars were trucks. [...]
8 Ballers of Mobile Update 4/1/11
I am playing the Next Era of Computing, aka post PC, thru my 8 Ballers of Mobile portfolio (Mobile Stocks that Got Game). This is a long term strategy with a twist. Since I am holding at most 8 stocks – the weakest stocks will constantly be pruned from the portfolio. Market conditions will dictate when [...]
Why Are Individual Investors Still Screwing Around with RIMM?
Digital Equipment Corp and Wang Labs were both highly successful companies in the era of microcomputers. However, both completely missed the transition to PCs. Maybe in internet time that was centuries ago, but in real time it was only 30 years ago. What has taken Wall Street so long to figure out that Research in [...]
Another Day Another Apple NFC Rumor
The following hit my Twitter stream on yesterday: According to two people with knowledge of the inner workings of a coming iteration of the Apple iPhone — although not necessarily the next one — a chip made by Qualcomm for the phone’s processor will also include near-field communication technology, known as N.F.C. (NY Times). It was only [...]
Having My Doubts about NFC in iPhone 5
Near Field Communication, or NFC, is a set of short-range wireless technologies, typically requiring a distance of 4 cm or less. Huh? NFC is what all the cool kids are talking about. It is a technology that allows a device, usually a mobile phone, to collect data from another device or NFC tag at close range. It [...]
