The advantages of Lenovo are not well known; it is more likely to be forced to compete on price. This makes it an interesting bargain for the informed customer.
BlackBerry continues to impress on product and execution, but it is held back by an image tied to what it used to be. Customers have clearly indicated that BlackBerry is keeping their firms and people far safer than what is likely being deployed by competitors.
For efforts like the Google AI Ethics Council to work, they need to be integrated with the creation process, have the responsibility to assure ethics and the authority to enforce their decisions, and the full support of the executive staff.
A skunk works-like VC organization named Decibel from Cisco appears to strike a near perfect balance by using a model that has been successful in driving innovation.
This is as much a war for technology leadership between countries as it is companies, and between a competitive telephony market vs. one that is dominated by a single vendor.
HP is performing the role of canary in a coal mine and pointing out that the world we have this decade will be very different from the world we will have in the second half of next decade, based on megatrends.
If it executes against the plans, the IBM partner program will be the one to beat and become a solid reference for how something like this should be done.
Attending the final hours of this FTC trial raised several serious and troubling questions about this proceeding and future ones among tech companies and government agencies.
The FTC got involved in litigation at the request of Apple and Intel, which could backfire on them. The effect on Qualcomm and the smartphone market may not be what they intended.
2019 will be disruptive, with firms like Microsoft rising again to power and long-term market leaders dropping due to bad decisions, poor execution, and lots of distractions.