While announcements from Intel look compelling, its seeming inability to execute either in building the products or getting developers to use this new capability is unprecedented.
During this holiday season, it is easy to become disgusted by the bad behavior of others. We should instead focus on companies that are doing well by doing good.
Cisco is moving aggressively to make sure it remains relevant and dominant in a future defined, not by the cloud exclusively, but by an increasing variety of focused domains that need to be connected, managed and secured.
AMD is executing well, is focused, has an executive team that is focused on the business and not on creating drama for customers or investors, and has the most solid product line it has ever had.
The Oracle endorsement of AMD gives the firm a nice beachhead and should allow it to expand that, particularly as it appears that Intel is distracted by other efforts, into a far more viable challenge to Intel dominance.
Spatial uses a top AR headset like Hololens or the Magic Leap solution to place an avatar that looks like your ghost in a meeting and, if you are remote, the people on site as ghosts in your office.
PCs and peripherals are force multipliers and crimping on them reduces the job satisfaction, loyalty and efficiency of the workforce. Millennials are forcing firms to rethink their more budget-focused strategies.
This is what a keynote should be: a balance between vision and products, a heavy focus on customers and applied solutions, and a solid and heartfelt effort to help improve the world we all live in.
Firms generally buy companies in areas where they want to expand and lack the knowledge and skills. Then they put uninformed executives in to run the effort and seem surprised when the result is a disaster.
With the graphics technology expanding how we view reality using technologies like augmented and virtual reality, the lines are increasingly blurred between what is real and what we can imagine.
Threadripper makes AMD appear trendy, gives the company bragging rights on performance, draws potential buyers to the brand, and differentiates the company positively against Intel, its primary competitor.
IBM might be the best source for Facebook or any other company concerned about the potentially terminal exposure of breaching customer trust and violating privacy.
A new book frames how we got where we are, what the job risks may be, and what the future will probably look like, in the age of artificial intelligence.