A Chink in the Apple Armor
I think Steve Jobs has made a big mistake. Not with the alleged faulty antenna in the iPhone. No. He strayed from the strategy that has made Apple one of the most powerful brands in the world. Apple...
View ArticleSuper-villains, Patents and 5-Year-Olds
If you have the facts on your side, pound the facts. If you have the law on your side, pound the law. If you have neither on your side, pound the table. While pondering the recent furor over an Apple...
View ArticleLoose Lips Sink Ships
Technology makes life easier. And more often we are less aware of what we are giving away for that ease. Beyond the privacy concerns of the big social platforms, businesses are struggling with the...
View ArticleI Now Have A Cloud. All Is Well.
Many years (decades?) ago, my father said to me: The world is going to end, not with a bang, but because no one will know how to fix anything anymore. I’m not going to to talk about the disposable...
View ArticleWho’s Dictating Cloud App’s in the Enterprise?
My name is Alan Berkson and I’m a cloud-aholic. I Dropboxed my SkyDrive and CRM’ed my Evernote into my Google Apps mailbox. I’m a victim of cloud sprawl. Are you with me on this one? I am experiencing...
View ArticleThe Anatomy of Anonymity
{EAV:a9599a7331a1f16c} Anonymize. That’s a word I hear often these days in terms of how businesses are managing the challenge of balancing the value proposition of Big Data against concerns of privacy....
View ArticleApple’s Advantage Is Not Technology Or Design
Apple’s got a lead. It’s not technology. It’s not design. It’s customer service and customer experience. The battle for dominance in the smartphone market and the consumer “computing” device —...
View ArticleiPhone Sits on the Cusp of Consumer and Enterprise – Revisited
It’s hard to imagine a world without iPhones, but there was a time when RIM ruled the roost, Blackberry’s were ubiquitous enough to warrant the moniker “Crackberry,” and Blackberry Enterprise Server...
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