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Sorry, You Just Can't Pin Down Apple Consumers February 09, 2010 
When I first noticed the Retrevo Pulse headline for its study that examines consumer interest in buying the Apple iPad, my first reaction was eerily in line with the traffic-grabbing headline, "Apple iPad Hoopla Fails to Convince Buyers." I'm an unabashed fan of almost every Apple product the company in Cupertino produces, and yet I'm still not convinced the iPad is a worthy addition to my personal Apple lineup.
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How Microsoft Could Beat Apple and Google: Needed - One Child Executive February 08, 2010 
The iPad has captured much of the technology coverage so far this year. It is a poorly named copy of a product that Microsoft launched nearly a decade ago, based on a concept Steve Jobs personally thought was stupid: the tablet computer. Yet Apple has effectively convinced the market that its device is new, different and desirable.
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Ripping the Wrong Page From Apple's E-Playbook February 08, 2010 
On January 27, a major speech took place: No, it was not the State of the Union address, but Steve Jobs' announcement of the release of the iPad. The iPad has already started to change the landscape of digital publishing: After a short battle, Amazon was forced to capitulate to a new deal with Macmillan, one of the six largest publishers; on Friday, Hachette started to make noise too.
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Apple and Oracle: Will the Real Tech Titans Please Stand Up? February 05, 2010 
I was a bit distracted from the Apple iPad news due to the marathon Oracle conference last week on its shiny new Sun Microsystems acquisition. However, the more I thought about it, the more these two companies are extremely well-positioned to actually fulfill what other powerful companies tried to do and failed.
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Don't Stomp on the Bookworms, E-Publishers February 05, 2010 
Apple's new iPad is apparently going to let me download The DaVinci Code -- either in book or movie form. I like that. If you're going to release a new device and charge me a lot of money for it -- not to mention the costs of using a network of some kind to facilitate all that downloading and streaming -- then please don't get between me and my instant media gratification.
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Blow Up Your Service Organization - and Rebuild It With the Customer in Mind February 04, 2010 
Businesses all over the world have made enormous investments in service -- both in people and in technology. The amount of thought dedicated to service is enormous, and the time spent trying to make service divisions more efficient is countless. Guess what? Most of this money, time and effort has been wasted.
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The Cloud Is Not a Place February 03, 2010 
What exactly is cloud computing? The question just doesn't go away, and as the year starts, SugarCRM has just released a white paper -- "The Sugar Open Cloud" -- offering its definition and its argument for why its vision is superior. I am not sure about either. Full disclosure: I like SugarCRM and have a lot of respect for what they are trying to do.
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The 2010 World Order: Lateralized, Trillionized, Infotoxicated ... February 02, 2010 
What are the top trends for the coming year? Miniaturization; lateralization; trillionization; infotoxication; Google-ization; domainization; ghettoization; cybernetization; frugalization; and globalization. Multiple countries, languages and cultures will all dance to one tune in the same boardroom.
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Oracle's Cloudy Plans to Make Sun Shine February 02, 2010 
During a five hour event at its Redwood Shores corporate headquarters, Oracle executives, including CEO Larry Ellison and Co-Presidents Safra Catz and Charles Phillips, applauded the completion of Oracle's purchase of Sun Microsystems and outlined their strategy for the new acquisition for a media and analyst audience.
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Taking the Good With the Bad in the New iPad February 02, 2010
More so than than any other major Apple product in recent memory, Apple's new iPad tablet device presents the world with a confounding mixture of good and bad -- or perhaps it's more of a yin and yang, or some other sort of cosmic force. Depending on who you are, and depending on what you need, some of Apple's deal-breaker decisions might be the killer feature someone wants most.
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The Folly of Ignoring Apple's Success February 01, 2010 
The technology and consumer electronics markets are awash with companies that seem to be barely meeting expectations or are, like Sony, Sun and Yahoo, on and off death watch. They aren't alone; the relatively new Obama administration seems to also be failing, and the latest State of the Union address wasn't particularly inspirational.
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iPad's Not Soft Enough to Cushion Journalism's Hard Landing January 29, 2010 
The more I see devices like the new Apple iPad, the more I come to appreciate Steven Spielberg's 2002 sci-fi spectacular "Minority Report." It was the first thing I thought of when I saw video of the company's newest "magical" creation and executives demonstrating its New York Times app. The app seamlessly integrated video content with the usual Grey Lady font and text.
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Is Personalized Medicine Anti-Establishment? January 27, 2010 
The Personalized Medicine World Conference in Silicon Valley last week showcased huge opportunities for new advances in medicine and personalized health. What remained unclear was who will take the lead, what techniques or products will win, and whether the medical establishment will go along or stand in the way.
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Apple's Tablet Is Coming - Get Ready for Disappointment January 26, 2010 
I find it amazing and crazy that a company that hasn't even acknowledged that it has a tablet-like computing device in development is getting more news coverage and attention than products that are already here or have been actually announced. How many e-readers and tablet devices were publicly announced at the Consumer Electronics Show earlier this month?
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Apple's Mysterious Slate: Betting the Company One More Time January 25, 2010 
This is an Apple launch week, which means we'll be on pins and needles until we actually know what Steve Jobs is going to have on stage in San Francisco. While there is a lot of drama with any big Apple announcement, there is substantially more with this one, including the unprecedented number of leaks, the location of the event itself, and the massive devastating impact this device could have.
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In Which We Observe Apple Tablet Hysteria January 22, 2010 
For months, I have watched in disbelief at the hysteria over Apple's rumored-to-be-upcoming tablet device without devoting a single article to it. It troubled me by how quickly unconfirmed reports could become concrete facts simply because they've been repeated enough. Even after all my fellow Betanews contributors added their opinions unto the noise, I didn't want to pollute the air with my grumblings.
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