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With Google OS recently having been announced, which is supposed to integrate flawlessly with Macs and Windows, assumably Android, as well as being designed for Netbooks, I wonder if Intel, with it’s multi-core processors, has not created a situation where nothing else matters, hardware-wise, except to have a powerful enough processor? In other words, have hardware-manufacturers like Sony, Samsung, and to some extent, Apple simply become irrelevant?

Let me just start with that I don’t hate Windows, far from it! I like that I can run most applications on it and, let’s face it, it is still a Windows-centric world, so knowing your way around the operating system is a fairly important skill. As the latest update to Mac OSX Leopard, 10.5.7, [...]

I recently read a ‘filler’-article in Fortune Magazine, entitled “The luxury of choice.” It’s about how more and more products today are being customised for picky end-consumers. The way society is evolving, I think that such ‘pickiness’ is something that is more and more on the rise. I wonder if such a thing also applies [...]

I wanted to write a brief follow-up to my Eulogy from a few weeks ago. To recap: my Sennheiser PX 200 headphones died for a second time, not because anything was wrong with their original purpose—to produce great sound—but because a more marginal feature failed: the wires, that connect my mp3-player to the speakers. I [...]

I consider myself a “power buyer” on Amazon – having ordered and read for the last decade or so between 20 and 30 books every year, for sums of money far from negligible, at least to me. This being said, I’ve never been more unhappy about my experience as a customer. Here are 5 free [...]

 In chess, a gambetto – say it with an Italian accent, consists in sacrificing a piece at the beginning of a game to gain a competitive position on the exchequer – for example through the control of the center of the chessboard or one of the long diagonals. Getting back to business (we’ll get back [...]

 I found this table on the web, pretty interesting:   Btw, Software is the industry with the highest gross margins amongst all industries. Like Unlike

I tried to come up with a list of all existing Digital Marketing KPI. If you have an eCommerce or content website, try to pick 5 or 6 of them to build yourself a dashboard that will help you manage your performance better. turnover Click-through rate CPM / CPT eCPM CPI CPA CPC eCPC referrers [...]

I can’t wait to have a look at mid-2007 financial statements of all major hardware companies like EMC, HP & IBM. It seems software revenues account for the bulk of hardware manufacturers sales and profits – and I suspect the same goes for all major computer network companies (Cisco which has always and quite wisely [...]

From the left to the right: ‘Comment j’ai foiré ma start-up‘, by Nicolas Riou; the story of a discontinued web agency founded in Paris during the New Economy Gold Rush. Funny, takes 45′ to read. Available in French only. ‘Risk & Reward and the making of America’s great industries‘ by Jack Rivkin; insights on the [...]

People relationships have been evolving quite rapidly recently. If the e-mail has, despite its many flaws, changed the way people communicate, other disruptive new uses like online dating, social networking (professional: LinkedIn; friends on FaceBook; hobbies, etc.), instant messengers (allowing you to let people know whether you’re available or not and leave small notes to [...]

I’m a big fan of (good) newsletters. Have a good look at the History of the Internet: newsletters are the only tool that have been there since the early beginnings of the wild World Wide Web. There must be a reason why In the recent weeks, I’ve been restructuring my newsletters portfolio. I was receiving [...]

Some facts first: Gartner vs. Microsoft, Episode I: the premices On May 1st 2006, technology analysis firm Gartner Group published a report entitled “Windows Vista Unlikely to Ship Before 2Q07“. The report started with the following stance: “Microsoft’s track record is clear; it consistently misses target dates for major operating system releases. We don’t expect [...]

Computer salespeople Two young American students took a very interesting initiative: they went to several hardware manufacturers and/or distributors and asked relatively simple technical questions. I liked Apple most, where nobody bothered to answer, and the Geek Squad who didn’t know the answer (“what’s the role of a hard drive cache?” I think) but still [...]

I’m fed up with wires. I can’t stand wires anymore. There are wires every-fucking-where. For about a decade, we’ve been told by Gartner analysts, blue chip companies CEOs & even our grandmothers that wires would disappear very, very soon. But the more we wait, the more wires there are. Wires are like cancer: there’s nothing [...]