We have commented previously that the impact of technology and innovation often has unintended consequences. Often these consequences can result in entire paradigm shifts. Shifts that can disrupt and potentially wreck well etsablished exiting business models. Indeed histroy is littered with companies that simply “didn’t see it coming”.
The iphone is having such an impact. Not just in the consumer area, [...]

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Google has just bought Motorola mobility for $12.5billion. Which equates to one third of their cash reserves!
WOW!
So now Google makes hardware. Phones to be exact. Is the world getting a little weird or what?
Maybe they know something we don’t? Maybe they think they know something nobody else knows?
Maybe they think they know something, but actually [...]

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Why Mark Zuckerberg should sell Facebook now!

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We love Apps.
One of the core reasons, and there are many, is that Apps are in essence single function solutions. An App focuses only on doing one job, or group of related jobs. Importantly, it does so in the most economical and simplest fashion. As a result , no over engineering, no complexity, no huge [...]

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If you thought the ipad, iphone, ipod weren’t ubiquitous enough, get ready for icloud. This latest development from Apple, and let’s face it, it’s really just repackaging existing ideas into the Apple format (something we note, that Apple  excel  at!) will really change the world as we know it.
Now that’s a big claim i hear you say. But the long [...]

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One of the reflections we have made over the last 12-24 months is how some amazingly dumb decisions are made by seemingly intelligent poeple.
In the last boom huge sums of money were thrown at what, in hindsight, are obviously unsustainable businesses. Short term greed dominated at the expense of social, enviromental and business well being. Insane short term incentives with no link whatsoever to [...]

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You know that little portable DVD player you have for the car. The same one that sits on the back of the seat of that jet you flew on? The same one you use at home to keep the kids quiet in their bedroom when you have guests over?
Well it’s dead.
And its killer isn’t a cheaper version. [...]

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Web3.0 has arrived

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