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Is the PC Dead Or Is It Marketing Hype and Spin?
Update: Apple is more nails in the PC coffin with the new announcement of Post PC devices. 362 Apple stores 315 million iOS devices sold through last year, including 62 million in the last quarter...
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Was IBM’s Watson a Breakthrough or Very Cheap and Creative Advertising?
Update: Watson is in the next publicity stunt with Wall Street as sales seem to be lagging. As we all know, Watson appeared and won on Jeopardy last year. It was the culmination of years of work and...
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MY FAVORITE PR STUNT OF ALL TIME – THE WORLD’S FIRST LOW TECHNOLOGY ARTIFICAL...
HOW IT STARTED This story actually began with the unplanned running aground of the Mercedes I in Palm Beach. It desecrated the private holy grounds of the hoity toity for over a hundred days in late...
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WORKING WITH THE COMPETITION ON A JOINT ANNOUNCEMENT – What went on behind...
I wrote a while back about doing a joint announcement with a competitor. Communications wise, it was from the standpoint of Analyst Relations. Since I also did Public Relations for many years, I had...
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Does Telecommunting or Working At Home Hurt Your Career?
According to a new study by Professors, Kimberly Elsbach of the University of California, Davis, and Daniel Cable of London Business School, it does. A new study suggests workers are judged harshly for...
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The PC is Toast, Or Maybe Just a Toaster
Gone are the glory days when the PC would rule over the vaunted Mainframe, putting power at desks without the overbearing DP department overcharging and under delivering past the due date. What has...
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The Best News For PowerPoint Users Since Its Creation
From this link, Jeff Bezos says it is the end of PowerPoint. To be honest, I don’t really give a flying fig or a rats rump about either Bezos or his product, but PowerPoint has always been a crutch...
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Vocabulary Tricks Dumb People Use to Sound Smart – Also A Good Meeting Bingo...
I have heard most of these 89 sophisticated cliches that typically form the trick vocab of such people, usually by management…..: Note: these are also meeting (BS) bingo words when you are bored....
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The Escape Key and The Guy Who Invented Ctl-Alt-Del….and Why
I worked in the PC Group, wisely sold to Lenovo years ago. On the 20th anniversary, they looked for interesting tidbits from those who invented the PC. David Bradley worked down the hall from me....
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After Being Dissapointed by Lenovo One To Many Times, What PC Did I Buy Instead?
I’ve had PC’s since before the IBM PC in 1981. I’ve built hundreds of computers over different phases of the PC life cycle (for myself, others and at computer stores I worked at for years). I’ve...
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How To Look Busy At Work – Office Humor
Disclaimer: I think you should work hard and earn what you are paid. Nevertheless, I like to see the levity in things. I collected the lot of this on the internet. George Costanza’s 10 Commandments...
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How Meetings Are a Waste Of Time and How To Avoid or Get Out of Them
I read a WSJ article on ineffective meetings. It is about the manifesto to end boring meetings. This brought back thousands of hours of meetings I wished I could have back or would certainly decline...
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IBM Bloggers, Who are we – Grady Booch
As always, I really like doing these bloggerviews, this one especially. A lot of it is because I get to talk to some of the smartest people at IBM and in this case, the industry. For as much as he’s...
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IBM will be having it’s first ever meetup at RSDC in the Dolphin Hotel at Disney from 6-8 on Tuesday June 6th during the Rational Software Development Conference. This is somewhat significant as we’re...
View ArticleUpdate on RSDC blogger meetup
Yes we are still having the meetup at the same time and same place, but our host will be Danny Sabbah due to the untimely surgery that Grady is having. I hope you’ll all wish him good luck and keep him...
View ArticleGearing up for RSDC
All attention for me from now till June 4th is on RSDC in Orlando. We have the next edition of the show blog by execs and analysts (we were the first IBM group to try this last year), we have podcasts....
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Blogger Meetup Correction
I had lamented that IBM was late to the party for meetups, but bragged that we were having a meetup at RSDC on Tuesday June 6th from 6-8 at the bar by the escalator at the Dolphin Hotel. Well, the egg...
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IBM Executives – Who are we? Rod Smith VP of Emerging Technology, SWG.
Today, I’m once again very privileged to speak to another of the leading technologist’s at IBM. As with all these bloggerviews, I try to look at the person and their background rather than just a bits...
View ArticleWhat it took to get to RSDC
The actual planning for the event started at the end of last year’s RSDC, getting a location, estimating the crowd, logistical things on getting a show site and such. The Audience For us in the...
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