A few months ago I did a short post on this blog about the research study on the enterprise use of social media for external collaboration that we are currently running. While the study in still in progress and I cannot report any of the detailed findings, one thing is pretty clear – the number of […]

+       After months and months of merger and acquisition talks with Microsoft and Google, Yahoo has finally reached a deal to merge their search and search advertising functions with someone – Microsoft! The deal will last 10 years, and “Microsoft will now power Yahoo search while Yahoo will become the exclusive worldwide […]

As far as consumers are concerned, before Amazon’s Kindle arrived, the last time printing had been considered high technology had been around 15th century, the time of Johannes Gutenberg. Today people seem to be reading mostly from screens, be it mobile, desktop or Kindle screens. Declining newspaper sales are merely the most visible reflection of […]

If last summer was that of financial turmoil, this summer may very well become that of the long-seeked change of the software industry. What a month! Microsoft launches Bing, Google responds with Google Wave. Google announces the Chrome OS, Microsoft responds launching a free Office version. OK, it will still take some time until we see most […]