New Year Poll
What are you doing for New Years Eve? ( polls)
2009 Predictions
Every year I say “I’m not going to write one of those damned prediction posts” but I end up doing just that. For this year I was thinking over the Christmas break that I don’t have just a list of predictions but also a list of aspirations (but because search engines send a lot of [...]
The Danger of Picking Your Flavor of Law Enforcement
The coverage about HP being accused of knowingly selling printers to Iran through 3rd party distributors in violation of U.S. law is mildly interesting.
HP is violating the trade embargo if its executives cut a deal with Redington knowing its printers would be sold in Iran, according to the Globe. But despite a crackdown [...]
The Netbook Craze
Slate asks what does it mean that the top Amazon laptop sellers are netbooks. It is pretty stark, the top 20 sellers are windows netbooks or Macs, you have to get to #21 before a full size Windows laptop makes an appearance. It probably means that low priced laptops are capturing a lot of attention [...]
PS3 Sinks Lower
Santa was not kind to Sony, who not only suffered body blows in cameras and television product categories, but was hit hard on the PS3 as Nintendo and Microsoft saw gains. At this point the market is essentially Nintendo and Microsoft, there is no compelling reason to consider a PS3.
But early results from [...]
Tesla’s Rough Road Ahead
Luxury car manufacturers are always trying to convince themselves that they are recession proof. It’s foolish.
Let’s take a look at Ferrari, they sell an average of 600 new cars a month… in November they sold 92, laid off up to 300 employees and announced plans to idle their Maranello factory for 20 days in December. [...]
Merry Christmas
Washington Is Killing Silicon Valley
What Congress started with Sarbanes-Oxley, FASB completed with stock options accounting rules. Washington has never demonstrated a sustainable competency in creating jobs, the one constant has been burdening private sector job creation.
From the beginning of this decade, the process of new company creation has been under assault by legislators and regulators. They treat [...]
Corporate Rebranding Begins
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Denver Plane Crash, Instant News via Twitter
Loic is making a very good point, one that is becoming increasingly common as more people acquire mobile web access and have instantaneous broadcast capabilities with services like Twitter. There will be more of this but it doesn’t invalidate traditional media, it compliments it.
Funny I have just heard the official spokesperson of the [...]
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My name is Jeff Nolan and I write Venture Chronicles. These are my thoughts on technology, innovation, management, public policy and pretty much anything else that I find interesting.
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