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Microsoft Build – Bots and bobs.

Reply to this post           Steady evolution but existing issues still need fixing.  Microsoft launched a series of evolutionary upgrades to Windows 10 and the devices...

Tidal – Exclusively dependent.

Reply to this post           Tidal’s only real hope lies in exclusives.   Tidal has posted better than expected metrics on the 1st anniversary of its...

Facebook – The beaten track

Reply to this post           Facebook’s plans for Messenger follow its Asian rivals. Facebook is preparing to do much more with Messenger as the Asian examples...

Wearables – All pain, little gain.

Reply to this post           Wearables are already a commodity despite unit growth. Pebble is the latest wearables company to show signs of stress as it...

Technology industry – Broken rhythm

Reply to this post           The breaking of Moore’s Law will make software even more important. Intel’s significant change in the rhythm of its die shrinks...

Apple – Housekeeping

Reply to this post           A housekeeping event that refreshed the older end of its offering. Apple released new products and software that inched the evolution...

Network economy – Unicorns and donkeys Pt. IV

Reply to this post           Inability to reach scale is killing the delivery start-ups. The highway of 2016 is being littered on a daily with the...

Alphabet – Goodbye blue sky

Reply to this post           Money talks, robots walk. It looks like Alphabet has put its robotics venture, Boston Dynamics, up for sale because there is...

Cyanogen – Lucky 13

Reply to this post           Cyanogen refreshes the parts other ecosystems don’t reach. Although Cyanogen’s business model remains highly questionable, the evolutions it is making to...

Microsoft – HERE today, gone tomorrow

Reply to this post           All is not well in the consumer ecosystem. HERE has severed the last link with its old owner in deciding to...