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Microsoft – Imperfect 10.

Reply to this post           Windows 10 is not about the user experience. The noise around Windows 10 is likely to be all about improvements being...

E3 2015– Trading places.

Reply to this post           Microsoft uses the ecosystem to take the initiative. After failing to excite at E3 in 2014 and being soundly thrashed in...

Twitter – The blame game

Reply to this post           Costolo was not the source of Twitter’s problems. Twitter CEO Dick Costolo has bowed to pressure and resigned but in my...

Facebook – Game on

Reply to this post           Facebook finally moves into games. After opening up its Messenger API to third party developers a few months ago, the first...

Microsoft – All the boxes

Reply to this post           New Xbox hardware enhances cross device strategy. Ahead of E3 2015 (June 16-18), Microsoft has released a revision of the Xbox...

WWDC 15 – In the crosshairs.

Reply to this post           Apple targets Spotify, Rdio, Pandora and Flipboard at WWDC. Apple Music was the biggest event at Apple’s developer conference where incremental...

HTC – Thousand cuts.

Reply to this post           HTC has all the hallmarks of death by a thousand cuts. HTC has warned on Q2 15E sales and profits as...

Yahoo! – Slippery slope

Reply to this post           Cuts are a sign of being out of ideas. Yahoo! has announced a series of changes and service reductions that further...

Samsung – Physical razzmatazz

Reply to this post           Samsung is rapidly becoming a component company again. Demand for the Galaxy s6 is reasonable but unfortunately it does not appear...

Augmented Reality – The Tripod.

Reply to this post           Success in AR will be supported by three factors. Virtual reality (VR) is at last starting to make an impact on...