Everything You Know About Silicon Valley Might Be Wrong

On August 31, 2011

The World Is More Complex than It Used to Be

It's not you — the world has become more complex.

Consider 1980. There was no such thing as a personal computer. The Internet and broadband connections to it were more than a decade away. You used film to take…


On August 31, 2011

The Morphing of CRM

There was brisk business in associated user group meetings in San Francisco before Dreamforce. For some reason, I don't understand why Dreamforce starts in the middle of the week this year, which is fortunate for two reasons:


On August 31, 2011

Hey, Mom – What’s a Wallet?

Thanks to a variety of mobile payment systems, buying and selling goods and services has never been easier. Increasingly, mobile devices are becoming both credit-card readers and stand-ins for the cards themselves. It might not mean the


On August 31, 2011

What’s NOT in a Domain Name

Esther Dyson, the Great Dame of Silicon Valley, at times matriarch to Bill Gates and many other lads on the innovation circuit, wrote a harsh column Aug. 26 about ICANN's gTLD system, titled "What's in a Domain


On August 31, 2011

Wall Street Eases Into the Cook Era

Ever since Apple Chairman and former CEO Steve Jobs' serious health problems became public knowledge several years ago, shares of AAPL have been particularly volatile. Factors ranging from the announcement of another leave of absence to a