Business Changes in Phone Apps? Not at Mobile World Congress

This week in Barcelona, Spain a conference called Mobile World Congress is happening. The attendees are employees of some of the world’s biggest and most influential companies: AT&T, Apple Computer, Motorola, Google…

To Tiger Woods: Next in Business Change is Firing John Kerry

Do you want to hear what I think of Tiger Woods’ apology-heard-round-the-world? I’ll tell you, but let me be clear this is a business change conversation, and not a gossip piece.

Patent Trolls, Business Change, & Carping by The Uninformed

The Whining Has Gone Mainstream. Even the Whining Requires Whining.

Yesterday, there was a lengthy article in The New York Times about companies that buy patents and then go after companies using the…

Social Networking ‘s Next Frontier: TV-Driven Pub Crawls

What may be the biggest business change of all is finally on the verge of becoming real. Interactive Television, an idea we’ve all known was “big” since way before the Internet destroyed the Yellow Pages and called the model that…

Who Backs Up Your Data When There Are No Files?

Business Change takes many forms. For too many of us one of the forms that’s long overdue is putting a data backup and protection plan in place. Tell the truth: you know someone who’d have a very big problem if their hard drive crashed, right?

Patents Must Be Unique. Facebook’s 7,669,123 Isn’t.

Who Wants a Patent? Because they seem to be getting handed out for just about anything.

I’ve long believed that in general software patents are a very bad idea. This week the United States Patents and Trademarks…

So I’m Standing with Mick Jagger at a Gallery Opening . . .

In Australia, Movie Piracy is now A Bit More Legal

Ah, to be Australian. Lower population density, plenty of beautiful places, great weather much of the year, and now a little bit more freedom to use the Internet to download movies illegally.

Doing Business Means BEING a Business

Today, a tweet caught my attention. The question, posed by Anita Campbell, was whether the existence of services like LegalZoom caused more people to incorporate their small businesses.

Google Kills the Droid

Ahh, Droid. We barely knew ye . . .

This week, Google introduced a version of Google Earth for Android SmartPhones. In large part, I don’t care; Google Earth is very cool, but compared to Google Maps it has limited real-world use.