IBM Enters the Social Media Analytics market

This was originally published on Tom’s Tech Take on August 8, 2013: IBM has been building and investing in data crunching products for the better part of half a decade. Not only have they acquired a number of data analytics and business intelligence companies,...

Having an Aha! Moment

Every product manager will tell you the same thing. When it comes to software support, they are ignored. The average product manager ends up using bits and pieces of other systems, such as CRM and Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), with a big reliance on common...

I got throttled by T-Mobile!

I am a lot of things, but a patient man I am not; that said, I am a fair person. So when I overran my 2.5Gb data allotment 17 days into the month with T-Mobile, I realized that T-Mobile might throttle my Put presses Guess face...

You Had Me at “Shalom”

On Friday, March 9, 2013, I attended the US launch of Tel Aviv based start-upGetTaxi. GetTaxi was joined by seven other Tel Aviv based startups presenting their technologies to New York, and the US. The gathering demonstrated that cities around the world have the...

How Windows 8 is “Microsoftizing” Me

After two weeks of using Microsoft Windows 8, I find myself considering leaving my trusty applications of the “past”, and adopting Microsoft developed applications. How could this be?