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WhatsApp is the first of several big acquisitions for Facebook
If yesterday’s announcement of Facebook paying $19 billion in cash and stock for WhatsApp surprised you then maybe you’d forgotten this prediction I published on January 8th: #6 — Facebook transforms...
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Avram Miller says Steve Jobs has one more Apple intro
We all have friends (people we know) and friends (people we not only know but hang out with). Maybe the better contrast might be between friends and buddies. Well Avram Miller is one of my buddies. He...
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Refresh mobile hits the desktop
I’ve been away on a secret mission, which must remain secret for awhile longer. Somehow this summer my so-called career had a revival of sorts. My earnest and heartfelt book, The Decline and Fall of...
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Oh Vern, where art thou?
Have you seen this man? I’ve been trying to get in touch with Vern Raburn. You remember Vern, who was an early employee at Microsoft, Lotus, and Symantec. Vern was very involved in pen computing, ran...
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IBM is so screwed
I’ve been working on a big column or two about the Office of Personnel Management hack while at the same time helping my boys with their Kickstarter campaign to be announced in another 10 days, but...
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LinkedIn gets lucky
Several readers have asked for my take on Microsoft’s purchase this week of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion — a figure some think is too high and others think is a steal. I think there is generally more...
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What’s the deal with online journalism?
Not very long ago I started answering questions on Quora, the question-and-answer site. My answers are mainly about aviation because that’s my great hobby and one of the few things besides high tech...
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Social media? Bob needs a social mediaTOR
Okay, I’m back, still without cataract surgery but I have the fonts cranked-up on this notebook and my one working eye is still, well, working so I am, too. My next column will be about last week’s...
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What’s Real about Fake News
I’m here nominally to address the problem of what’s being called Fake News. At its core this is as labeled — news that is fake; news that isn’t news; deceptive content intended not to inform or...
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IBM is so screwed
I’ve been working on a big column or two about the Office of Personnel Management hack while at the same time helping my boys with their Kickstarter campaign to be announced in another 10 days, but...
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LinkedIn gets lucky
Several readers have asked for my take on Microsoft’s purchase this week of LinkedIn for $26.2 billion — a figure some think is too high and others think is a steal. I think there is generally more...
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What’s the deal with online journalism?
Not very long ago I started answering questions on Quora, the question-and-answer site. My answers are mainly about aviation because that’s my great hobby and one of the few things besides high tech...
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Social media? Bob needs a social mediaTOR
Okay, I’m back, still without cataract surgery but I have the fonts cranked-up on this notebook and my one working eye is still, well, working so I am, too. My next column will be about last week’s...
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What’s Real about Fake News
I’m here nominally to address the problem of what’s being called Fake News. At its core this is as labeled — news that is fake; news that isn’t news; deceptive content intended not to inform or...
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President Trump thinks he can shut down WeChat: It won’t work
Forty-five days from now, we’re told, President Trump will shut down TikTok and WeChat. TikTok, maybe, but WeChat? Impossible. Everything Donald Trump understands about the Internet could fit in a...
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2021 Prediction #1: Trump will do fine without Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook
I’m no Trumper. This prediction has nothing to do with politics and everything to do with how social media actually works. Following the U.S. Capitol riot of January 6th, President Trump was bumped...
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2021 Prediction #6: COVID-19, Clubhouse, and the Great High School Reset
To this point in my tech predictions for 2021 I have ignored COVID-19, which we all do at our peril. Now that we know the pandemic is real, that it won’t just disappear, and that half a million people...
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