Monday, January 23, 2006

January 2006 Early Indications II: Eight Predictions

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I've had some very thoughtful responses to the Macro Issues newsletter, and I'll bring those into an upcoming edition. Because Janu...
Wednesday, January 11, 2006

January 2006 Early Indications I: A Macro View

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Before we get into the business of predicting what might happen in technology-related areas in 2006, I wanted to step back and note six macr...
Tuesday, January 03, 2006

December 2005 Early Indications: 2005 Predictions Revisited

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(distributed 12/19/05) A year ago this week I tried to highlight some areas of instability, opportunity, and uncertainty that might be resol...

November 2005 Early Indications II: The Disintermediation That Wasn't

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(distributed 11/30) It's hard to believe that it's almost 2006, and that it's been over a decade since the notion of Internet di...
Monday, November 21, 2005

November 2005 Early Indications I: The word salad relating to "services"

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Early Indications is published twice monthly by the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State University. The author holds no direct financial...

October 2005 Early Indications newsletter I: New technologies mean new business choices

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Early Indications is published twice monthly by the eBusiness Research Center at Penn State University. The author holds no direct financia...
Tuesday, September 27, 2005

September 2005 Early Indications II: Vendor Tectonics

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The following headlines were selected from the News.com website on Monday September 26: -Cingular to launch music download service in 2006 -...
Friday, September 09, 2005

September 2005 Early Indications I: Open Source Beyond Software

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In the September 5 issue of the New Yorker , Malcolm Gladwell explores the efforts by Mattson, a food R&D firm, to design a new cookie. ...
Wednesday, August 10, 2005

August 2005 Early Indications I: Remembering Windows 95

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It's a slow time in the technology industry. Breakthrough innovations are few and far between: the iPod is almost four years old, and i...
Monday, August 01, 2005

July 2005 Early Indications II: Virtual Trust

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[Business notice: I have officially formed a company, Still River Research, to deliver consulting and analysis services. The website (www.s...
Friday, July 22, 2005

Signals and Noise on Broadband

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(distributed July 11) Patterns are emerging from some seemingly unrelated recent developments: Item: After the mass transit bombings in Lond...
Friday, June 17, 2005

June Early Indications: Can IT Fix Health Care?

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"The solution seems obvious: to get all the information about patients out of paper files and into electronic databases that -- and...