Steve and Laurene Jobs - after his WWDC keynote speech - June 2011
Mr. Steven P. Jobs, Chairman and co-founder of Apple Computer; holder of over 300 patents; and all-around business genius, died of Pancreatic cancer yesterday, and the world that he changed is in mourning. He leaves behind his wife Laurene Jobs, and three children.
Tony Perkins’ Always On is hosting the annual “Innovation Summit” at Santa Clara University (SCU).
This excellent high-level business conference, which i’ve attended for four years out of the past five, has been renamed this year. Formerly, it was the “Venture Capital Summit at Stanford”.
It has been relocated from Stanford University, 20 miles to the north (just West of Palo Alto), to Santa Clara University (SCU), in the heart of San Jose California.
I’ve heard a lot of comments about the iPad lately along the lines “someone needs to find a killer application”. Well, for business people, serial entrepreneurs, and anyone that is using GTD to manage their business… here it is: running your GTD “trusted system” on an iPad (video follows). In short, GTD on the iPad… sizzles!
[ Video tutorial here ]
…signaling a bold move on Redmond that will likely reverberate within big tech for many years to come. The new operating system is to become available in beta form later this year, with broad availability during 2010.
Microsoft has been very vocally and publically working to get into Google’s core business – search and advertising – over the past few years. It looks like Google isn’t going to be held back from getting into Microsoft’s core business as well. This is a good thing for everyone, as it’s bound to stimulate competition and innovation. And it should become very interesting as it plays out; as this is definitely a “clash of the Titans”!
It will take Google many years to budge Microsoft’s operating system market share. But how many of those analysts have USED Google’s Chrome Browser, which will become the basis of this new personal computing operating system?
I have owned this phone for 16 hours now, and have logged less than 45 minutes using the phone. But already, i can tell you this phone is a sensation, and will become a significant factor in the Smartphone business – especially at Palm, Sprint, Apple, Research and Motion, and AT&T.
Palm's new Pre Smartphone
Only in Silicon Valley
Had an interesting June 6th. After camping out at the Sprint store and being one of only 41 people (out of over 100 in line) to get a Pre, I went to Orchard Valley Coffee in Campbell, and sat on a bench outdoors to sip on a cup of coffee.
Steve was interviewed by Lisa Amin, Reporter for ABC News this evening on the breaking news about Steve Jobs leave of absence from Apple Computer:
We’d like to wish Steve and his family the best.
Full-blown (not "/m", DOS-style) Sharepoint running on the iPhone
I will be debating what kind of software applications are likely to be driving the mobile computing market with some colleagues from the industry next week in Las Vegas at the NxtCom 08 conference. While I was attending a different conference this week in Silicon Valley, i accidentally discovered a killer mobile productivity app: running SharePoint sites from my iPhone.