Brian Prentice

I only just ran across this but last week David Braue reported that the Victorian government here in Australia denied Google access to data they were hoping to use to create a bushfire map mashup. Instead Google has relied on information provided by the Country Fire Authority on fires burning on private lands to create [...]

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My colleague Tom Austin, in his post Applications for a buck…or even less, explores the potential impact of cloud computing on traditional software business models. In considering Microsoft’s recent patent application for a metered pay-as-you-go computing experience Tom says:
“Microsoft’s patent application describes how it could sell software functions to users – they need not buy [...]

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The media’s obsession with layoff tallies is starting to remind me of the body count reports from the Vietnam War. But I just read an article “Half -a-Million Job Cuts: Is There a Strategy Behind the Layoffs” on Knowledge@Wharton that reminded me that there is another angle to these layoffs. As it points out:
…for many [...]

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