Archives for December, 2009
by Michael Maoz | December 19, 2009 | 6 Comments
After four years of carrying around a mobile device that essentially lacks web access or a camera and has been scuffed, kicked and dropped hundreds of times, I upgraded. I use that term lightly, and as it turns out: ironically. I don’t have an iPhone or a Palm, but I won’t name either the device [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 13, 2009 | 3 Comments
Between work and home (and work at home) I manage about 30 electronics devices, if I leave out home repair tools and kitchen gadgets. WII and XBOX and LDC display monitors, home theater, two printers, three hard wired phone systems, two mobile communication tools, a camera that is way beyond just a camera, router, modems, [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 8, 2009 | 2 Comments
Anyone familiar with the New Yorker magazine will know that it often explores areas of art, culture, finance and politics from an angle that is fresh and original. That convinced me to subscribe when I got to the US 12 years ago. It is a great magazine, and I have been a faithful subscriber ever [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 6, 2009 | 6 Comments
In the past five months I have visited over 75 clients on three continents, not counting 32 individual meetings with CIOs and staff during our recent Gartner Symposium in Orlando. An interesting and recurring statement I am hearing from IT and business leaders is that, barring serious discounting, SaaS vendors are charging too much money [...]
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by Michael Maoz | December 4, 2009 | 4 Comments
I returned from a trip to Israel today where I met 15 different end user organizations during the week. One impression that sticks with me is how far this tiny country, with not a small percentage of its GDP earmarked towards Defense, has managed to advance. There are highways in Israel that put the US [...]
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