Seamless Connectivity

I'm not your average consumer of technology, I'm neither Mac, PC, Linux, or Tablet. I'm all of them. I love my HP PC, my MacBook Pro, and my Ubuntu Server. I love my Windows Phone, and my iPod Touch. I love my Xbox 360, and my Wii. I love my friends' iPads, and I cannot wait for my own Kindle Fire to arrive.

My only wish is to connect all my technology seamlessly.

My Xbox, Windows PC, and Windows Phone, all interconnect.
My iPod and MacBook Pro are seamlessly intergrated.

The only current interconnectivity is through Amazon: My Kindle, Kindle Fire, and Kindle Apps (on iPod, Windows Phone, and all laptops) are all interconnected. I can read my books anywhere.

I will offer a conjecture that the tech company that can seamlessly integrate across all screensizes, formats, and user experiences will thrive in the volatile technology market. Using Amazon's WhisperSync to connect all my reading material can only be the first step, I would like interconnect every instance of my Angry Birds, Microsoft Word, and my financial analysis apps. (finviz, BofA, Charles Schwab, etc.)

Who Will Win the Tech War?

Was reading an article on fast company about Bloomberg's contest to build an applied sciences campus (i.e. MIT, Stanford, CalTech, etc...) in Manhattan, and noticed a little ad on the right that was scrolling through four pieces of cover art for the latest issue. The cover read: "Why will win" the "Great Tech War", and was rotating through four companies...

Can you guess which four?

Well, it wasn't Microsoft, Yahoo, Blackberry and AOL....

Break the code of silence that prevails on this blog, and comment below on why companies that could have been on this list aren't, or why these four seem to have the attention of the industry......

Bad News for RIMM

As if the collapse of their stock price over the last 6 months wasn't enough, a market research from EMA earlier this week indicates that about 30% of large enterprises (firms with 10,000+ employees) are planning on abandoning the Blackberry platform next year... This hot on the heels of the massive outages in their network, and the release of the iPhone 4S and announcement of the Droid RAZR...

Jason Hiner's article at TechRepublic thinks that the only future for RIMM is as a niche player in the enterprise market, and that's only if they can avoid more downtime, convince developers to create more software for the platform, and become a leaner, more focused company... That's a lot of if...

I like my Blackberry, but I'm already shopping around for my next phone, and they have nothing in the marketplace that competes with their Silicon Valley rivals...

It's all a bit sad really...