By Andy Marken

Today, people have a few needs – just-in-time-information, constant feedback, things that do things for us and privacy.

That's tough to achieve in our always-on world. O.K., it's impossible.

We have our IoT (Internet of Things) and IoE (Internet of Everything) that will soon have 50B things sending information to each other and humongous data crunching machines in the cloud.

But the industry has it all wrong. It's not about the IoT or IoE. It's the Internet of Data.

By Daniel Gleeson, Senior Analyst, IHS Technology

Key points:

• By launching a couple weeks earlier, Samsung is hoping to steal a march on Apple's new iPhone announcement which will likely happen in early September.
• Now, under competitive pressure, Samsung is looking to launch its devices into the market before 2015's new iPhone models again overshadow the market.
• Samsung's decision to split the launch of these two devices by region is striking. This year, it is possible this decision is solely to allow Samsung's regional marketing departments to focus on one product. But if so, this decision denies many countries from benefiting from Samsung's differentiated stylus-based flagship because the S6 Edge Plus does not include one.
• IHS believes that Apple and Samsung handsets can co-exist in the same market as they serve different niches despite having quite similar hardware.
• The Note 5 is an excellent device to market for "prosumers" and enterprise due to its stylus and keyboard attachment. The S6 Edge Plus is a much more fashion-forward device and is likely to appeal to a younger, hipper market than the Note 5.
• Samsung Pay's co-existence with Android Pay is likely to create frictions in the Android ecosystem as consumers could be confused by the two payment options.

By Andy Marken

Lots of really smart people have made predictions about the future and were wrong:
- "Everything that can be invented has been invented." -- Charles H. Duell, Commissioner, US Patent Office, 1899
- "I think there is a world market for maybe five computers." -- Thomas Watson, president of IBM, 1943
- "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home." -- Ken Olsen, founder of DEC (Digital Equipment Corporation), 1977
- "Two years from now, spam will be solved." -- Bill Gates, founder of Microsoft, 2004

By Andy Marken

The hacking "industry" has come a long way since 1972 when Woz and Jobs would make blue boxes similar to Draper's "Cap'n Crunch" boxes and sell them to folks who wanted to make free phone calls anywhere in the world.

By Andy Marken

Netflix' Reed Hastings has warped reality ... TV isn't dead.

It's in the middle of a gut-wrenching change to keep pace with consumer expectations and the dizzying array of options that are emerging that they are up against.

There are shiploads of big, bad, sharp, smart 4K UHD TV sets.

And there's the cheap route to not-so-smart TV ... the dongles.

By Andy Marken

Businesses are running so fast today trying to catch the next great thing, they've lost sight of the reason they're in business ... the customer.

By Andy Marken

The NYSE (New York Stock Exchange) and United Airlines computer glitches couldn't have happened at a worse and better time.

The incidents weren't caused by hackers but did highlight that software is cobbled together code with pieces from here, there, you name it. Bad code gets passed along without causing a problem ... until it does.

By Andy Marken

Drive down 101 in Silicon Valley, or any industrial park on the planet, and you can almost see the skeletons of once thriving businesses that all had one thing in common ... they were innovative.

Most were so enthralled with their innovation they couldn't get out of their own way.

By Andy Marken
You may not realize it, but there's a correlation between the Me Gen's fascination with zombies, the rapid growth of smartphones/tablets, the rejection of having a computer at every desk and finally, the future of business/employment.
You can put some of the blame on the Gen Me (Boomer) folks, but they just started the ball rolling.

By Andy Marken

In today's virtual organizations, work is increasingly being done by teams made up of people from different departments and in many instances, with people who are outside their companies.

The challenge is to gain the cooperation of individuals you have no control over.

To effectively lead these collaborative teams, you must rely on personal persuasion rather than the power of your position.

By Andy Marken

I love good science fiction because there is always a glimpse of a thought, an idea that ultimately becomes something tangible in our world.
But Elon Musk's (Tesla, SpaceX) and Stephen Hawking's warning about perfecting AI (artificial intelligence) could lead us to create a demon we can't control made me wonder if it isn't already too late.
We're already struggling to understand and manage AI

By Andy Marken

You've probably read about the best places to work and wish you worked there.

You've also read some of those people really aren't happy to go to work this morning.
They can't both be right.