Steve Jobs has left us. I was never an Apple user, due to my corporate customers’ use of the Microsoft operating system. But as an entrepreneur, I have always been a curious observer of his career. He’s one of the original Pirates of Silicon Valley who revolutionized the convergence between corporate technology and the consumer.



Steve not only brought to the consumer the original widely adopted PC, the Apple II, but created a home computing revolution with the introduction of the… Continue

Social networks have been around for awhile now, or at least when measured in in internet years (Friendster launched in 2002, MySpace and LinkedIn in 2003 and Facebook in 2004). I get… Continue

If you believe what the more notable blogs (like TechCrunch) say about Facebook, we may be looking at some big new today. I am referring to…

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I have to admit that, if a week goes by and a software defect-related story does not roll off the presses, I will be shocked as hell. The news item of the week is the Wired Threat Level article that discusses the issues in e-voting machines. Most of you will groan and say that this proverbial horse has been bludgeoned enough in the past, but there is a new twist! Now, instead of simply missing the defects in the… Continue