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March 2012 Early Indications I: Financial oddities of tech companies

Three data points start this exploration:1) According to Thomson Reuters, Apple is…

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Identity and Privacy: Early Indications, June 2011

With the soft launch of Google Plus, it's an opportune time to…

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Early Indications October 2010: The Analytics Moment: Getting numbers to tell stories

Thanks in part to vigorous efforts by vendors (led by IBM) to…

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May 2010 Early Indications: Devising the cloud-aware organization

As various analysts and technology executives assess the pros and cons of…

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Early Indications April 2010 The Web of Opinion: Metadata as conversation

In the beginning, there was data, enumerating how many, what kind, where.…

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Early Indications February 2010: Ticket Punching

As one surveys the landscape of industries whose business models have been…

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Early Indications December 2009: Yet Another Predictions Issue

In this last week of 2009, it's scary to think that it…

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November 2009 Early Indications: Prediction Scorecard

As is our custom, every November we revisit the previous year's predictions.…

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Early Indications October 2009: The Exploding Mobile Web

This newsletter is about numbers, specifically these:9103,000664,93260100,000We'll take these in turn.According to…

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