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Sunnyvale, California, USA - July 30, 2019: Cars driving past Apple Park, an iconic building located in Sunnyvale California. This image was taken on the morning of July 30, 2019. Apple Park serves as the international headquarters of Apple, Inc. The roof contains solar arrays that power the building.

The Most Innovative Companies of 2021 According to BCG

By Louis Columbus on May 26, 2021

Apple, Alphabet, Amazon, Microsoft, and Tesla are considered the five most innovative companies, according to BCG’s analysis of the 50 most innovative companies of 2021.  Abbott Labs, AstraZeneca, Comcast, Mitsubishi, and Moderna join the top 50 most innovative companies for the first time this year. The fastest movers include Toyota, who jumped from 41st to […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alphabet, Amazon, apple, BCG's Most Innovative Companies 2021: Overcoming the Innovation Readiness Gap, Boston Consulting Group, Huawei, ibm, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Pfizer, samsung, Sony, Tesla

November 2, 2018 Sunnyvale / CA / USA - Amazon headquarters located in Silicon Valley, San Francisco bay area

LinkedIn Best Companies To Work For In 2021 Dominated By Tech

By Louis Columbus on April 28, 2021

Four of LinkedIn’s top ten companies to grow your career in 2021 are tech leaders. Amazon is the highest rated company, followed by Alphabet (2nd), IBM (6th), and Apple (8th). 15 of the 50 top companies in the U.S. are in the tech industry, including Oracle, Salesforce, and SAP. These and many other insights are […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged Alphabet, Amazon, apple, AT&T, bank of america, deloitte, EY, ibm, Inc., JPMorgan Chase & Co., LinkedIn’s Top Companies 2021: The 50 best workplaces to grow your career in the U.S., oracle, salesforce, sap, walmart

Dissecting The Twitter Hack With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

Dissecting The Twitter Hack With A Cybersecurity Evangelist

By Louis Columbus on July 26, 2020

Bottom Line: Shattering the false sense of security in tech, the recent Twitter hack blended altruism, fame, greed, social engineering via SIM swapping and insider threats to steal $120,000 from victims when the economic and political damage could have been far worse. Targeting the most influential celebrities on Twitter, hackers orchestrated a social engineering-based attack […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software, Trends & Concepts | Tagged AI, apple, Artificial intelligence, Artificial Intelligence Cybersecurity, Centrify, cybersecurity, Louis Columbus, machine learning, Machine learning cybersecurity, Privileged Access Management, SIM Swapping, twitter hack, Uber

News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning

News Analysis: Apple Brings New Post Pandemic Solutions To Remote Learning

By R "Ray" Wang on June 3, 2020

K-12 Education Market Faces New Requirements The latest CDC guidelines highlight the major challenges administrators and educators have for reopening schools.   The general principle – the more interactions, the longer interactions, the higher the risk of #COVID-19 spread. The CDC states that the risk of COVID-19 spread increases in school settings as follows: Lowest Risk: […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #PostPandemic, #PostPandemicPlaybook, 2020, ambient experiences, apple, Apple Education, Apple Schoolwork, Artificial intelligence, best practices, big tech, CDO, CEO, change agents, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, Cloud, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Crowdsourcing, CTO, Customer Experience, digital, Digital acceleration, Digital Business, Digital Transformation, Digitize channels, disruptive business models, enterprise software, Future of 2020, global pandemic, Health and Safety, K-12 education, Mental health support, News Analysis, personalization, personalization at scale, Post Pandemic Playbook, public health, R "Ray" Wang;, remote learning, Reskilling and retraining, rwang0, Social injustice, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, vendor strategy, work from home

News Analysis: Tech Vendors Takes On #Coronavirus

News Analysis: Tech Vendors Takes On #Coronavirus

By R "Ray" Wang on March 23, 2020

Big Tech Steps Up To Support The “War” Effort Over the past two-weeks, the tech community has sought different ways to assist with the battle against Covid-19.  Efforts range from free usage of product, cash assistance, donations, and product innovations.  Here’s a short run down of some highlighted announcements: IBM, The White House, and Department […]

Posted in Business, Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged #coronapocalypse, 2020, apple, Apple Siri, Artificial intelligence, B2B, B2C, best practices, big tech, CDO, CEO, change agents, Chief Customer Officer, Chief Data Officer, Chief Digital Officer, Chief executive officer, Chief Financial Officer, Chief HR Officer, Chief information officer, Chief Information Security Officer, Chief Innovation Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, Chief People Officer, Chief procurement officer, Chief Revenue Officer, Chief Sales Officer, Chief Security Officer, Chief Service Officer, Chief Technology Officer, CIO, CMO, Constellation Research, COO, Coronavirus, COVID-19, covid19, Crisis Communications, CTO, enterprise, enterprise applications, enterprise apps, enterprise software, events, Facebook, Future of 2020, global pandemic, Health and Safety, ibm, IBM Summit, Marketing Automation, open vs closed, personalization at scale, Privacy, Privacy Rights, property right, public health, R "Ray" Wang;, rwang0, servicenow, Social injustice, Software Insider, SoftwareInsider, super computing, US vs China, vendor strategy, zoom

The Most Innovative Tech Companies Based On Patent Analytics

The Most Innovative Tech Companies Based On Patent Analytics

By Louis Columbus on December 23, 2019

Microsoft, Apple, and IBM lead the world in hardware & software patent innovation according to PatentSight. Samsung, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics. Alphabet, Qualcomm, Ford, Intel, Microsoft, Sony, and VW are the ten most innovative companies in the world, according to PatentSight’s patent analytics research. Ford leads the global automotive industry in patent innovation, due […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Fanuc, ford, ibm, intel, Johnson & Johnson, LG Electronics. Alphabet, Louis Columbus' blog, microsoft, Most innovative companies of 2019, Patents, PatentSight, Qualcomm, samsung, Sony, VW

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

Apple launches ResearchKit – secure, private, open source medical research

By Tom Raftery on March 11, 2015

Apple announced a new initiative at its Spring Forward event yesterday – ResearchKit. What is ResearchKit? Apple’s SVP of Operations, Jeff Williams, described it as a framework for medical researchers to create and deploy mobile apps which collect and share medical data from phone users (with their permission), and share it with the researchers. Why […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged android, apple, asthma, Blackberry, breast cancer, diabetes, ehealth, google, Health, iPhone, mobile, Open source, parkinsons, researchkit, transparency, windows

IBM’s InterConnect 2015, the good and the not so good

IBM’s InterConnect 2015, the good and the not so good

By Tom Raftery on March 5, 2015

IBM invited me to attend their Cloud and Mobile Conference InterConnect 2015 last week. Because of what IBM has done globally to help people get access to safe water, to help with solar forecasting, and to help deliver better outcomes in healthcare, for example, I tend to have a very positive attitude towards IBM. So […]

Posted in Featured Posts, Technology / Software | Tagged apple, Cloud, cloud emissions, Electricity 2.0, greenqloud, ibm, ibminterconnect, interconnect, Internet of Things, IoT, smart grids, SoftLayer, utilities

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News Analysis: Rumors On Apple’s Foray Into Cars “Project Titan”

By R "Ray" Wang on February 16, 2015

 Project Titan May Put Apple Into The Auto Business The February 13th, 2015 Wall Street Journal story spotlighted many of the rumors around the developments behind Apple going into the car business.   Framed around challenging Tesla Motors, the story discussed how the Cupertino juggernaut may be putting together an Apple branded electric vehicle.  Vice […]

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Yes, In It’s Pursuit of Being a High-Margin Luxury Brand, Apple Must Eventually Be Less Functional

Yes, In It’s Pursuit of Being a High-Margin Luxury Brand, Apple Must Eventually Be Less Functional

By Bob Warfield on November 4, 2014

Even Seth Godin flushes out the Apple Fan Boys sometimes.  David Terrar has an, “I disagree with Seth Godin,” post going.  Seth’s premise, as set forth in, “Decoding Apple as a luxury tools company,” is that eventually, as a company builds a luxury brand, they must choose between luxury and utility or be trumped by […]

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