Technology

Microsoft is getting a bit of black eye in the press due to its about face on the Ambitious Windows 8 platform change. While the unit numbers match up well against Windows 7, there has already been quite a bit of noise about how steep the…

I have a few threads on tech that I am going to breakup into multiple posts here. The first two threads are on Adobe's move into a cloud computing-only based software model and on Nokia's dogged pursuit of the windows mobile platform, now…

Today's daily commentary is going to be on technology. Over the past few years, I have been writing here at Credit Writedowns that we are in the midst of a massive platform shift in technology toward a mobile-centric world. As Michael…

Amazon, Apple, and Samsung, three of the biggest names in the technology space, have reported this week. In all three cases, there were gaps in the earnings reports and the earnings outlooks. For me, however, Samsung's report was the best…

I just want to follow up on my comments from Tuesday on consolidation and convergence in the TMT arena. There has been another slew of reports out in tech world showing that all of the big players are jumping into each other's turf in a…

What I am seeing is a second great wave of consolidation in the industry. And by that I mean that every large company is getting into the traditional space of every other large company. Let's go down a sample list of some of the changes…

While I was on my Easter break, I came up with what I think is a good format to both reward paying subscribers of Credit Writedowns Pro with good content and post outside the paywall at the same time. I have been toying with various ways to…

I have been meaning to write a blurb about Amazon ever since I saw a great article on the benefits of Amazon's low-price strategy a month or so ago. But a recent article in the Wall Street Journal about huge price cuts on Amazon's…

In the mobile world, everyone seems to be in a frenzy over Samsung's next Galaxy smartphone. Apparently, Samsung is the new Apple, where product launches are media events par excellence, marketed to build anticipation. However, while…

Today s going to be a bit light on posting as I am under the weather and have been in bed all day. But there are one or two stories I wanted to say something about while it was still topical. One of those is LinkedIn. This post isn't about…