“Those who knew Mr. Jobs say that one reason why he was able to keep innovating was because he didn’t dwell on past accomplishments or legacy but kept looking ahead and demanded that employees do the same. Hitoshi Hokamura, a former Apple employee, recalls how an old Apple I that was displayed by the company [...]
From the Mobile Edge, by Galen Gruman “This time, the mania got nuclear, if such a metaphor can exist. And during the iPhone 4S reveal, I could hear my fellow journalists — and the not-journalist bloggers — mutter in our various electronic forums that the event was a letdown, boring even. Well, we let down [...]
Apple’s decision to release an iPhone 4S, instead of a redesigned iPhone 5, will not have an impact on sales, says Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster. He’s sticking with his sales estimates of 25 million iPhones for the December quarter, and 111 million units for all of 2012. Despite an initial let down to the [...]
Michael J. Naatz was the chief information officer at transportation company USF Corp. in 2005, when it was acquired by what is now YRC Worldwide, (a $4.3 billion, Kansas-based global transportation and logistics services company). Within four years he was promoted to that same title at the new company. But he found out that at [...]
Ex-Googler Jake Quist is debuting a new stealthy startup, called Zillabyte, that aims to disrupt the data analysis space. Quist explains that while he and his co-founder were engineers at Google, they were able to access a number of internal, extremely in-depth data analysis tools. But aside from being powerful, these tools were convenient for [...]
