Strategic Foresight - Insights in Business and Technology

I have penned down my thoughts on the recent acquisition of EDS by HP, which is about 3 C’s - Consulting, Cloud and computing. Read it here .

Guest Post Written by Ujjwal Grower and edited by Vishal Vishal's intro: Twitter is a free social networking and micro-blogging service that allows users to send updates (text-based posts, up to 140 characters long) to the Twitter website, via short message service , instant messaging , email , or an application such as Twitterrific . Twitter was founded in March 2006 by San Francisco start-up company Obvious Corp. The restriction to 140 characters has resulted in Twitter being labelled as “micro-blogging”. A traditional blog is a log of what somebody is up to but in a richer, more detailed format. One of the key aspects of Twitter is to send and receive updates (also called tweets) via your browser, email, instant messaging clients and SMS so you can keep in touch no matter where you are . How it works : When you send in a mobile text (SMS), Twitter sends it out to your group of friends and posts it to your Twitter page. Your friends might not have phone alerts turned on so t

Microsoft has announced its partnership with Novell to put Suse Linux (2nd no Linux distro) on a Windows desktop. As part of the deal, Microsoft will offer sales support for Suse Linux and also co-develop technologies with Novell to make it easier for users to run both Suse Linux and Microsoft Windows on their computers. Microsoft plans to distribute 70,000 coupons for SUSE Linux Enterprise Server maintenance and support to customers that want to run both Windows and Linux in their environments. In addition to this, Novell and Microsoft will work together to improve interoperability between Windows and Novell's SuSE Linux. Some insights from infoworld why this partnership has come along: Scenario one: Looking to the future and seeing the proverbial handwriting on the wall, stops the bleeding of Windows to Linux desktops. Scenario two: Did the desktop OEMs push Microsoft toward this deal? More of their customers want Linux and so the PC manufacturers want this technology

I recently wrote about upcoming Web 2.0 apps in Australia and it was received well. As a result of that i have now updated this list in collaboration with Richard Macmanus from Web 2.0 workgroup . More here , here and here .