Posts Tagged "google"

Cloud and Continuity of Supply Risk

@dougnewdick points out the risk of a company becoming over-dependent on Google. His particular example is prompted by Google's announcement that Google Reader will be discontinued. I have previously commented on the subject of Creeping Business Dependency, the fact that many companies…

Does everyone (except Google) have a platform strategy?

#bizarch The obvious ones - Apple, Amazon, Microsoft General comments "The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of a large number of less demanding…

Does everyone (except Google) have a platform strategy?

#bizarch The obvious ones - Apple, Amazon, Microsoft General comments "The new market disruption is the migration of a large number of demanding customers away from phones-as-voice-products to phones-as-computing-products. The low-end disruption is the migration of a large number of less demanding…

Market Watch: Google Bails on Clearwire

Clearwire price Feb 21 – Feb 27 2012   Interesting news on the market wires (from Friday) that Google is selling its investment in Clearwire at an expected loss of some $453m (i.e. 91% of original investment). There was approximately a 7%…
Unruly Google and VPEC-T

Unruly Google and VPEC-T

Google has been hoist by its own petard: it seems obliged to ban its own browser from its own search engine for infringing its strict rules. Apparently the infringement resulted from some misbehaviour somewhere down the subcontract chain, unknown to Google itself…

Unruly Google and VPEC-T

Google has been hoist by its own petard: it seems obliged to ban its own browser from its own search engine for infringing its strict rules. Apparently the infringement resulted from some misbehaviour somewhere down the subcontract chain, unknown to Google itself…

Google as a Platform (not)

Google vs Amazon (again). @davidsprott reckons Steve Yegge's rant is spot on. Steve Yegge is a software engineer who used to work for Amazon and now works for Google, despite the supposedly accidental publication of a long and opinionated rant (his words)…

Towards a VPEC-T analysis of Google

#entarch Enterprise architects need to understand values and policies. VPEC-T is an approach that is particularly useful for situations where there are multiple conflicting values and policies, or multiple interpretations of What-Is-Going-On. In this post, I want to look at Google. Can…

Google+, spiral galaxies and Louisa’s bright idea

The enterprise is far more exposed to the trends and rapid shifts in the world outside its own boundaries than it has ever been before. This is what we’re supposed to do anyway - design for change, constant delivery of value. So…

An Apple…err….Android a day!

So what we long suspected is now official - Google's Android is projected to overtake it's more popular rivals iPhone and Blackberry in coming years. There are more and more exciting phones being launched using Google's platform - see for instance the…
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