Prediction: The Next Big Thing
Due to my job as a software developer, I spend much of my day dealing with cutting edge technologies and watching the progress of the IT bandwagon as it barrels uncontrollably through every corner of our lives. From listening to music on your iDevice to Internet-connected TVs and fridges to Twitter on your car's dashboard, it's difficult to see what's just about to happen, let alone will happen a year or more away. However, if you look at some of the emerging tech, while watching what consumers are interested in, one technology seems to have the potential to be the next secret sauce of the Internet...
Jive Software IPO Today
Social Networks-for-Enterprise specialist, Jive Software is to go public this morning (Tuesday 13th December, 2011) with an Initial Public Offering (IPO) that could value the company in excess of half a billion dollars. The company will trade on the NASDAQ as "JIVE".
The Most Important Building in New York
The terrorists who flew planes into the World Trade Center on September 11th, 2001, may have missed an opportunity to deliver a serious blow to capitalism as well as killing thousands of innocent people. Situated just a few hundred yards from the Twin Towers sits an art-deco, red-brick building which houses the network infrastructure equipment for international communications and the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE).
Jive Software Sets IPO Share Price At $8-$10, Valuing Company at $575m
This is the question that social business software Jive asks. Jive opened its doors in 2001 and produces social networking software for businesses that allows employees to collaborate, discuss, plan, market and support their products and customers. On 24th August this year, Jive filed their S-1, the documents required to start Initial Public Offering (IPO) proceedings. Today they set the price range of the first shares between $8-$10, valuing Jive at over $500m.
Windows 8
I've been writing a comprehensive, all-encompassing review of Microsoft Windows 8 since the first day of the BUILD conference on September 13th, but it has become too big of a task. So I've binned that and changed my strategy. If I were to sum up Windows 8 in a nutshell, it would go something like this:
Birthday Ideas? Here's an Inkling
My birthday's just around the corner and I think I know what I want: Wacom's new tablet-free "Inkling" digitiser.
Apple Releases 2011 Q3 Results
This week two big companies announced their quarterly results: Google and Apple. How did they do?
Tibbr Brings "Social" to the Enterprise
"Social" invites many different mental images. Social Clubs, for example, are full of old men, with greying hair (if any hair at all), drinking cheap pints, playing pool and whinging about how it all used to be so much better.