Research Notes

Special Letter: Enabling the Smart Grid with Massive Storage

The lobbyists for coal, oil, and natural gas may control the halls of power today, but if their bosses don't properly review "what business are we in" and come up with a...

Inside FiRe

Whether your interest is in chips, software, massive data, analytics, data visualization, cloud computing, security, IP theft and protection, technology markets,...

When Windows Tanks

I recently found myself asking fellow panelists at an MIT Forum what would happen if Windows 8 just didn't take off. There was a conversational pause, so I asked again. No...

Special Letter: Mobile Voice and Natural Language Understanding

If there is one technology in the world which would seem to hold the key to liberating the human-compute connection, it is voice recognition.

Platform Wars: Who Wins

This circus-like competitive swirl is not about who has the coolest widget. It is only, and all, about whose business model best fits the markets and the offerings.

Six Smartphone Killer Apps

Killer apps are applications that are so compelling that they either amplify or defy the rules above, driving huge market share to the platforms where they appear.

Asia Letter, Q2 2013: Japan Back In Gear

Shortly after the Great East Japan Earthquake and Fukushima nuclear disaster, I received an email from a friend in Canada wondering if the Japanese could ever get over the...

Smartphone OSs: The Inventors Lose Control

The smartphone OS is the most strategic real estate in the world today, the low-bank waterfront (in a pre-global warming sense) of the technology real estate portfolio.

Special Letter: Gaps in Our Near-Future Agenda

The future is a vast, unruly work-space, so let's focus on the near-term realm of immediate opportunity.

What Mandiant Brings

Last week, while our team was meeting with the top intelligence and cyber officials of the UK, the Mandiant Corporation released a report that changed the global balance of...
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