Andy (אברהם נפתלי) Blumenthal Leadership, Technology, Life, and Faith ✡

Paul Allen, co-founder of Microsoft died yesterday, Oct. 15, 2018. His untimely death reminded me of Steve Jobs, co-founder of Mic...

Microsoft should not be acting old and grey. Yet they are throwing away another $26.2 billion dollars in purchasing the  relative  r...

We tried out a new large conservative synagogue in Rockville today.  And they had an interesting speech this Shabbat by scholar in resid...

As per my previous blogs on the mystical number 613 (corresponding to the G-d's commandments in the Torah), today we have a technologi...

So I don't know how I feel about this or maybe I do.  The Wall Street Journal reports today that from the 10 largest companies by m...

Ok, we've all heard of "Death by PowerPoint" (well, I'm advocating death to PowerPoint). It's the unfortunate occ...

So Microsoft has tried to do the copycat thing of the Apple Store.  See Apple (top photo) streaming with customers trying out their w...

Microsoft buying Nokia is a desperate play at mobile computing. Unfortunately, the purchase doesn't add up  in terms of common busin...

Steve Ballmer, one of the forefathers of Microsoft (with a career spanning 3 decades there) and its CEO since 2000, is finally retiring. ...

Woke up this morning to the elevator being out of service--again (and this was the sign that was up)! Thank G-d our automobiles and airpla...

A couple of hours ago, Nokia's debt was downgraded by Moody's to Junk! Nokia was once the world largest vendor for mo...

Ever since the battles of Windows versus Linux, there have been two strong competing philosophies on systems architecture. Many have...

The old Dr Seuss story of The Cat In The Hat had the crazy part when "Thing 1" and "Thing 2" jump out from under...

In a book review in Fortune Magazine (7 November 2011) of "Steve Jobs: The Biography...His Rivalry With Bill Gates", one of Appl...

We are getting closer to the day when mobile computing will truly be just a computer interaction anywhere --on any surface or even on no sur...

This is great-- the ZyPAD by Eurotech. A true wrist-mounted computer . Rugged, wearable, ergonomic, GPS, bluetooth and Wi-Fi enabled. Turn...

Published in Government Technology By Andy Blumenthal We are living in a material world , and I am a material girl.” — Madonna

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Computerworld, 8 November 2010, has an article called “ Ozzie to Microsoft: Simplify, Simplify .” Unless Microsoft can become nimbler and le...

What happens when someone does something and you don’t like it—I mean you really don’t like it (and that something is painful—physically, e...

This is not a vendor or product endorsement, but I saw one of these video collaboration devices in action today and wanted to share. I...