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Michael Sampson

Insights on Connections (November 2013)

Insights on Connections provides updates, socializes new ideas, and shares the latest thinking and approaches for being effective with IBM Connections. Topics includes managing the profile lifecycle, integrating calendar information with Connections, and recent updates to the product.

The Apple is Going Rotten

In light of the recent updates to Mac OS X, the iPhone, Apple Pages and Keynote, etc., Lawrence Lessig writes that it may be time to leave: “So this has been a week from Apple hell. Apple did a major upgrade of its suite of software — from […]

Livescribe 3

Last week the team at Livescribe announced the third iteration of the Livescribe pen. In its first iteration, when the pen was used with special Livescribe dot paper, you could take notes and associate an audio recording made with the pen with each part of the writing. That […]

Microsoft Surface Pro 2

When Microsoft released the first generation of its Surface RT / Surface Pro tablet / laptop hybrid, New Zealand customers had to wait for some months before they arrived down under. The second generation arrived pretty soon after they were released on the world stage. There’s even a […]

Ive and Federighi on Collaboration at Apple

In the September 23-29, 2013 print edition of BusinessWeek, Sam Grobart writes about Apple in an article entitled “One Direction.” There were a couple of paragraphs on collaboration that jumped out to me: While the partnership between the two men was made official last fall, Ive and Federighi—whoso […]

Just 11 Days

On September 22 I pulled out of New Zealand and headed to London, flying Air New Zealand via Los Angeles. Air New Zealand had a neat surprise awaiting me in Auckland when I arrived from Christchurch – we had the Boeing 777-300ER painted in the Hobbit livery for […]