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As Microsoft continues to preach the virtues of Windows as the one true operating system spanning everything from servers down to Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the company needs to successfully do three things in order to establish itself as a market leader within in the space. It will need to have open APIs that can play well with non-Windows devices, build a new strategic relationship with Intel, and make some carefully targeted investments for a broad-spanning Windows IoT ecosystem. Tesla announced last week its new self-driving technology, which will be delivered to the market next year, a year ahead of everyone else (that we know about so far). I'm actually at the BMC Engage conference this week and there is also talk about how disruptive this technology will be on the road once it is available for everyone. It means that every car on the road today will likely be banned from most freeways in the U.S. within 10 years. In fact, even buying cars will be obsolete once this technology becomes common and the market shifts to adapt to it. This week Google officially unveiled its newest smartphone, the Nexus 6. Competing with the other phablets currently on the market, it has a six-inch screen and was made by Motorola. The Nexus 6 will go on sale beginning in November and will be available through AT&T, Verizon, Sprint, T-Mobile and US Cellular. The launch of HBO's over the top streaming service was followed within days by the CBS All Access over the top streaming service. Netflix saw great revenue gains for the third quarter of 2014, but Wall Street certainly didn't like the fact that it missed its subscriber estimates in the latest round of earnings. In preparation for the 2014 election season, search engines Bing and Google have both launched a set of tools to help out voters and provide quick access to relevant and useful information. The set-top box market is a rapidly growing field, and as competitors from Apple to Roku look to crack the market and slip into users' homes, one thing is increasingly clear: there are more options now than ever in terms of what can go on top of, or at least around, a user's home television set. One new option from Google is set to offer a pretty impressive array of functions and make itself, hopefully, an indispensable part of users' home life. It's the Nexus Player, and it means to take on the biggest names already in the field. Blue is clearly the color of the day in the tech world, and this is not a reference to I'm so blue! Rather it involves the across the pond and global embrace of IBM (aka Big Blue) and SAP, whose corporate colors happen to be the reverse of IBM, in a new partnership aimed at accelerating cloud adoption by enterprises. This really is big blue news. Enterprises are likely to invest three to four times more in technology aimed at growing revenue than technology to lower business costs, predicts Andrew Bartels, Forrester Research VP and principal analyst. It's hard to dispute that wearables are about the buzziest gadgets in the tech field right now. And Google is reportedly planning to throw its hat in with the space in a big way with an investment in Magic Leap, which describes itself as providing cinematic reality using 3D augmented reality (AR). There are a lot of things that we wish we could forget and probably even more things that we want everyone else to forget. The Internet and social media has made that pretty much all but impossible. If you don't believe me, just ask any politician. So much information is being gathered about you every time you visit a site. This is mostly for advertising reasons, but unfortunately, it can be used for almost anything. The subject of Internet domain names may seem boring to many readers. However, don't be fooled. Nothing could be further from the truth. In fact, the ICANN (The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers) performance during its over two year effort to add as many as 1,400 new Top Level Domain (gTLDs) web site suffixes- expanding from the familiar .com, .net and .org-has been contentious and the opposite of boring to say the least. Indeed, many have called the administration of this process akin to the Digital Anarchy that ICANN's new process for apportioning out names was supposed to address. The principle that Internet service providers and governments should treat all data on the Internet in an equal way is referred to as net neutrality, sometimes also referred to as network neutrality, or Internet neutrality. This means neither discriminating nor charging differentially by user, content, site, platform, application, type of attached equipment and modes of communication. The term was coined by Columbia media law professor Tim Wu in 2003. It's October, but, contrary to what most industry-watchers were expecting, there's nary a peep from Apple TV on a refresh of its palm-sized set-top streaming player. But, a refresh is looking more and more important for Apple as it tries to hang onto market share in an increasingly crowded video STB space.
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