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The Zen master is leaving his CEO post at Oracle. Larry Ellison, one of Silicon Valley's celebrity executives, Thursday revealed plans to vacate the position, handing over the reins to co-presidents Mark Hurd and Safra Catz, who will now report directly to the board. The enterprise solutions market is flooded these days with endless variations on a theme when it comes to the software you're looking to integrate into your business. So how do you choose, and how can you be confident that you're choosing the right one? Vendors ultimately just want to sell you a product, reading analyst reports can be time-consuming and lead to muddled conclusions, and long meetings discussing all the options eat into everyone's busy work day. Jeff Bezos first created an e-commerce empire in Amazon.com. Now he's building the newest U.S. rocket engine in partnership with the aerospace elite without any taxpayer dollars. It sounds like an amazing fairy tale, but it's true. In case you missed it, and it is difficult to imagine that you did, Apple had a coming out party a few days ago for its wearable device Apple Watch, the new iPhone 6 in two flavors, a near-field communications (NFC) wireless payment system that-thanks to a growing ecosystem of partners-is supposed to jumpstart finally the mobile payments market called Apple Pay, and some other goodies. I thought since today is the iOS 8 availability date, and that there is going to be a bit of a wait for those new iPhones and Apple Watch, there should be a free playlist included that is appropriate for the device-especially given that the new wearable will be able to play music. Apple is a status brand. When you see the prices of the unsubsidized phones approaching $1,000 and realize that a lot of folks spend less on their cars then on their iPhones, now you realize that many, if not most, are buying Apple for the brand. And there are far more people who get excited about brands than those that get excited about technology. However one of the things that can damage a brand tied to status over time is the slow bleed of visible, low status buyers using a product. The correlation between having ubiquitous high-speed broadband at affordable prices with economic vitality is both well-establish and undeniable. Where having access to modern railroads, highways and airports, along with a favorable business climate and quality education, remain top priorities for business locating in an area; the presence of ubiquitous broadband not only is on the list of company must haves but is moving up fast. Mobile payments have always sounded cool. It's fun for consumers, refreshing for merchants and a chance for new players like mobile operators to get a piece of the action - what's not to like? But the industry is horribly fragmented and has been locked in a 'battle of the business model' for years - the old versus the new, the disruptors and the incumbents. It's a mess that hasn't been helped by constant uncertainty over technologies, security and standards. Worst of all, the user's voice has become silent in a debate that has degenerated into a conversation of self-interest - focused on the 'how' rather than the 'why'. Even casual observers of the big data market have been looking for this field to climb, and rapidly, over the course of the next several years, particularly after observing the rates at which this field has risen to prominence as it has. As usual, the hype surrounding Apple's recent announcement was deafening. There were weeks and weeks of speculation as to what might be debuted, but unlike previous Apple events, the world wasn't quite sure what Apple would announce. This was perhaps the most uncertain and mystery-filled announcement since the 2010 iPad launch. T-Mobile US added 760,000 branded net customers in the month of August 2014, the best month ever in terms of postpaid net additions, says CEO John Legere. Will Facebook become an ISP? The question is no longer odd, after Google Fiber.
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