"Globally, the average young person connected to digital technology has 94 phone numbers in his or her mobile phone, 78 people on a messenger buddy list and 86 people in his or her social networking community. Yet despite their technological immersion, digi-kids are not geeks -- 59% of 8-14 year-old kids still prefer their TV to their PCs and only 20% of 14-24 year-old young people globally admitted to being "interested" in technology. They are, however, expert multi-taskers and able to filter different channels of information."
Read more of the global survey conducted by MTV, Nickelodeon and Microsoft at CNN
"The Next Big Thing" in Enterprise Software
One of the major attractions in the annual Sandhill Enterprise conference I attended this week is a showcase of 5 promising technology companies. The track record is impressive: to date, seven past Next Big Thing presenters have been acquired for more than $2.5 Billion. Two have recently filed for IPOs. Key executives from each present for about 10 minutes each
This year the 5 profiled year were:
Cast Iron - an application integration "appliance" vendor
Ketera - a SaaS based procurement/spend management solution
Seriosity - which brings multi-player gaming concepts to enterprise apps
SpiceWorks - which is pioneering an advertiser funded model for enterprise apps aimed in their case at IT managers
Vocera - which packages a device with mobile communications and voice recognition aimed at medical and other work groups
July 27, 2007 in Industry Commentary | Permalink | Comments (0) | TrackBack (0)