Paul Miller

Over at TechCrunch, MG Siegler’s 2 September post on Amazon’s new Kindle has generated quite a storm. All across the web, media, bloggers, pundits, analysts and the rest are pointing to MG’s post, getting terribly excited about a new tablet that might actually challenge the iPad; something that so many others have patently failed to [...]

Image via CrunchBase I’ve been a fan of Om Malik‘s boutique analyst site, GigaOM Pro, pretty much from the outset, and happily renew my subscription each year. The site covers a wide range of industry topics, and those Quarterly Wrap-ups are worth the fee all by themselves. I’ve written a few reports for them in [...]

Image via Wikipedia I’m joining some of my fellow GigaOM Pro contributors for a free webinar on 4 November, in which we’ll be talking about scalability and the Cloud. As the blurb notes, “Today’s businesses are increasingly looking to cloud-based infrastructure to run key operations and deliver products and services to customers worldwide. However, many [...]

My latest piece for GigaOM Pro, How Regulated Industries Can Move Toward the Cloud, takes a look at some truths to counter the widely held view that regulated industries like financial services cannot make use of Cloud Computing. They can, and they do. If you’re a GigaOM Pro subscriber, take a look. If you’re not, you [...]

From a trebling of web traffic within sixty seconds of Channel 4 mentioning the Celebrity Big Brother URL on-air, to 59 million hits in a day to a restaurant web site advertised during the US Super Bowl, advertisers, broadcasters and technologists are falling over themselves to exploit a massive — and growing — opportunity. In my latest piece for [...]