Category Archives: Software Companies

Tesla manufacturers mobile computers

Posted on June 12, 2018 by Rob Page

On May 23, Consumer Reports declined to recommend the Tesla Model 3 due to higher-than-ideal stopping distance. Seven (7) (!) days later Tesla released a software update that reduced stopping distance which, in turn, provoked Consumer Reports to issue a … Continue reading →

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Apple missed a HUGE boat

Posted on March 20, 2018 by Rob Page

I love my Apple Watch.  The modular watch face with complications from each of: personal calendar (Apple cal) work calendar (Fantastical) weather (Accueeather) battery level (built-in) fitness circles (built-in) is EXACTLY what I want in a watch face.  Soon, I’ll … Continue reading →

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Turning employees into stark raving fans

Posted on February 27, 2018 by Rob Page

A simple idea with difficult implementation.  Making your employees stark-raving fans.  The issue?  Leadership shortcomings.  The value of turning employees into fans can’t be better expressed than in this blog post from Tony Robbins: ARE YOU TREATING YOUR EMPLOYEES LIKE … Continue reading →

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Stick to your guns; or, WHY would we EVER need THAT data?!

Posted on June 21, 2016 by Rob Page

Note to my colleagues:  this blog post is a reminder to myself that I need to stick to my guns. 🙂 I’ve long believed there are interesting and non-obvious patterns in human behavior. Uber recently shared their discovery that Uber … Continue reading →

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Software has eaten the car and it’s NOT good

Posted on June 7, 2016 by Rob Page

Not sure how I missed this… On Jul 21, 2015 Wired Magazine ran a story by Andy Greenberg titled “Hackers Remotely Kill a Jeep on the Highway—With Me in It.” According to the story, hackers were able to remotely take control over only instrumentation and … Continue reading →

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If a tree falls in a forest; If a packet crosses a network

Posted on May 31, 2016 by Rob Page

Some observations of late: The only reason to have a network is so that application traffic can traverse it. The days of network engineers being able to keep up by typing IOS commands are quickly coming to an end Network … Continue reading →

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Seriously – SDN is going to explode

Posted on May 24, 2016 by Rob Page

I recently joined CFN Services (check it out – despite my new bias – cool stuff :).  At CFN Software Defined Infrastructure (SDI) is a massive topic.  Our CEO, Mark Casey (LinkedIn), talks about how prevalent dematerialization is.  Below, Peter … Continue reading →

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SDI, SDN, NFV, SDWAN (or Lions and Tigers and Bears, OH MY!)

Posted on May 14, 2016 by Rob Page

I was a networking person as an intern in college and during my time in the Marine Corps.  When I left active duty I crossed over to the software side of things.  I’m pretty good at technical things and a … Continue reading →

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How can I schedule user testing?

Posted on March 31, 2014 by Rob Page

Good news – short post.  🙂 We are about to conduct our second round of usability testing on Reacht.  We’re already feeling some pain associated with scheduling participants. For our first usability test we invited people to “just show up … Continue reading →

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