1. Comcast will buy Sprint so they can offer six play: Landline broadband, wireless broadband, TV, mobile TV, landline voice, and mobile voice.
2. Motorola will buy Sandisk to increase their consumer electronics footprint and compete better with Apple.
3. Google will buy Intuit, offer tax and online accounting services for free. Microsoft responds with Windows Live Money SMB.
4. Microsoft Vista consumer adoption will fall short of expectation.
5. Apple will transition .Mac to Google.
6. Clearwire will go under. WiMAX will have to wait.
7. Infosys will acquire Bearing Point.
8. SAP will buy Salesforce; Mark Benioff will organize Buddhist themed offsites for management.
9. Yahoo and Microsoft will battle it out for near-death web 2.0 ventures. Biggest catch: Digg.
10. Scoble will quit Podtech to work as chief blogvangelist for Dell.
Archive for February 3rd, 2007
