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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #227 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Rob, Bill, David, Dimitri, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE! "Implosion", Leonard Lee (inspired by Eddie Van Halen's "Eruption")
* Exploding IoT - Beepers gone wild!
* The importance of SysBOMs which IoT Coffee Talk invented!
* Is the Back to the Office trend now the new Work from Home?
* How squirrels are FTTH's worst enemy.
* Vulnerabilities are everywhere and how do we unlearn to live with them?
* Did Apple get the Metaverse right?
* Ask Avatar Leonard. Answers to the universe.
* Cyber enterprise implosion - the future of cyberthreats
* The cost of security paid in risk to the enterprise
* If you can't spell cybersecurity, we can't sell it (33:20)
* FAFO, people!
* The Pinball Arcade - the AI business pivot
* Bill's Asteroids hustle - 3 ships for a quarter, please.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #226 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Rob, Dimitri, and Leonard jump on Web3 live to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE! "Born In The USA", Bruce Springsteen
* A moment of silence
* Trading 9/11 stories and close calls
* Rob is at Oracle World 2024 acting like an analyst
* Oracle and AWS have a hell-freezes-over moment
* The visions of the visionary Larry Ellison
* Why did thin computing never really take off and catch on?
* Pete hunts down his Yeti tumbler from Intel at AI Hardware & Edge AI event
* What is up with Intel?
* Lenovo, the business that IBM should have never had a fire in the belly for
* Will the iPhone 16 drive a "super cycle"? Rob wants to know!
* Apple proves that you can't charge of GenAI. Good news or bad news?
* Do you trust developers? Leonard and Dimitri build the case of App Stores

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #225 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Marc, Bill, Steve, and Leonard jump on Web3 live from Berlin to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE! "Rock You Like A Hurricane", The Scorpions (Germany's greatest rock band!)
* Leonard complains about the tiny coffees in Berlin.
* Marc gives Leonard tourism advice in the great city of Berlin.
* Lenovo Innovation World 2024 - The Great Convergence of AI PC Silicon
* Will the AI PC make a difference and will Copilot+ PC land or flop?
* Intel's Lunar Lake is a big deal for Intel. It's more important than you think.
* Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Series. Can it disrupt the PC industry?
* Why the channel is important and why it can make or break you.
* What the hell is an NPU and why will it matter in a PC and anywhere else?
* What went wrong with Intel... or did it? A victim of impatience and perspective?
* Why Leonard doesn't talk valuation as a tech and industry analyst.
* The velocity of markets and deal flow - why it defines different IoT games. 
* Business is a tough thing. Why do we treat it like it is easy... HBS?

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #224 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Marc, Rob, Bill, Dimitri, Pete, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* Looking back on the pre-Bad Karaoke days of IoT Coffee Talk
* Is NVIDIA the center of our universe? What will happen on NVIDIA Day?
* Does NVIDIA have a play in edge and IoT?
* Is cloud repatriation a real thing? Michael Dell seems to think so.
* Jumping off the VMware ship. How could cloud repatriation be possible?
* K8 and serverless - the ultimate cloud lock-in glue!
* Cloud economics were never visible because we didn't do FinOps.
* Do you need to grow your IT group again?
* FinTech is not FinOps!!!!
* Why surveys are mostly misguiding.
* How Hock Tan shook the world and might have disrupted the cloud narrative.
* The ruthless and painful reinvention of VMware and the future of cloud.
* The residual value of GenAI beyond the hype implosion.
* Hot Chips 2024 takes on the future of GenAI computing.
* Why industrial policy in advance economies is tougher
* When will we start to water crops with Gatorade? When we fail to ask good questions. 

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #223 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Jan, Rob, Bill, Stephanie, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "Not My Slave", Oingo Boingo
* Why 5G needs to clean up its own hype mess. Not 6G!
* Why intercontinental remote sidewalk surgery won't be happening in 6G.
* Rob tries to talk guitar!
* What happened to MEC (Multi-Access Edge Computing)
* What would the impact be if your unified namespace was hacked?
* Rob tries not to give investment advice.....
* Timing is everything to get value out of evolutionary tech
* Why are we still so confused about Digital Twin? Does it matter?
* The definition of stupid insanity. Why do we do it?
* Rob gets into analyst mode talking about AMD's announced acquisition of ZT Systems
* The IoT Coffee Talk lump of coal methodology and framework

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #222 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Rob, Bill, Dimitri, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "Limelight", Rush
* From vinyl to streaming
* Why digital history sets the context for today's digital transformations
* AIoT!! - Our transitional branding
* The branding transformation roadmap going from AIoT Coffee Talk to Misguided
* How GenAI cybersecurity autonomy could be the risk we fear
* Sexy social engineering - the new frontier of cyber threats and attacks
* Battlestar Galactica might be the only solution
* Why "open" is not intrinsically secure regardless of the variety
* Airport innovation and how to get all of your data stolen there
* Is the Dark Web the unified namespace of cybercrime?
* The fine line between intelligence and cybercrime
* The vision for our future was set in the 20's of the last century.
* The IoT Coffee Talk gang contemplate different approaches to selling out

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #221 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Pete, Rob, David, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "Yakety Sax" (The Benny Hill Theme Song), Boots Randolph
* Would "The Benny Hill Show" and "Blazing Saddles" ever see a theatrical release today?
* Given that nobody seems to care for IoT, should we rebrand the show?
* Who is in the right? Delta? Microsoft? CrowdStrike?
* Highly misguided collective perspective. What does it mean?
* The history of Microsoft in 5 minutes.
* What is going on with the economy? Recession? Correction?
* The GenAI industry profit trail.
* Will there be another mobile moment?
* 10 billion passwords leaked. What do you do?
* Rob's goes from analyst to Marvel movie critic - Dead Pool & Wolverine
* Revisiting IoT as a service. SaaS it!
* When the you fail by the numbers. How does that happen?
* The IoT tomato gallery.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #220 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Bill, Pete, Rob, David, Eric, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "5150", Van Halen
* Rob goes to the Dark Side! (Congrats for your new gig at IDC!)
* The dedicated private cloud and the edge cloud according to Rob of IDC!
* Was outsourcing and getting rid of your IT folks a bad idea?
* Eric talks about begging for a box before CI/CD, DevOps, and the Cloud.
* What do TinyML and Space Force have in common?
* What did we think about the CrowdStrike "Outage"?
* The IoT Coffee Talk Scooby-Doo session - CrowdStrike root cause analysis
* Rob drops some logic onto the CrowdStrike situation.

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #219 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Stephanie, Bill, Ryan, Dimitri, Pete, Rob, Steve, Marc, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "Thriller", Michael Jackson
* I'm gonna replace your job AI. What is it?
* Rob and Pete figure out how to make foldable smartphones the next big thing!
* The history of Sun Microsystems and the impact of Java
* Slow as JIT!
* How did containers come about and what does it have to do with Java?
* The gang talks about code portability again after four years!
* Bill slaps Java Xbox posers!
* Java Beans and EJBs in the house!
* Python, the real slug of languages.
* Pick your horse and ride it!

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Welcome to IoT Coffee Talk #218 where we have a chat about all things #IoT over a cup of coffee or two with some of the industry's leading business minds, thought leaders and technologists in a totally unscripted, organic format. Thanks for joining us. Sit back with a cup of Joe and enjoy the morning banter.

This week, Stephanie, Bill, Ryan, Dimitri, Pete, Rob, Steve, Marc, and Leonard jump on Web3 to talk about:

* BAD KARAOKE: "Don't Stop Believing", Journey
* The state of AI-generated goatees - Is it good enough?
* The key to good AI is context. Why is it so hard but easy to imagine and assume?
* Ryan dives in to private wireless solutions in his new gig!
* The secret to customer centricity - solving problems.
* AT&T data breach. Is this a look into our future of privacy and cybersecurity?
* The asymmetry of the IP rights fight against the big LLM guys.
* Is Amazon a monopolistic marketplace or just hyper competitive?
* Why foldable smartphones are still just 1 to 2 percent of units sold.
* Another debate about IoT "scalability". 
* The Gap of the Ugly is where the money is at!
* The shifting thesis of Generative AI revolution!
* Spain wins the European Cup with the help of immigrants!
* The infamous AI-powered churro maker business case! Start of the revolution we have been hoping for?

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