You snooze, you lose

People tell me I am impatient for calling Microsoft's Enterprise Apps a laggard for not leveraging for years innovations a stones' throw from them - Azure, Surface, Lync, Kinect etc. The enterprise is full of other examples  - multi-year projects, 2% of vendor revenue from products introduced years ago etc - that we often don't focus on how what else has moved on in the meantime.

This week while scrounging for posts for New Florence, I seemed to hit a bunch of markets where industry leaders took a breather only to find themselves in a brand new, unfamiliar world,

New Scientist talks about the "antibiotics apocalypse"

"How did we reach this point without viable successors to today's increasingly ineffectual drugs? The answer lies not in evolution but economics. Over the past 20 years, nearly every major pharmaceutical company has abandoned antibiotics. Companies must make money, and there isn't much in short-term drugs that should be used sparingly. So researchers have discovered promising candidates, but can't reach into the deep pockets needed to develop them."

MIT Technology Review talks about how blacklist and signature based security may have run its course - we have to move to assume everything is suspect

That its core product was essentially useless against the attack—allegedly sponsored by the Chinese government—came as no surprise to those in the know. But the blunt admission points to a rapidly changing computer security landscape and a growing threat to Symantec’s $6.7-billion-a-year business. A recent study by Imperva, a California data security startup, found that antivirus products from top vendors detected less than 5 percent of more than 80 new viruses tested.

FastCompany talks about Yahoo's portfolio of properties

But Mayer is sitting on a trove of products that her predecessors mismanaged, neglected, or even abandoned. Groups, a hub for users to congregate based on shared interests, hasn't been updated in more than 10 years. Yahoo has areas devoted to such advertising-friendly cash cows as news, sports, finance, movies, and games, and each one already offers users an opportunity to experience the content their way.

Yes, only the impatient thrive...