Monthly Archives: November 2008

Google says “Uncle”

Last week Google announced that they were pulling one of their latest services off the Web.  Google Lively was their first attempt to play in the virtual world space.  The concept seemed to me to be a poor attempt to … Continue reading

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Safety In (File) Numbers

Cloud-based File Storage Last weekend on Twitter, I saw a few tweets where a friend had lost a file, and try as she might, she could not find it on her machine, it was simply gone.  There were lots of … Continue reading

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The Platform of Clouds

We hear about the ‘Cloud’ at every turn lately, but the cloud has been coming for a long time, in many varied ways.  The well known players are all household names: Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, IBM, Microsoft, Salesforce.com, Sun and … Continue reading

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Microsoft and the Cloud

At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing.  This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, … Continue reading

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Viva la Mobile Revolution

Our mobile phones are quickly replacing the laptop as the screen of choice for the digerati.  More and more can be accomplished on the mobile phone platform that we used to reserve for the laptop with a high-speed connection to … Continue reading

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