Archive for the ‘technology’ Category
Thursday, March 4th, 2010
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OK, I have had some time to think about how the iPad might be more important than the iPhone as some people at Apple have mentioned. I am in Mumbai India at a conference where educators from around the world have gathered to discuss best ...
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Thursday, February 18th, 2010
I get a lot of email everyday. In fact I get enough that I can actually gauge how the American workforce is doing based on the flow and quantity. For example, one Friday afternoons, the velocity of email drops in half. On Sunday nights, my email lights up. I find both of these trends ...
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Saturday, January 30th, 2010
Open any IT magazine today and there will be at least one article, and five advertisements for some new cloud computing product or service. It is not even fun anymore to talk about how big The Cloud will one day be, now how it might change the world. ...
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Monday, January 18th, 2010
It seems that one of the most popular things for tech reporters to do these days is pass on rumors and prognostications about what Apple might do with their possible tablet product. At the same time, a number of companies announced their slate/tablet options at CES a couple of weeks ...
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Thursday, January 7th, 2010
Announcements of new products are always interesting when they come from Google, and concern a type of device to which we are all fairly addicted. I have had the privilege of watching companies announce new technology products since about 1980 and feel like I am getting the hang of understanding ...
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Friday, January 1st, 2010
I feel as if we need to create a new scale for technology years that is akin to dog years. In other words, for every normal human year, there are three technology years – at least it seems that way with all the progress we are making in tech these ...
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Saturday, December 26th, 2009
If you are a regular Facebook user, you will have noticed that they upgrade the privacy features a couple of weeks ago. We were given a much wider ability to select what we want to expose publicly and to whom. Of course, some people were annoyed because the ...
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Sunday, December 13th, 2009
One of the more important concepts I speak about these days is the idea that the Internet, and a gaggle of social technologies, has created an amazing ability to build rivers of information into our brains. Most people are still getting their hands around why, or how, social tools ...
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Sunday, November 29th, 2009
One of the questions that I get all the time from readers is, “why is Twitter such a big deal?” One great example of why Twitter matters is to look at what happened with the Tiger Woods car accident this weekend. Twitter users knew within minutes of the ...
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Monday, November 16th, 2009
There is a concept in the technology world that I find pretty interesting, and it is called the Technology Hype Cycle. It postulates that there are stages that technologies go through as to how they are adopted by humans. The speed that any single technology goes through the ...
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