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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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It’s Closer Than You Think

I was with a CEO last week in downtown Oklahoma City; we were talking about the perceived technology vacuum here in the middle of the country, and about how wrong that perception is.  In fact, there is a vibrant and … Continue reading

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Technology and the Down Economy 2

Certain subjects seem to hit a nerve.  The last article I wrote about Technology in Down Economy  seemed to do just that from the response we received.  Interestingly, much of it came from Europe.  I am always amazed at the … Continue reading

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Technology and the Down Economy

The nice thing about this new stream is that we can write about technology trends that are important – right now. Well, the dominating news seems to be the imploding economy. I am going to set aside my utter disdain … Continue reading

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The Cloud Is The Debate

Twitter is teaming up with the Current television/Internet network to offer a feed of the tomorrow nights debate, with live tweets popping up on the bottom of the screen.  Tuesday, October 7th, Senators Obama and McCain will hold another debate … Continue reading

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Software Drives a Stake in the Heart of the “Telephone”

Last week there were a ton of articles written on the G1 phone manufactured by HTC and sporting the Google Android mobile platform. Most people roundly agreed that the hardware was nothing special and that the most interesting thing about … Continue reading

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