Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
I am a fan of social community sites and I think that the social networking aspect of the Web 2.0 trend is at the forefront of innovation right now. I love the feel of a community when it has a solid platform, a strong current of interaction and a lot ...
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
For months now I have been talking about virtual worlds like Second Life and Entropia Universe, and I always end the discussion by mentioning that it is only a matter of time until Google gets into the act. Last week they announced their first foray into the virtual space with Lively. Although I was ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
Intel: Honey I Shrunk the Memory
All of the mobile Internet devices I've been ranting about lately utilize some kind of tiny memory; whether that is a small form factor hard drive or flash RAM, depends on the maker. Devices like the iPhone, and its iPod cousins, have traditionally ...
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Monday, April 21st, 2008
I keep thinking about the Internet being in the palm of my hand. It's resting here in my Blackberry, slumbering and groggy; waiting for me to wake it up somehow. I want to use the Internet like I use the television or phone; I turn them on and ...
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Tuesday, March 4th, 2008
Only a decade ago an IT professional likely was the master of one or two large scale systems. Perhaps they owned the Tandem, maybe they were an Informix DBA, or perhaps managed several applications running on the Big Iron; but typically they were specialists in their daily life. ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Cisco Grows Offerings in 2007
Last month Cisco acquired Navini Networks, a company that had made its name in the WiMax field with installs on 6 continents according to their old site. (I guess there is no commercial need for WiMax on Antarctica?) Cisco has been quietly buying and ...
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Saturday, November 24th, 2007
Is Microsoft Office in danger of losing its monopoly on the business tools category?
Yet another company, Live Documents, has come out and announced an impending challenge to Office. For more than a decade, business users have become accustomed to Word, Excel and PowerPoint being the staple tools of choice. ...
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Monday, November 12th, 2007
Two articles in a week is a sign… the subject in both was the fact that the new generation of Millennials coming up have a very different sense of privacy than their elders. Where many of us were taught that there was safety in anonymity, our kids are ...
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