Widgets are a hot topic, we have covered them here on Technology Story (search: widget), and it seems like the momentum is only growing. I am excited about seeing the new J.J. Abrams movie Cloverfield, so I hit the site this morning and noticed right away that they are using [...]
I feel somewhat obligated to continue my post on Apple and the role they will play in the world - especially since they made their annual set of announcements at MacWorld yesterday. It was not the same blockbuster type of list as in the past, but they did make two [...]
I have to start this off by admitting that I have been working with PC's since 1981. Sadly, that is longer than some of the developers that work for me have been alive. Having hung around the technology world for 27 years or so, I have been blessed to watch [...]
So, I had a strange experience this week because I was in a meeting with a few bankers and I started talking about Second Life, and started to tell them about the banks that are opened there. Half of them had never heard of it, so I logged in and [...]
As I mentioned previously, I ordered an OLPC laptop through the program where you buy two and receive one, while the other gets donated to a needy person overseas. I have been playing with it as I have time, and have also run into a friend of mine that ordered [...]
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 re-branding [...]
Netflix, the DVD-by-mail rental giant, is about to invade your home and make you even lazier. Netflix has teamed with LG Electronics to produce a Netflix branded set-top box that will stream movies and other content directly into your living room. No more shall I walk to the mail box! [...]
I have always loved the end of a year and the fresh start for the next. Yea, I know it is an artificial construct and the rocks and trees could care less, but it means something to me, and evidently a few others as well. I love writing these posts [...]
And still more year end review... The world of advertising and marketing continued to mutate based on technology tools in 2007. Ten years ago, advertising was primarily dominated by newspapers, magazines, television and radio. Today, online advertising is growing at staggering rates because of the ability to more specifically target [...]
More year end wrap up... There is a quiet revolution happening with how we use software and it will soon drive massive changes in the technology world, and our ways of operating and that is the change from locally based applications that run off our computers hard drive, to Web [...]