Speculation: Google To Buy Quiznos, or Is It, Quiznos to Buy Google? I was reading an excellent article about ex-Googlers and their millions when something hit me; but I'll get to that in a moment. The article was about how former Google staffers are using their vast fortunes to fund [...]
Convergence: Jott is my assistant As one more sign that the Singularity is coming, Jott.com is offering a free transcription service to the masses. Well, sorta. Jott turns any phone into a personal assistant that can quickly and easily transcribe your message into an email and send it to you, [...]
OK, it is that time of year again, the time when the yearly wrap ups must be done. With but a few days left, I thought I would review a few of the major areas of growth in 2007. Let's start with the iPhone by Apple... It is not the [...]
Google Helps Me Cook I am fairly well versed in the Googlesphere. I use it all day every day in my profession, Google offers me a way to find answers and even leads me to some questions I didn't know I should be asking. This morning I was searching for [...]
Intel Buys Into Nirvanix This is a quick post to say hooray for Nirvanix and the consumer; both of which are better off after Intel bought into the SaaS company. Nirvanix recently announced that Intel had taken a stake in the company. Nirvanix hosts online storage solutions for a variety [...]
Spokeo - Only the Beginning I was about to write a post about Google Finance when I came across Spokeo thanks to a co-worker, sayornara productivity; hello cyber-stalking. I had first seen a story about Spokeo on TechCrunch a week ago, but had yet to find the time to explore [...]
Google Manufacturing Optical Switches Google has been quietly making their own optical switches. This is not a shocking development, as they already build their own servers, so you can really see this as just one more arena where Google is using in house technology to make hardware to their own [...]
Amazon made an interesting announcement of a new service called SimpleDB. (Click here to see the website.) The service allows an organization to rent a database online for transaction fees that are measured in pennies per gigabyte. This extends Amazons concept of providing Web based software tools so that developers [...]
GMail on the BlackBerry Grows Up I have been using Gmail on my berry for a long time now, but it was always lacking a few things to make it a replacement for the enterprise email most of us are accustomed to: notification, contacts, and calendar sync to name a [...]
Plastic Sheet Offers Wireless Connectivity The University of Tokyo has something promising in development; a plastic sheet that allows electronic devices to communicate wireless when placed upon it. This plastic sheet is actually fabricated on an ink jet printer in total, but the breakthrough here is in energy needed to [...]