I want to draw your attention to some technology developed by the impressive Fluid Interfaces Group at MIT's Media Labs. They have built a working model of what could be described as the 3rd generation in personal data assistants. You wear the device around your neck, it is comprised of [...]
Today Apple announced the details of the upcoming iPhone 3.0 OS release; and it has made me happy. I love my iPhone, and I use it daily as much more than just a simple phone. I use it to communicate: check and write emails, send out tweets, text friends and [...]
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 replies to her about the benefits of Apple's Time Capsule [...]
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 more; but their ideas are closer than they would like [...]
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 the Internet. Today our mobile phones are coming equipped with [...]
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 live on national television, and you can be a part [...]
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 the G1 is the software. At the same time, there [...]
Our computers are shrinking again, even as they become incredibly more powerful. Ultra portable laptops, sometimes called 'netbooks', are sitting on boardroom tables all across America, and smartphones are in the hands of teenagers, the college crowd. and (shudder) even our CEOs. As these devices move from the techno-elite early [...]
Apple Goes Mobile With the recent announcement by Apple that the .Mac platform is morphing into the new MobileMe system, I think I am going to make a conscious choice to work at home from now on. MobileMe is a push technology that offers your email, calendar, contacts and files [...]
One of the hardest things for me to do as a technology guy is to be patient when a new product comes out. When the iPhone was announced, I was torn between my greed to have the latest, and my grown up awareness that the price would drop and the [...]