Open any IT magazine today and there will be at least one article, and five advertisements for some new cloud computing product or service. It is not even fun anymore to talk about how big The Cloud will one day be, now how it might change the world. The only [...]
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 [...]
This is no secret, but, I am a huge advocate of the Cloud technology ecosystem. I use about as many applications in the cloud as I can find. If there is a good, free, or low-cost alternative to a bulky and costly application; I'm there. I believe that fundamentally, this [...]
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 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 [...]