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 [...]
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 used [...]
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 they are [...]
I mentioned in a previous post that Apple's iPhone and the Nokia Tube cell phone are both really more than cell phones; they are mobile computing platforms. The idea of mobile computing is an important one in that as it becomes a ubiquitous, and almost unnoticed technology, our ideas of [...]
Last night Google announced something that we should all take note of. Google App Engine is a platform that can do all of the things you can imagine your website or web application doing already, and more. If you are building your first startup or writing code for the enterprise, [...]
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. Today though, [...]
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 [...]
NebuAd, Inc is pioneering a new way to study what you do on the Internet so that ads can be targeted to your interests. The question of whether the way they do it is invading your privacy is valid. In the past, most services use the practice of story "cookies" [...]
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. [...]
Open Platforms are driving an age of innovation like nothing we have ever seen. They are quietly going to change the way we do business so you better pay attention... In the last few months we have had a tsunami of software platforms opened up for use, or announced. Facebook [...]