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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]