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 [...]
At a developers conference last week, Microsoft rolled out a mind bending set of new ideas (products?) that leverage the concept of cloud computing. This makes a lot of sense because as companies figure out that they can rent software, storage and servers from big name providers like IBM, Amazon, [...]
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 [...]
I was with a CEO last week in downtown Oklahoma City; we were talking about the perceived technology vacuum here in the middle of the country, and about how wrong that perception is. In fact, there is a vibrant and bustling community of developers, designers, and analysts here. Did you [...]
Certain subjects seem to hit a nerve. The last article I wrote about Technology in Down Economy seemed to do just that from the response we received. Interestingly, much of it came from Europe. I am always amazed at the power of social media because within hours of sending out [...]
The nice thing about this new stream is that we can write about technology trends that are important - right now. Well, the dominating news seems to be the imploding economy. I am going to set aside my utter disdain for the fact that so many analysts and talking heads [...]
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 [...]
Why We Need A New Cabinet Position Over Technology I have been wanting to write this article for months so today is the day... As I follow the election campaigning and hear all the issues addressed, I am amazed that once again, we have candidates that seem to only deal [...]