This is going to be all about the business side of operating systems so if you find OS’s boring and passé at this point, don’t read this post… So Google announced this week that they are going to produce an operating system for netbooks. It is named Chrome operating system [...]
I am not sure if you would have seen the press releases on a new service Google is going to offer later this year, so I though it might be helpful to at least mention it. Google Wave is a new platform that Google will provide as an open source [...]
Last week Google announced that they were pulling one of their latest services off the Web. Google Lively was their first attempt to play in the virtual world space. The concept seemed to me to be a poor attempt to let users create their own rooms where they could hold [...]
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, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]