Now What? Web 3.0!
Friday, October 31st, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Most people are still trying to get their heads around Web 2.0. Warning: techies are already buzzing about the coming of Web 3.0. Normally, I would wait for them to get their head out of the clouds, but it's all ...
The Coming of OLED
Thursday, October 30th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Sorry, it's a high tech thing; obnoxious acronyms. I don't come up with these things, I just report on them. Okay, what is OLED and why should you care? OLED stands for Organic Light Emiting Diode (well, maybe acronyms aren't so bad) . OLED, ...
LinkedIn: It’s Not Just For Schmoozing Anymore
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Just launched; LinkedIn is now offering more than half a dozen new applications to give users something more to do than network and do recon on collegues. LinkedIn is now offering a host of apps for sharing files and presentations, ...
web2.0 tv
Wednesday, October 29th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »A new site has hundreds of videos, (including one of me), with interviews of lots of tech luminaries in Austin, TX (among other locales). They're pushing this content out thru various mechanisms and I think these guys may be on to something.
Microsoft in the Clouds with Azure
Tuesday, October 28th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »While Amazon.com has just formally lifted the "beta" caveat off its two-year old cloud computing service, EC2; fashionably-late Microsoft has just announced details of its forthcoming cloud computing service called "Azure". The announcement comes as no shock. CEO Steve Ballmer ...
Waiting for Windows 7
Monday, October 27th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »This is all but the death knell in Vista's coffin. Speaking at the Gartner Symposium ITexpo in Orlando, Fla last week, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer acknowledged all those companies that still haven't made the upgrade to Vista and that "if ...
Does America Need a CTO?
Friday, October 24th, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Barack Obama thinks so and has promised, if elected, to make a cabinet level Chief Technology Officer (CTO) position for the first time. (McCain, meanwhile, doesn't really do "the e-mail" that much). Obama says he is especially committed to ...
The Future of Computing - SaaS, Cloud Computing & Thin Clients
Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 Posted in News and Blogs, Small Business | No Comments »It’s not just the economy that is driving companies to SaaS and cloud computing environments, but it is sure helping. The concept of client-server based computing is not new, as a matter of fact it is very old. Those that ...
