by Tom Austin | February 21, 2009 | 2 Comments
Josh Taylor and Andrew Nusca’s ZDNet blog, The ToyBox, had a recent item that suggests I was too conservative in my comments in my recent post Netbooks: Nightmare, Nuisance or Opportunity? The ToyBox post was based on a Reuters story feed by a press release from Freestyle, the semi maker. Freescale is building ARM based [...]
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by Tom Austin | February 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
What happens when your smart phone can recognize the person in front of you and project information about him on his shirt? Is this the ultimate “contextual” computing that goes so far beyond location that … Well, check out this article (and demos) from TED. The line between your computer and your phone is going [...]
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by Tom Austin | February 5, 2009 | 3 Comments
David Pogue’s (excellent) blog posting today on the impact of Apple on software industry business models (think iTunes, not Safari) rekindled some of my thinking about how the cloud has the potential to radically change software business models. Let’s step back to Christmas Day, 2008. On that date (25-12-2008), according to the U.S. Patent and [...]
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by Tom Austin | February 4, 2009 | 2 Comments
Last month, Preston Gralla of Computerworld opined that he would not be surprised if a Google-Android-powered NetBook appeared right about the same time that Windows 7 ships. Preston’s tentative prediction focused on the impact on Microsoft (“…that would be one of Microsoft’s worst Nightmares”) but I personally believe the possibility has far greater impact on [...]
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by Tom Austin | February 3, 2009 | 10 Comments
TechCrunch carried a story last week about Nielsen management deleting the “Reply To All” button in Outlook for all 35,000 users in the firm to resolve the problem of email overload. My first reaction was “Gee, why don’t they just get rid of the Send button? That would really cut down on email traffic (but [...]
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