November 2009
3 posts
Mobile.
It’s been the clarion call for the technology industry for a few years now - “the future is mobile”.
It does indeed seem to be the case, with the stratospheric growth of smartphones, netbooks and mobile broadband, but there are still so many missing links. It seems none of these devices is really the “catch-all” that their makers want them to be. They’re close,...
Essential.
For many businesses, the killer app for introducing computers to the workplace was e-mail. Nowadays, we all take this most ubiquitous of communication methods for granted - it has supplanted telephones, regular mail, fax and even in-person meetings for many applications, and, yet, this technology hasn’t significantly changed since its birth at MIT in 1965.
If you look at almost every other...
Cloud.
In their constant (and winning) battle to be the leading ambassadors and evangelists of cloud computing, Google upped the stakes yesterday with their announcement of Chrome OS.
Chrome OS is a very lightweight operating system designed specifically for netbooks and other such devices, and basically consists of nothing but a browser (a variant on Google’s own Chrome browser), with all...