Lately, I have been trying to read all of the blogs and feeds that I am subscribed to and am beginning to think it's all for naught.
Technology is definitely moving too fast for any one person to keep up with in light of products, speeds and feeds, and how to's.
I for one will do a better job of unplugging and enjoy real face-to-face communication instead of IM's, em's, and webcasts.
Friday, September 19, 2008
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
Google goes live with Android
In a few short weeks T-Mobile will introduce the new phone boasting Google's Android open source platform for mobile phones. Even though, it will be a start to the "Android" phone it will be revolutionary in that it is all about the applications for this phone.
Google is banking that developers will be the life's blood for Android's stack and API's. I own both an iPhone and a BlackBerry Curve and while both of these devices have their respective advantages, hopefully one day we will have a mobile unit that will act both like a UMPC and a phone but without compromises in either. But for now I travel with the before mentioned phones and my trusty Eee 701 laptot.
Until then....
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
Today's Browsers are tomorrow's Operating System
As we get more and more competitive features from Mozilla FF, MS IE8, Opera, and now Google's Chrome the lines between application and the WWW are getting blurrier and blurrier.
When I first started in the hardware business over ten years ago the emphasis was on local process power, RAM, and hard drive capacity. While those are still concerns of a current PC buyer the new "need for speed" is the bandwidth capacity. DSL, cable, fiber, and T1's are all ubiquitous so we just want it faster and cheaper. So what has this done to the modern OS? Not much actually, it has just created more and more applications that live on the world wide web. Oh sure, local PC operating systems will still be utilized for availability and virtualization for managing resources but as more and more applications are written as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), then so too will browsers be equipped for Silverstream, Flash, Java, etc. right off the showroom floor.
The dominant player for Software As A Service (SaaS) is Google and they have gone so far as to create their own browser framework for Google Docs, Gmail, and the like. Even though Microsoft still has the largest market share with IE the other smaller niche open source browsers are quickly on the rise. More and more web users are becoming increasingly aware of security, spyware, and other risks that can break their web sessions, browsers, and even their computers.
In closing, the newest crop of browsers are just touching the hem of the garment of what developers have in mind for our near future personal and corporate applications.
Play ball!
When I first started in the hardware business over ten years ago the emphasis was on local process power, RAM, and hard drive capacity. While those are still concerns of a current PC buyer the new "need for speed" is the bandwidth capacity. DSL, cable, fiber, and T1's are all ubiquitous so we just want it faster and cheaper. So what has this done to the modern OS? Not much actually, it has just created more and more applications that live on the world wide web. Oh sure, local PC operating systems will still be utilized for availability and virtualization for managing resources but as more and more applications are written as Rich Internet Applications (RIA), then so too will browsers be equipped for Silverstream, Flash, Java, etc. right off the showroom floor.
The dominant player for Software As A Service (SaaS) is Google and they have gone so far as to create their own browser framework for Google Docs, Gmail, and the like. Even though Microsoft still has the largest market share with IE the other smaller niche open source browsers are quickly on the rise. More and more web users are becoming increasingly aware of security, spyware, and other risks that can break their web sessions, browsers, and even their computers.
In closing, the newest crop of browsers are just touching the hem of the garment of what developers have in mind for our near future personal and corporate applications.
Play ball!
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