It’s based on open source, but Chrome, Google’s cloud computing OS, will lock users into an unmodifiable world. Is this limiting or liberating?
Category: Technology news
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Windows 7 or Ubuntu 9.10 – battle of the operating systems
Whether you’re a die-hard Windows fan or a Linux evangelist, here is the lowdown on the latest updates.
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Welcome to Brussels – where ‘open’ can mean ‘closed’
There are few things that annoy me more than fake transparency. The duplicity of being lied to makes it all the worse when you realise somebody who says they’re being open with you is, in fact, just pretending.
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Tech Spending – How Much Is Enough?
One of the most difficult aspects of technology as a tool is deciding how much to invest, when to invest, and then being at peace that you will get a return on the investment. This applies to us individually, and to all organizations. I have been wrestling with both the last few weeks and that inspires me to write this content for you.
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Augmented Reality
Before you read any future, if you do not understand the concept of Augmented Reality (AR), please watch this video by BMW because it will give you a quick picture in your head: YouTube link. The concept of AR is that with either glasses, a visor, a camera device, or eventually direct to our retina, we can look at anything and have the scene we are looking at enhanced with information driven from the Web, or any other data source.
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Social Media – The Players
With all the buzz about SocMed in the world, I thought I would take a shot at identifying the various players in this exploding drama. It is easier to comprehend a complicated subject like this if we simply look at the participants and what they love, and what they hate about this new world.
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Online Reputation Management – Play Time is Over
We are now reaching an interesting point in the growth of the Web. For the first time, you can run a search on a company or product and you will likely find more information about what other people say about them than what they say about themselves.
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Kitchen Cabinets That Open With a Wave of a Homeowner’s Hand
Anvil Motion’s innovative automated doors rely on a motion sensor or keypad control.
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A Third Leg of the Stool
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 and note that it has the same name as their browser – that should tell us something.
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Humanity and the Socialtech Storm
There are moments in life when I am very conscious that I am an animal at heart. When I get hungry, there comes a point where I cannot focus on anything other than hunting prey – or at least a doughnut. When someone tackles me on the soccer field, I pretty much have to talk myself off a cliff from retaliating back at them.