Archives for January 2007
If you follow the tech corner of the blogging world, you’ve probably seen the spat that’s been going on between Scoble and people from that Gadget sites Engadget and Gizmodo. If not, you can start here, and then look at more recent posts in Scoble’s blog. And now Jason Calacanis has joined in with an […]
I just installed Microsoft Office 2007. I’m not going to write a full review. Rather, I’m simply going to highlight a few of the really important things I uncovered in my first hour of using the software: good and bad.
The Good
It’s really easy to use. It took me only about hour to […]
We’re in the process of buying some computer hardware to build a high-performance, scalable computer system to enable some complex (read CPU-intensive), fully-automated analyses of large volumes (think hundreds of terabytes) of high-definition digital video. For this system, my first choice of operating system is Solaris x86. We’re planning on managing the system by […]
Forbes has put together its list of the twenty five most popular Internet “celebrities” (see The Web Celeb 25). What’s interesting about this is just how shallow the pool of Internet celebrities seems to be: most of these people really are nobodies. That’s not an insult to the individuals involved. I just mean: […]
After all the recent talk about Java, I thought it was worth reminding people that Java really is a super-powerful technology for creating fantastic graphical user interfaces. Here’s a neat demonstration, inspired by the Apple TV interface.
See the details of how this was put together at The Blog of Bug.
Seems like there’s some confusion on the topic of Java on iPhone. Ed Burnett on ZDNet highlights a quote from Steve Jobs but draws the wrong conclusion. The quote Ed draws attention to is as follows (taken from Pogue’s Posts)
Java’s not worth building in. Nobody uses Java anymore. It’s this big heavyweight […]
Last November, I wrote about Sun needing to up the pace of innovation with Java ME if they want to keep up with Flash Lite. Now, Microsoft may be about to trump both Sun (Java ME) and Adobe (Flash/Flash Lite).
Microsoft’s plans for WPF/E are starting to look pretty impressive: a well-designed technology; […]
In my previous post on the iPhone, I said that I thought Apple’s biggest mistake with iPhone was to make it a closed device. That is, it was looking like Apple would not allow third-party independent developers to build applications for iPhone. However, I may have some good news….
I’ve just been told […]
There has plenty been written already about the new iPhone from Apple. The interesting thing is how many people don’t seem to “get” the innovations in this device, and how important they are. I can’t help wonder if the big mobile players - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Microsoft/HTC, etc. will understand […]
Stay tuned for live reaction to Steve Jobs’s keynote at address at Macworld…
Rumours ahead of the event include: launch of the iTV (will have new name), launch of the iPhone (will have new name), and launch of the widescreen video iPod; as well as various updates of models in the Mac range. […]