Archives for May 2008
Up until today, one of the criticisms of Android was that the “desktop” looked really clunky. That’s all changed. It’s looking much sleeker now. Check out what are the first demos of the new-look Android.
OK - so you’ve checked out the demos. Welcome back! What were your first reactions when watching them? Mine were (in [...]
Ten years ago, it was obvious that as soon as consumers had enough bandwidth coming into their homes, broadcast media would start to die. In the last few years, that threshold has been crossed as home broadband speeds reached 2Mbps, 8Mbps, and now 20+Mbps. In parallel with the development of broadband technology, early adopters started [...]
Details of Apple’s new 3G iPhone are starting to emerge, ahead of the presumed launch at the Apple World Wide Developer Conference that’s coming up in June. Australia’s ChannelNews is reporting that, by Christmas this year, the 3G iPhone will provide web access at speeds of 42Mbps.
I’ll believe it when I see it. Or rather, [...]
Yesterday, I upgraded my desktop virtualization software, xVM VirtualBox, to the new version - 1.6 - on my Vista laptop. This is the first release of VirtualBox since being acquired by Sun Microsystems. I can report that the upgrade went smoothly - my old Guest OS virtual machines migrated without any problems; and the [...]
By now, I’m sure you’ve read all about Microsoft’s announcement of “Live Search Cash Back” - an all-new offering in the vertical search market of commerce a.k.a. “when people do on-line searches to find products they’re looking to buy.” Bill Gates has just been talking about it at Advance08. You can watch some video of [...]
In the last five to ten years, free and open source software (FOSS) has made a huge impact inside corporations (a.k.a. “the enterprise”). However, there are still many companies that haven’t yet realised the benefits that FOSS can bring. In what will be an occasional series of blog posts, I’m going illustrate some of these [...]
Jason Calacanis, CEO of Mahalo, has a great post about advertising failing on Social Networking sites. He poses the question: what should social networking sites do to monetize their huge traffic? Have I got the definitive answer? Possibly not! In fact, I can tell you that we’re not working on social networking, precisely because I’m [...]
If you weren’t following the various Java announcements at JavaOne 2008 last week, the following discussion between Jonathan Schwartz and Rich Green gives not only a really great overview, bit also gives some visibility about the ambition that Sun’s senior management have for the “new Java”. Enjoy…
Powerset, a start-up search company focused on so-called “natural language search” is now open for business (see Techcrunch story). So far, you can search only the content on Wikipedia. There’s a reason for that: the Powerset technology doesn’t simply index content by keyword; rather, it runs more computationally intensive software that attempts to figure out [...]
Techcrunch is reporting that a $150M venture fund aimed at Blackberry developers, will be launched on Monday (update: it’s now launched). It’s a clear response to the $100M iPhone fund that was recently launched by Apple and Kleiner-Perkins. Taken together, that means that there’s a quarter of a billion dollars of venture capital available for [...]