Archives for October 2008
Cloud computing is currently one of the hottest areas in technology. In recent days, we’ve seen new cloud computing announcements from both Amazon (with upgrades to its EC2 computing platform) and Rackspace (who announced some acquisitions, and a whole new offering going forward). Google is in the market already with its App Engine platform. Today, [...]
It’s crunch-time for Java as a Rich Internet Application (RIA) platform. With its innovative applet technology, Java was the first ever RIA platform in the mid 1990s. However, Java Applets simply never delivered on their promise. While other RIA technologies, such as Flash and JavaScript have made up huge ground over the last decade, and [...]
On the surface, RIM’s new touchscreen phone the Blackberry Storm is essentially a copy of Apple’s iPhone. If that’s all it was, RIM would be destined to play second fiddle to Apple in the high-end phone world. However, early indications are that RIM (and it’s hardware partner Synaptics) may actually have out-innovated Apple in a [...]
Techcrunch has a copy of a 56-slide PowerPoint presentation that Sequoia Capital, one of the world’s most highly-regarded venture capital groups, just gave to their portfolio companies. Fifty six slides! Given how many presentations these guys sit though, it’s kind of shocking they would inflict that number of slides on anyone ;-) Take a look [...]
And in other news, to reward the simply fantastic recent achievements of bankers everywhere, it has been estimated (by the Centre for Economics and Business Research) that the City of London as a whole will be paying out bonuses of around £3.5B this year. Good job, everyone! Well done! Keep up the good work!
Back in August, I asked why Apple was persisting with its iPhone Developer NDA. I said that they’d have to drop it, because it was actively causing harm to iPhone developers, and thus to iPhone customers. Responders in the comments told me that I didn’t understand Apple, or its priorities; and that it wasn’t an [...]