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Minority Report: Why I am a Mac user

Comment The concept of taking delight in technology or the advocacy of the principles of sexy computing are central to the tenets of emotional design in technology and are scoffed at by some. Mac users are certainly not the only evangelists of computing...

Tags: leopard, iphone, mac, apple

[17 Apr 2008]

The CIO shopping list

Comment Bottom of the tech shopping list for CIOs this year are open source, grid/utility computing and RFID. Echoing the cool response by businesses to its launch, Microsoft's Windows Vista topped the list of most-hyped technologies in 2007 by a clear...

Tags: cio agenda, tech, agenda, list

[26 Mar 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 22.02.08

Round-Up Trustworthy computing. Like the Round-Up said: trustworthy computing. Ah yes, that’ll be trustworthy computing in action. The ambitious vision of the mobile's future even tops the effort that managed to get a text message to the top of Mount Everest.

Tags: facebook, ebay, sp1, vista

[22 Feb 2008]

The Weekly Round-Up: 15.02.08

Round-Up Bach added that the mobile is unlikely to replace the PC, but will rather be a general-purpose computing device. In a deafening cacophony of ringtones that could be heard from outer space (and underwater), handset vendors, mobile operators...

Tags: microsoft, mobile, green, mobile world congress

[15 Feb 2008]

Legal Eye: High Court's patent sense

Comment There will be some in the computing community who will always remain implacably opposed to all software patents, and will see the ruling as a move towards wider patent monopolies that stifle application development.

Tags: patent, high court, software, law

[13 Feb 2008]

Minority Report: 12 months that changed Apple

Comment This change of name had already happened in its marketing years ago but Apple was underlining its rise as a major player in markets other than computing: personal technology, media distribution and telecoms.

Tags: apple, mac, jobs, iphone

[21 Dec 2007]

Tech Visions: Wireless sale of the century

Comment But, money aside, the auction could initiate a new era of mobile computing. This event could turn out to be a defining moment for the future of mobile computing, says Silicon Valley-based Howard Greenfield.

Tags: mobile, spectrum, wireless, next generation

[17 Dec 2007]

Paul Otellini

AS Profile Another interesting innovation from the company in the past year is its work with Motion Computing to develop a tablet PC for clinicians. Launched back in February, the mobile clinical assistant could revolutionise patient care.

[12 Oct 2007]

Leader: Consumer tech is changing the enterprise

Leader So, you might say, he got to look at some cool gadgets and play a bit of blackjack - how's that relevant to enterprise computing exactly? The proliferation of ever more powerful mobile phones, PDAs and ultra-portable PCs combined with higher...

Tags: consumerisation

[11 Jan 2007]

Leader: Cisco riling Apple with Linksys iPhone?

Leader It's one of the questions that has been asked since the company announced its plans yesterday, seemingly treading on the toes of its Silicon Valley neighbour, a pioneer in personal computing and more recently digital music.

Tags: apple

[19 Dec 2006]

Unwired: The tiny screen problem

Comment As our converged devices have become smaller, tech vendors have been battling some weighty but very basic problems: computing power has been limited, battery life has been poor, keyboards have been small and difficult to use, and the screens as...

Tags: convergence, wi-fi, wimax

[12 Dec 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital divide? What digital divide?

Comment computing. I even know people who don't own a mobile phone. His presentation had been enlightening in terms of painting a picture of where we had come from, where we were and where we are going with IT and mobile working across numerous academic...

Tags: digital divide

[14 Nov 2006]

Unwired: Prepare for the next generation

Comment This trend is well established - a modern sales person sells, while a CRM package shoulders much of the admin burden; most research today is powered by Google, rather than hours in a library; scientists and mathematicians use PC computing power...

Tags: next generation, young people

[10 Oct 2006]

Paul Jacobs

AS Profile Paul Jacobs wins a spot on the Agenda Setters list for heading up a company that is to mobile computing what Microsoft is to the desktop - controversial, powerful, respected and reviled in equal measure.

[25 Sep 2006]

Stan Shih

AS Profile Acer's laptops take mobile computing to individuals who may not have been able to afford it previously - and not just in the third world. Why? Championing cheap laptops for the First World Stan Shih won his place on this year's top 50 for seeing...

[25 Sep 2006]

Quocirca's Straight Talking: Are you a windscreen or a fly?

Comment Utility computing - The consolidation of IT resources in turn adds weight to the utility model. Maybe network computing and thin clients bounced off the windscreen after all. Most of the mobile technology should be geared around providing IT...

Tags: convergence, consolidation, utility computing

[11 Aug 2006]

Leader: IT chiefs need mobile help

Leader Proof, if proof were needed, that mobile can no longer remain computing's poor cousin in perception or power. Out with last season's 'we're a mobile operator' look and in with some 'we're all IT now' garb.

Tags: mobile, convergence, pc

[12 Jul 2006]

Analysis: Intel's big push for convergence

Comment But it has been hard for Intel to transfer its expertise from computing to communications, according to Forward Concepts analyst Will Strauss. If Intel has decided to put the some of the communications businesses on the table, its new challenge is...

Tags: intel

[07 Jun 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: Education on the fly

Comment Then we are left to ponder and play until we discover where to apply the computing and networking power to best effect. We now have a far richer canvas of education at home, office and school, in fixed, temporary or mobile platforms.

Tags: education, networks, networking

[24 May 2006]

Peter Cochrane's Blog: More wireless equals more wires

Comment The inclusion of more intelligent computing power will allow the use and reuse of both the physical and frequency space even more efficiently so we can access more than 100-fold the bandwidth we enjoy today.

Tags: wireless internet, wi-fi

[04 May 2006]

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