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iCloud is Awesome Yet Incomplete
After its release to developers at WWDC, the Apple iCloud is now available to all consumers today with access to iOS 5. In many ways, it is incredible that millions will have access to the consumer power of the cloud. But then again, it’s incomplete when compared to the best-in-breed cloud apps and services of today. Will that make a difference in consumer acceptance? Let’s see. Continue reading
Cutting through Cloud Clutter: Windows Live Messenger and the GPU
How do you use the cloud? We asked this question back in August as part of our VMworld Pinning Down the Cloud contest, and let you vote on the best answer. Finalist Kim Echon responded (with 25.53% of the vote): … Continue reading
The HTC EVO 4G Smartphone Signals Our Tech Future
The old days of annual phone announcements are gone forever. I say good riddance, because it was boring. A week doesn’t go by without another smartphone announcement, and this is exciting not just for the consumer, but also for the … Continue reading
The iPad and Personal Video Cloud
When most tech people hear the word “cloud” they think of the apps and data in some massive data center that feeds consumers social media apps like Facebook, YouTube, and Flickr. Ironically, I hear very little about the “personal cloud”. … Continue reading
Eating the Android Donut on the Archos 5 Internet Tablet
A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Archos 5 Internet Tablet (IT) with the Google Android operating system. As a refresher, the Archos 5 IT is a 5″ personal media player for videos, music and pictures but can also … Continue reading
Final Thoughts on MIDs versus PCs (Part 8)
This is the final part in an eight part series where I look at emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) technology and predict whether or not MIDs may displace netbooks and notebooks in the future. Check out the introduction, and part 2 (where … Continue reading
Extremist’s View of Why MIDs are little threat to PCs (Part 3)
This is part three in an eight part series where I look at emerging Mobile Internet Device (MID) technology and predict whether or not MIDs may displace netbooks and notebooks in the future. Check out the introduction here, and part … Continue reading
Extremist’s View of Why MIDs will Inherit the Earth (Part 2)
This is Part 2 in an eight part series where I look at emerging technology and predict whether or not MIDs will displace netbooks and notebooks in the future. Check out the introduction here. Here in part 2, I take … Continue reading
Will MIDs and UMPCs Inherit the Earth? (Part 1 Introduction)
For months now, I have talked with some of the top tech industry pundits as they debate whether or not MIDs1 and UMPCs have the potential to make notebooks and netbooks obsolete. This is a fun discussion that generates page … Continue reading
Virtual Purgatory on the Path to the Cloud?
Some of today’s most popular applications, including enterprise email applications and web browsers, threaten to condemn users to “virtual Purgatory.” A leap to a complete and fully integrated Cloud may avoid virtual Purgatory. Continue reading
