William Gibson told us “The future is here, it just isn’t evenly distributed yet.” Chief Technology Officers play a key role in distributing the future and accelerating the positive benefits of technology widely.
In mid February, Notion Ink released completed specs on their Adam tablet (here). It did not receive the attention that Steve Jobs did with the Apple iPad, but in my estimation it is the far superior device. Apple has the ecosystem to back their products with a large application catalog. Apple also has...
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The clip below is Larry Ellison giving some context on the Oracle Acquisition of Sun. His mantra: complete, integrated, focused on business value for customers.
I have more context and opinions coming in a follow-on post.
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In my earlier post, when I railed against the iPad, it was mostly personal disappointment and letdown. I was disappointed by the technical specs, most notably the aspect ratio, and the exclusion of USB, HDMI, and webcams. Those items can all be added on in later iterations (which I firmly believe they will –...
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WOW. What a letdown. I can not believe that this was the subject of endless hype. Here are the quick stats (if you haven’t found them somewhere else).
A4 1GHz Processor
16GB ($499), 32GB ($599), or 64GB ($699) Flash Memory
WI-FI enabled, 3G for $129.99
iPhone OS 4
20 Pin Apple Interface
1024×768 Capacitive Touchscreen
Alleged 10 hour battery (with WiFi...
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On 21 January 2010 Secretary of State Clinton delivered a speech on the topic of Internet Freedom.
This is a very good presentation of policy worth a complete read by all, but I looked through it for statements indicating what we technologists should focus on. I tried to find the phrases indicating...
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Recently I read a blog from the BITS (Business Innovation Technology Society) blog of the NYTimes entitled “The Desktop: It’s Alive!” I found this to be a very good read, both informative and thought provoking. Now I am not sure it is fully alive, but rather in a zombie-esque state. I say zombie because...
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The Apple iTablet or iSlate is due to be shown off to the world January 27th, and unleashed on us sometime in March. The blogosphere has been buzzing about the topic. Joe Wilcox of BetaNews.com said “The world doesn’t need an Apple Tablet, or any other” (full post here). MG of TechCrunch followed up...
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Most enterprise technologists should see a continued payoff of the hard work in planning, architecture, documentation, development and configuration work that has been occurring over the last several years. Enterprise technologists were building Service Oriented Architectures (SOA) long before SOA was over-hyped. And most enterprise technologists I know were investigating constructs of scalable, elastic...
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2010 will bring a load of new gadgets, technology, and advancements for consumers and enterprises alike. Microsoft is releasing Office 2010, Apple is releasing their new Tablet (iTablet), NVIDIA is releasing their “GeForce 3XX” series of graphics cards, SSD’s will be (hopefully) affordable, and Sprint should have a 4G/3G phone.
Office 2010 – with the...
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SpaceCurve is a new database technology. Their approach was designed to make indexing of geospatial polygon data effortless and so fast it is done in real-time (or “cyber time” as some of my friends have taken to saying). They do this by use of compute clusters that can scale from small to Internet-scale.
The benefit...
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