What does Apple’s latest purchase mean?

I don't think anyone outside of the flash memory team had ever heard of Anobit before this week

Recently, Apple announced their purchase of Israeli flash memory producer, Anobit. The proposed purchase would be $500M (just a drop in the bucket of their $81B cash reserves). However, this purchase has long-reaching implications on not only their mobile/tablet portfolio, but also their computing capabilities. Mobile/Tablet Implications Apple has long insisted that removeable media was unnecessary, and have kept it out of their products. However, … [Read more...]

What will your Laptop will look like in 2015?

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CIO magazine recently published a great review of laptop technologies titled "Meet the Laptop You'l Use in 2015" (available here: article). With this post I'll provide a review of that article and insert some thoughts from a technology early adopter and disruptive IT analyst.   First some concepts from the CIO Magazine article: The Slider Much like a sliding cellphone, this laptop is two OLED (organic light emitting diode) displays that slide … [Read more...]

The Future of Cyberspace Security: The Law of The Rodeo

This is an update of my now annual assessment of the future of technology associated with good and evil in cyberspace which was first posted here. Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction, with powerful computing grids giving incredible computational power to users and with autonomous robots becoming closer and closer to being in our daily lives vice just in computer science departments. … [Read more...]

Good and Evil in the Future of Cyberspace

Predictions of the future of technology are increasingly starting to sound like science fiction.   Depending on your point of view that can be good or bad.  As for me, I'm an optimist, and I know we humans will find a way to ensure technology serves our best interests. But a sad fact of the human condition is that bad people will likely be with us long into the future.  And sometimes good people can be tempted to do bad things, so we really need to … [Read more...]