Archive for January, 2008
Sounding something like Harry Potter’s Nimbus 2000, Cisco has released the Nexus 7000, a big honkin’ switch, according to an article in the Register. The switch will handle more than your average “physical world” switch, says the report:
But for this new incarnation of Cisco gear, the company is clearly focused on virtualization. The Nexus [...]
Wired has run an AP Newswire story on its blog talking about the future of RFID chips, and some of the potential downsides of them.
A seamless, global network of electronic “sniffers” will scan radio tags in myriad public settings, identifying people and their tastes instantly so that customized ads, “live spam,” may be beamed [...]
Mobile applications are more important than ever before. Mashable posted this resource showing seven places to get BlackBerry applications, skins, and resources.
Currently, the top apps on my BlackBerry Curve are Google Mobile applications, and then a few bookmarked browser pages, like Twitter mobile. I don’t edit docs on my BlackBerry, and only occasionally read [...]
Looking for ways to put time back in your day? How about transferring some of the documents you have to read into MP3 files, throwing them on your portable player, and listening to them while you take a walk? New service VozMe makes it easy to do this. Though the voice isn’t especially good, it’s [...]
Enterprise technologists are getting closer to understanding and accepting the notions behind cloud computing. In this blog post, the folks at the FAST Forward blog point to an article about collective intelligence, cloud computing, and networked knowledge work.
What’s happened over the past few years is that people writing web applications have found ways to [...]
My RSS reader of choice is Google Reader, because it’s fast, flexible, and has lots of great sharing features. Mashable reports today that Google silently threw in more new features, including some new keyboard commands.
Stay tuned. In a week or two, we’ll throw up a “how to use Google Reader” screencast to get you [...]
