Technology archives
A Dark Cloud
If an external party can control when or how you can use a device or decide on what you can or cannot see, or select what programs you can install on it, are you still owning it?
Tags: Content, Copyright, Intellectual property, censorship, killswitch, ownership, rent
The Cloud Wars
The cloud wars will pick two camps against each others: on one side, advocates of applications running on the desktop; on the other advocates of applications running in a browser.
Tags: Access, Connectivity, Google, History, Internet, Microsoft, OS, ownership, rent
Is Ownership Passé?
In this first piece in a series, I look at ownership vs. renting, the result of a number of observations throughout the last few months.
Tags: Access, Apple, Connectivity, Content, Data, Internet, Media, Trends, amazon, kindle, netflix, ownership, rent
2009 Predictions: Hardware
Where I try to read the tea leaves and divine what new gadgets will be coming this year and the trends they will engender.
Tags: Computing, Connectivity, Content, Internet, Trends
Apple: Same value, lower price?
In this entry, I analyze the differences between the old MacBook Pro and the new MacBook, based on Steve Jobs' announcement that it was the same functionality for $700 less. Sometimes, one has to do the research to discover whether something is true or not.
Google unveils web-based OS
A product long rumored and whose very existence was long denied by Google itself finally launched: the Google browser, aka. Google Chrome. There are a number of things that are good and a few that leaves one scratching his head but ultimately, it is very clear that Google is working very hard to ensure that [...]
Tags: Advertising, Browser, Google, HTML, Internet Explorer, Microsoft, hybrid computing
