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2005 Predictions

January 3, 2005

Another year, another round of pre­dic­tions. As is now becom­ing cus­tom­ary on TNL.net, it’s time to project out the future year. As always, I’ll revisit those pre­dic­tions at the end of the year. Voice Over IP VoIP expe­ri­enced tremen­dous growth in 2004 but it was just the begin­ning. This year, much more will hap­pen in that space. Cable […]

2004 predictions: Recap

December 26, 2004

With the end of the year upon us, it’s time to do a quick san­ity check on how well I did on last year’s pre­dic­tions. Apple Scored well on the intro­duc­tion of the Apple mini, which rep­re­sents Apple’s entry into the lower end mar­ket. How­ever, no video iPod this year, only a photo one, leav­ing Apple far, far, […]

Blurring the line: Google Desktop

October 14, 2004

Today, Google unveiled a new appli­ca­tion that allows you to search your desk­top, blur­ring the lines between desk­tops and the web. This is yet another exam­ple of what I call hybrid com­put­ing, the new class of soft­ware that can be aug­mented through web use. It also has stag­ger­ing impli­ca­tions for a lot of play­ers. Microsoft Of course, everyone […]

Modular by Design — Telephony

August 12, 2004

Another area where the mod­u­lar approach is start­ing to have an impact is in the tele­phone ser­vice arena. Tra­di­tion­ally, tele­phone ser­vice was offered on a land line and was divided into local ser­vice, long dis­tance, and extra fea­tures like caller ID, call for­ward­ing, etc… The model was pred­i­cated on the con­cept of one device (the phone) receiving […]

OSX 10.4 preview: hits and misses

June 28, 2004

As it the case every year, the atten­tion of the Mac world focused on the Apple World Wide Devel­oper Con­fer­ence with high hopes for new prod­ucts and excit­ing new devel­op­ment from a com­pany that has man­aged to show­case a high cool fac­tor while remain­ing one of the small­est play­ers in the com­put­ing field. The news of ban­ners poking […]

2004 Predictions

January 2, 2004

With a new year start­ing, it’s time to jump back in the water and make a few pre­dic­tions as to what’s com­ing next. I sus­pect 2004 is going to be a big year in tech­nol­ogy and here are some pre­dic­tions for the com­ing year. Apple Apple will come out with a new lower-powered, lower-cost ver­sion of the iPod. The idea here […]

Disruptive Technology

April 22, 2003

Bright­hand reports about a new piece of soft­ware that allows to make calls using a Pocket PC and a Wi-Fi card. This is an inter­est­ing devel­op­ment that could turn Wi-Fi into a very dis­rup­tive tech­nol­ogy for the mobile phone indus­try and may explain why com­pa­nies like T-mobile are plac­ing bets on the phe­nom­e­non, cov­er­ing them­selves in case other revenues […]

Cisco acquires Linksys

March 20, 2003

Today’s announce­ment about Cisco’s acqui­si­tion of Linksys is one that leaves me scratch­ing my head a lit­tle. What is the logic behind this? Could this rep­re­sent a change in Cisco’s strat­egy? Or is it a real­iza­tion in the part of the net­work­ing equip­ment ven­dor that its future may not be enhanced by mov­ing into the now heav­ily depressed […]