Living in the Clouds
Us humans have walked the planet earth for over 200,000 years. In this time we have seen a stone age, bronze age, the industrial revolution and now we are entering a new age which is just as pivotal, what could be called the age of the cloud.
Keeping tabs
I practically live in my computer, but sort of ties you down at home or you got to lug around the laptop all over town. There are a host of tablet beings launched making the task of choosing one painful. So let’s flip it around, why not look at what I want my tablet to do and not do.
Thursday, June 30, 2011
Applications2Apps and Enterprise Ecosystems
Article first published as Applications2Apps and Enterprise Ecosystems on Technorati.Twenty years ago I remember standing in long queues at 5:30AM in the morning, with an application form in hand at the railway station waiting for the mainframe to churn out ticket availability. The Indian Railways is the fourth largest in the world and transports 30 million passengers every day. The system changed the way ticketing was done from manual registers to centralized ticketing. So I could choose the train service across different lines and not be restricted...
Friday, June 24, 2011
Keeping Tabs
I practically live in my computer, but sort of ties you down at home or you got to lug around the laptop all over town. Reading an ebook with the laptop on my chest can get pretty hot and heavy for all the wrong reasons and I almost need to redecorate my living room to hook it up with my sound system. So in 2009 I bought an HP Tablet PC in the hope that I could finally read my ebooks with a swipe, twist it around and voila, I got myself my good ol’laptop again. As I used it believe me wasn’t easy reading on travel with a backlit display and the...