Your parents remember the good old days! dating was called “courting” or “spooning” then, dates were had at the corner malt shop, everybody said “swell!” and “gee whiz!”, and your primary means of communication was the telephone. Voice only. the kind connected with wires. Dating in the 21st century has changed drastically. If you’re single [...]
To continue our look at technology companies which, if they were people, could have won a Darwin Award, here’s the other five. These aren’t companies that just plain lost the game fair and square, even if they gave it their best shot. These are companies which should have been winners, but did a really great [...]
“Our ship is broken. Can you make it go?” – the Pakleds, Star Trek the Next Generation, episode ‘Samaritan Snare’ Every now and then in our exciting world of technology, we pause amidst the rapid pace of change to notice those technology innovations that don’t seem to catch up. The what-ifs, the might-have-beens, and the [...]
Well, we’ve all been hanging this year on the global financial news, and boy, is it discouraging! The market is imploding over in the United States, the United Kingdom doesn’t seem to be far behind, and in every country the world over, the economic flu spreads and claims another business every day. In case [...]
What with less processing power than a comparable desktop machine and limited battery life, you don’t want the web browser to hog all the system resources. Especially since the web browser will be the most-used application on your system. By definition, we will pass over the two most resource-hungry browsers – Internet Explorer and Firefox [...]
There’s a society in our future. The bright, glistening future! Full of crystal spires and togas, and ivory tower experts, building a castle in the clouds. It’s coming! Any day now! Bloody oath, it’s true! Yeah, and I’m a bunyip. The semantic web has long been a vision in the eye of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, [...]
We’re of course talking about Google Android! Not to be confused with whimsical characters such as ‘Data’ from ‘Star Trek the Next Generation’, Google Android is the new open source operating system and software platform for mobile phones. Google has enjoyed the kind of celebrity and popularity across the World Wide Web that makes people [...]
There probably isn’t a mobile device user alive who hasn’t at least visited a Google search page in their time. Google is famous for search and a number of their products, including Google maps, GMail, and their new Chrome web browser get almost unlimited buzz around the blog rings. But it’s quite interesting to discover [...]
When they come out with some new technology, first there’s the flurry of attention as academics and scholars debate how to best use it for the noblest possible purpose. Lots of going back and forth happens over the most efficient way to use the new tech. While the Ivory Tower theoreticians go on for months [...]
The first thing to understand about the Digital Age and the home computing revolution was that it was all one big accident. Actually, it was more like a series of little accidents. With other inventions, like cars or washing machines or bread, we had a good idea of what we wanted and just needed [...]
