Twitter on Ulitzer
Have we reached the point where email’s influence over our electronic lives
is waning? It is hard to imagine, especially for those of us who grew up in
the minicomputer/PC era. For two generations, email was the killer
application. It delivered information reliably and within a few minutes.
But today the properties that made email so attractive for so long are now a
liabiliity. “A few minutes” for a response is so last year, driven in no
small part by texting and cell phone ubiquity. At the same time this was
happening, wikis, blogs and social networks have begun to erode email’s
document exchange role. The notion of sharing photos or a slide presentation
using email attachments is becoming quaint.
Now, the Internets have gotten faster, and seconds matter. Amazon offers
same-day deliveries in a few cities. Motorola’s new Cliq Android phone
aggregat... (more)
Dell News On Ulitzer
This week I begin a new series of video screencasts for Dell’s IT Expert
Voice Web site. The site has all sorts of useful information for corporate IT
folks that are interested in migrating and using Windows 7, and my humble
part will be to produce a regular series of videos similar to what I have
been doing on my own over at WebInformant.tv. Do check out this video which
talks about the differences between Windows 7 and earlier versions when it
comes to networking controls.
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iPad on Ulitzer
Pardon me for adding yet another iPad analysis (certainly, when a computer
product launch makes it into Doonesbury, we have crossed a new threshold of
hype), but one thing actually missing from the copious words and videos on
yesterday's event at Moscone was the simple fact that we have a new browser
war on our hands, and it isn't a pretty sight.
The browser wars of yesteryear between Microsoft and Netscape seem so quaint.
(And look what happened to Netsacpe, too.) Today it is all about Adobe Flash
versus the multi-touch swipe technology that is part of Apple's pr... (more)
So the big news last week was the latest “occupation” for Barbie is a
computer engineer, whatever that means (I guess let the perennial hardware
versus software debates begin). Maybe it is time to retire that “math class
is hard” speech chip once and for all and replace it with some often-used
Linux shell commands. Or maybe this should be a lesson for our daughters:
persevere past the polynomials, and you too can code. Or design circuits.
Personally, I am glad to seek Geek Barbie, with her hot pink netbook and
matching Bluetooth headset. (And what is up with all the different Blue... (more)
Today Cisco announced the winners of its AXP contest. If you haven’t heard
of the contest before, you aren’t alone. It was an interesting combination
of people, places and events. The goal was to design an application for a
relatively new add-on module to Cisco routers called Application eXtension
Platform (AXP), a Linux “blade” that allows third-party applications to
be integrated with Cisco’s IOS router operating system and network
applications. It has its own CPU and can store from 1 GB to 160 GB of data,
depending on the model. Here is a more details Q&A about the AXP.
Earli... (more)
David Strom is an international authority on network and Internet technologies. He has written extensively on the topic for 20 years for a wide variety of print publications and websites, such as The New York Times, TechTarget.com, PC Week/eWeek, Internet.com, Network World, Infoworld, Computerworld, Small Business Computing, Communications Week, Windows Sources, c|net and news.com, Web Review, Tom's Hardware, EETimes, and many others.
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