It's official (and somewhat obvious, really) -- cloud computing is on the rise. Tasks that used to be relegated to the desktop are finding new homes in the cloud, from document creation and media sharing, to running entire companies.
And with that...
The suffix "-ology denotes a field of study or academic discipline. Appleologists, as mentioned in Ars Technica, would therefore be people studying the field of Apple. Contrary to logic and belief, there are many who could fit this description.
As...
Predictions for 2008? Highlights of 2007? I'm sitting in Brighton, speculating about this. Candles are lit, the Christmas tree is still OK, although the needles are starting to moult quite rapidly. And it has roots, so we hope to plant it out in a fo...
Just to have some fun, here are some predictions by more or less famous people about all sorts of things. One thing this list teaches us is to be careful when saying "never"! When I wrote an article on the death of the PC, several people shot back at...
Three days of wonderful inspirational stuff at the Flash on the Beach conference has regrettably come to an end. As an aside, I got a beach towel and beach thongs, or flip-flops for the South African readers, in my free handout kit. It’s all of som...
An interesting article by an AP reporter talks about the decline in PC sales in Japan. It comes just a few days after a debate with some friends found us mulling over the same issue. My idea that the life of the PC was limited and that the computer a...
