A Laptop that can be Rolled-Up, Other Flexible Bendable Displays - Reviews by ExtremeTech. Mobile technology is getting too powerful for its britches. The pocket-sized devices of today have surpassed the desktop units of only a few years ago. Unfortunately, with all this portable computing power at hand, we are still only able to interact with our mobile computers via relatively small, static interfaces. Remember processing video on your desktop in the late 1990s? Well, now the smartphone in your pocket has sprinted ahead in terms of speed and resolution, but only has a 4-inch screen to showcase it all. So much computing fury with so little to show for it.
Some manufacturers are working on ways to project your portable device’s screen, but this is not an ideal solution: You are at the whim of the physical environment around you—it would be difficult to use when your surrounded by trees and grass, for example; the clarity of the image will suffer via the process of projection; and your “screen” is subject to the lookieloos of the world. The tech here is promising, but raw. The quality of allusion is not google.
« Media's medium | Main | Short is the new long » January 15, 2011 Last Saturday, Adam Kirsch, the talented TNR penman, accomplished a rare feat. His cherry-scented byline marked the pages of both the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. In the Times piece, he tied the Congressional whitewashing of the Constitution to the latest attempt to give poor old Huck Finn a thorough scrubbing. Upshot: "To believe that American institutions were ever perfect makes it too easy to believe that they are perfect now. Which brings us to the Journal column, titled, promisingly, "Literary Allusion in the Age of Google. " The piece begins well, as things that go agley so often do. It is almost impossible to be confident that your audience knows the same books you do. No need to fret, though. In the last decade or so, however, a major new factor has changed this calculus. Reader, rejoice! Kirsch says that T. And what if excess of loveBewildered them till they died?
Or, worse yet, a hyperlink: Mr. Mr. Should employees buy their own computers? 14 January 2011Last updated at 00:01 By Fiona Graham Technology of business reporter, BBC News Carry out: Bring your own computer (BYOC) may not seem quite as attractive as bring your own bottle (BYOB), but could it be the future for IT provisioning? You are at work. Your computer is five years old, runs Windows XP. Your company phone has a tiny screen and doesn't know what the internet is. Idling at home are a snazzy super-fast laptop, and your own smartphone is barred from accessing work e-mail. There's a reason for that: IT provisioning is an expensive business. Companies can struggle to keep up with the constant rate of technological change. So what if you let your staff use their own equipment? Global law firm SNR Denton is in the process of rolling out a remote access system. "If you wanted to use more than e-mail you needed a company laptop," he says.
"The old environment was very support heavy, so we can use our support staff to do other critical work without getting sidetracked. " Curation - The Third Web Frontier. Posted by Guest Writer - January 8, 2011 Here is a guest article by Partice Lamothe - CEO of Pearltrees (Pearltrees is a consulting client of SVW.) This is a lightly edited version of "La troisième frontière du Web" that appeared in the magazine OWNI - Digital Journalism - March 2010. The article argues that the founding pricinciples of the Internet are only now being implemented and that the next frontier is in organizing, or curating, the Internet. By Patrice Lamothe Everyone realizes that the web is entering a new phase in its development. One indication of this transition is the proliferation of attempts to explain the changes that are occurring.
Although these explanations are both pertinent and intriguing, none of them offers an analytical matrix for assessing the developments that are now underway. The "real time web," for example, is one of the clearest and most influential trends right now. In contrast, other explanations are far too broad to serve any useful purpose. 10 European Startups To Watch in 2011. When you hear Silicon Valley discuss the European startup scene it’s often negatively. Some say that the investors aren’t brave enough, some say the entrepreneurs aren’t bold enough. Whether there’s any truth in these accusations or not, the fact is that there are startups across Europe that are brimming with original ideas and creativity. Following on from our 10 Exciting European Startups from 2010, here are 10 startups to look out for in 2011.
Pearltrees Visitors to the LeWeb conference last month couldn’t have failed to spot Pearltrees. The French startup had a stand large enough to rival tech heavyweights like Google and Zynga. Pearltrees makes organising groups of links to content incredibly easy. Recent additions to the service include real-time group collaboration and a touch-screen based interface which will be ported to the iPad soon. Planely The idea behind Planely is a certainly niche one, but the Danish startup could well be onto something that frequent air travellers will love. 2011 Tech Predictions: Cloud Computing, Tablets and Social Communications Top the List. With only two months left to run in 2010, the first slew of predictions of the top technologies named by Gartner have arrived. While social computing, cloud computing and mobile applications make the list, so do the less glamorous areas of storage and analytics.
Devised over the course of Gartner’s Symposium/ITxpo earlier this month, strategic technologies are those technologies that will have “significant impact” on the enterprise over the next three years. Whether that impact is on IT or business operations, companies need to invest or they risk being left behind by their competitors. And what should companies do with Gartner’s list? Whether companies decide to ignore the technologies on it, continue investing in them or aggressively deploy them is a matter for individual companies decide. Gartner says that one thing companies do need to do however, is asses the technologies in terms of strategic goals and then decide what to do. So here’s the list as they appear on the Gartner list: Ovum predicts top tech issues for 2011. Security, cloud services and sustainability will be three of the most important strategies in enterprise IT in 2011, according to Ovum. In a seasonal crystal-ball gazing report, the analyst firm has been listing its top ten trends for 2011.
Ovum lead analyst Mark Blowers also named mobility, data management and data centre transformation as significant developments for the coming year. Rounding off the list were business analytics, collaboration, IT financial management, and context-aware computing. “These are the key trends that will define the IT landscape for CIOs in 2011,” said Blowers. “If CIOs do not have a strategy for how they intend to take advantage of the opportunities they provide, and deal with the challenges they bring, then they should form one as an urgent priority.”
He said the trends provided both opportunities and challenges, especially in the case of security which should remain high on the agenda.