Gartner to DBAs, BI vendors: Time to reinvent yourselves by ZDNet‘s David Berlind — As long as the reach, bandwidth, and targeting of networking technologies — particularly the wireless kind — continues to improve on a nearly Moore’s Law like pace, relational database management systems as we know them may eventually be a thing of [...]
Christopher Caldwell has a thought provoking — some may find it even disturbing — piece in NYTimes today about how many ways to live in the virtual world may take human species to the next level. It is not only about virtual reality but also about simple low tech that we use to live in [...]
With the increasing popularity of video on the Web, an interesting new business and service is emerging. This report in NYT describes this business. Directors submit their films, which are then posted on the Web site (www.indieflix.com). When users log on and click to buy the films that capture their interest, IndieFlix burns them onto [...]
According to all reports, the technology for video and TV on mobile phones is rapidly gaining in popularity. The competition in this area is increasing very rapidly. A business week article describes this situation very well. It appears to me that video on mobile phones will really play a more important role in telepresence like [...]
Everybody wants to be Google of Something. And why not? Google is so successful — even today its shares jumped up by about 10% to an unbelievable number — compared to any other company in the space. So I was not surprised when I read — via John Battelle’s blog – in Chicago Tribune that [...]