This has been clearly coming — some start-up companies tried it with limited success. But now Google unleashes Goggles to point to interesting things using your mobile phone and find information about real world objects from cyberspace. A kind of connecting part of real world to cyberspace. See http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/business/20ping.html?_r=1&sudsredirect=true. I think this is the beginning [...]
In a very interesting article in Forbes Newsletter, Andrew McAffee says: And at the risk of oversimplifying and engaging in occupational profiling, geeks like complexity. They like the challenge of fitting a lot into a little, and they also like using the end products that they and their peers at other companies come up with. [...]
I was pretty impressed by Eye-Fi when first I found it and used. I have been using it. There are two problems with it, but I have continued using it because the advantage is better than the problem. The problems — it reduces battery life significantly and open and free Wi-Fi is not available at [...]
NYT has an article by Vikas Bajaj on Innovations in India — or lack thereof — and the reasons behind it. In fact what is written here about India is true for many countries as very correctly stated there: India is held back by a financial system that is reluctant to invest in unproven ideas, [...]
Pete Cashmore lists top 10 trends on CNN (Thanks Suzi for pointing thisw). The top 5 are Real Time, Location, Augmented Reality, Content Curation, and Cloud. Interesting list — who would have thought that Real Time will be at the top of the list just 2 years ago! I think in the list, real time [...]