Looks like the iPhone had better bring its game face to WWDC and OS 3.0, because the Pre isn’t kidding around. It gets high marks for its WebOS, which allows real app multitasking, and reviewers unanimously praise its OS speed, browser, screen and overall user interface/experience. It gets nicked for a fairly poor keyboard, some
Read More...DigiTimes reports that Steven Guggenheimer, General Manager of the Application Platform & Development Marketing Division at Microsoft, plans to re-brand “netbooks” as “low cost small notebook PCs”. Guggenheimer pointed out on June 2 in Taipei during Computex 2009 that since some of the mini-notebooks already feature capabilities more than just purely Internet browsing – which
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani has some interesting ideas about how ERP vendors could be truly disruptive and create thriving, adjunct markets around the concept of sustainability. There’s a truism underpinning Mirchandani’s post, which I have mirrored in its entirety below. The truism is that sustainability and energy science is one of the emerging, global, multi-billion dollar industries
Read More...Community backlash is building against a routine .NET Framework update for Microsoft Windows that quietly installs a browser add-on for user who surf the Web with Mozilla’s popular Firefox browser. From WaPo’s Brian Krebs: I’m here to report a small side effect from installing this service pack that I was not aware of until just
Read More...Lot of interesting things going on this week that can’t get their own blog post, but nonetheless are worth checking out. Enjoy. Jon Rubinstein and Roger McNamee interviewed at D7 about the reinvention of Palm and the buzz surrounding the Palm Pre. Lots of conference notes here, but the video demo of the latest Pre
Read More...I know several people who acutely suffer from this affliction. (Via teh tumblr)
Read More...If you’ll indulge me a moment: our firm has become a noted authority on the PeopleSoft Asset Lifecycle Management (ALM) solution suite, particularly along the Maintenance Management (MM) and Real Estate Management (REM) lines. (Our own PeopleSoft Maintenance Management whitepaper is a popular download.) It’s in this context that I’m going to recommend Joshua Greenbaum’s
Read More...This Atlantic article by Jonathan Rauch is over six years old, but it’s one of the only magazine pieces I have read that liberates me from sometimes feeling like a complete misanthrope. Oh, for years I denied it. After all, I have good social skills. I am not morose or misanthropic. Usually. I am far
Read More...Vinnie Mirchandani, writing about the cost of storage and how we should reduce email, nails what I’ve been thinking about for the past year: that today’s email is becoming marginalized and relegated to the dark corner of the internet reserved for full-on time-wasters. There’s a reason so many productivity gurus (Marc Andreessen, David Allen, Merlin
Read More...“There is something infinitely touching when an artist, in old age, takes on simplicity. The artist is saying: display and bravura are tricks for the young, and yes, showing off is part of ambition; but now that we are old, let us have the confidence to speak simply.” —Author Julian Barnes (Via Signal vs. Noise)
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