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Ever since I bought my first PDA (a Palm III) back in the late 90s, I've used the kind of touchscreen which needs you to give it a slight press, typically with stylus but a finger will work just fine too. Apparently these are resistive touchscreens and work by having two thin transparent parallel sheets which are brought together by the
The analysts over at IDC reckon that 2010 is going to be a year of "recovery and transformation". On the recovery side, they're expecting global IT spending to increase by 3.2%, returning to 2008 levels but a large chunk of this spending is going to occur in the emerging markets of Brazil, Russia, India and China. But more interestingly, the transformation part is going
I, along with every other geek this week, have invariably heard about the new operating system to be produced by Google. I have read multiple articles and really haven't formed an opinion one way or the other about whether it will be good or not. My real concern is about the ability of any operating system to truly overtake Windows
First off I will say that I love the Mac OS and I love the Windows OS. (How about that for staying neutral?) Listeners to my Fogview Podcast know I switched to the Mac about six months ago when my main Windows XP computer died. I had an iMac that I was using for video editing and my photography work so I started using that for my daily work. I know there are a lot of Mac fan-boys out there but I’m not one of them. A computer is a computer and each type has it’s advantages and disadvantages. I enjoy using and learning about the Mac OS but I still do a lot of my work on my new Windows Vista machine.
It was reported earlier this week that HP is thinking of making it's own flavor of Operating System for their computers. They have been apparently having a hard time trying to get HP machines work well with Vista. According to Business Week, they have a team that simply builds fixes and updates that can and will circumvent certain aspects of
If you have Vista, or installed XP SP3, you might have seen some quirkiness out of Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. To counter, Microsoft has released a Service Pack for this Virtual environment. The Download is for x86 and x64 and are availablehere. Release Notes are foundhere.
It is possibly a blogging faux-pas to link to a blog entry on another site that links back to an entry on this site. Especially when I have written all 3 posts, but I expanded a little on my previous Sun post on BusinessGeek. I have gone more in depth into the Brand equity implications and a basic financial analysis of Sun’s ability to compete. If phrases like “Brand equity”, “Gross Margin” and “Cost of Sale” make you yawn reflexively, this article may not be your cup of tea.