Steve on July 19th, 2010

I have been using a LiveScribe Pulse SmartPen for several months and it is a very useful device for keeping my notebooks in digital form without the need scan every page. It also means I can have multiple notebooks for home, office and travel and never worry about forgetting to transport them. A couple of [...]

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The Apple WWDC (World Wide Developers Conference) is underway at the time of posting. The highly anticipated new iPhone has been announced with confirmation of some of the details already in the blogosphere and also some pleasant surprises not previously uncovered. iOS 4 Highlights, in addition, to those already announced: Name change from iPhone OS4 [...]

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Steve on January 28th, 2010

The Apple iPad is finally here with a custom 1GHz processor, HD ready display and multi-touch screen in a very clean uncluttered form-factor. The Apple iPad has a decent 10-hour battery life which will make it useful for reading books, documents and watching movies. The charge-daily mantra of the iPhone is well established so the [...]

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A recent Mashable.com article highlights Google Wave use-cases from the labs of various software companies including, most notably from an enterprise perspective, SAP, SalesForce.com and ThoughtWorks. http://mashable.com/2009/11/14/google-wave-use-cases/ Business process modelling, customer service management and project collaboration are interesting innovations if they make it out of the lab and into the enterprises that use SAP, SalesForce [...]

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Barrelfish is a research project being jointly undertaken by ETH Zurich and Microsoft Research Cambridge to develop an operating system that can scale across many processor cores. The issue with current operating systems is that they only scale to a few high speed cores because the fundamental design over the last thirty years have focused [...]

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