Tech Replublic has the “First Look: 2Go Classmate PC laptop“. I’m not suggesting anyone would use this for business, but it shows how the ultra portable PC market is growing right now. Call them Ultra-mobiles, UMPCs or Netbooks, the fact is they are almost more of a buzz that a certain vendor with a logo like [...]

I don’t often put a “?” and a “!” in a post title, but today deserves it, mostly because of this post on WebGuild. I like the thinking (shown in a nice diagram) that makes a continuum from on premise to SaaS (Software as a service, not a misspelling of the airline). Licensing runs from traditional perpetual [...]

There is a fair amount of chatter in the Blogosphere about an apparent shift in Nokia’s VoIP strategy – take this one from GIGAOM: “No VoIP In New Nokia N-Series Phones? Is Nokia Turning Its Back on MobileVoIP?” Nokia has been pushing the envelope on the Fixed-Mobile Convergence front for quite a whole. For those [...]

Just about everything in the tech space is being sprinkled with a bit of ‘cloud’ magic right now. Anyone with a data center product, hosted application or storage service is sliding it under the ‘cloud’ umbrella. It is somewhat ironic, given the recent Amazon outages, but there is no doubting that cloud computing is hot. [...]

This little chap fell out of his nest outside of my office. He was ok, but it got me thinking about a long piece on Twitter over at The Go West blog…