technology & business musings
There was a great article on ConsumerReports.org regarding a house in Georgia USA being demolished in error: GPS blamed for home demolition. The gist of the story is that a demolition crew razed the wrong house in error and later “indicated that the GPS coordinates led them to that address and the house matched the [...]
It has been a while since I have been actively involved in mobile services since I started Six Figures - the online job and career site for Executive and Senior Professionals a couple of years ago. However, since mobile applications (in particular location-based services) have been the dominant theme of my career to date, I [...]
If you’re immersed in Web 2.0 applications and terminology, then take a look at this light-hearted view of how the phenomenon could affect your local supermarket.
Widgets – little self-contained applications that can be placed on a web page – are proliferating with the rise in online blogging, portals and social networking sites that have opened up their platforms (e.g. Facebook). Widgets effectively operate in a symbiotic relationship with the site or platform they sit on, each helping the other drive [...]
Ever since virtual reality simulators and the movie Minority Report appeared, we have been tantalised with the possibilities of human-computer interfaces beyond the keyboard, drawing tablet and screen. From recent events, it seems that at least one of these new types of interfaces is coming of age: the multi-touch screen. In general, a multi-touch screen [...]
