IT Sees Beyond ASP Crash
From: InternetWeek: “What will separate the winners from the losers going forward will be the integration of this buffet. Which company will be able to connect a company’s travel and entertainment application with HR? And what about CRM with general ledger?”
1GB Storage device
ya know you want one of these … too bad you can’t use it during a concert encore ;-)
Play Atari on your cell phone
try this one while driving … “British mobile phone developer iFone is planning to put versions of classic Atari computer games on future mobile phones.”
From: BBC News | SCI/TECH | Back to the future for Atari games
Fluorescent LANs
an interesting link i found on slashdot about a new technology that utilizes the flicker of flurescent bulbs to create a LAN.
Subliminal messages for your PC
bizarre … “A US company has produced a gadget that reacts to audio signals embedded in TV programmes and tells your PC to surf over to webpages related to that show.”
More net convergence: Flash meets TV
“The entertainment industry is learning new tricks from the Web that could dramatically reduce costs and recast a widely used Net animation technology as a significant offline production tool.”
i’ll be on the lookout for “The Martoon Channel” on my cable system soon!
Peering into the future
an interesting article at Infoworld about how P2P will be used in the enterprise. there is also a sidebar, "Client or server? Peers at last" by Ray Ozzie of GrooveNetworks
“Putting p-to-p to use in enterprises means blending it with client/server networks”
“A recently released study from Gartner concluded that … by 2003 30 percent of corporations will have at least experimented with Data Centered p-to-p applications”
Kodak is acquiring Ofoto
i have to admit, as a happy user of ofoto, i like this deal. maybe now i’ll be able to pickup my digital pictures at the local kodak shop…
“Kodak.com will be the corporate site and Ofoto.com will be the provider of the services on all of Kodak’s online properties” …
From: Kodak snaps up online photo site – Tech News – CNET.com