Technology industry forecasts are an interesting exercise. I find it somewhat similar to “science fiction”, only that industry forecasts gauge a shorter capitalist term, and they are more analytical (less fiction for the Board of Directors, Investors, and Stakeholders). Back in January this year, as part of an ongoing hacker[…
> No matter how good you are, don’t ever let them see you coming. That’s the gaffe my friend. You gotta keep yourself small. Innocuous. Be the little guy. This quote from “The Devil’s Advocate [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118971/]” has stuck with me for a…
Airbus A380 Superjumbo [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380] — the largest passenger airliner in the world, with one mind-boggling “flaw.” Apparently, the Superjumbo is so quiet that the pilots have complained about the lack of engine noise [http://www.smh.com.au/travel/a380-is-too-quiet-say-sleepless-pilots-20081205-6s1x.html] , which is preventing them…
Half of world’s population has a mobile phone [http://www.news.com.au/technology/story/0,25642,23755389-5014108,00.html], yet, only 21% of the world’s population uses the Internet [http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm]. On my last visit to India, I was not so astounded to…
At PDC 2008, Microsoft gave the first public demonstration [http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081028-first-look-at-windows-7.html] of Windows 7, its next generation operating system. [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_1.png] [https://www.nilkanth.com/content/images/2008/10/win7_2.png] I’ve been…
With PDC 2008 [http://www.microsoftpdc.com/] coming up, Microsoft’s .NET Framework [http://www.microsoft.com/NET/] gets a refreshing new logo [http://www.hanselman.com/blog/PDC2008NewNETLogo.aspx]. Yesterday, Seth Godin also wrote [http://sethgodin.typepad.com/seths_blog/2008/10/your-brand-is-n.html] about the importance of a…
Today, most of what we use the Web for on a daily basis aren’t just web pages, they are “applications”. These applications, which run inside our Web browsers, are increasingly becoming more advanced in their functionality and more interactive in their usability. The Web browser acts as the core…
> What is power? Is it wealth, is it affluence, is it assets, what is it? Philosophers have thought about this, [and] they have found the seat of power — knowledge! “A king is honoured only in his own kingdom, but a man of knowledge is honoured everywhere.” Filmmaker Ashutosh Gowariker,…