Virginia R. Patrick
Click to enlarge A pdf version of Mom’s portrait may be found here and a handwriting sample can be viewed here.
Google Voice
Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) is a general term for a family of technologies that enable voice communications over the Internet (and corporate intranets). Strong double-digit growth has placed VoIP into everyday life for many millions of people. In the early days I used Packet8. Then a VoIP system was created by entrepreneurs Niklas Zennström, […]
iPhone – Update No. 16
For quite a few years the Palm Pilot or Palm Treo were my productivity tool of choice. What I liked most was the availability of third party applications. After all these years, Apple has come from nowhere in the smartphone business to showing Palm how they should have done it — the "app store". As […]
IBM Happenings: February 2009
The month of February was frigid in my part of the world but it was red hot at IBM. There was a flurry of announcements in hardware, software, services, acquisitions, and strategic alliances. The complete index of IBM Happenings (by year and month) is here. One of the major focus areas for IBM in 2009 […]
Kindle 2 Update
And now we have the Kindle 2, the next generation wireless reading device. I am really pleased with so far. At just over 1/3 inch and 10.2 ounces, the new device is very sleek — as thin as a typical magazine and lighter than a paperback. It is not radically different than the original Kindle […]