Top Ten Technology Trends – live blog

Thanks to all for the nice feedback about the "Top 10 Technology Trends" panel yesterday, John Blossom, Shore Communications Inc., correctly characterized the panelists as "a very powerful cast of characters". He also live-blogged the panels, including this one. You can find his index of panel links here.

Top Ten Technology Trends

February 2, 2006 There were many good speakers and panels at the SIIA Conference yesterday and today. It was my job to moderate the final panel of the conference which was called "Top 10 Technology Trends". Leading the panel was a special treat for me because the panelists were colleagues that I have known and […]

The Web Is Getting Ubiquitous

Two important developments in the first month of the year are enabling the web to move a few steps closer to ubiquity. Most mobile phones do not have a web browser — or if they do have one it likely does not work very well. Generally, the mobile browsing speed has been slow and the […]

Open Hopes for 2006

The debate about the OpenDocument format is still underway. See this link for a list of the stories in patrickWeb about it. Bob Sutor over at IBM just posted a very good story called "Open standards, open source, open minds, open opportunities". Rather than repeat or plagiarize it, here is a link to it. It […]

Internet Phones

Today’s Wall Street Journal story, "Web Phones Go Unplugged", summed it up pretty well. There is a convergence taking place between cell phones and Internet phones. Utopia has not quite arrived but at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas earlier this month there was a slew of new announcements surrounding Vonage, Skype, and various […]