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Microsoft’s Joe Belfiore described the new Windows Phone 7 Series  interface for smartphones as “typographically intense.” With its noticeable lack of graphics, the WP7S has elicited warm memories for some observers of a simpler, mouse-less time. I’d have relegated these … Continue reading →

John Markoff’s NY Times article on Monday is a good starting point to understanding the dramatic changes in Web traffic patterns in the last two years. (I know, everything about the Internet is dramatic.) Some of the data referred to … Continue reading →

I’m having a little trouble processing that headline too. But Bloomberg reported that Xerox has filed suit against Google for using its search inventions without permission. Xerox claims that a patent issued in 2004 is being infringed on by Google’s … Continue reading →

You must see this demo of a prototype Android app  that Google previewed at Mobile World Congress.   It’s just the logical next step for  Google Goggles and Google Translate.  Instead of  automatically (and  imperfectly) identifying a  picture taken of a … Continue reading →

Silicon Alley Insider has the dish on Apple replacing Google with Microsoft’s Bing on the iPhone. No one’s taking any of this very seriously. Still it’s fun and frightening to think about where all this could  lead:  iWord,  iExcel,  iPowerPoint. … Continue reading →

Yesterday the Official Google Blog revealed plans for a 1 Gig fiber-to-the-home network. Their project sounds almost tentative and in the spirit of knowledge for knowledge’s sake: …the purpose of this project is to experiment and learn. Network providers are … Continue reading →

About a year ago, I was momentarily entranced by blended reality— a hybrid of Second Life-style virtual reality and, er, reality. Rather than building graphical renderings of cityscapes and store-interiors, blended reality relies heavily on 360-degree videos—more commonly found on … Continue reading →

You can’t have the Internet without anonymity.  In fact,  privacy protection is designed into the lowest levels of the plumbing, which supports communication without revealing identity and origin.  Bruce Schneier has more advice to law enforcement:

from David Pogue.  It sounds like he got it right:  it’s not an iPhone but more a “vessel”– I guess that means a portable platform– and really a “1.5 pound sack of potential.”

In November, I tuned into some of the keynote speeches at VoiceCon San Francisco.  These VoiceCon events are where  “enterprise communications’  vendors gather to talk about their latest initiatives  desktop business phone systems.  I  really do think there’ll continue to … Continue reading →