It’s now January 2009, and a statement like: The price of crude oil hits an all-time high of US$140 a barrel before it falls dramatically down to around US$40 by the end of the year. …would have been a hell of a new year prediction for this time last year. I am neither qualified nor [...]
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New year predictions carry more excitement than new year resolutions. When it comes to technology, here are my takes, listed in no particular order: Blu-ray succumbs to a decade-old technology called… DVD. In January 2008, HD-DVD, one of the two contending next-generation disc storage media formats, lost the war against Blu-ray. But the time it [...]
It’s reassuring to know that I wasn’t the only one talking clouds. Yesterday, The Economist published a special report on cloud computing. Also yesterday, Xero, the accounting business I cited as one of the prominent examples of cloud computing, received much media attention to become even more prominent. As an overview, here are the titles [...]
I was going to write about earning a living as a programmer with a Mac. But as I started talking about how I got my refurbished MacBook just for an introduction, I totally digressed into a rather not-so-technical discussion of what a sensible thing it is to buy refurbished Macs. So I left it at [...]
Midori. Japanese for green, and the latest known codename given to what “may” become the next Microsoft Windows operating system, otherwise known as “Windows 7.” What it’s capable of, what it will look like, when it will be available, what will happen to the software that are out there right now, it’s all speculation at [...]