Category: Information Technology

What drives us all

What drives us all

| February 20, 2008 | Reply

The man is just brilliant.  ..bruce w..

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Death of the Polaroid camera

Death of the Polaroid camera

| February 9, 2008 | Reply

Gaius over at Blue Crab Boulevard (one of my favorite daily blogs) reports that Polaroid is shutting down the last of its manufacturing facilities for Polaroid cameras: When Polaroid users pulled a picture out of their cameras, an image would slowly appear before their eyes. Now, like the process in reverse, the image of the […]

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TechCrash 2.0 update: Google

TechCrash 2.0 update: Google

| February 1, 2008 | 1 Reply

Now it’s Google — the absolute favorite of Wall Street — that’s getting hammered: More than $11 billion (£5.5 billion) was wiped off the market value of Google late last night as the internet darling missed sales and profit targets after years of defying gravity. The performance over the final three months of the year […]

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TechCrash 2.0 update: VMWare

TechCrash 2.0 update: VMWare

| January 30, 2008 | Reply

All the way back in August, I raised concerns about another tech bubble building in light of the valuation of VMWare shooting up to nearly $20 billion on the day of its IPO. Of course, VMWare’s market cap continued to climb, sitting at a high of $30 billion as recently as a few days ago. […]

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Housing – Price Increases Year Over Year

Housing – Price Increases Year Over Year

| January 22, 2008 | Reply

Today is a perfect day to share some facts on the up side of finance. As is usually the case, even in an ugly market not everything is always all bad. For example we are once again to going take a look at Hardtack data on price per square foot. This time we review the […]

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Solid state replacing optical media

Solid state replacing optical media

| January 19, 2008 | Reply

Some 18 months ago, I wrote about the Blu-Ray v. HD-DVD format battle and suggested that both formats were a dead-end, and that the real next-generation video media would be based on solid-state storage (e.g., flash RAM). I predicted this was quite a few years away, though. What I forgot is that there’s another optical […]

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I, for one, welcome….

I, for one, welcome….

| January 11, 2008 | Reply

The Onion, not content with mere print/web journalism, has moved into video as well: In The Know: Are We Giving The Robots That Run Our Society Too Much Power? ..bruce w..

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The challenges of hiring software engineers

The challenges of hiring software engineers

| January 10, 2008 | Reply

As noted in Works in Progress, I’m writing a book called Surviving Complexity, which deals with the challenges of IT development and deployment. Over at my personal website, I’ve posted material adapted from the first chapter of that book: In my forthcoming book, Surviving Complexity, the very first chapter is called “The Wetware Crisis”. This […]

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Six Reasons Why Star Trek Should Stay Dead

Six Reasons Why Star Trek Should Stay Dead

| January 3, 2008 | Reply

First off, I have to cite a wonderful new blog from the folks that bring us Gizmodo, this new critter being called io9, and it’s all about Science Fiction and things surrounding it. A fabulous read if you are wandering around the house with your iPod Touch tinkering. One of the articles up there now […]

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How dominant is Google?

How dominant is Google?

| December 31, 2007 | 1 Reply

Just ask Jeff Jarvis: — Google is the “fastest growing company in the history of the world.” – Times of London, 1/29/06 — Google controls 65.1% of all searches in the U.S. at the end of 2007 and 86% of all searches in the UK, according to measurement company Hitwise. — Google was searched 4.4 […]

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