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July 2004 - Posts

No such thing as a disruptive technology

According to PC Magazine’s John Dvorak there is no such thing as a disruptive technology. “The concept of disruptive technology goes to the top of my list as the biggest crock of the new millennium...There is no such thing as a disruptive Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 31, 2004 1:24 PM by alexbarn | 19 Comments

Longhorn's new graphics architecture

"Longhorn's Avalon technology will rely heavily upon 3D graphics, not only in terms of performance, but also in terms of stability. Where 3D was once primarily the domain of gamers, game developers, and workstation gurus, 3D graphics is now the lynch Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 31, 2004 8:43 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Remote Control Anarchy

"The 6 remote controls required for a simple home theater illustrate the problems caused by complexity and inconsistency in user interfaces ... ... The most obvious indicator of remote control complexity is the vast number of choices they offer: 239 buttons Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 28, 2004 2:12 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

IM = Instant Knowledge

"To search for information, a user sends a question to his own referral agent, which broadcasts the query to all of the user's buddies' agents, said Zhang [researcher at University of Michigan]. A referral agent in the buddy's messenger searches its information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:24 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Blog from 'down under'

Mark Baartse from Microsoft Australia has started his own blog at http://www.joykicksdarkness.com/blog/ . The blogging software Mark is using, Seabeach, is a blogging app developed using .NET 1.1, C# and SQL Server 2000...Mark is using InfoPath as the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 21, 2004 11:11 PM by alexbarn | 14 Comments

The Blog From Atlanta II

Since joining Microsoft 2 years ago I haven't had the fortune of attending a Bill Gates or Steve Ballmer presentation (in the real-world at least). That changed for me on Thursday at MGB ...and I was not disappointed. BillG did a great job describing Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 17, 2004 1:50 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Microsoft's Rob Mensching to present at OSCON

If you've got advice, let him know - he's asking for it . Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:24 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

52% of application developers use .NET

More at ITFactgs.biz . Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 15, 2004 11:17 AM by alexbarn | 8 Comments

The Blog From Atlanta

“The Blog From Atlanta” is not the title of a new scary movie, but the title of my first post since arriving in Atlanta (others are blogging this too ). I'm here to make my debut attendance at the Microsoft MGB event. Am writing this from Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 14, 2004 6:24 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

Microsoft Does Flash RIGHT!

From David Bisset's Flex-MX blog : "This flash presentation "Your Potential. Our Passion." from Microsoft is not only impressive for Microsoft, it's impressive period. A must-see." Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 13, 2004 8:25 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

Prince Charles: "Nanotech is going to be huge"

I think he missed the point . Read More...
Posted Monday, July 12, 2004 10:36 PM by alexbarn | 1 Comments

What should Microsoft do with its $56 billion in cash?

At Seattle PI "Now, without further ado, it's on to the next poll, newly posted in the upper right-hand corner of the Microsoft page . It asks a question that promises to be timely during the next few weeks: "What should Microsoft do with its $56 billion Read More...
Posted Monday, July 12, 2004 10:28 PM by alexbarn | 9 Comments

The Internet is for Everyone - Amen

In an intriguing video interview (30 mins) at ZDNet , Vint Cerf discusses the future of communications, from IPv6, Spam (he suggest the public flogging of Spammers) and privacy, Tim Berners-Lee’s Semantic Web , to the role of ICANN, and of course Read More...
Posted Saturday, July 10, 2004 9:13 AM by alexbarn | 5 Comments

No jam tomorrow...adaptive cruise control?

From Future Now " This piece in The Economist points to a couple studies suggesting that adaptive cruise control, if widely deployed, could help deal with traffic jams... It's an interesting example of how giving technologies (or organisms) a very small Read More...
Posted Wednesday, July 07, 2004 12:40 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Wi-Fi on trains

Wi-Fi on trains . Great. Now all I need is a large bag to carry 15 pre-charged batteries. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 10:17 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

MSDN Webcasts Weblog

MSDN Webcasts Weblog . Good idea. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:58 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Facetop - F2F e-biz collaboration

Screen meets face at the Facetop . (Via infogargoyle ) Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:43 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Fedex tracking via RSS

(via Geek News Central ) Fedex tracking via RSS ...sweet. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:13 PM by alexbarn | 4 Comments

Life Caching

(Via adrants ) "TrendWatching has dubbed a new trend called Life Caching . Simply put, it's the collection of all things experiential (rather than material) enabled by the proliferation of digital products. From weblogs to Lifeblogs to digital cameras Read More...
Posted Tuesday, July 06, 2004 9:00 PM by alexbarn | 0 Comments

Google News In RSS

I subscribe . (via Lockergnome ) Read More...
Posted Thursday, July 01, 2004 7:57 AM by alexbarn | 0 Comments
 
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