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  • Augmented Reality intersects with GPS Navigation

    App Stores are all the rage only because they seem to foster a “competitive advantage” by reining in the add-ons people make for your devices. As the manufacturer of said device, you can open up the platform slightly and make some big gains in the marketplace. GPS personal navigation devices (PND) have been a cul-de-sac…

  • AppleInsider | Google to bring free turn-by-turn navigation to Apple iPhone (NOT)

    MacUser interviewed Google officials at a press conference in London, England. In an odd uncoordinated set of announcements it first appeared true, then later in the day flatly denied that Apple would be getting Google Maps for the iPhone. Unfortunately even places like Slashdot with its board of editors and vetters even got this article…

  • Genius Inventor Alan Kay Reveals All then gets stiffed by the App Store

    After the release of the iPad, Tom’s Hardware posted an article By Wolfgang Gruener about the History of Computing as it relates to the iPad. We get to meet Alan Kay the Computer Scientist who proposed the “Dynabook” an intellectual predecessor to the iPad. Alan Kay and Steve Jobs are friends in fact and get…

  • Garmin brings first Android phone to US through T-Mobile | Electronista

    As smartphone started adopting some GPS navigation apps, and using the embedded GPS chips in some phones, Garmin could see it’s dominance slipping. They decided to enter the market two years ago to create a navigation/smartphone called the nuviphone. It eventually hit the market much too late and looked like an expensive mistake. But instead…

  • PCIe based Flash caches

    A chain of press releases from Flash memory product manufacturers has led me to an interesting conclusion. We already have Flash caches in the datacenter. How soon will they be on the desktop? Intel’s SpeedBoost cache was a joke compared to Fusion-io’s PCI cards. What might happen if every computer had no disk drive, but…

  • links for 2010-04-09

    How to Meditate Utne reader article from a former punk rocker turned Zen Buddhist monk (tags: mediation)

  • AppleInsider | Inside the iPad: Apples A4 processor

    AppleInsider calls a few strikes against hyperbole and supposition found in articles written about the Apple iPad A4 processor. Here now is a more likely accounting of what Apple’s chip design mergers and acquisitions really bought for the iPad development team.

  • iPad release imminent – caveat emptor

    iPad is all anyone will be talking about for a while. And since I’ve tried to write about its innovations or lack of ‘true’ innovations (jacking up clockspeed is not an innovation) now comes time where real people get to weigh in. But that’s not me, I haven’t used an iPad. So I’ll try to…

  • Which way the wind blows: Flash Memory in the Data Center

    There are some new markets in Flash solid state disks opening up at the Enterprise storage level. But who and what can we expect? STEC was the darling last year. Fusion-io the darling this year. Next year? LSI? Micron?

  • links for 2010-03-17

    Notes from NoSQL Live Boston 2010 – marcua's blog Great detailed list of the conference proceedings, with some commentary thrown in. Very good, broad overview of the state of the art in NoSQL implementations and projects (tags: nosql blog architecture cassandra)