Several conversations I have had regarding Amazon’s remote deleting of a book from peoples Kindles indicate that there are a number of people who are questioning hardware e-Book readers especially the Kindles. Looking at this situation there are several aspects that should arouse the curiostity. First of all – Amazon selling an unlicensed book – OK [...]
We have had a big splash this last week over the Chrome OS from Google. Having worked with computers for as long as I have, you know that there will always be a contender. Who out there remembers System1 or BEOS or OS9 or CPM..
In the Micro-Computer world, there have been two operating systems that have [...]
Over the past couple of weeks we have social networking become the bearer of news and become the news because of it. It was interesting to see that the information coming from Iran was being sent out through Twitter and this lifeline of communications became critical enough that the government asked Twitter to put off maintenance [...]