Emerging Tech Tidbits Blog

Google Wave, Amazon, Social Networking, and more tidbits

2009-06-21T18:38:00Z

I've been involved in a rather intense REST web services testing project over the past 6 weeks, so I haven't been able to do much blogging. Now that the project is complete, I can turn my attention back to emerging technology trends and resume my normal posting to this blog. Here are a few tidbits that that I picked up over the past couple of days... Google announced a new communication platform called "Wave" which combines the functionality of email, instant messaging, bogs, wikis...(read more)

Strobe Framework, Native Client, Vine, Web 3.0 transition, and more tidbits

2009-05-04T04:01:00Z

A summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk recently... The most bizarre post this week was about an iPhone application that has you violently shake your phone to stop a virtual baby from crying. For some reason, Apple decided to take down " Baby Shaker " after complaints. Another strange post on ars technica involved a vacationer in Mexico watching Pixar's Wall-E over his PC data card. The original roaming bill was for $62,000 but the carrier offered to discount...(read more)

Testing Flash, E-Books, Open Source, Infinite Photo, and more tidbits

2009-04-19T17:53:00Z

A summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk recently... Most of you are familiar with the Google Street View where Google sent cars around most major city streets photographing the buildings from the street level so when looking at a map you can see what the building you plan to visit looks like. Surprisingly many crimes in progress were captured by the Google photographers and now live in infamy on Google maps as documented on criminal justice blog, The Blotter. The dynamics...(read more)

Open source test tools, Twendz, top blogs, and more tidbits

2009-04-02T20:21:00Z

A summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk recently... Although this post is old news, I love this true story of some moron that forged a check for $360 billion dollars and then walked in to a bank insisting that they cash it. I found a few gems in this list of the top 100 blogs published by Technorati. The official Google blog found on this list was particularly interesting with their post on CADIE , some kind of strange artificial intelligence entity, which I didn't...(read more)

iPhone 3.0, eBook printing, Chrome experiments, and more tidbits

2009-03-20T02:22:00Z

A summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk recently... Continuing my tradition of leading with screwball posts, cnet reports on an experiment to see if people will sign anything. The short answer is yes, as a group of college students readily signed documents allowing fellow students to electrically shock them. I also liked the TechCrunch post on a massive multi-player game where you rise from homelessness by joining gangs and staging animal fights. Lovely! There were a number...(read more)

Software appliances, onshore outsourcing, digital trends, E-Paper, and more tidbits

2009-03-07T05:18:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk... It's a sad day when you need to buy an iPhone application to instantly find the nearest D.U.I lawyer. Or, how about the guy that watched a football game on his laptop from a cruise ship using his cellular wireless card. The bill was only $27,000 . QualityLogic took a run at DLNA test tools a few years back with minimal success. Now it looks like DLNA is coming into its prime with Windows 7 support and even a printer...(read more)

Open source halo, Kindle magic, Ballmer wisdom, Atlantis found, and more tidbits

2009-02-28T22:42:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting blog posts to come across my desk... Two bizarre posts this week include the discovery of Atlantis on Google Earth and a student arrested for text messaging in class. Doesn't get stranger that that. Three insightful posts provide perspective on the recession from Steve Ballmer at Microsoft(act like RCA to survive !), Marc Andreessen on the death of print media, and on empowering employees from an undercover reporter working at of all places, Walmart. Although...(read more)

Buried treasure, virtual test labs, toxic printers, and more tidbits

2009-02-22T21:49:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... The most interesting post this week involves a man named Nathan Smith who supposedly discovered a sunken ship with $3 billion in treasure while browsing across a region of Texas using Google Earth. The printer industry sure is taking a beating these days with the positioning of hardcopy printing as old-school and eco-unfriendly. Now ars technica has a post positioning printers as being toxic to your health. Virtualization...(read more)

Energy Monitoring, Window 7 Cycle Times, Social Networking Interop, and more tidbits

2009-02-10T01:52:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... Two tragic posts this week note the death of a salesman China when his cell phone exploded and the near demise of a social-bookmarking site whose database and only backup became corrupted. All of us can learn something from this interesting post about how Microsoft dramatically improved their release cycle time for Windows 7. How about not allowing buggy code in the core? eWeek reports on an effort by the WC3 consortium...(read more)

JPEG XR, DeviceAnywhere, M-Lab, Virtualization, and more tidbits

2009-02-02T05:31:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... Abobe AIR, a technology that enables the execution of stand-alone applications on the desktop using web development languages, is now deployed on over 100 million PCs as reported by CNET. On the same topic, Emerging Technologies does a great job providing an overview of all the emerging Rich Internet Application (RIA) platforms. This scary post on InternetNews reports on the penetration of the DownAndUp worm. This...(read more)

Mobile Testing, Twitter, Device Stage, USB 3.0, and more tidbits

2009-01-20T05:05:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... My favorite post this week was about Burger King's offer to give a free whopper to anyone who dumped 10 friends from their Facebook network of friends. A quarter million "friends" got dumped in short order, each receiving emails letting them know their friendship was worth less than a whopper! An Android related post on ZDnet mentioned a service called DeviceAnywhere for mobile phone developers that...(read more)

Crowdsourcing product ideas, mobile traffic trends, old school printing, and more tidbits

2009-01-03T18:19:00Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... Google is "crowdsourcing" new product ideas in the mobile space. The idea is to have users throw out product ideas while other users vote on their merit. A GoogleWeek post reports that in a very short period of time almost 3,000 people have submitted 765 product ideas, with over 42,000 votes cast as to their merit. What an awesome way to get input from your customers! QualityLogic took a stab at developing...(read more)

iPhone printing, mobile computing trends, native client gaming, and more tidbits

2008-12-24T20:01:08Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... HP made a splash this week in the mobile computing world by launching an iPhone application that lets users print photos to the company's line of Wi-Fi printers. This move is driven by a dramatic upward trend in the use of mobile computing in our daily lives, with year to year data traffic increasing 463%. An insightful eWeek post makes the case that the confluence of cloud computing, wireless access (3G, Wi...(read more)

Future of testing, cloud computing reality check, Google Gears, and more tidbits

2008-12-15T01:05:34Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... The most interesting tidbit this week was a webinar by testing guru James Whittaker on the future of testing. The most compelling part of the presentation was the notion that virtualization of end user computing environments will revolutionize the testing of software across thousands, if not million of different environments. The webinar is hosted on the uTest site, an interesting story in itself. They developed...(read more)

Mysterious OS, Office 14, Windows 7 Beta, Amazon's iPhone App, Native Client, and more tidbits

2008-12-10T06:17:08Z

A weekly summary of the more interesting technology trends to come across my desk... By far the most interesting tidbit this week was the appearance of a large amount of Internet traffic coming from Google with an unidentified operating system. Lots of conspiracy theories swirling around this one. This Google Watch post is a must read. This ars technica post takes a peak at the breadth of Microsoft's recent Window Live web service offerings including mail, blogging, file sharing, event management...(read more)