Emerging Tech Tidbits Blog

Google Wave, Amazon, Social Networking, and more tidbits

Jim Zuber — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 18:38:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Mon, 04 May 2009 04:01:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 17:53:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 20:21:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Fri, 20 Mar 2009 02:22:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 05:18:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 22:42:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Sun, 22 Feb 2009 21:49:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 01:52:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:31:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Tue, 20 Jan 2009 05:05:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:19:00 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Wed, 24 Dec 2008 20:01:08 GMT

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....(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 01:05:34 GMT

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...(read more)

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

Jim Zuber — Wed, 10 Dec 2008 06:17:08 GMT

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...(read more)