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Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?Dynabook for $100?"I have a dream" Unfortunately like Martin Luther King, Alan Kay's Dynabook is nothing more at this time.I wish it wasn't so but like socialism it requires a level of cooperation at so many levels that in a capitalist society...

Tags: E-books, Engineering, Dynabook, Alan Kay

Discussion threads 2008-11-10

Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?

The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...

Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-09

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Kindle Economics 2: Why Amazon should not be Apple, and Jeff Bezos is not Steve Jobs

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos presents the Kindle 2 to a packed auditorium. What sort of product rollout does this remind you of? So the Kindle 2 has now made its debut, with everything you'd expect of a gee-whiz product launch -- a packed auditorium filled with media types, a...

Tags: Steve Jobs, Jeff Bezos, Apple Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, E-books, 3G, Wireless LANs, Sales Strategy, Storage, Wi-Fi, Wireless And Mobility, Personal Technology, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Sales, Hardware, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2009-02-09

Kindle Economics

A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...

Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow

Blog posts 2008-11-16

A Kindroid in every pot?

Fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has written a couple of interesting pieces lately on ways to get cheap ebook readers/tablets into both students' and consumers' hands. In, "Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together" he described how an Android-based Kindle ebook reader could allow this platform to really...

Tags: Kindroid, E-books, Tablets, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-11-10

News to know: Rigged PDFs; Obama's CTO; Android bug; Windows 7

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Perlow: Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100? CNET News: Memo to Intel: Netbooks morphing into notebooks Ryan Naraine: Rigged PDFs...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, CTO, Adobe PDF, E-waste, Microsoft Windows, Robots, Operating Systems, Software, Emerging Technologies, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-11-10

AMD officially unveils next-generation "Puma" notebook platform

With notebook sales being strong, AMD is hoping that its third-generation "Puma" platform will position the company to take advantage of this growing market. So what is at the core of a Puma system? Here's a quick run down of the technologies involved: Turion...

Tags: AMD Turion, Performance, AMD Turion X2, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Corp., Puma, Notebooks, Performance Management, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Semiconductors, Components, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes

Blog posts 2008-06-03

The tattered history of OOP

This is a guest blog by frequent contributor Mark Miller - a followup on our earlier discussions of the effectiveness and value of the object oriented programming idea. OOP has been a mixed bag, but I say this only because...

Tags: Message, Software, Object-oriented Programming, Smalltalk, Idea, Data, Object-oriented, Unix, Object, Alan Kay, Way Object-orientation, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-06-02

The PC vision was lost from the get-go

The PC vision was lost from the get-goYes - I mean no - wait, I mean yes - no umm, maybe?What Mark writes as "People haven't liked the notion of "distribute by copy" of GUI apps. They prefer "distribute by access" of the web." I read as "people don't like...

Tags: Tools & Techniques, PRODUCTIVITY, software, PC vision, get-go, PC, vision

Discussion threads 2008-03-10

Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?

Klausner Technologies: The new NTP?20 years?Doesn't that mean it's expired?Sue Apple for all it is worth!!Apple deserves to get back what it has inflicted on so many others. Sue 'em into bankruptcy![i]Apple has called iPhone’s Visual Voicemail "one of the greatest advances in the history of mankind … without question."[/i]Yeah,...

Tags: iphone, Klausner Technologies, patent, new NTP, Apple Inc., NTP, phone, voicemail

Discussion threads 2007-12-03

Appliance computing

Appliance computingAppliances versus ComputersMy Korg X5 music workstation must have a microprocessor in it but I have no idea what and presumably has an operating system that one never sees or needs to know about, it "boots" instantly and has been working reliably for more than 10 years. I also...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, E-mail, Operating systems, computer, operating system

Discussion threads 2007-07-26

Could the Mac Tablet be far behind the iPhone?

Lev Grossmans story in Time describes how the iPhone germinated in a project to develop a tablet PC:The iPhone developed the way a lot of cool things do: with a false start. A few years ago Jobs noticed how many development dollars were being spent—particularly in the greater Seattle metropolitan...

Tags: General, Personal Technology, Apple, tablet, Apple iPhone

Blog posts 2007-01-10

In Search of the Valley

In Search of the ValleyMaybe he left something out?Jobs and Wozniak did some amazing, inspiring things. I have a particular affinity for Wozniak. I've listened to the story of the technological lessons he learned that ultimately led to the creation of the first Apple computer. It's amazing.However, when it comes...

Tags: Desktops, Xerox PARC, Apple Macintosh, Valley

Discussion threads 2007-01-04

Development and organisational issues

Development and organisational issuesundoable, not unworkableNo problem making this stuff work - even at company F - just no way to make it happen. Why? because people know it won't work...Catch 44 anyone?I was...Haven't done much in the past couple years. But I've worked with tens-of-thousands of lines of...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Development tools, Programming languages, Toyota Motor Corp., Unix, programming

Discussion threads 2006-10-09

Sony to become iTunes of books?

Sony to become iTunes of books?No chanceSorry, but no matter how technically impressive Sony's new reader is, it's going to fail massively. It just doesn't offer anything of great value, and at the same time, charges a humongous price.The iPod, at the very least, provides portability for one's entire...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Digital music, Apple iTunes, Apple iPod, consumer PC industry, Sony Corp., e-book

Discussion threads 2006-04-04