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By L. Provoos
I usually start the day with firing off that foxy browser to explore the internet. A good starting point to get some vibes is the Capgemini Web 2.0 overview page which gives an one-eye overview of what’s happening in the Capgemini universe. Then I...
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By L. Provoos
Just recovered from my "gosh, I thought I've seen it all" moment when I discovered about the Aptana Jaxer server, Jonathan Mulholland (a Twitter buddy, and read here his excellent blog) pointed me to the fact that Nokia launched the Nokia Mobile...
Read moreI have the feeling that I get more and more overloaded with information from my social network memberships, subscribed RSS feeds and email accounts. Sometimes I can’t even catch up anymore and prefer to just delete the whole list of feeds instead...
Read moreIn an earlier post I wrote about context aware services. Being able to put the world in your pocket is an important prerequisite for enabling the personalized context aware services that I fantasized about in that article. And exactly that has become...
Read moreThere are these moments in your life when you are in awe of what technology allows us to do. I remember a couple of years ago that a user on a forum was asking how to do some server side stuff in his web browser but without reloading the browser. We...
Read moreI received recently an invitation to attend the first c,mm,n garage in Delft (the Netherlands). C,mm,n (pronounce: common) is a joint project between the three Dutch technical universities to build a car for 2020, but in an open source way. I quote:...
Read moreRemember the happy days of the first version of Java, almost 13 years ago (1995)? Java was hot. All of a sudden, you had the power to write attractive little web applications (Java Applets) that would run in any browser! Websites were never as slow...
Read moreWhen I tell people that I had already my share of Cobol and RPG in my life, they look a bit puzzled since they do not expect a cool twenty-something dude, but rather an old long-bearded pony-tailed engineer. Ok, you might question the coolness of the...
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By L. Provoos
VisiCalc on the Apple II platform in ’79 is generally regarded as one of the first “killer apps” for the desktop computer. I wasn’t born back then, so I can’t tell you how great it was, but I did experience email as one of the killer apps...
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By L. Provoos
Rufus Ketting made in 2006 a nice parody on the 1979 Buggles pop hit “video killed the radio star”, named “iPod killed the video star”. With 2008 in the horizon, I make a parody “smart phone killed the desktop star”. Perhaps it’s too...
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