As is evident from a recent article in The Economist (as well as several of the past posts on this blog), cloud computing is becoming very prominent in the information technology world. Companies are scrambling to provide new cloud-based services, and people are doing more tasks in the cloud as more cloud systems become available. However, […]

You may have seen the recent announcement of the Google Maps Navigation application. And you may have thought: Hey, just another navigation device! But you may want to have a closer look at the whole thing, since what they are proposing is something that may be the killer application of the Navigation industry. Why? Let’s […]

The idea of building a technology platform and watching developers and customers flock in large numbers has been out there for a while. Microsoft, for one, is a paragon of platform-building. It got far ahead of its competition with Windows and has been enjoying life with no serious challengers for well over a decade. These […]

Today Microsoft will ring the bell on Nasdaq, as just one other way of celebrating the effective launch of its newest flagship product, Windows 7. The new operating system comes to the market just 3 years after the launch of the much announced Windows Vista, which never fulfilled the expectations of the market, nor that […]