There has been a lot of noise in the past few days on certain social media platforms in response to Apples’ new terms and conditions around v4 of the iPhone operating system. But what is all the fuss about and what is the real consequence if any? Read the rest of this entry »

The trouble with young people is that they keep re-inventing old things! The web industry is a really good example of this, but even IT is starting to suffer “generational pain”.

Take for instance the whole idea of “cloud computing” and so called “SaaS”. Nothing new is it? All you are seeing is the IT pendulum of change swinging from distributed to centralized computing architectures. Of course those that have not been in the industry for very long (either still blighted by youth, or only just realized that they need to jump on a different bandwagon) will feel compelled to give centralized computing a new name and herald it as the “next big thing” as if they have invented something new and clever.

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So Mr. Schmidt (CEO of Google) will be leaving the board of Apple Computer due to an increasing conflict of interest. I have to admire his loyalty to Google, if it were me I would have definitely jumped the other way given the chance… and if the chance had not immediately and naturally present itself then I would definately have engineered it! Read the rest of this entry »

Google has announced that it is working with several firms on Chrome OS hardware, including Acer, Asus, Freescale, Hewlett-Packard, Lenovo. Apparently they have pledged to build machines that will run its Chrome OS. In reality this probably means nothing unless they also pledge to not ship the hardware with Microsoft Windows and distribute products with Chrome installed by default as the only OS. As far as we know, nobody is actually saying that! More interestingly Google have also said it is working with Adobe on the operating system. One could speculate on whether Chrome might be the OS of choice for the next generation of televisions… but it is still early days.

Google have announced an open source operating system, which some hysterical people are claiming will be some sort of challenge to Microsoft Windows. I know… I laughed out load too when I read that!

So hot on the heals of the Google browser (what a huge success that has been) and unperturbed by the take up of Google apps, the search giant continues to try and diversify it’s business.

Just to make it extra funny they are playing the Open Source card too. Thank you Google I needed something to lighten the day, and this is the best joke I have heard in a long time!.