Jeff Nolan's take on innovation, entrepreneurship, tech and stuff that interests me
My computer has a 48K memory. Since each K represents 1,024 bytes of information—each byte representing one character or digit—the machine can manipulate more than 49,000 items of information at a time. In practice, after allowing for the space that The Electric Pencil’s programming instructions occupy in the computer’s memory, the machine can handle documents [...]
Is it just me or has anyone else thought that the Dow hitting 14k and the dollar going to a new low against the Euro on the same day is just weird?
BlackBerry 8820 dual-mode WiFi-cell BlackBerry announced by ZDNet‘s Russell Shaw — As had been widely expected, BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion announced the BlackBerry 8820 today. RIM points out that the BlackBerry 8820 is the first dual-mode BlackBerry handset, combining EDGE/GPRS/GSM cellular and Wi-Fi connectivity for data access and voice support through UMA (unlicensed mobile access) [...]
There was an event last week called iMeme and they had an interesting panel with a bunch of very senior enterprise software executives. Here’s Barrons’ coverage of the one panel in particular: "So, let me get to what is the most interesting takeaway here: enterprise software companies need to figure out a way to make [...]