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EDS' Next Big Thing Blog: Read and Respond to What the EDS Fellows Say About Technology

Read and respond to what the EDS Fellows have to say about the future of technology on EDS' Next Big Thing Blog on eds.com.

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Reducing Paper…Increasing Information

I was reading through the recent blog entry on reducing paper, and it reminded me of an article about "digital shadows" that I read in the Singapore Straights Times. Even though we are now in a Green IT wave with a focus on reducing paper, power consumption, and CO2 emissions, there is an increase in another area: digital information.

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Posted Friday, May 16, 2008 9:04 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

2008 The year of thin-client?

Over the last couple of months SUN, Microsoft and HP have all announced hardware and/or software designed to support thin-client computing. Added to this, Gartner analysts have expressed doubts over the future of Microsoft Windows in it's current form. There are lots of buzzwords in all this: thin-client, flexible client, virtualization and so on. So is 2008 the year when thin-client computing finally catches on in the user community?

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Posted Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:41 PM by Mateen Greenway | 1 Comments

When is personalization of technology going too far?

I received a TomTom GPS device last year and finally spent the weekend playing with it. Like many devices, I could change the startup display to show family members... My wife was happy with that.

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Posted Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:29 PM by Charlie Bess | 2 Comments

Green Data Centres – It’s Easy, Follow the Sun

If you are an advocate of solar energy, then one of the biggest debates that you are likely to get into is around the question of Grid Parity. If you carry out some simple sums, then in terms of the cost to build a new power plant, we are already there.  The supporting evidence is the number of new base load solar plants that are springing up, like this one in Arizona. But the phrase that has captured my interest is that of a Solar Continent. Australia is, like much of the US, very well positioned to capture a great deal of energy from the sun. With the falling prices of PhotoVoltaic (PV) panels, it is very likely that in the next ten to twenty years much of the western world will be powered with some form of distributed energy (DE). So how does this affect our data centres?

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Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 5:19 PM by Alex Cameron | 1 Comments

WiMax finally on the move in the US??

I've written before about WiMax and it was good to see this past week that efforts may be taking place in the US in 2008.

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Posted Monday, May 12, 2008 1:37 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

The software industry in conflict

I've written a number of times about the SaaS movement and what organizations need to think about when looking at its value to them.

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Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 5:27 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

IT happens

Unfortunately, IT at many companies is an emergent phenomenon - IT emerges more by accident than by design. No one really plans to create the mess, it just happens. There are too many individual decisions; each seemingly logical and defensible, each justified by an apparently well-defined business case, but in reality, each being made using short-sighted, narrowly-focused criteria that ignore the long-term, enterprise-level perspective. Each decision contributes one tile in a mosaic of IT assets with no overall governor to oversee the big, fully-integrated picture.

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Posted Friday, May 09, 2008 9:30 AM by Joe Hill | 0 Comments

Collaboration 1.0 or 2.0?

I was reading through a very interesting study by the Economist Intelligence Unit about collaboration. We have made tremendous progress on the technology front, as is reflected in the developments in the Web 2.0 space. In spite of all this technology advancement, it seems that face-to-face collaboration still has the greatest success rate.

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Posted Thursday, May 08, 2008 8:40 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments

Computer interface that fits like a glove

At the start of the year I mentioned that one of the predictions I had for 2008 was that we’ll see new deliverables in the user interface space. Rallypoint has delivered a new type of interface for the military that uses a glove as the input device.

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Posted Monday, May 05, 2008 6:56 PM by Charlie Bess | 1 Comments

The fourth element of eletrical engineering

This month there is an article on the Memristor in IEEE spectrum. Anyone who knows anything about electronics is familiar with the holy trinity of electrical engineering: the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor. In 1971, Leon Chua of UC Berkeley, predicted that there should be a fourth element: a memory resistor, or memristor. But no one knew how to build one. 37 years later, electronics have finally gotten small enough to create this device. Hewlett-Packard researchers revealed in the journal Nature (subscription required) that it was hiding within the electrical characteristics of nano-scale devices.

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:42 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Cloud Computing Forecast

In Network World magazine there was an article that predicted a cloudy future for cloud computing. They listed a number of problems:

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Posted Friday, May 02, 2008 7:32 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

The Long Tail

A lot has been written about the Long Tail, a re-cast of the "80-20" rule in business terms. Basically, specific retailers with low distribution and inventory costs can afford to have a large number of low-turnover items on hand, thereby creating a niche market for specific items of interest to specific market segments (or consumer markets).

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Posted Thursday, May 01, 2008 7:24 AM by René Aerdts | 2 Comments

Color E-paper Coming Soon, but Will It be Greener??

I was reading IEEE Computer and they had an article E-paper Soon to be in Living Color; based on the description we should have commercial products by 2010.

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Posted Wednesday, April 30, 2008 5:17 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

Is there better power out there? What role will IT play?

Energy is the lifeblood of the economy and the British Thermal Unit (BTU) is the standard measure for the energy we use to heat our homes, travel to work, run our factories, power communications, produce foods, and power our computers. Information technology (IT) plays an ever increasing role relating to energy, whether it is helping to locate, develop, produce, transport, or even consume energy.

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Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 6:43 PM by Charlie Bess | 0 Comments

There is Better and There is Better...

In reading Ray Kurzweil's article Making the World A Billion Times Better, we need to start asking ourselves: where is technology leading us to. Think about a mobile phone for instance. When the first mobile phone call was made in 1973, the phone weighed in at 2.2 pounds! Now 3 oz is the new norm! At the same time, however, the phones got smaller and smaller, thereby reducing the keypad to sizes that are only useable by teenagers or people with small fingers. This technology advance is an improvement from a size (i.e. weight) perspective, but not necessarily from a size perspective...is better really better?

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Posted Friday, April 25, 2008 7:49 AM by René Aerdts | 0 Comments
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