I take a look at some key questions across a spectrum of coverage areas on my DaniWeb blog and look ahead to 2010. I look at Google, Microsoft, Apple, the AT&T-Verizon coverage battle and the eReader market.
Although the mainstream media has tried to make it a big deal, a closer look at the recent court ruling ordering Microsoft to stop selling Word, shows it's really not going to have very much impact.
I'm thrilled to report that my TechTreasures by Ron Miller blog on DaniWeb passed 1 million page views on Sunday on 240 posts. It's a huge milestone and it makes me so proud to have reached it.
This is even more remarkable when you consider that on Dec. 30, 2008, I posted a State of TechTreasures report and wrote: "Just today I passed 186,000 hits on 99 posts."
Just a year later, I passed a million. That was a heck of a year folks. And I want to thank you for reading and visiting my blog.
With the purchase of NBC Universal, Comcast's power grows unabated.
It may be up to cities and towns building their own municipal networks to
find a way to fight that growing hegemony.
TechCrunch reports that Google is in advanced stage negotiations to purchase Yelp. These two companies are so well suited to each other, it's a wonder talk of this deal didn't happen sooner.
While Google and Apple may both be working the mobile space hard, Google is giving Android away, and even if they sell a Google smart phone, they'll never be hardware company like Apple. Google's ultimate goal is to sell ads, and the more platforms, they have to do that, the better off they will be.
The rumored Google Phone would not only provide an open source phone powered by Android, it could actually free us from the control of the large network providers at the same time.
Instead of removing serendipity and coldly pointing us the way, technology can provide new ways to discover the world that are just as valid as offline methods.