Hard Drives are Fundamentally Broken

Hard drive technology is fundamentally broken.
The main problem with hard drives are that they haven’t been able to keep up with Moore’s Law. While computers have gotten faster and faster, hard drives seem to have topped out some time ago. At the same time, the total storage capacity of drives has continued to increase. What [...]

Real Web on Your Cell– Browser: Yes, App Server: No

Chrome Walker has a post on some of the new phones coming out in Europe for 2008. One of the trends that seems to be emerging is the “real web.” This was kicked off by Apple with the iPhone, and its the idea that you can view the Internet on your cell phone with a reasonable interface. In other words, its formatted the same way as it would be on your computer.

Is this the future of cell phone applications? Read on …

Where is my Car 2.0?

My wife is looking to buy a car. She is 30 years old. She likes iTunes and reads her news online instead of a newspaper. She is concerned about global warming, and about the war on terror. We’re about to have kids, which brings those concerns to the forefront. So, when we started looking around for a car, we remembered all those cool next-generation automobiles we’ve been bombarded with at auto shows and the news. And we were surprised to find that we could hardly find any.

Read on for the current state of future cars.

How Does iPhone Compare to Blackberry?

Along with 500,000 other consumers in the United States, I went out and bought myself an iPhone this past weekend. While by far this is the best phone, iPod, and mobile Internet Browser I’ve ever used (just like Steve Jobs said), there are plenty of reviews on the web which can tell you all about that.

What I am more interested in, is “Can I use it to replace my Blackberry?”

Read on for the full article.

EZQuest Monsoon Firewire/USB Hard Disk Review

The EZQuest Monsoon is an excellent quality, compact, high performance disk drive. It comes preformatted for Mac OS 9 or X, but you can easily reformat it for Windows or Linux.

Unbreakable, Unfakable, Cent-ual Linux

So of course, the financial news world is buzzing with Larry Ellison’s announcement that Oracle will be selling their own flavor of Linux: Unbreakable Linux, which they freely admit will be pretty much stolen from Red Hat and sold for about half the price at the entry level. Here is why investors are wrong, and Red Hat really has nothing to worry about.