Anyone who drove a car in the 90′s probably remembers a time when getting lost in a car couldn’t be solved with a talking box filled with maps. But for the last 10 years drivers have had the luxury of global positioning systems that provide accurate directions and travel time estimations from within the comfort [...]
In July 2010, Rackspace, Dell, Citrix, and NASA launched a new open source cloud computing system expected to compete with systems such as Microsoft Azure and VMware’s vSphere. The system is designed to combine public and private cloud platforms. It was called OpenStack and it’s expected to change the world. This system has pulled in [...]
Google Glasses, also known as Project Glass, is Google’s augmented reality glasses. Instead of having to pull out your smartphone to check out your GPS, social network updates, or to make phone calls, you use the augmented reality glasses. The information appears on a small display right in front of your eyes. Google Glasses are [...]
The surge of consumers converting to smartphones is showing no signs of slowing down. According to Horace Dediu of ComScore, 2011 saw over 25 million new Android smartphone users, and the iPhone gained upwards of 9.5 million new users. The rapidly growing smartphone market, coupled with the rapid growth of cloud computing means that mobile [...]
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