The Network Administrator

I think without a doubt this is the future of entertainment for us all.

Roku is a little box that allows you to instantly stream tons of entertainment on your TV. Watch movies and TV shows from Netflix, Hulu Plus (coming this Fall) or Amazon VOD, listen to music on Pandora, catch the latest ballgame, and more — it’s all available whenever you want it.

You may have used Google Wave and wondered…So what problems does Google Wave solve?  Will this technology replace corporate Email, Twitter, Face book, or instant messaging?

For many people in order to understand Google Wave you have to change the way you have looked at Email and online collaboration for years. I think it will be years before this becomes mainstream in  corporate culture. Today when a group of people collaborateon a document or  some piece of text it is usually done through a series of email threads with corrections coming in from every direction which makes it really hard to track changes between many people.   When you add a new person to an existing  conversation the message is not forward to them,  they have the same view as the original viewers. I like how easy it is to drag in a document or picture from my desktop whether it be 1MB or 8MB, to often when you send an attachment to recipients there is always someone who has a full mailbox. In the end Google Wave should fix most things that are wrong with email systems today.

Head over to voice.google.com , and request an invite. I requested an account about 2 weeks ago and just was notified today that I could join. So after signing up for my free phone number, i was then about to configure forwarding to my two mobile phones and my office phone and my house phone. When my google number is called all of my forward phones ring!! The international and long distance rates were very good, from within the google portal, i was able to select what number i wanted to call and then Select a phone, two mobile phones and my office phone and my house phone that i wished to use to take the call.

http://www.google.com/googlevoice/about.html

A global program designed to help accelerate the success of early stage startups by providing key resources when they need it the most.

http://www.microsoftstartupzone.com/pages/home.aspx

There has been a lot of coverage on the announcement of google operating system. I have not seen a screen shot of the proposed operating system, but I have to wonder is there a need for this, haven’t we heard or seen this type of idea in the past? For me the ideas of a computer booting to an Internet browser doesn’t sound all that appealing. I know that there are a lot of apps online such as GMail, google docs, etc. I know that there are users out there that will still have a desire to use locally ran apps. I know also that the amount of storage needed locally is diminishing as the amount of storage in the cloud is capable of hosting all sorts of user data. There is no question that the Chrome  OS will be something to run and experiment with, but with Win 7 around the corner, Apples OSX, ubuntu, SUSE, it seems hard to believe there could be room for another OS. Goggles efforts in my opinion would be better spent working on developing a common platform for Windows and OSX to coexist on.

Sometime in August there will be a beta, Web-based versions of Word, Excel, PowerPoint and OneNote as part of its Windows Live service. Companies which sign up for an annual licence for the Office 2010 Standard suite can host Office Web on their own web server via SharePoint

I was introduced to this device a few days ago while browsing online. At first it just looked like a giant iphone. However, after reading about the device it makes sense. I mean how often do MOST people use a laptop to just browse the internet or make quick updates, etc.

This is the first time Microsoft has relied on virtualization to provide backward compatibility.