Very Cool New Things

Happy St Patricks Day Everyone!!! Way Cool new shit coming out of Austin Texas this week, if you're not a geek and musik freak, then you don't know about the SXSW (South By South West) Festival that been happening there every year for quite some time now. Every tech company every heard of is here, from IBM and Apple, to little known guys like Xiam. It's an impressive display of technology, for cloud computing and servers, and handheld mobile computing. Let me just give TODAY'S news and it's verrrry interesting.

First off, Cisco Systems has announced it's going to be entering the server market, using Intel's Xeon chipsets, which is a total departure for a company that's known for it's router business. Great for them, more competion for HP is a good thing. Next came Quallcom's announcement that it's partnership with Xiam is going to launch a new mobile carrier service, taking demographic info from GPS and API's and offering adverting based on where you are at any given time and place. So if you're like in say Seattle, and there's a concert there, it'll tell you. BUT, not to be out done now, Google has this Thursday launched it's own Latitude service, which basically does the same thing. Both of course raise privacy concerns, and if one company really succeeds, market dominance. I personally am creeped out by my carrier knowing where the hell I am at all times. Sounds just too Huxley to me.

Along with all that there is Google's attack on the the telecom's (which I just LOVE!!) called GoogleVoice. It could revolutionize what we all know of as phone service. It can handle multiple phone calls on one phone number, work, home, cell, whatever. It allows you to route all calls to a easy to use Voice Mail system, using the Interwebs to handle the calls, even having a voice transcription service that route to your laptop!!!! It puts it in direct competion with Skype, an eBay division, so there will be bloodshed. Again, there is that nagging privacy thing, but hell, I'm posting this through a Google service, so how much can I bitch about it. I actually think of my gmail. in-box as the SAFE one, the one where the spam filter actually works. I'm more than happy with it. Let them take on ATT and the rest now. Let the blood flow. The telecoms all sold out our privacy with the FICA rules, so let them all die!!!! (You wouldn't guess that I'm Irish by this rant would ya???lol)