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Comment on Who will challenge Google? by David Fendrich

David Fendrich — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 09:38:10 +0000

When Microsoft was dominant, no one thought they could be challenged either. What happened was not that they were challenged, but that they were slowly becoming obsolete as OS began to matter less and web more, just as local apps matter less and web apps more. Google filled this void and became the new place were the smartest programmers wanted to work.

The next Google will not challenge them, but conquer a new frontier. I don’t know what that frontier will be, since Google are already strong on, for example, the mobile web.

Two guesses:
1) An OS for home robotics.
When/if humanoid robots invade our homes, it will be beneficial if the software that runs the hardware is standardized across robots. What you want is a universal app store (quite like the one on iPhone) for adding capabilities to your robots.

A robotic OS would need both drivers for common hardware and high-level libraries for walking, image processing, speech recognition, etc, so that the apps have a solid common ground to build on.

2) Artificial General Intelligence
A company like Ben Goertzel’s http://www.novamente.com or Jeff Hakwin’s http://www.numenta.com will some day achieve general intelligence. Since general intelligence is… general.. in nature, it will be applicable to an enormous variety of problems, and the one to get there first will probable be huge.

Comment on The time for OLED is now (and in the future) by Wayne E. Busbee

Wayne E. Busbee — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 02:08:19 +0000

Reading on Kindle is so seamless that since buying it I have not held a physical book in my hands. It is a wonderful reading experience. The two things I like the most: (1) very easy on the eyes because text on the flat screen is crisp and the text size adjustable, and (2) almost instantaneous look-up of any word via the built-in dictionary. If the dictionary feature was not available, I probably wouldn’t have bought this device. The other features like taking notes and the text-to-speech robo-voice are nice but really not that important.

I wouldn’t be surprised if in five years most books are read on Kindle or similar e-book devices. The Kindle reading experience is much superior.

Comment on Maglev (Magnetic Levitation) Trains, 500 km/h by Maglev

Maglev — Mon, 05 Oct 2009 15:04:42 +0000

The maglev has great future indeed. I just wish the politicians would care about long term investments as well, although clearly it is not their priority..

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Comment on Comparing Skype, Rebtel and others by CaroKann

CaroKann — Wed, 13 May 2009 18:22:06 +0000

It seems to be good enough. You need to start an application and call from it. A small obstacle in my view. I compared the prices to Rebtel and the rates from Rebtel was somewhat lower for the calls I used for comparison. The good thing are the free WiFi to WiFi calls that Vopium offer. In the end it is all about taste and the specific calls you are going to do!

Comment on Comparing Skype, Rebtel and others by Lena

Lena — Wed, 13 May 2009 11:34:55 +0000

Mobile VoIP is one of the best I think, because it provides upto 90% cheap calling rates, I used different VoIP like jajah, truphone, Vopium and Skype, but Vopium is best because it supports more than 500 devices with good voice quality.