What is a browser?

So Google did their version of Jaywalking to create awareness for Chrome.  See the results for yourself

Filed under: Humor, Technology, Web , Browser, Google Chrome, Jaywalking

What I really want in a smartphone

The smartphone wars amuse me – first there was Blackberry vs. Apple and now Apple vs. Palm. And LG, Samsung, Nokia and Motorola are doing their best – but none of their products has the same cache.

Apple did turn the entire smartphone industry around with the iPhone. Who had heard of apps before that? But, other more important features like email, texting, phone, tasks, memo, calendar, camera, audio….. have been around for a long time.

I get it that some people will find one phone “cooler” than the other. I understand cool. But here is what I really want in a smartphone.

I want a phone that can “true” dock with my car

• and the phone display appears in my car’s LCD screen (which is pretty much underutilized for GPS and car info type activity).
• My phone needs to drive that LCD panel as if it were a monitor and
• the rest of the car electronics (okay, audio) should be controlled through the phone
• and yes, when docked the phone should charge

I want a phone that can “true” dock with my computer

• and i don’t mean as a drive or a connected device,
• but it should extend to the monitor as a parallel desktop and
• I can toggle between my main desktop and the phone desktop
• I would love to not have an email client (outlook/lotus notes) on my computer – but use my phone for that.

since these phone are now computers, I want them to extend themselves to act as such.

In the meanwhile, I will continue to use my Blackberry

Filed under: Innovation, Technology, Web , apple, blackberry, iphone, palm pre, smartphone

Some things not fit to print : New York Times

Even the best of companies have problems sometimes. The New York Times, has one of the best news websites, but well they do have problems too.

Filed under: Web , Gotcha, New York Times, Problems, Web 2.0