Bill Gates used to keep a very clean office (when he ran Microsoft), with lots of technology instead of paper

[Photo: Robyn Twomey, CNN]

Steve Ballmer on the other hand has one of those “Back to you” offices. Seems pretty functional.

[Photo: NYTimes]

Man, does Al Gore have a cluttered office or what? Dig the 3 Apple displays though. What the hell is that frog thing above the TV?

And Dude, cut the paper. Paper = Cutting Trees = Global Warming. Duh!

[Photo: Time Magazine]

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

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

In the past few weeks, Europe announced a slew of proposals on improving the efficiency of:

1. Buildings, applicances and transportation
2. Phasing out incandescent light bulbs
3. Wasteful water pumps
4. Power adapters that connect devices like laptop computers, modems and cordless phones to wall sockets – The enhanced performance standards for external power supplies means the E.U. could save enough electricity by 2020 to power Lithuania for a year. (Wow!)

What are we in the US doing?

• We still don’t have recycle bins in most public places – malls, airports, offices, starbucks (hello?). We have seen these all over Europe.
• Many cities/towns are still not recycling
• Most of our office buildings leave their lights ON all night. What exactly is the justification for that? Can technology not solve it?

Wake up, USA.