January 2008
Privacy Matters. EU initiative goes global. →
“An atom contains a lot of empty space. The nucleus is like a football and the...”
– BBC Atom Documentary.
“A human hair, which is one of the smallest things, we humans can detect, is 1...”
– BBC Atom Documentary.
“$9,6 Billion in Revenue.”
– Apple Earnings Report 2007
“$16,37 Billion in Revenue,
$6,4 Billion in Profits,
Microsoft is Banking over...”
– Microsoft Earnings Report 2007
“Hey there, people, I’m Bobby brown
They say I’m the cutest boy in...”
– Bobby Brown
WatchDon’t see this. Never.
“The only good news is that since MySQL is an open-source initiative, an...”
– John
“No, we won’t do that. In the so-called smart phone business we will...”
– Bill Gates was asked about the future and whether or not his company will ever release a a proper competitor to the iPhone by Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung.
“Cadillac then started making very long pink cars, with enormous fins on the...”
– Cadillac CTS-V Review
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“Barbarians are like children, unable to speak or reason properly, cowardly,...”
– Barbarian
“Living in the city and buying an off-roader is like permanently wearing a condom...”
– Jeremy Clarkson for BMW X5 2007
“First mooted as long ago as 1995, the TT was nothing more than a...”
– Jeremy Clarkson for AUDI TT 2007
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“Gates always seems to be in his element when he’s crushing Borland or...”
– John
“By now, you will have heard all about the new Apple iPhone. You will have been...”
– Jeremy Clarkson
The 2008 Ultimate Tech Predictions
1: Generally speaking nothing important will change this year. Microsoft will still be No1 in the OS market, Apple will still remain Fashionable and Cool, Google will still be the Search Giant. US journalists' mediocracy will fail to present good stories in an election year.
2: Windows applications will change w/ WPF. This will be the most important thing since 1995. Applications will stop being light beige with menus and tree views. Expect 3D graphics, more color and a lot of transition effects. Silverlight will have no effect at all this year.
3: Blizzard will rock the Universe w/ a New Diablo game, a new expansion for WoW and ads firstly in MMORPG games will expand the web-ads market by 50%.
4: Social networking will blow up. They will transform to platforms and will eventually die from a standard that either Google or Microsoft or Yahoo will create.
5: Open ID will be adopted on many websites. Real people won't notice.
6: PS3 will take over the world w/ Metal Gear Solid, and GT Pro Logue. The Metal Gear Movie will help in that direction.
7: E-commerce will have another bubble, because Europe finally woke up and people will start buying more and more online. Many think that India will be the protagonist this year, but I think that Europe will steal the show. Expect no less than good stuff.
8: Green technology will expand in expensive cars. The New 7-series I bet will be "green". Certainly not an uneconomical, impractical, puny hybrid. BMW knows how to do things right.
9: Nokia's new mobile phones will all make the N95 look like a dinosaur. The "After iPhone" era Nokia phones will be like the Windows 95. They will make a monopoly like perfection.
10: The 10th prediction is always the crappy one. So I say: The web will transform from an "English website" to a multilingual useless environment. People who create a translation algorithm that works inside a browser like a plug in (or anything similar) will be the New Google. I hate one-language-oriented(English) programmers.
