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SCAMP Presentation

Gavin — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 14:54:54 +0000

Great set of talks yesterday, some really interesting stuff.

I believe the everyone’s deck will be available at the SheSays SCAMP web page, or you can grab mine below.

Download: SheSays Presentation Deck (PDF 1.05MB)

Speaking at SCAMP

Gavin — Thu, 01 Jul 2010 10:24:11 +0000

I’m looking forward to be speaking at SheSays UK’s event SCAMP this afternoon. I’ll be talking about how the digital world is becoming more and more visible in the physical world. I’ll be covering everything from out door displays to holograms and internet enabled 50′s technology.

Tickets are sold out, but I’ll post the presentation up later.

Nokia Feeling the Sat-Nav Pressure

Gavin — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 13:40:19 +0000

Nokia has announced a free map service for it’s handsets. It’s previous mainstream service only allowed basic information and they charged for additional features. This was one of the things that turned me away from Nokia. But their new Ovi map service offers this and turn-by-turn navigation for free. They even claim that developers will be able to create “mash-ups” and applications for the new platform.

Seems to me that Nokia have felt the growing pressure of free map services from it’s competitors and jumped on the bandwagon. I think this is a little late in the game, but they are a very trusted brand and could just pull it back from the edge.

I wonder what TomTom will do next????

Oracle buys Sun Microsystems

Gavin — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 12:30:34 +0000

Oracle has stepped up and bought Sun Microsystems after IBM walked away last week. Although the $7.4bn price seems quite cheap for Sun. But I guess they’re not what they used to be.

The move has been pitched as the first company to provide a full application to disk integrated system. Oracle in a box basically. I think it’s a great move. One of the world’s best database systems running on designed hardware will make for truly awesome performance.

One thing that seems quite underplayed is the fact that MySQL is now in the fold. I predict MySQL appliances running on cheap, optimised hardware. This would work great in the budding cloud computing market.