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The Age of the Smart Things

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It’s almost a New Year – 2011 – and already the Next Big Thing is upon us. Actually that’s ironic since the Next Big Thing is all about things, Smart Things. Refrigerators that scan bar codes and tell us what we have, which items we need, send shopping lists to our networked printers and suggest [.

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The Time of Doing

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According to a recent statement by Bing, Microsoft’s search engine answer to Google, search is no longer about looking for knowledge about something. It’s about getting something done. It’s all about know-how. According to a recent Fast Company article, “The idea behind features like this, say Bing executives, is that search is no longer simply [.].

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Are You Analog or Digital?

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Faster than a speeding blog post. More powerful than a retweeted tweet Able to leap small Internet Service Providers in a single bound. Look! Anywhere in Cyberspace! It’s a message. It’s a meeting. It’s VMman! Yes, it’s VMman – Virtual Manager – strange visitor from another generation who came to Earth with powers and abilities [.].

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