Gordon's Notes

If you’ve ever wondered why healthcare institutions can’t easily share data between computer systems, just take a look at Calendaring in iOS...

It's not the best of times. Long Depression 2.0 grinds on . China is increasingly unsettled -- and it's sitting on one of history...

Google's long, long delayed "Chromebook" is out. ... Google Launches Chromebooks with Samsung and Acer: Tech News and Analysis...

Five years ago, just before Microsoft Vista was released, our household CIO made a strategic decision. We would move to OS X. It wasn't...

We are way past the tipping point if the no contract $149 Android phone is real [1]. The replacement for the $150 ChromeOS Netbook has com...

Jean-Louis Gassée, once CEO of Apple head of Mac development, drops a stunner in mid-column ... The Carriers’ Rebellion | Monday Note ... G...

Steve Jobs is infamous for parking his license-plate free Mercedes in handicapped reserved parking . He's a genius, but I've ne...

When a colleague asked why the iPad runs iPhone OS rather than OS X a wee bulb went off. Kind of like those little bittie bulbs that came wi...

The iPad is more interesting than I'd expected. For one thing, even though it's not cheap when you get memory and a 3G chip, the fa...

I've been gradually working through all the expected and unexpected* consequences of moving in a new machine and sunsetting my 6+ year o...

Charlie Stross is a literate geek who makes a living inventing plausible worlds . That's why he can write one of the best tech posts of ...

I'm going to forget I read that Google imagines Chrome OS machines will sell for $400 . That's clearly a ploy to sedate Microsoft. I...

Wilson Rothman (Gizmodo) has a great essay on Google’s consumption of TomTom, Garmin, and the map data industry . It isn’t just the new Droi...

This rumor is mostly about the Google phone, but that's not the interesting part (emphases mine) ... There Really Might Be a Google Phon...

It's good to learn that Google and Verizon are partnering to deliver better Android devices. That's not surprising though. The surpr...

History repeats itself, first as tragedy, second as farce . Karl Marx. Steve Lyon’s Fake Steve Jobs captured the Chromestellation start...

Years ago most of my computer problems were related to local software bugs. Those were the days before OS X 10.3 and XP SP2. (Ok, so 10.5 wa...

Last December I wrote about Google Chromestellation . I was excited about it . Subsequently Microsoft counterpunched the Netbook gang by giv...

It’s been a few months since I’ve last written about the netbook chromestellation platform (Google Chrome + Netscape Constellation 1996). T...

Peter Burrows almost has it right. He forgets that the iTouch is running OS X (albeit a strange spinoff of 10.x at this time) but he's c...