I like to observe patterns that emerge around me, certainly where technology is involved. The rise of the Internet has pushed many applications from distributed to centralized. Back in the 1990s, we ...

Last month, I discussed how ubiquitous computing meets the criteria that allow it to potentially displace the PC as the information appliance choice for most business users. As I define it, there are ...

In September 1991, Scientific American published an article by Mark Weiser, the then head of Xerox's PARC computer science laboratory, entitled 'The Computer for the 21st Century'. In that piece he ...