Google Envelopes, Beta Of Course

Designers Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik from the Industrial Design program at Syracuse University came up with this concept called Google Envelopes. Wouldn’t it be great to be able to map the course of mail and how it can tell a story? They came up with Google Envelopes, which can be sent through G-Mail itself. It’s only a concept, but totally viable and something people can immediately understand.

Designers: Rahul Mahtani & Yofred Moik

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Mainframe's Future

• Came across a news article in PC World on an survey done on mainframe's future..So, this revives the ongoing debate..
• A contradicting article(to above one) in Computer World on IBM's recent mainframe business 

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Top 10 Strategic Technologies for 2010

An ITPReport news article on a Gartner report on top 10 strategic technologies for 2010. The top 10 are:

1. Cloud Computing
2. Advanced Analytics
3. Client Computing
4. IT for Green
5. Reshaping the Data Center
6. Social Computing
7. Security – Activity Monitoring
8. Flash Memory
9. Virtualization for Availability
10. Mobile Applications

However, two very important observations : One is that all are not new technologies per se and two, most of these have got to do with service sector