Bring on the Connected Devices

As an Information and Knowledge Management professional, I've been proselytizing the connectedness of electronic devices for years. Yes, I do want my refrigerator to be connected to the Internet. I want the flat screen monitor on the freezer to alert me to accidents before my morning commute, food recalls before my kids eat it and grocery lists before I go shopping.

I want the microwave, oven, dishwasher and toaster to send me an email before they break, or start a fire, or leak water all over the floor.

I've been using Windows CE, or rather, Windows PocketPC, or rather Windows Mobile for years. I don't think that is the way to go. Android on the other hand has all the open-source goodness that makes stable, compatible, configurable, friendly, operating software that just works.

Hooray for the G1 Android phone. I'll give an even bigger hooray for the GD1, the first Android-powered garage door opener.

Google Chrome is on the Way

PC Magazine does it again.

Google releases a new open source browser that completely revolutionizes the way Mozilla and IE have been doing things since the Web was a few pages and PC Magazine misses the point.

Google Chrome does for the web what multithreading and preemptive multitasking does for PC applications the the oldsters go "so what."

PC Magazine does not get it in the same way that PC Magazine does not foresee the demise of the PC. The days of inserting your application floppy in one drive and your data floppy in the second drive are past. So are the days of viewing a single static html web page in a browser application.

Instead of taking time to write how much the next innovation sucks, why don't you spend time writing about how the current technology sucks and demand innovation...