Mervyn Alamgir on May 31st, 2009

What an exciting week of new technology announcements. Between the Google Wave, Microsoft Zune HD and Hulu Desktop, it is hard to know where to start. If I had to rank them, Wave sits at the top of the innovation richter scale. Here are some of my initial impressions.
Making Sense of Disjointed Discussions
Google made the [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on March 1st, 2009

One of the biggest challenges to innovation is the status quo. While the defenders of the status quo, a.k.a. the short-sighted ones, would like to continue to protect their territories, markets and margins, they are continually being pushed by innovation. Ultimately, the ‘short-sighted ones‘ have to make a choice to embrace innovation or try to [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on January 2nd, 2009

2009 is the year of Android and G1, at least that is my hope. There is a lot of potential in this product, but potential doesn’t get you success or superbowl rings, just ask Tony Romo, T.O. and the Dallas Cowboys. I found a post talking about a Top 10 G1 wishlist which covered the most [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 20th, 2008

I just read Jennifer Bruin’s blog post on an app for the G1 called Wikitude AR Travel Guide. The app employs augmented reality, AR. If you don’t know anything about AR, like me, reading the wikipedia entry is very helpful.  
After reading it, I can think of other ways to employ it for everyday use. [...]

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Mervyn Alamgir on December 16th, 2008

After spending a couple of weeks with the Google Chrome browser, I now can see an advantage of the ‘new tab’ screen that presents your top 9 sites most frequently visited. On the right side you’ll see an image of my top 9 and here is a brief description of my daily Web browsing which [...]

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