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What is the future of communication?

What is the future of communication?

My rant from Yesterday made me think about the future of communications. Currently, we have e-mail, SMS and IM as the three dominate forms of non-spoken electronic communication. I poked around the Net and landed on a press release from Gartner about the mobile messaging market. The numbers blew me away. They estimate mobile messages will exceed 2 trillion messages in 2008. This is close to a 20% increase from 2007 levels. I did not find estimates, from sources I…

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Future of Software

Future of Software

I was looking at recent press releases and new articles about the future of software development. It looks like the industry is moving towards hosted applications as the model of choice. This I find very interesting as it is a major divergence from the traditional fat client. I am not a programmer in any way, shape (well maybe – 😉 or form. I do not know the back end work and how much of a change it is at the…

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