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Ever since Apple has become the largest IT company, people tend to compare it to Google. This tendency has intensified even more as Google, with the Android OS invaded Apple's turf of smartphones and Internet tablets. But really, these companies should not be compared. Because they are different. They do different things, have different strengths and fundamentally, they do not compete. Google is the company that has indexed the Internet, representing today the majority of information and knowledge of our civilization. They did this, in principle, by creating a computer system different to any other system ever created. Every computer system on Earth works worse, as it grows and handles more information. Google is different. The bigger it is and the more data it processes, it works better. Faster and more accurately. Google has tried many ways to monetize what they have been doing, and so far the most successful for them way to make money has been selling ads as sponsored links. Goo

Recently I have noticed I spend more and more time reading various news flowing down from around thew world over the Internet. Too much time. I have about 30 RSS feeds I have been reading regularly. This is a lot, but bearable, as long as you sit at the computer all day. But when the daily amount of messages started exceeding 200 and I was on the road, trying to catch up in the evening, I decided to do something about this. The decision what to cut is always tough. But after considering all pros and cons, I cut the most busy feeds. The ones generating more than ten messages a day. I feel much better now and I do not have a sense I miss something. Todany the information sources, especially the popular ones, are redundant. When something important gets posted on, say, engadget.com, it is soon retweeted or reposted somewhere else. So good bye Engadget, good bye Slashdot, good bye Ars Technica, and good bye Wired. Ditto LinkedIn. I am no longer interested somebody of my 200+ contacts chang

There have been thousands of discussions about Microsoft and how it loses the edge and market share. And about The Cloud - how important is the strategy of migrating services and applications from personal computers and local area networks to the Internet. So here is my idea. Microsoft should start selling PCs. What? You will ask. PCs? Software company selling hardware? Well... Not exactly hardware. I mean selling personal computers as a service. For $20 a month. A Windows 7 desktop hosted in Microsoft data center, with all applications, including Office Suite, fully configured. They have all they needed. The effective and proven Remote Desktop protocol. The needed licenses for Windows and Office (of course!). The server infrastructure. Just make the client applications available on any platform. For Androids, iPads, Flash and so on. And make a complete product. With storage space plans, applications, security and support the client front end on anything that has screen and can connect

The product of the year 2010. The company of the year 2010. The CEO of the year 2010. Nobody has any doubts the 2010 was the year of the iPad. The magical and revolutionary iPad. The device that has changed mobile computing paradigm. Watching the iPad 2 event last Wednesday I kept on thinking... what the hell...? So little? After a year? Same screen. Just a few minor OS software enhancements. A little lighter. Faster, but was anybody complaining the iPad 1 was too slow? Where is Flash on this powerful dual core processor? Where is the active bezel supporting gestures and virtual buttons? Where is the high resolution display? Brightness control? Improved automatic brightness? Wireless synchronization and peer to peer content transfer (still can't move pictures from my iPhone to the iPad...). Where is three-finger sweep switching between active applications? How about improved selecting of text and copy / paste? I think Apple has deliberately put iPad on a slower lane. It is becoming