Monthly Archives: August 2008

Google to launch app marketplace for Android

Posted on August 29, 2008 by jnousis

Less than 10 days passed from my article “The future of operating systems” where I was suggesting that there are three more companies to launch app marketplaces (Google, Microsoft, Nokia) and Google made the move and announced the Android app … Continue reading →

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Your personal archive.org library

Posted on August 27, 2008 by jnousis

The last few weeks I have been using a site called Iterasi. It is a social bookmarking website but with an interesting twist; it let’s you save a snapshot of any website and view it later. In other words, instead … Continue reading →

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Amazon Elastic Block Store launches

Posted on August 20, 2008 by jnousis

Amazon has just launched EBS (Elastic Block Store) which allows anyone to attach persistent, high-performance, high-availability block-level storage to an EC2 instance. For me basically this is the end of hosting to traditional companies and from now on all our … Continue reading →

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The future of operating systems: my point of view

Posted on August 20, 2008 by jnousis

In the last few years there have been many changes in the world that were so expected that only few people talk about how they will change the future of personal computers. First of all I would like to summarize … Continue reading →

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