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Has the marriage of Web and TV finally been consummated?

A week or so ago, Google announced (and started shipping) their Chromecast device, a simple $35 Dongle you plug into any HD TV, to give it Web capabilities. It can stream video and audio from the Web. Excellent. It also basically allows you to view any web content on a TV. Interesting to see this […]

WebRTC now in Chrome Beta for Android

Following Blackberry 10’s support for WebRTC, Chrome beta or Android now supports webRTC, as do Firefox, Opera and Chrome for desktop (and Firefox for Android though not as yet Firefox OS it would seem). A very significant milestone for what many consider a game changing technology. Want to get started with webRTC, you might be […]

The internet of things and The Web of Things

Withings Pulse Image courtesy Gdgt Pulse review The core idea in the Web of Things is to represent the real-world objects as resources and interact with them using Representational State Transfer (ReST) style of communications. In other words, using all the normal tools that we already have for building the various web applications. These tools […]

The fastest growing PC segment is a laptop that is purely web tech based

Remember Netbooks? The low priced, highly portable laptops that seemed to be sweeping the world. Until the iPad pretty much destroyed that category of device. With all the excitement about tablet devices, something interesting has been happening to the humble laptop space. Chromebooks are now the fastest growing segment in the PC market (I guess […]

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