{"id":1577,"date":"2010-03-17T09:23:12","date_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:23:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1577"},"modified":"2010-03-17T09:23:12","modified_gmt":"2010-03-17T09:23:12","slug":"tablet_computing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1577","title":{"rendered":"Tablet computing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notionink.in\/\" target=\"_blank\">Notion Ink&#8217;<\/a>s &#8220;Adam&#8221; tablet computer. A real competitor to Apple&#8217;s iPad.  I may even be drawn to it if Apple doesn&#8217;t add such things as a camera or external port options.<br \/>\n<script src=\"http:\/\/player.ooyala.com\/player.js?deepLinkEmbedCode=d4Y2c3MTr9iwnHQNlAbHyNiKVHnNwhvK&#038;embedCode=d4Y2c3MTr9iwnHQNlAbHyNiKVHnNwhvK\"><\/script><br \/>\nA report of a speech by a Google&#8217;s European boss John Herlihy forecasting the future of information\/computing devices, as reported on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.siliconrepublic.com\/news\/article\/15446\/business\/in-three-years-desktops-will-be-irrelevant-google-sales-chief\" target=\"_blank\">siliconrepublic.com<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google believes that in three years or so desktops will give way to mobile as the primary screen from which most people will consume information and entertainment. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s according to Google Europe boss John Herlihy who said that smart phones enhance Google\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mission to make information universal.<br \/>\nSpeaking at the Digital Landscapes conference at UCD, Herlihy said that the cloud-computing opportunity will make sure that every mobile device will be capable of doing rapid-scale applications.<br \/>\n\u00e2\u20ac\u0153In three years time, desktops will be irrelevant. In Japan, most research is done today on smart phones, not PCs,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Herlihy told a baffled audience, echoing comments by Google CEO Eric Schmidt at the recent GSM Association Mobile World Congress 2010 that everything the company will do going forward will be via a mobile lens, centring on the cloud, computing and connectivity.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Notion Ink&#8217;s &#8220;Adam&#8221; tablet computer. A real competitor to Apple&#8217;s iPad. I may even be drawn to it if Apple doesn&#8217;t add such things as a camera or external port options. A report of a speech by a Google&#8217;s European &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/?p=1577\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hypersync.net\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}