Info Tech

Flexible E-Paper: Plastic circuits drive paperlike displays: Science News Online, Jan. 31, 2004 Something Tom Willner brought to our attention. Cool, but can you line the bottom of a birdcage with it?

Wireless Week – Wireless And The Consumer Electronics Revolution This article maintains that wireless, digital technology is sweeping rapidly into people’s homes and their lives. The devices and services will keep on coming with new features emerging regularly. It’s also changing culture with new channels and expectations for staying connected.

IM and P2P Security This is a good article on the effect of IM in the workplace. Although I don’t agree 100% with the writer. I think open IM systems such as Trillian do much more to boost office productivity than to hurt it. However scare tatics are what sell. So I understand why the article is slanted that way…

Okay. Now it’s official. WIRED magazine’s cover story for February is about offshoring, so it must be for real. The article, “The New Face of the Silicon Age,” is pretty interesting with interviews of IT types in both India and the US. But the author, Daniel Pink, emphasizes this is about the global economy, not just IT. Eventually Pink gets ...