Windows 7 outshines Vista (not hard), Linux still in peril (hard luck), and the Mac App Store launches (hard sell)
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 5 January 2011
Last year saw Linux fight free of one legal morass, and perhaps right into another; Microsoft take another swing at replacing XP; and Apple bring the App Store model to the desktop.
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Data will be in the driver's seat, social tools will become ubiquitous, and the meaning of privacy will be debated.
by Mike Loukides
| @mikeloukides | 3 January 2011
Mike Loukides says Hadoop, real-time data, the rise of the GPU, the return of P2P, social ubiquity and a new definition for privacy will all play important roles in 2011.
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The calendarsphere will be another collection of small pieces loosely joined.
by Jon Udell
| @judell | 22 December 2010
A blog feed is just a special kind of web page. Anybody can create a blog and publish its feed at some URL. Why not calendars too?
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Java's wild ride, multicore drives functional, and a look at how the usual programming suspects stacked up in 2010.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 22 December 2010
This year brought confusion and chaos in the Java space, continued growth for functional languages due to the attack of multicore, and the usual popularity for all of the dynamic languages we know and love.
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Our look back at 2010 starts with the year in mobile.
by James Turner
| @blackbearnh | 15 December 2010
The past year brought new success for Apple, a breakout for Android, a windfall for lawyers, and app stores galore.
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Kinect + open drivers + MIT = the future of UI.
by Mac Slocum
| @macslocum | 10 December 2010
A marriage of Kinect and the creativity of MIT has led to this: The first baby steps toward "Minority Report"-inspired interfaces.
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