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Opera CEO wants widgets on mobiles

July 26th, 2006 · Comments

Opera's grand plan for widgets has become a bit clearer with the news that it plans to make its widgets run on mobile phones, TVs, car stereos … anything that can have a screen and a simple processor embedded.
This is potentially a very big leap forward in the mobile browsing space, because it's kinda [...]

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Internet sync: better than sex, sliced bread

July 23rd, 2006 · Comments

OK, I admit the headline is inflammatory: internet sync may not be better than sliced bread. But it is such a useful feature in software that supports it, the mystery is why more developers aren't doing it.
I don't believe that the next killer feature on the internet will be browser-based apps, but rather 'fat [...]

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Goodbye Outlook: hello Google Calendar

April 23rd, 2006 · Comments

It only took me a few days to decide to switch my calendar from Outlook to Google's brilliant new Calendar.
It has always been a pain accessing my work calendar remotely — we're lucky enough at ACP to have the choice of Citrix remote screen sharing or Outlook Web Access, but both have levels of [...]

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