This is an interesting read on a Google perspective on Mobile computing and the future.

http://googleblog.blogspot.com/2008/09/future-of-mobile.html

The excerpt that interested me the most was…

Sensors everywhere: Your phone knows a lot about the world around you. If you take that intelligence and combine it in the cloud with that of every other phone, we have an incredible snapshot of what is going on in the world right now. Weather updates can be based on not hundreds of sensors, but hundreds of millions. Traffic reports can be based not on helicopters and road sensors, but on the density, speed, and direction of the phones (and people) stuck in the traffic jams.

In my current consulting role, I see interaction with weather sensors, traffic data and other things dealing with transportation.  The thought that we could have devices (like your phone or other connected devices) have a cloud mentality and provide that data back in a collected form to state and local DOT or SHA could be very valuable.  But ultimately the long haul problem will be making heads or tails out of the huge flow of data, but that is what Google is good at right?

Final question though….

Will you like your device talking to other devices?

What if your shower radio started talking to the toaster and the phone about how good you sing in the shower?  What if they started sharing that info with the neighbor’s blender?  Hmmmmm

Picobay Project article

Petscii Forum Article

This is all based on the Commodore DTV plans

Personally, I love anything that people create with old Commodore (Vic20, 64, 128, Pets, etc) hardware. I fondly remember growing up with my Commodore computers. Timex Sinclair was the first one that I played with, but Commodores is where it all really was true programming going on. This is just too sweet! Nice job Jason.

Let it be know that we do not just do computers… we are Apple, not Apple Computers. Ah name changes do nothing about your products… awesome keynotes do that. Especially if you are at MacWorld.

With Jobs keynote speech today being the end all be all of keynotes, Bill should be a little blue today after MS showing at CES yesterday (YAWN).

Can you say:

• iPhone: Get that trademark issue signed off with Cisco.
• iTV: You have to have something to show all that video on iTunes.
• Zune bashing: Its okay Bill it always take you guys 3 tries to get it right.
• “4,000 lattes to go please.”

Maybe yesterday was the day to buy Apple stock?

BG’s call this afternoon: Hey, dump MSFT for AAPL pronto.