The Future
So gmail has got itself a brand spanking new priority inbox. Google promises us that aside from your regular inbox, this one will hold emails that are 'priority'. They calculate this based on emails you read, emails you mark as important and emails you reply to. The theory being, the more you use it, the better it should become at sifting through your mail.
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Get ready to see some strange gobbledegook web addresses. At least if you don't speak Arabic. Web addresses will now be available in Arabic in what is being heralded as a major achievement in opening up the web to non-English/Latin scripts.
The Floppy Disk has had it. Sony is to stop selling them from March, 2011 due to dwindling demand. Sony developed the 3.5 inch disk in 1981, replacing the larger 5.25 inch one that had been in use. But like everything technological, its time was marked.
Facebook mapped out its vision of the future today and predictably it sees Facebook as the center of the online world. Its grand plans include a facebook currency and a vast reservoir of user information that can be used via apps on external websites to make whatever you do a social experience.
The eternal debate and confusion for the average computer user revolves around deciding whether to get more processing power, or get more RAM. Which is best really depends what you plan on doing with your spanking brand new computer. But those days could soon be past.
