Wandering Data

I maintain another blog for material that is more personal and not really suitable for a company site. But every now and then there are topics that could fit into either place, and in the last couple of days I’ve been commenting on a debate about industry concentration and profits in the foggy world of [...]

More things I want. A low-power colour carbon nanotube display. A 5nm-scale CPU.

Some time ago I posted about whether mobile chips of the future would be RISC or CISC architecture. ARM or Intel x86? Now it’s got personal. Some Intel execs took a swing at ARM chips the other day. Unfortunately for them, the ARM chips they swung at were inside iPhones. While Apple hasn’t said anything [...]

Today’s announcement that RIM will provide SQLite support on the BlackBerry here at the BlackBerry Developer Conference keynote is certainly an eye-opener. Several people have asked me what it means for UltraLiteJ (our “SQL Anywhere on BlackBerry” mobile database). So here’s a go at answering that question. The main thing is that SQLite solves half [...]

Starting tomorrow I will be at the first BlackBerry Developer Conference, in Santa Clara. Sybase iAnywhere is a gold sponsor of the event. Lots of interesting sessions; I’m scheduled to talk to a lot of people from other companies; plus get a look at the Storm and the new flip Pearl, so the device side [...]

We won’t know who the PM is until mid-day tomorrow. Will it be minority Tory or Liberal-led coalition? Talks continue through the day until … they fall apart. And it’s back to the status quo. Oh, and the Greens take a single seat as May wins. The nice thing about blog predictions is you can [...]

Remember the US antitrust investigation of Microsoft? The one that accused Microsoft of unfairly using its de-facto monopoly over desktop operating systems to tip the browser and application wars in its favour? Remember when there was discussion of breaking up Microsoft, Baby Bell style, into an operating system company and an applications company? The case [...]

Just getting a couple of devices ready for the BlackBerry Developer Conference in ten days time, and it gave me a chance to compare, in a black box way, the performance of some simple operations on a Bold and an 8800. They are both on Rogers network (3G for Bold, Edge for 8800), although the [...]

More things I want: A device powered by trees. Communications over a lightbulb-powered network.

The Relay Server is new to SQL Anywhere 11, and the UltraLiteJ demo application I just posted uses it during synchronization. I was surprised how much of a difference it made being able to use the same synchronization setup in a simulator and a real device, and whether I was at home or at work, so here [...]