Made in Israel

Meeting notes by Michael Olson ,
http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.com,
blog http://PleiadesTechnologyFutures.blogspot.com

It is sad to write something bad about a good company, but they deserve it….Probably…

In the Former Soviet Union ( oh, boy, how I love the sound “former” ), whenever we had a political discussion in the family room, we used to rotate a phone dial a half way and fix it in this position with a pen. Why, you may ask? Somehow we believed that it prevented “people who need to know”  from snooping after what we talked about. (Soviet-made rotary phones had a microphones connected directly to the line. ) Someone may call it “a paranoia”, but not the ones who survived “advanced socialism” experience….

May 31, 2007, at Google Developers Day ( GDD07) Google announced Gears – a small AJAX framework that “enable offline functionalities for online applications”. Despite the shyness of publicly declared goals, many believe that Gears is a long expected first step in Google strategy to take on Microsoft dominance.