Posted by Twain on January 1, 2009

A brilliant 2009 from Always the Twain!

I have extremely good feelings about 2009.

The first person to wish me a “Happy New Year” was my friend, GC, whom I’ll be catching up with in London soon. This Christmas has been another of those great reminders on how lucky I am with the people who’ve known me for years. My Aunt Margaret sent me a very touching letter, my brother’s godfather wrote to say he’s 94 and remains in fine fettle (which completely warms my heart to know), a friend wrote that I’m “special” and that she’d never told me before but it’s true, and my best friend said she really likes the present I knitted her.

In tech terms, we have the launch of these gadgets to look forward to:

·      Android phones (Kogan + Samsung examples)

            

 

·      MSi Wind

·      Nokia 97

·      Intel Classmate PC

·      Zune

·      Asus U6V Bamboo

 

Plus a dream iPhone?

 

TECHNOLOGY PREDICTIONS 2009

Naturally, I trawled the Web to gain some insights and here are the more insightful articles on how the tech landscape is likely to shape up this year:

* http://www.gartner.com/it/page.jsp?id=777212

* http://www.capgemini.com/ctoblog/2008/12/technology_predictions_2009_th.php

* http://cleantech.com/news/3945/nine-clean-technology-predictions-2009

* http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2336693,00.asp

* http://www.cmswatch.com/Feature/189-Predictions-2009?source=RSS

 

TWAIN RESOLUTIONS 2009

I have three simple ones:

(1.)         Focus on Media Sensors tools. 

(2.)         Interact more productively with my friends.

(3.)         LOL and LOL again.