Tech wisdom direct from the NTG team.
We've got Yammer fever at National Technologies right now. It's a strong contender for first place among our favourite Office 365 collaboration tools, and we think it might be what pushes Office 365 over the edge as the number one cloud service for businesses.
Since 2006, the number of devices connected to the Internet has outnumbered the number of people on the planet. In 2010, the number of objects connected to the Internet totaled 12.5 billion (1.84x the amount of people).
In radical social media news, LinkedIn is adding a blocking feature to its site. LinkedIn is finally falling in line with other major social networks like Facebook and Twitter after significant pressure from users for a block button, including a petition with 8,500 signatures.
Google's Privacy Policy is one of the creepier sides to Gmail. Signing up to Gmail means consenting to a Terms of Services agreement containing some dubious fine print. Namely, signing up to Gmail means giving Google permission to scan and collect data used for targeted Google advertisements.
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Nobody tell Steve Jobs, but somewhere in obscure scientific history, someone actually invented the smartphone in 1902.
As it turns out, a Serbian-born physicist in America named Nikola Tesla was dreaming of the wireless world before the Blackberry was even a passing thought in a geek’s mind. Tesla, a small-scale physics genius, wrote this outrageous little tech fantasy in his notebook at the turn of the century:
