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Object of desire
Business
The virtual keyboard diary
F
irst featured on US crime series use and comes complete with an elegant 21 January 2010 – London
CSI: Miami, this keyboard with no leather pouch, which might make you feel a
The Total Cost of IT
An opportunity for industry professionals to
keys is now available to purchase, bit better about the £104 price tag.
discuss the cost and value of IT systems, with
beaming the latest in sophisticated The downside is that the battery will only
contributions from users, analysts and advisers
technology straight to your fingertips. run for about two hours, enough for most
About the size of a standard mobile, the commuters but awkward for the secret
28 January 2010 – London
Grant Thornton Quoted Company Awards
i.Tech Bluetooth Virtual Keyboard connects agent on the move. The plus points are
One of the City’s most prestigious events, the
to your computer or phone and uses infrared greater usability for those who find it
Awards highlight outstanding smaller companies
and lasers to project a life-size image of a difficult to navigate the fiddly keys of a and offer the perfect environment for networking
keyboard onto any flat surface. Its optical PDA or smartphone, the keyboard’s
7-12 February 2010 – Southampton
recognition negligible weight and the Bluetooth facility,
Kaplan Hawksmere’s 5-Day MBA
mechanism which means that you don’t have to mess
Designed for senior managers and directors.
enables the around with wires (so passé).
Business XL readers can secure a 30 per cent
user to tap on That said, the keyboard does depend on
discount. Contact Paul Godson on 020 7960 5619
or paul.godson@hawksmere.co.uk
the projected your being able to find a flat surface on
key images, which to project the image, which probably 25 February 2010 – London
producing real means this is one gadget that scores more
Rosenblatt New Energy Awards
typing sounds. highly for novelty than practicability. But it
The Natural History Museum plays host to the
cleantech community’s premier awards and
The virtual will make you feel like a crime scene
networking event
keyboard investigator as you answer the latest email
Unless otherwise stated, contact Jenna Parker on 020 7250
disappears from your FD about compliance with
7043 or jenna.parker@vitessemedia.co.uk for more details
when not in international accounting standards. ■
The next big thing…
Google Wave
T
he latest open-source project to A user creates a ‘wave’ and adds people
come out of Google (following to it. Others can insert replies or edit the
mobile device platform Android wave directly. Unlike with instant messenger
and web browser Chrome), Google Wave tools, you can see what someone else is
promises a new concept in personal typing keystroke by keystroke, not just
communication and collaboration. when they hit the send button. Another
‘We asked ourselves what email might look facility enables you to “replay” the wave to
like if it was invented today,’ explains Lars see how it built up.
Rasmussen, software engineering manager at Google Wave has been launched only
Google and one of two brothers who also in a limited preview version and the
worked on Google Maps. programmers are hoping developers will use
The Rasmussens argue that email, which the open-source platform to create their own
predates the internet by more than 20 years, and online collaboration tools. It’s not such a applications. Already, you can solve Sudoku
is looking distinctly anachronistic, basically new concept in the business world – there puzzles together or plan trips with Lonely
mimicking age-old “snail mail”. Their are already platforms around that do very Planet or Google Maps. It remains to be
solution is a web page that combines features similar things – but this is being pitched very seen, however, to what extent Google Wave
of email, instant messaging, bulletin boards much as a consumer proposition. will replace simple old-fashioned email. ■
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