BBC Predicts The Upcoming 2008 Technologies Headlines

As internet grows, it’s still not a new technology as some seem to think, just another way to interact with the audience instead of communicate to them, one of the biggest (simplest, but crucial) shortcoming of the web is its accessibility. You need to have connection to stay online.

That’s why the WEB TO GO is gonna boost out of the roof. Giants Google, Adobe and Microsoft has already started with Gears, Air and Silverlight, in that order which all provides web applications offline in some way but all with different approaches;
Google Gears offers users to take we applications to be taken offline.
Adobe Air has an Ebay desktop app that allows you to do much of the legworks offline, and next time you get connected your stuff gets posted on the website.
Microsoft Silverlight offers the reverse - the ability to build desktop applications and allow them to run in a web browser.

BBC continues with the ULTRA MOBILE PC’S those tiny bastards that will fill the gap between PDA and the huge laptop. And as size shrinks, technology arises. Samsung has shown chips that can store 128GB and are challenging the harddrives as the storage of choice on laptops.
Don’t worry, fellow Mac-lovers according to very well informed rumours; Apple is about to launch their ultra-slim Macbook this year.

IPTV is something that hasn’t hit big yet. Mostly because of the slow broadband on mobiles, slowing down the number of users. But as ADSL2+ is launching next year offering broadband with up to 24Mbps, it might just hit big (be sure to watch THIS EXCEPTIONALLY INTERESTING comment on the matter…).

WIMAX is providing high-speed broadband over long distances. It’s already hit big in the US but Europe seem to be more hesitant on the possibility to make an internet free city, as Milton Keynes, England, which was the first Wimax-powered wireless internet city ever.

MOBILE VOIP is basically a way to make cheap phone calls over the internet. It has been running for a while, but is still considered to be embryonic and trailed with doubters. This is despite mobile operators Nokia and 3, who recently launched a Skype phone allowing the service.

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