Category: Future

Jun 28 2006

Fon (2)

Back in February, I wrote about Fon, a Spanish start-up aiming to build a network of wireless broadband users. Today, the BBC reports (Wi-fi pioneers offer cheap router) that Fon plans to sell wi-fi routers for just $5 (£2.75) – but on condition that users agree to share their wireless connections with other Fon users …

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Jun 22 2006

BIM nice but DIM

Lachmi Khemlani’s latest AECbytes newsletter talks about a new abbreviation. A presentation on building information modelling (BIM) at a recent American Institute of Architects conference derogatorily referred to current BIM solutions (eg: Revit, ArchiCAD) as DIM solutions – Drawing Information Modelling. "Their rationale was that these products are being used primarily by architects for drawing …

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Jun 22 2006

Constructing Excellence

Asite‘s Nathan Doughty attended the Constructing Excellence Building and Estates Forum meeting in Reading on Tuesday (I normally attend these events, but couldn’t go as my wife is in Italy, leaving me to take/collect kids from school, etc). He apparently found it an interesting day, but gave no news on the Avanti project, which was …

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May 08 2006

Ajax and CAD

A few months ago, I posted about Ajax (Extranets to embrace Ajax?, 2 December 2005 – Ajax stands for ‘Asynchronous JavaScript and XML’, by the way), wondering if it might form part of the interfaces of construction collaboration solutions. Last week, courtesy of AECnews.com, I read an article, Ajax comes to CAD, which describes an …

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Apr 18 2006

“Not if, but when: the future is SaaS”

Some commentators, it appears, are prepared to say that Software-as-a-Service will replace ‘on-premise’ as the dominant application software model, according to The Power in the Cloud, an article at ASPnews.com.

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Apr 17 2006

e-Builder CEO interviewed at AECCafe.com

AECCafe.com features an interview by Susan Smith with Jon Antevy, CEO of US collaboration provider e-Builder.com, partly hooked by e-Builder’s recent moves to support Blackberry users (see 10 April post). It’s an interesting article in three ways: it gives a different ‘spin’ on the traditional ‘who are your competitors’ question; it looks at one way …

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Apr 06 2006

Work Wise UK

According to a Silicon.com article, UK telco BT is backing "Work Wise UK", which aims to increase the number of people benefiting from ‘smarter working’ from 3.1 million to 14 million by 2009. "Work Wise Week", 3-9 May 2006, is intended to promote debate between government, unions and UK businesses on styles of working. BT …

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Mar 28 2006

The BIM difference

Do you subscribe to the AECbytes.com newsletter? You should (here – and it’s free). Some of the articles are tremendously interesting. The latest is a piece by Autodesk’s Jay Bhatt which, in a few paragraphs, gives a good definition of building information modelling (BIM) and positions it alongside other developments such as 3D modelling.

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Mar 27 2006

Harvard conference, March 2006 (5)

Perhaps my final note on the Harvard Conference earlier this month (see previous link)…. I recently received a post-conference ‘thank-you’ email sent by Burcin Becerik to all delegates to the event; the email includes a useful link to the conference presentations and other information. The same link also gives details of how to acquire a …

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Mar 27 2006

Distant Vistas

Last week, it was Microsoft Delays Vista, Again; days later, it’s Office Delayed, Along with Vista. Randall Newton advises Forget About Vista Until 2007, quoting an Australian website which shouts 60% Of Windows Vista Code To Be Rewritten. His view: "If you want to take your AEC IT to the next level, my advice is …

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