Ambition Technology Blog

With this week’s announcement of the 4^th generation iPhone and the recent release of the iPad, Apple now looks well placed to lead the pack in the mobile computing world. Finally adding mulit-tasking, respectable push email services and document editing abilities, these two ultra desirable personal products can now seriously compete with the likes of the Blackberry’s of the business world (although I’m still baffled and annoyed by the lack of Java support!). In recent years, this technology has revolutionised mobile office functionality, to the point where it is very easy to work and communicate when on the move. Proving their popularity, it is almost impossible not to see these devices in the hands of every commuter on their way to and from work. Here at Ambition we are a recruitment company, therefore staying connected and contactable to each individual client and candidate is essential to our successful business, and these devices are radically increasing our service levels.

So where do we go from here? Originally published in a 1965 paper by Intel co-founder Gordon E Moore, Moore’s Law states that the number of components in integrated circuits used within any electrical device had doubled every year since these circuits were invented. Amazingly this law has proved precisely accurate to this day, allowing all electrical devices to shrink in size yet increase in power on a regular and predicable basis. While it remains hard to envisage what electronic products we will all be communicating with and utilising in the years to come, it is clear that they greatly increase our abilities to service our client and candidate requirements.

I personally believe that now we have the technology, it’s how we use this technology combined with the way in which we control it that will see the greatest change over the next 12-24 months. Android powered devices are being released in numerous different forms, its open source development community proving very popular indeed. Expect to hear the term augmented reality more and more, where your view of the physical real-world environment is augmented by virtual computer generated imagery. Early adoptions of this already exists in simple form and are now available to purchase for our mobile devices. Currently slated for release in October, Project Natal from Microsoft looks set to dominate the technology headlines towards the end of the year (controlling a computer with simple body movement and speech, no input device required), and if it works will fundamentally change the way we communicate with and use our personal computer products.

While much of this new technology has been commercially available for some time, it is only now that we are experiencing the power to fully exploit it. Considering Project Natal is initially launching on the Xbox 360, a product that is already 5 years old, I for one cannot wait to see what products we will be using on our new mobile computers in the years to come.