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The past century was filled with optimistic predictions of how quickly technology would progress. What few glimpses into the future that have proven remarkably accurate came not from IT visionaries, but from advertising firms.

Cydia and Installer.app have long been on the iPhone, offering a selection of jailbroken Apps for iPhone users who aren't content to stay within Apple's tough boundaries of what it can do. Recent news is that Cydia, and others plan on offering a Paid app sevice just like the app store. These will obviously violate Apple's terms of service.

But Apple should embrace their customers desires for these "rogue" apps in order to kill the alternative app stores rather than trying to fend them off with legal threats. Here's how:

Is Craigslist really breaking the law, or is it simply dartboard fodder for a dangerously conservative political movement that could stifle freedom on the Internet?

When software is dangerously buggy, it's good to have a backup application around, sort of like a spare tire in the trunk.

My blogging compatriot Steven J. Vaughn-Nichols notes that Google CEO Eric Schmidt has been hinting that Google may release a Google netbook based on its mobile operating system, Android. That's old news to Microsoft: In late February, Steve Ballmer told Wall Street analysts that he fully expects Android-based netbooks.

America's new CIO, Vivek Kundra, is a huge Google Apps fanboy. Finally, someone who gets it! Or at least someone who thinks like I do.

The current model of companies hosting their own messaging and Apps is going to go by the wayside over the next five years. The recession is only going to exasperate the move to online Apps. And Google is the biggest catalyst in this arena.

Most useful link of the week may be from the federal courts in northern California -- one that spells out exactly how to keep information that's supposed to be removed from showing up in a Word or PDF file.

Here are some sites that feature robust discussion about the Navy's first Littoral Combat Ship, the USS Freedom.

There's been lots of speculation that Google might launch its own Linux-based desktop operating based on its Android. Now, Google CEO in hinting that that's exactly what Google might be doing.

In a special IT Blogwatch Extra, Richi Jennings watches the growing disquiet over Microsoft's TomTom patent lawsuit. Not to mention what Darth Vader finds disturbing...

This pilot fish works for a manufacturer that uses aging automated systems that are already paid for -- and in this economy, it has no interest in trading up.

Doctors don't like those negative comments online. Now some want to prevent patients from posting. Good luck.

Apple's browser team should feel humiliated by the lack of attention and respect Safari gets from SaaS developers.

Elektrobit will reportedly launch a new satellite phone this year that should cost about the same as an ordinary smartphone. And it should look and work like one, too.

Unlike other satellite phones, which tend to have ginormous external antennas, Elektrobit's Windows Mobile device has no visible antenna.

The phone reportedly runs on HSDPA, quad-band GSM/EGPRS and satellite networks. It should have a touch screen, 3-megapixel camera and integrated GPS, and support Bluetooth, Wi-Fi and MicroSD. 

In the last few weeks I’ve seen an alarming number of clients have to “let go” of employee(s).  Because I work with employers in a wide variety of industries, I can attest to the fact that there are few businesses that haven’t been impacted by the current economic downturn.  When I read Julia King’s Computerworld piece "Layoff backlash: Five steps to protect your business from angry ex-employees", I was reminded