{"id":8307,"date":"2010-05-03T10:01:24","date_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:01:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/anglicansamizdat.wordpress.com\/?p=8307"},"modified":"2010-05-03T10:01:24","modified_gmt":"2010-05-03T14:01:24","slug":"bumptop-bought-by-google","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bumptop-bought-by-google\/","title":{"rendered":"BumpTop bought by Google"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked on mainframes for over over 40 years, the idea, proposed 20 years ago, that much of a computer\u2019s processing power would be devoted to the user interface seemed to me to be derisory; real computer users don\u2019t need a fancy user interface, they type into a monochrome 3270 terminal.<\/p>\n<p>That is what has happened, of course, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/IPad\" target=\"_blank\">iPad <\/a>is a good example: it doesn\u2019t really do much, but it does it with such flair that both computer nerds and normal people want one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bumptop.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">BumpTop<\/a> outdoes the iPad, it is Canadian, and it has been <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/technology\/story\/2010\/05\/03\/tech-google-bumptop-computer.html\" target=\"_blank\">bought by Google<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Google has acquired BumpTop, a Toronto-based tech startup that built a 3-D computer desktop that makes files behave like physical objects.<\/p>\n<p>Neither Google nor BumpTop disclosed details of the deal, but the Globe and Mail said the purchase price was believed to be between $30 million and $45 million.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><object width=\"640\" height=\"385\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6jhoWsHwU7w&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/6jhoWsHwU7w&#038;hl=en_GB&#038;fs=1&#038;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having worked on mainframes for over over 40 years, the idea, proposed 20 years ago, that much of a computer\u2019s processing power would be devoted to the user interface seemed to me to be derisory; real computer users don\u2019t need &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/bumptop-bought-by-google\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[88],"tags":[2092],"class_list":["post-8307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers","tag-computers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8307\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.anglicansamizdat.net\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}