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MaxRoam drives cost/complexity out of international roaming: When combined with an unlocked GSM phone that's also WiFi capable, Cubic Telecom's MaxRoam service shows some promise to dramatically lower the cost of roaming not just for international travelers, but also for those who want to reach him or her. by David Berlind; Tags: David Berlind, MaxRoam, Wireless LANs, Cellular Phones, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, screenshots, software screenshots; Image galleries 2008-01-10
Farewell to ZDNet (and CNET): If you were an auditor asked to examine the human resources records of CNET parent company to ZDNet, you'd discover that even though the company was officially founded in 1992, that there's a handful of employees whose hire dates actually precede that year. My colleague Dan Farber is one...; Tags: Human Resources, CNET Networks Inc., Media Business, David Berlind; Blog posts 2008-01-03
With Office Live Workspace in play, Microsoft's Web-competitors (Google, WebEx, Zoho) speak: It was just a couple of weeks ago that Microsoft finally released the beta of Office Live Workspace OLW -- an offering that many see as as Microsoft's response to the pressure its flagship Office suite is getting from browser-based competitors such as Google with Google Apps, WebEx, and Zoho....; Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Web, WebEx Communications Inc., Collaboration, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Zoho, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-21
Demo: ClusterSeven's Enterprise Spreadsheet Manager tightly monitors spreadsheet integrity: How many times have you stared at the bottom line of a spreadsheet that's full of formulas knowing exactly what figures should be there, only to find that there's a different set of numbers staring back at you than the ones you expected. You know there's an offending cell...; Tags: Monitor, Spreadsheet, Cell, Productivity, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-21
Google Apps 'founder' Rajen Sheth: We dialog with users through new code: Last week, while in California, I had an opportunity to sit down with Rajen Sheth -- the man at Google who is credited with coming up with the idea of Google Apps. That interview, along with a demo of some of Google Apps' more novel features, can be viewed...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Apps, E-mail, Productivity, Microsoft Office, Online Communications, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-20

Chartered to protect the henhouse, has the FTC turned into a fox?: I rarely get e-mail from the USA Today's Byron Acohido who from time to time interviews me for my opinions on tech. But today, Acohido drew my attention to a story that he has co-authored with Jon Swartz under the headline FTC under fire as credit bureaus sell consumers'...; Tags: ZIP Code, Bureau, Database Company, FTC, E-mail, Government, Databases, Online Communications, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Google's GMail product manager: 'User data should never be held hostage': Last week, while in California, I made the rounds, capturing on video as many interviews as I could with interesting people that would be fun to hear from. One of those was Google Gmail product manager Keith Coleman who, in the attached video, gives us a status update on...; Tags: Google Inc., Google Gmail, JavaScript, E-mail, IMAP, E-mail Providers, Internet, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-17
Google/OpenSocial's director of engineering David Glazer unplugged: 'Shindig is live': While at Bebo's launch event yesterday in San Francisco, I had a chance to catch up with David Glazer, the director of engineering at Google who is overseeing the evolution of the OpenSocial framework that the company announced on November 1, 2007. You can see the interview in the...; Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Network, Google OpenSocial, Google/OpenSocial, Social Networking, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-13
With tech titan support, Green Grid to help datacenters go green with measurement standards: With so many tech vendors claiming their solutions to be green and looking for a leg up with customers wanting to be more power efficient with everything from their servers right up to their entire datacenters, one big problem in the industry is a lack of standards on how "green"...; Tags: Data Center, Consortium, Grid, Standards, Organization, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Bebo CEO Michael Birch Unplugged: Facebook apps now run on Bebo, OpenSocial support next: I'm in San Francisco this week making the rounds and, as luck would have it this was not part of our original plan, Bebo.com was running a launch event while we happened to be here in the city. The event took place at the Metreon right in the heart...; Tags: Bebo, Facebook, Google OpenSocial, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-12
Give Mother Earth the holiday gift of freecycle.org. I have.: Taking care of the planet seems like such a big job that sometimes, it seems like it's relatively impossible for us to really make a difference on an individual level. You hear about big issues and how, for example, if we all lowered our carbon footprint by just a...; Tags: Earth, Group, Junk, Recycling, Freecycle.org, Freecycle Network, Membership, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Before buying an HD display, read this lowdown on 720p vs. 1080i vs 1080p: Last week and just in time for any big holiday buying you plan on doing, David Carnoy who works over at one of ZDNet's sister organizations within CNET published what he's calling the final word on 720p vs. 1080p: the two "competing" resolutions for high definition HD television. Carnoy's...; Tags: 1080i, TV, LCD, 1080p, Carnoy, Monitors & Displays, Hardware, Components, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Office Live Workspace narrows Google App gap while playing to MS-Office's strengths: With Web 2.0 being the rage that it is, Web-based productivity software from the likes of Google, Zoho, and WebEx appears to be getting all the buzz while Microsoft which has so far eschewed the idea of a Web-based offering. But if Microsoft's Office Live Workspace, the beta program of...; Tags: Microsoft Office Live Workspace, Google Inc., Google Apps, Document, Microsoft SharePoint, Microsoft Office Live, Microsoft Corp., Workspace, Windows Live ID, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-10
Second Kindle bug hits (not a crash this time) and how Amazon will 'patch' Kindles: Earlier this week, I shared with you a video of Amazon's Kindle ebook reader in a crashed state. It was my first Kindle bug brought on by an attempt to connect it to my PC via USB. While the crash itself hasn't happened again, my Thinkpad T42 refuses to...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., USB, Amazon Kindle, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-07
More reflection on the Kindle: Did Amazon just answer an unnerved media industry's prayers?: This is a replay of a conversation with my father who spent most of his life as a media executive (though not with any company that I've ever worked for). Dad: Oh, you have the Kindle? Me: Yes. It's pretty neat. Raises a lot...; Tags: Media Company, Advertisement, Screen, RSS, Industry, New York Times Co., Amazon.com Inc., Content, Kindle, Times, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Shrewd moves: Will Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its media server wag the Flash dog?: In case you missed the episode of the Dan & David Show that my colleague Dan Farber and I recorded this past Tuesday (early, because Dan is off to Taipei), one of the news bits we discussed was Adobe's 90 percent price drop on its high-end Flash Media Server. ...; Tags: Adobe Systems Inc., Phone, Price Drop, Media Server, Sun Microsystems Inc., Rich Content, Handset, Server, Flash Media Interactive Server, Flash Plug-in, Programming Languages, Internet, Java, Cellular Phones, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-06
Amazon's Kindle: Much needed revolution or book industry power play?: Like Apple's iPods and the iTunes Music Store iTMS from which they can so effortlessly acquire their content, the transparency of the automation and infrastructure that makes Amazon's Kindle work so effortlessly with the Amazon.com Web site is a marvel in terms of the user experience. But the same...; Tags: Industry, Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Kindle, Quality Solutions, Digital Music, Digital Media, Podcasts, E-books, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Internet, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Video: Amazon's Kindle in a crashed state -- must the content be reloaded?: For those of you who have been around long enough to experience some of the earlier PDAs based on flash memory like Palm's initial Pilot and later, devices like the iPaq that were based on Microsoft's PocketPC operating system, then you'll remember what a drag it sometimes was when those...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Video, Amazon Kindle, Corporate Communications, E-books, Pocket PC, PDAs, Marketing, Personal Technology, Handhelds, Hardware, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-04
Amazon 'Kindled' thoughts: Should Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451 be renamed to Fahrenheit 1981?: As you can see from this past Friday's "unboxing" video, I received for review a Kindle ebook from Amazon. In that video and its accompanying blog post, I had some initial thoughts on the Kindle and now that a full weekend has passed I have a lot more to...; Tags: Amazon.com Inc., E-book, Kindle, Montag, Fahrenheit 1981.4, E-books, Personal Technology, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-03
Kodak responds to commentary on outrageous 4 cent per photo shipping charge: Last Monday, I did one of my video Tech Shakedowns of Kodak's online Photo Gallery for what I thought to be outrageous shipping charges for 4x6 prints (a flat rate of 4 cents per photo) as well as a poor user experience (a free shipping option is available on...; Tags: Coupon, Eastman Kodak Co., Photograph, David Berlind; Blog posts 2007-12-03