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- ZDNet Author Biography
Jason Perlow is a technologist with over two decades of experience with integrating large heterogeneous multi-vendor computing environments in Fortune 500 companies. A long-time computer enthusiast starting the age of 13 with his first Apple ][ personal computer, he began his freelance writing career starting at ZD Sm@rt Reseller in...- more about Jason Perlow »
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- Slicing up Sun
- Being employed by a large technology company and being a freelance technology writer has its pitfalls -- one of which is from a disclosure perspective, I'm not allowed to talk about strategy and forward-looking statements regarding the company I work for. The risk...
- Tags: Sun Microsystems Inc., Storage, Open Source, Processors, Servers, Hardware, Semiconductors, Components, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-03
- Why Grandma Sandy and Aunt Roz don't want an HDTV for Christmas
- Answer: Rectangular peg, Square Hole. With the prices of HDTV's plummeting, one would think that people would be rushing to buy new sets, particularly with the analog TV mass-extinction event coming in February. But the reality is, many people have no intention...
- Tags: Cabinet, HDTV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-12-01
- Christmas and Holiday Cards for Geeks
- A Christmas card for your Web Designer friends from CafePress. The UK's Daily Telgraph has published a list of top 11 Christmas and Holiday Cards for Geeks. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. Got any other...
- Tags: Card, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-28
- I want an iPhoneStormDroid
- Wind River's Multicore Software Hypervisor solution permits multiple embedded OSes to run on a single device. Wouldn't it be great if you didn't have to actually choose between an iPhone, a BlackBerry, or a Google Android? What if all those device operating...
- Tags: Device, Operating System, RIM BlackBerry, Operating Systems, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-25
- Android netbooks? Wouldn't it be loverly?
- Once again, fellow blogger, Jason Perlow, has hit on a concept entirely useful to business users, but perhaps even more useful in education. The idea of an Android-based netbook isn't entirely new, Jason hits the nail on the head in his post: What we really should...
- Tags: Education, Developer, Google Inc., Novell OpenSuse, Jason Perlow, Android, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2008-11-24
- Why Apple and Google need to get into the Netbook business
- This crappy photo-edit of a fairly standard netbook design illustrates the power of Apple branding. ZDNet Editor in Chief Larry Dignan recently picked up a Dell Inspiron Mini 9 Ubuntu Netbook and pinged me for tech support questions regarding his new toy --...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Apple iPod, Operating System, Apple Inc., Wireless, Android, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-22
- We Got GMail Themes!
- Oh Joyous day! COLOR!!!!! Click on the photo to enlarge. Just a few hours ago, Google rolled out its Themes feature to my personal GMail account. I have to say, this is a really cool addition -- while GMail's spartan look...
- Tags: Google Gmail, Theme, E-mail Providers, Cloud Computing, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- Sex, Rock and Roll, and Open Source Reporting Frameworks
- Actuate 10 and the Eclipse-based Open Source BIRT framework allows you to build rich reporting applications for your enterprise. Click on the photo to watch a video of the software in action. The title got your attention, didn't it? ...
- Tags: Reporting Tool, Actuate Corp., Open Source BIRT, Business Intelligence, Open Source, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-20
- UPS saves $30M and goes Green with new HP printing and scanning handheld
- UPS partnered with Hewlett-Packard on the new sp400 All-in-One wireless handheld laser barcode scanner combo that can print directly onto packages, which saves paper and streamlines UPS's shipping processes. With all of the news of major corporations losing vast amounts of money...
- Tags: United Parcel Service Of America Inc., Hewlett-Packard Co., Package, Handheld, Worker, Printing, Scanners, Document Management, Hardware, Peripherals, Enterprise Software, Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-18
- Kindle Economics
- A few weeks ago I evaluated Amazon's Kindle. While I really liked the device, the big problem I had with it was that at its current price of $359.00 it was too expensive at this point for mass consumer adoption. I also had a number of...
- Tags: Cost, Semester, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Amazon Kindle, E-books, Microsoft Excel, Personal Technology, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-16
- Preparing for a Flickr Apocalypse (Updated, with Yahoo response)
- What would happen to my food blog and precious memories if suddenly all 12,000 of my photos were suddenly to disappear off Flickr? Tuesday's posts by ZDNet's Janice Chen and SAAS Blogger Phil Wainewright scared the living crap out of...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Flickr, Photograph, Flickredit, Blogging, Internet, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-14
- Fujitsu gets dense and secure with mobile hard drives
- Fujitsu's latest 2.5 inch 5400RPM 500GB hard disk, the MJA2 BH On Tuesday, storage manufacturer Fujitsu Computer Products of America announced their latest series of mobile hard disks, raising the capacity bar for laptops with their 2.5-inch MJA2 BH and MJA2 CH series...
- Tags: Hard Drive, Mobile, Fujitsu Ltd., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Storage, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-13
- AT&T and RIM: Alienate your repeat customers with "Early Upgrades" and overpriced devices
- $399.00 PLUS an "Early Upgrade" charge? WTH? As some of you are aware, I am a BlackBerry user. For the most part, this is not by choice -- I could certainly get by with another mobile device such as an iPhone 3G or...
- Tags: Research In Motion Ltd., AT&T Corp., RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry Bold, 3G, Handhelds, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-11
- Can we finally realize Alan Kay's Dynabook for $100?
- The Dynabook. Source: A Personal Computer for Children of All Ages, Alan Kay, XEROX PARC 1968. November 5th, 2008 was the 40th anniversary since computer scientist Alan Kay devised the "Dynabook", a theoretical computing device which was aimed toward higher education and...
- Tags: Device, Student, Alan Kay, Dynabook, E-books, Ooa/Ood/Oop, Personal Technology, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-09
- America loses its moral technologist: Michael Crichton
- Author, Producer and Director Michael Crichton, 1942-2008. Photo: Associated Press With election week and coverage of other events such as the Microsoft PDC and the latest Windows 7 builds, many of ZDNet's readers may be unaware that one of America's most...
- Tags: America, Fiction, Biotechnology, Nanotechnology, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Emerging Technologies, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-06
- Google: it's time to get Real
- In my previous post, I alluded to some of the issues that might prevent an average consumer -- "Joe Sixpack", John Q. Public, or Jane Doe from migrating to Linux on the desktop. One of them, without any doubt, is the lack of a way to...
- Tags: Google Inc., Apple iPod, Apple Inc., Apple iTunes, Digital Music, Linux, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-05
- Linux: The Joe Sixpack Strategy
- On the surface, it would appear that a slowing economy might pave the way for increased Linux and Open Source software adoption by the unwashed masses, those who may want newer software than what their current XP system provides but don't want to pay the high...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Google Inc., PC, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-11-03
- Kill the data loss monster once and for all
- What's scary this Halloween - or anytime? Putting your personal and business computing continuity at risk. With the inexpensive data resiliency and backup solutions available, you don't need to be the victim of a bad horror movie. by Jason Perlow
- Tags: Data Loss, Business Computing, Backups, Jason Perlow, Hard Drive, Solution, Data, Mirroring
- Blog posts 2008-10-29
- Taking Ubuntu Ibex on vacation
- Humacao, Puerto Rico. Where Ubuntu Ibex will be put to the test. Well, it's time for little rest and relaxation. As of Saturday, I'm officially on vacation for a week -- the Gantt charts, the Visios, the component models, the time sheets,...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Vacation, Linux, E-mail, Operating Systems, Software, Online Communications, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
- Kindroid: Two great tastes that would taste great together
- Yesterday Google released the source code to their Linux-based Android operating system for mobile devices, which currently powers the T-Mobile G1 Dream smart phone. To date, no other consumer Android-based device has been released, and no new Android-based device has been pre-announced, but there is currently...
- Tags: Software, Google Inc., Mobile, Network, Amazon.com Inc., Hardware, Amazon Kindle, Android, Wireless LANs, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-10-23
White Papers and Webcasts
In this video we hear from Sudip Chahal, Principal Engineer with the Intel IT Enterprise Architecture Group, talking about a new white paper from IT@Intel, "Evaluating Two- and Four-Socket Server Virtualization Platforms."
