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- Podcast: Oracle's customer-inspired 11g, Larry gets FIOS, Samsung's gadgetfest, VMware's IPO, and more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, my colleague Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber who is on vacation and the first order of business is a review of Oracle's 11g announcement. Larry was present for the festivities earlier this week in NYC and sees merit...
- Tags: Wired & Wireless, VMware, virtualization, Verizon, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Personal Technology, Open Source, Office 2.0, Microsoft, Intel, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, EMC, Dan &, David Show, Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-07-13
- On tap: Mashup Camp where I'll be posting video of cool mashups and CNET will be recruiting
- Mashup Camp and Mashup University at the Computer History Museum in Silicon Valley are just around the corner. I'm heading out to Mountain View on Saturday to put the finishing touches on the event. University starts on Monday and includes a great lineup of classes starting with an introduction...
- Tags: Berlind, General, Mashup Camp
- Blog posts 2007-07-12
- One week until Mashup Camp in the Valley: Discuss, hack, compete (great prizes), & party
- Only one week remains until the fourth Mashup Camp and Mashup University are set to start at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, CA. Over the last year and a half, Mashup Camp has grown to be the unofficial official social and technical gathering for everyone with an...
- Tags: ~ Events ~, Web Technology, Utility computing, Software Infrastructure, SaaS, Mashup University, Mashup Camp, IT Management, Innovation, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, Berlind, Apple
- Blog posts 2007-07-09
- eBay's new APIs: Harbingers of the Net's commerce operating system to come?
- Yesterday, as can be seen from the video we captured a part of eBay's senior director of Disruptive Innovation Max Mancini's keynote address at the eBay's Developer Conference in Boston, eBay made a series of announcements. Among them, the release of two new APIs that developers can use as they...
- Tags: Yahoo, Software Infrastructure, Salesforce.com, Innovation, Google, General, Enterprise 2.0, eBay, E-commerce, Berlind, Amazon
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee waxes on "pixels everywhere"
- Using Boston's Fleet Center (now, the TD BankNorth Garden) as the classic example of where pixels have replaced ad stock, earlier this week at a MITX Technology Awards Ceremony, Web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee talked about how there will be pixels everywhere and also of how those pixels may very...
- Tags: Web Technology, Software Infrastructure, Semantic Web, Personal Technology, Mobile, General, Berlind
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Podcast: HP pretexters get wrist-slaps, the mortally wounded copyright, Red Hat seeks threesome with Microsoft, and Tellme more
- This week on the Dan & David Show, ZDNet executive editor Larry Dignan fills in for Dan Farber and we cover the four biggest news stories of the week so far. While the world looks for ways to bridge the digital divide, Microsofts attempts to close the gap between computer...
- Tags: Novell, virtualization, YouTube, Hewlett-Packard, Red Hat, VMware, Microsoft, Google, Linux, Berlind, Hollywood on Demand, Entertainment, Software Infrastructure, Podcasts, Dan &, David Show, General, Open Source
- Blog posts 2007-03-14
- The French Disconnection (a.k.a. Vous n'êtes pas un YouTube journaliste)
- Lawmaking in France continues to be an enigma. When the country first looked like it was on the verge of forcing Apple to open up its FairPlay digital rights management scheme, lawmakers eventually settled for a toothless policy that accomplished nothing in the end. Now comes this from Macworld:The French...
- Tags: Berlind, Blogging, General, Government, Legal
- Blog posts 2007-03-06
- The New Yorker looks into HPGate
- Worth reading: James B. Stewart, most recently the author of DisneyWar, investigates HPGate, Hewlett-Packards misguided pursuit of boardroom leakers, for the The New Yorker. He doesnt shed much new light overall on HPGate in his article, to be published tomorrow, but provides some perspective and fresh details, such as on...
- Tags: General, Legal, Berlind, Hewlett-Packard, Hewlett-Packard Co., Patricia Dunn
- Blog posts 2007-02-11
- Is someone not doing their homework at the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation?
- If you read a recent LA Times article the way I did, then its apparently more difficult that it seems to do the world good without relying on a bit of evil. In what appears to be a deeply researched article by Times staff writer Charles Piller, The Bill and...
- Tags: Berlind, General, investment, Microsoft
- Blog posts 2007-02-09
- Larry Rosen takes the Internet Engineering Task Force to task over patent policy
- Larry Rosen, the man who wrote the book on Open Source Licensing, has penned an open letter to the Internet Engineering Task Force IETF regarding the formalization of a policy that paves the way for patented technologies to become IETF standards. The IETF is the organization that sets the standards...
- Tags: General, Open Source, Legal, Berlind, Internet Engineering Task Force
- Blog posts 2007-01-23
- The $600 iPhone: One expensive blade (as in razors and blades)
- According to Jagdish Rebello, director and principal analyst with iSuppli, the sky-high prices of Apples 4GB and 8GB cell phones cant defy gravity for very long. According to News.coms Michael Kanellos: The consulting firm on Thursday released an analysis of what the total component budget will likely be for the...
- Tags: General, Personal Technology, Berlind, Apple, Motorola, Apple iPhone, blade
- Blog posts 2007-01-19
- Mashup Camp: Geeks plot future of Web
- David has been at Mashup Camp 3 in Cambridge this week. Martin Lamonica of news.com was there and filed a report, about geeks plotting the future of the Web. As Chris Radcliff, a Web developer at Eventful, put it: "This is taking the SOA idea and applying it to...
- Tags: General, Web Technology, Mashup Camp, Berlind, Web
- Blog posts 2007-01-18
- Full moon in the Valley? SalesForce and TypePad both down.
- Its 12:30 AM on the east coast and I cant help but wonder whats going on on the West Coast. Both Salesforce.com and Typepad are down.Apparently, trying a few moments later isnt working. Meanwhile, TypePad is having problems of its own (the right side of this partial screen shot is...
- Tags: General, Software Infrastructure, Web Technology, Berlind, TypePad, Full Moon
- Blog posts 2007-01-12
- On the fifth day of Christmas, Microsoft gave to me Rrrrrrrrrr Ssssssssssssss Sssssss?
- Just when you thought youd seen it all, Microsoft has apparently applied to the United States Patent and Trademark Office for a patent on the Really Simple Syndication protocol RSS. The blogosphere hasnt worked itself up into a tizzy quite yet. Although Dave Winer has already posted a Tale of...
- Tags: RSS, patent, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, Microsoft Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-12-21
- 2006: The year in pictures
- I put together a slide show with some of my photos taken throughout the year at various events. The collection is somewhat random and Ill probably add a few more as they surface from deep within my hard disk. If you have pictures that capture some unique moment in the...
- Tags: Oracle, AMD, Intel, Hewlett-Packard, SAP, Search, SaaS, Google, Microsoft, Berlind, Apple, Entertainment, Office 2.0, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Hardware Infrastructure, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, General, IT Management
- Blog posts 2006-12-19
- Mashup Camp 3 at MIT all tee'd up and ready to go (and registration is open)
- It hardly seems like a year has passed since the idea of a Mashup Camp first crossed my mind. But thats exactly how long it has been since I first shared the idea with a few other people the day after I attended some after hours events that were being...
- Tags: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, mashup, Mashup Camp, Mashup U.
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- Message to TV broadcasters banding together against YouTube: Remember Go.com
- Yesterday, I was interviewed by Amy Scott on NPRs Day-to-Day show and the subject of the interview was a Wall St. Journal story that reported on how, in true the enemy of my enemy is my friend fashion, a bunch of television broadcasters are considering a joint Web venture that...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Go.com, YouTube Inc., TV network, TV, network, advertisement, Web
- Blog posts 2006-12-13
- I guess "squirting" (a la Zune) didn't turn out to be so fashionable
- Its no secret that since its first weeks out around Thanksgiving, Microsofts Zune iPod-killer isnt exactly flying off the shelves. Today, News.coms Ina Fried reports that Microsoft appears poised to reach deeper into its warchest in hopes of driving more buyers to Zune:...now that the music player has spent a...
- Tags: Microsoft Zune, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft, Apple, Berlind, Hollywood on Demand, Entertainment, Wired & Wireless, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-12
- If this "personalized spam" can scale, we and the Net are in very big trouble
- Its been quite a while since I covered the topic of spam from a technical point of view. I used to go deep on the issue. I would propose potential solutions, vet other ones, and tell readers why most of the ideas they were coming up with -- for example,...
- Tags: spam, Berlind, Security, Software Infrastructure, IT Management, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-11
- Yahoo shakeup, SAP's ecosystem, Open XML, iPhone and more...
- This week on the Dan & David Show, we discuss the recent shakeup at Yahoo, the latest in the HPgate scandal, the substance of SAPs analyst summit, standardization of Microsofts Open XML format, and whether Apples rumored iPhone can succeed. David starts off the show talking about his ZDNet new...
- Tags: podcast, iPhone, Open Source, IT Management, Personal Technology, Software Infrastructure, Wired & Wireless, Web Technology, Dan &, David Show, Legal, Berlind, Apple, Search, SAP, Yahoo, General
- Blog posts 2006-12-08
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