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- Negroponte's big lie
- Negroponte's big lieWhy act as though this is some surprise?My god, people here were saying this from the start and were treated with the "they aren't in the industry so how the heck should they know" attitude.Anybody could drop a new car off in the middle of the desert, the...
- Tags: Negroponte
- Discussion threads 2008-05-20
- Why HD movie downloads are a big lie
- Why HD movie downloads are a big lieYupGeorge, I think your conclusion is probably in general correct but your analysis is flawed and the problem is overstated.You need to address different compression algorithms, and how they can be tuned. For example, I believe you could have a very high...
- Tags: TVs, TV & Home Theater, Monitors & displays, Consumer electronics, LCD TV, specification, HDTV, HD-movie download, big lie, HD-movie, DVD
- Discussion threads 2007-05-31
- China: We don't censor the Internet. Really
- China: We don't censor the Internet. ReallyChina: We don't censor the Internet. ReallyI have lived in Beijing for 5 years. In that time I have never, ever been able to access BBC News or any of their related sites. I reckon that every day on average there are 5 sites...
- Tags: Big Lie, Communism, British Broadcasting Corp., Internet
- Discussion threads 2006-10-31
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- LaCie's 5big Network offers five drive bays, up to 7.5TB storage
- LaCie is bringing its distinctive aesthetic sense to small business networked storage with its new 5big Network device, which offers—surprise—five drive bays and up to a whopping 7.5 terabytes of capacity. If that's still not sufficient (or you want to back up what's on the 5big Network), the included USB...
- Tags: Network, LaCie, RAID, Storage, Hardware, Sean Portnoy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Hoping for AppleTV update at Apple's notebook event
- The clock is ticking toward the big Apple event - you know, the one where the company is expected to announce the sub-$1,000 notebook and/or a new design to the MacBook line and/or the move into Nvidia's graphics chipset and/or something altogether different. (Dontcha just love the Apple rumor mill?)...
- Tags: Notebook, HDTV, Apple Inc., Apple TV, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over
- Being a CEO today just stinks. The economy is melting down. No one trusts each other. And the chieftains don't even know if their customers will survive. What's this mean for your technology department? A lot of upheaval and perhaps one big do-over that starts in 2009. ...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, CEO, Technology Department, Pricing, Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Strategy, Databases, Enterprise Software, Marketing, Software, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Free national Wi-Fi? Pardon me not holding my breath.
- In today's Wall Street Journal, reporter Amy Schatz writes that a proposal to create a free, national wireless Internet service got a boost after Federal Communications Commission engineers "concluded that concerns are overblown about such service interfering with other carriers." Which is all well and good, except...
- Tags: FCC, Airwave, Wireless Internet, Federal Government, Wi-Fi, Wireless LANs, Wireless, Government, Andrew Nusca
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- The candidates on tech
- Wired has the obligatory candidates-on-tech piece today. They look at five key tech issues – broadband, H1B, green tech, net neutrality and spectrum – although TechPresident notes the list is not comprehensive and conceivably is biased towards Obama. Here's the breakdown. Broadband. McCain: D....
- Tags: Industry, Broadband, John McCain, Net Neutrality, Spectrum, Obama, H-1B, Telecommunications, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- IT warning: Turbulence ahead
- The technology budget is on the skids. The business types don't quite get IT (and by the way you don't get them either). And amid all this turmoil all you have to do is keep your infrastructure humming and solve the 25 most contentious business-technology issues by the first half...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Silverlight 2 is released, available for download tomorrow
- Microsoft announced this morning that Silverlight 2 will be available for download tomorrow. So after a long beta period that included big events using Silverlight including the Olympics and the DNC, the bits are going to be out there. The press release includes some impressive numbers: ...
- Tags: Microsoft Silverlight, Silverlight 2, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Linux, Open Source, Marketing, Operating Systems, Software, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Open source protectionism?
- I just caught a rather interesting piece by fellow blogger Dana Blankenhorn on the subject of the "value and values" found in open source ecosystems. Near the end, he references an article on InfoWorld which questions whether it is wise to "protect" open source development by mandating its use at...
- Tags: Open Source, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Why MySpace's MyAds won't be the next Google AdWords
- When it comes to online advertising everybody wants to be the next Google, and News Corp-owned MySpace is no exception. Today the company rolled out its latest advertising platform called MyAds, designed to service "individuals and small businesses" rather than the big name brands that the social networking site's existing...
- Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Google AdWords, MySpace, Steve O\'Hear
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or worse)
- Gartner analyst Mark McDonald late Sunday laid out the chief information officer agenda for 2009 and the big theme is that tech executives need to make a business difference or fade away. Why? Companies have other options--software as a service, cloud computing and shared services--that could deliver more value than...
- Tags: CIO, Information Technology, Gartner Inc., McDonald's Corp., Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- News to know: Wimax; Tech economy; Microsoft's big brains; Apple
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Jason Hiner: Beyond mobile broadband, WiMAX is about blowing up the wireless business model Larry Dignan: Gartner's CIO pep talk: Make a difference or be automated (or...
- Tags: NVidia Corp., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., WiMAX, Wi-Fi, Wireless, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- Sun's latest server packs a punch in performance while using less power
- Sun Microsystems, along with Fujitsu, is introducing a compelling new energy-efficient server platform that is intended to address heavy-duty tasks such as server virtualization, consolidation or even something like Web 2.0 database transactions. The SPARC Enterprise T5440 server line runs on the UltraSPARC T2 Plus architecture with...
- Tags: Performance, Sun Microsystems Inc., Servers, Hardware, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-13
- New green certification program helps keep kitchens out of the frying pan in terms of environmental waste
- Haven't had much occasion to write about Microsoft in this blog as extensively as some of the other big hardware-oriented tech players, but this item was pretty intriguing, because it's a great lead-in to some other cool information I briefed on about a month back. Here's the...
- Tags: Food, Kitchen, FoodServiceWarehouse.com, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Heather Clancy
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Response to financial crisis may mean more IT work ahead
- Governments all across the world are responding to the current financial crisis with a range of nationalization initiatives, and increased support of various parts of the financial services industry through guarantees and pumping in increased liquidity. You know what it means when there's more government involvement with...
- Tags: Financial, Information Technology, Industry, Enterprise Architecture, Strategy, Regulations, Financial Accounting, Management, Government, Finance, Joe McKendrick
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Apple HDTV ... why not, it's just a big iPod!
- Valleywag's Jason Calacanis believes that Apple is working on a networked HDTV. Why not, after all, Apple has the expertise in all the areas necessary to pull this off. by Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Tags: Apple iPod, HDTV, Apple Inc., Valleywag, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Home Entertainment, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
- Blog posts 2008-10-12
- Report: Three Intel Nehalems in November
- Intel will launch its first three Nehalem processors on November 17, according to a report on the site Expreview.com. These Bloomfield high-end chips will include the 3.2 GHz Core i7-965XE ($999), 2.93GHz Core i7-940 ($562) and 2.66GHz Core i7-920 ($284). Nehalem is manufactured using the same 45nm...
- Tags: Desktop, Mobile, Intel Corp., Chip, Nehalem, Server Processor, Chipsets, Semiconductors, Processors, Network Technology, Hardware, Components, Networking, John Morris
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary Flake
- Microsoft Big Brains: Gary FlakeThe Live products keep getting betterI am a Microsoft programmer who does web and normal programming. The web programming tools are getting better and better. But, Popfly is an example of the way that the web can be used for both programming and for...
- Tags: Channel management, PRODUCTIVITY, Web, Popfly, tool, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-10-10
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