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- Celebrating 27 years of the Compact Disc: Does anyone really care?
- Today is the 27th birthday of the Compact Disc, and I hate to say it, but I think this medium is getting a little old. Perhaps 27 years in CD time is actually like turning 87 in human time: it had a good go in the...
- Tags: Sony Corp., CD, Disc, Orchestra, Jennifer Bergen
- Blog posts 2009-10-01
- Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)
- Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Congratulations!You've won today's best SSID award: bottnet!:)RE: Simplified wireless networking (A deep dive into Windows 7)Microsoft Engineers told me back in 1994 that the mission was to go to some kind of subscription format if possible and if not they will...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Wi-Fi, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows 7, wireless networking, Microsoft Windows Vista, wireless, Microsoft Windows, network, operating system, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2008-11-18
- Verizon, AT&T delivered free cell tower to McCain ranch
- Verizon and AT&T installed portable cell towers for the sole benefit of Cindy McCain, who suffers from poor cell reception at the McCains' 15-acre ranch near Sedona, Ariz., the Washington Post reported last night. The McCain campaign reacted angrily: ...
- Tags: Lobbyist, Verizon Communications Inc., AT&T Corp., John McCain, Cell, Cindy McCain, Professional Development, Career, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-10-16
- What's on Obama's iPod?
- On 15 August I posted a piece about what's on Michael Phelps' iPod (spoiler: lots of hip hop). Over the weekend I came across a piece in thew September issue of Macworld magazine about What's on Obama's iPod. The story which quotes The Examiner article offline says...
- Tags: Apple iPod, Obama, Digital Music, Digital Media, Personal Technology, Consumer Electronics, Jason D. O'Grady
- Blog posts 2008-09-02
- A peek into Silicon Valley and beyond . . .
- I enjoy being a journalist and reporting on the business and culture of Silicon Valley. Most of my reporting is done the traditional way, with a notepad and pencil. Increasingly journalists have to do more, carry a camera, do podcasts, run video. Software engineers have to...
- Tags: Silicon Valley, Tom Foremski, Journalist, Video, Corporate Communications, Marketing
- Blog posts 2008-08-26
- Saying goodbye to ZDNet
- Saying goodbye to ZDNetAgreed, Where I noticed a problem..I think a while a go most of the blogs referenced ZDnet News Articles, then after a while the ZDnet blogs began to reference other blogs and now the News articles are becoming harder to find and less informative. This is...
- Tags: Blogging, ZDNet Blogs, New Web Site, blog, blogger, goodbye
- Discussion threads 2008-03-27
- Encyclopedia of American Cinema. FREE first chapter in the trial version (Mobile)
- This illustrated Encyclopedia includes biographies of the best American directors and actors, reviews of the best American movies, and lists of awards. FREE first chapter in the trial version.Features Fully illustrated. Search for words or phrases. Navigate from Table of Contents or read page by page Add Bookmarks Text annotation...
- Tags: Cinema, Mobile, Biology, Director, MobileReference, American
- Software downloads 2007-09-27
- My "Most Contrived Tech Awards" awards and the SearlsPearls API
- As a long time tech journalist, Ive also been in the "awards" business for a long time and as such, I often marvel at the process, the methodology, and the urge to do technology awards. Dont get me wrong. There are definitely some well-deserved awards that are based on rigorous...
- Tags: Web technology, Legal, General, IBM Lotus Notes
- Blog posts 2006-12-20
- All Along the Watchtower
- Where to begin...First, I'm chatting with Dan Farber about what's going on this coming week. He mentions Mashup Camp on Wednesday and Thursday, which I'm registered for, and a Sun announcement on Tuesday, which I'm not. Sun continues to befuddle me: its CEO, Jonathan Schwartz, lists this blog on his...
- Tags: Dave
- Blog posts 2006-07-09
- Who do you trust more than Microsoft?
- Who do you trust more than Microsoft?That 'd be a sightHmmm, Ed eating his blog... You are just looking for an excuse to start up a new blog. :-)Ianwell to your questionwho do i trust more that microsoft, everybody i would put more trust into my...
- Tags: Blogging, blog, Microsoft Corp.
- Discussion threads 2006-02-28
- Bad guy detectors and ID
- Bad guy detectors and IDWhat would be the point?If it's just ID - not database backend - what's the point?ID cards should be about identity, nothing more!All the "biometric" part of a card should do is to verify that the person carrying the card is the person named on the...
- Tags: National ID card, card, Bad Guy, database
- Discussion threads 2005-12-12
- Having fun yet
- I missed the TechCrunch BBQ because of a previous long-standing commitment--a San Francisco Jazz Festival appearance by an old acquantance, Marcus Miller. In his own way, Marcus represents the same kind of transference of an elegant age to the new generation that Dave Winer has shouldered by his return to...
- Tags: Marcus Miller
- Blog posts 2005-10-23
- Comparing code bases
- Comparing code basesThe trouble isyour proposed comparison would do exactly what the legal standard rejects: compare functionality. Two implementations of the same specification would come up as similar.My favorite example is sort. I can write dozens of different implementations of gnu [b]sort[/b] with identical external behavior, yet they're...
- Tags: Desktops, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, UNIX, Insurance, PC industry, AT&T Corp., Ritchie, patent
- Discussion threads 2005-07-22
- The "Top Ten" most inexcusable failures of technology?
- Just about everywhere you look on the Internet, in newspapers and magazines, and even on TV, you'll see new and innovative products being showered with accolades and awards. As a former lab director at Ziff Davis, I was a part of the testing and reviews engine that hoisted great products...
- Tags: telephone, E-MAILS
- Blog posts 2005-04-08
- HP files lawsuit over discounts
- HP files lawsuit over discountsIf you're "losing" money, bring the prices down for the rest of usSo vendors over charge us 40 billion a year because we're not big enough buyers? And then they claim they LOSE the money if we get it cheaper? Sounds like the RIAA's...
- Tags: Marketing research, ARE, Hewlett-Packard Co.
- Discussion threads 2004-09-02
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