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- Is open source communist?
- Is open source Communism in software form? (I had Karl Marx join us to set the mood.)That's the question asked by Kenneth Brown's Alexis de Tocqueville Institution,which draws backing from leading right-wing foundations. Brown has been after open source before.A recent TechWorld column charges his whole argument is a Microsoft...
- Tags: open source, Brown
- Blog posts 2005-03-29
- What can Brown do for you?
- The remarks of new Free Software Foundation executive director Peter Brown on free vs. open source software last week certainly struck a nerve in TalkBack.I interviewed him late Friday, and hope some of his other remarks can stimulate more high-quality dialogue.I opened by asking about my recent piece on Martin...
- Tags: GPL, software, Brown
- Blog posts 2005-02-21
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- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.
- Pulling money out of thin air. Or, why wind power should be a neighborly concern.I guess the video maker is contesting that the polar ice isnt meltingntHe showing that you're dumber than dirtYou don't even realize that the ice displaces more volume than liquid water and the melting makes the...
- Tags: wind energy, neighborly concern, ice, thin air
- Discussion threads 2008-07-19
- Big Brother Getting Bigger Part 2: United Kingdom
- In a move to bring direct competition to the US on who can be the bigger, badder, more blatant Big Brother, the United Kingdom has apparently decided to create a database holding the telephone numbers and email accounts of everyone in Britain. The details of every phone conversation, SMS, and...
- Tags: Phone, Mr., Data Communications Bill, Internet, Storage, Databases, Telecom & Utilities, Hardware, Enterprise Software, Software, Data Management, Nathan McFeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Attacking phishing at the source
- Attacking phishing at the sourceDomainKeys--it's a startNow if mandated changes were in effect 'with teeth' that enforced usage of PGP or GnuPG or S/MIME for signed encrypted email, that would take down the spam to 0%!RE: Attacking phishing at the sourceSince phishing has cost countless pains to so many people,...
- Tags: Spam, Cyberthreats, inactivism, Attacking phishing, restraint
- Discussion threads 2008-07-09
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users lose
- YouTube vs. Viacom: Google's IP wins; Users loseCompetition?Does Viacom think that a 10 minute pixellated clip of a show or movie is really competition for seeing the entire show/movie on a TV or big screen? This is getting ridiculous. If anything, having these clips on YouTube is free...
- Tags: Network technology, NETWORKING, Viacom Inc., Google IP, YouTube Inc., IP, Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-07-03
- Iomega eGo Portable Hard Drive (250GB, Brown)
- The 250GB brown leather is a classy refresh of their eGo external hard drives. Last year, we reviewed the 160GB Cherry Red version for $130. This new eGo gets an aesthetic upgrade and 110 more gigs of space for just $20 more. If you like the look and feel of...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows XP, hard drive, Iomega eGo, Iomega Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-07-02
- Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?
- Are more companies refusing to pay more for green IT?Lets be real..Business is business, the environment doesn't come into play. Switching your company to green is like choosing brown or black carpet - it doesn't matter. The government did this - let them fix it on their bill.
- Tags: Green IT
- Discussion threads 2008-06-30
- Samsung Soul SGH-U900 (unlocked)
- Photo gallery:Samsung SoulThe Samsung Soul (aka the SGH-U900) was one of the stars of this year's GSMA World Congress in Barcelona. Samsung showed it off at a big press conference and huge banners with images of the phone covered the city, from the airport baggage claim to the convention center....
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., phone
- Product reviews 2008-06-24
- Nokia N78 (unlocked)
- First introduced at GSMA 2008, the Nokia N78 is finally making its way to the States. Like the other N series models, the N78 has a heavy focus on multimedia, boasting a 3.2-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics, the ability to record video at VGA quality, an MP3 player, and...
- Tags: GPS, Handhelds, Nokia N78, Nokia Corp.
- Product reviews 2008-06-20
- Cell phone as desktop computer
- Cell phone as desktop computerGood stuffThat is a really good idea and if Microsoft doesn't implement it, someone will like meS. Jobs said something similar not too long agoIn a WSJ interview he said that he thought we'd see most big advances come from "devices" rather than normal computers.The conversation...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Keyboards, Telecom & Utilities, Desktops, phone, computer, cell phone, desktop, desktop computer, docking station, keyboard
- Discussion threads 2008-06-20
- Dell's product lust: Are we there yet?
- Dell CEO Michael Dell mentioned the product lust mantra last year and has come back to it repeatedly in conference calls and analyst meetings. Dell's message: The company needs to improve design and inspire a few 'gotta have that' moments from technology buyers. How is Dell doing?...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Laptop Computer, Notebooks, Microsoft Windows, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Operating Systems, Software, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-20
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discovered
- Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac OS X 10.4 and 10.5 discoveredSurprise surpriseSo many of these, they are dime a dozen for all the operating system out there. Just do a little digging on the IRC channels if you want to see for yourself.RE: Local root escalation vulnerability in Mac...
- Tags: Desktops, Operating systems, UNIX, System 9, Apple Macintosh, X-WINDOWS, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Apple Mac OS X 10.4
- Discussion threads 2008-06-19
- Brown rice, white rice, now GREEN rice
- A major rice grower in California is looking to sell green rice. "Green" as in solar-powered. Of course, like all crops, rice needs sun to grow and ripen. Now Far West Rice, Inc. of Cypress, California, is going to harvest, mill, store, move and bag rice using...
- Tags: California, Plant, PPM, Government, Food & Beverage, Telecom & Utilities, Manufacturing, Harry Fuller
- Blog posts 2008-06-17
- Del Monte Foods: Following the chain of demand
- Del Monte Foods: Following the chain of demandDemand? Hardly.This is an important topic, handled superficially. RFID is not a solution, as your questioner implies, merely a dumb technology with potential to contribute to better in-store visibility, IF proper store-level compliance practices are adopted. Mr. Brown to his credit sidesteps that...
- Tags: Del Monte Foods
- Discussion threads 2008-06-11
- Top-10 Rankings music -bands and artists category in US in April, 2008
- Rank Website Domain Share 1 Coldplay www.coldplay.com 2.53% 2 Def Leppard www.defleppard.com 1.91% 3 The Clayboard theclayboard.yuku.com 1.73% 4 Bill Gaither www.gaither.com 1.28% 5 Chris Brown www.chrisbrownworld.com 1.23% 6 Neil Diamond www.neildiamond.com 1.07% 7 Beyonce World...
- Tags: Music, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Internet, NB
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- News to know: Firefox 3; Patch Tuesday; SocialCalc
- Notable headlines: Paula Rooney: All systems are go for Firefox 3 launch; RC3 needed for Mac OSX only Nate McFeters: What's wrong with an exploit being sexy? Ryan Naraine: Critical IE, Bluetooth, DirectX flaws highlight MS Patch...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Mozilla Firefox 3.0, CIO, Mozilla Firefox, 3G, Apple Mac OS X, Desktop Virtualization, Web Browsers, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Internet, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-06-11
- Del Monte Foods: Following the chain of demand
- Marc Brown, CIO of Del Monte Foods discusses different methods of tracking supply and demand, all the way from suppliers to the warehouses.
- Tags: Warehouse, Channel Management, Marketing, Del Monte Foods
- Videos 2008-06-10
- Del Monte Foods CIO: Marc Brown
- Marc Brown, CIO of Del Monte Foods, talks with CNET News.com's Dan Farber about how technology is helping the iconic food maker understand its business better --- from fruits and vegetables, to canned tuna to its popular line of pet food products. Brown explains how IT helps manage a complex...
- Tags: Food, CIO, Food & Beverage, Manufacturing, Administrator
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- HTC Touch Dual (Unlocked)
- When it comes to touch-screen phones, there are those who dig them and those who want to bury them. And when we say touch-screen phones, we mean the models that largely lack physical buttons, more specifically tactile dialpads and keyboards a la Apple iPhone, LG Prada, and Samsung Instinct. The...
- Tags: Keyboards, Smart phones, Handhelds, Microsoft Windows, Cellular phones, Operating systems, High Tech Computer Corp., HTC Touch, HTC Touch Dual, Touch DUAL
- Product reviews 2008-06-09
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