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Great Firewall hearings in a nutshell

Just one more post on the Great Firewall of China hearings, from the daily email of the Mercury News' Good Morning Silicon Valley. Worth a read in its entirety: Given a choice, representatives of four big tech companies probably wouldn't be spending the day sitting in...

Tags: Chris Smith

Blog posts 2006-02-16

Rep. Smith readies bill aimed at companies doing business in China

When Google announced its censor-friendly Chinese website, it unleashed a political firestorm that is still gearing up. None of the Big 3 search companies nor Cisco was willing to turn up for an informational briefing last week but a hearing on Wednesday will not be so easy...

Tags: Reporters Without Borders, Chris Smith, House Subcommittee

Blog posts 2006-02-13

Congress lambastes Net companies for selling free speech cheap

With all the buzz around Google's China portal ("new filters make the Web whiter and brighter than ever!"), the debate over what Net companies do to get along with the Chinese government turned overtly political. A Congressional hearing took up the issue, with of course no power whatsoever to do...

Tags: Chris Smith, House International Relations

Blog posts 2006-02-02

Google will face Congressional hearings over China

So much for the good feeling engendered by the company's refusal to give search data to the U.S. Department of Justice. Google's headed for a Congressional showdown because it chose to censor its new China portal. Rep. Chris Smith (R - N.J.), chairman of the International Operations and Human Rights...

Tags: Google Inc., Chris Smith

Blog posts 2006-01-25

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Enterprise 2.0 2009 Conference: Aggregate and Organize

I finally made it to Boston for the Enterprise 2.0 conference with my record intact. That record would be that I have NEVER in 15 years of flying to Boston a hundred times, NEVER, repeat again, NEVER been on time both ways.  This one was resolved quickly because my flight...

Tags: Paul Greenberg

Blog posts 2009-06-24

TechCrunch50: Day 1

When Michael Arrington and Jason Calacanis team up on a project, the webs are bound to be shaken up. Last year, their conference TechCrunch40 was an enormous showcase for startups to present their idea to venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and the press. This year,...

Tags: Google Inc., Facebook, Advertisement, Marissa Mayer, Entrepreneur, Video, MySpace, Qik, Meghan, Arrington, Vitamin Water, Calcanis, Mahalo, Blueprint Multicore, OpenTrace, E-mail, Entrepreneurship, Corporate Communications, Online Communications, Management, Marketing, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-09-08

PBA Bowling (Mobile)

Let's Get Ready to Roll! The biggest name in bowling, Professional Bowlers Association, makes its mobile phone debut with Concrete Software in PBA Bowling! Choose from realistic bowling balls and lane conditions while enjoying a full 3D environment.Test your bowling skills against a long list of the internationally recognized professional...

Tags: Mobile, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-07-25

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the most

Microsoft's geeks might miss Gates the mostBrilliance = Techie + Financial ManagerialI think one of the reasons Microsoft has been so succesful is that Bill Gates was adept not necessarily the best at both spectrums: the techie and the business side. Witness General Motors under the "Smith" bean counter tenure:...

Tags: Microsoft Windows, Recruitment & Selection, Mergers & Acquisitions, Microsoft Corp., Bill Gates

Discussion threads 2008-06-26

China says it's incapable of hacking Reps' computers

The folks who brought you the Great Firewall of China and the Golden Shield are wholly incapable of breaking into the cyber-fortress that is the U.S. House of Representatives. So they say. Accused by U.S. Reps Frank Wolf (R-Va.) and Chris Smith (R-NJ) of hacking into their...

Tags: U.S., China, Computer, Productivity, Hacking, Security, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-06-12

PBA Bowling 1.0.8 (Mobile)

Let's Get Ready to Roll!The biggest name in bowling, Professional Bowlers Association is now available for your mobile device!Choose from the most realistic bowling balls and lane conditions. Enjoy full 3D environments and motion enabled throwing technology phone must have a camera.Test your skills against a long list of the...

Tags: Mobile, Motion, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-15

PBA Bowling 1.0.8 (Mobile)

Let's Get Ready to Roll!The biggest name in bowling, Professional Bowlers Association is now available for your mobile device!Choose from the most realistic bowling balls and lane conditions. Enjoy full 3D environments and motion enabled throwing technology device must have a camera or accelerometer.Test your skills against a long list...

Tags: Mobile, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-15

Bill would penalize companies that aid net censorship

The Global Online Freedom Act, introduced by Rep. Chris Smith (R-NJ), would penalize companies who facilitate other countries censoring the Internet. Call it the anti-Yahoo law. "American high-tech firms have produced the technology and know-how that has led to a modern-day information revolution," Smith said...

Tags: Olympic Games, Beijing, Internet, Internet Service Providers (ISPs), Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-02

PBA Bowling (Mobile)

Let's Get Ready to Roll! The biggest name in bowling, Professional Bowlers Association, makes its mobile phone debut with Concrete Software in PBA Bowling! Choose from realistic bowling balls and lane conditions while enjoying a full 3D environment.Test your bowling skills against a long list of the internationally recognized professional...

Tags: Mobile, Games, Advertising & Promotion, Personal Technology, Marketing

Software downloads 2008-05-01

Ubuntu's corporate ready 8.04 is released but is three a crowd in Linux server market?

Ubuntu 8.04 LTS was released on April 24 as planned and will be supported until 2011-2013. But is extended support enough to convince ISVs and businesses to support three Linux distributions? Despite the hoopla around its release Wednesday, Ubuntu’s ambitions in the corporate server space will be...

Tags: Ubuntu, Linux Server, Linux, Open Source, UNIX, Operating Systems, Servers, Software, Hardware, Paula Rooney

Blog posts 2008-04-24

Jump Point: Data-control, day-parting and success in any age

Tom Hayes has written a new book, Jump Point, that will get you thinking. Jump Point combines the freeconomics ideas recently covered by Wired's Chris Anderson with a globe-spanning perspective on competitiveness, but, most importantly, suggests that the impact of technology is a trailing phenomenon. In other words, when it...

Tags: Hayes Corp., Jump Point, Internet, Supply Chain, Leadership, Strategy, Business Operations, Management, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-03-17

Is Nintendo about to challenge Jenny Craig?

Guest post: Chris Matyszczyk investigates the power of Nintendo's Wii and virtual gaming to improve the health and well being of society. Depending on whose statistics you prefer to disbelieve, between 15 and 25 percent of American children are overweight. The causes seem evident...

Tags: Chris Matyszczyk, Fact, Games, Nintendo Co. Ltd., Nintendo Wii, Personal Technology

Blog posts 2008-02-16

Why Microhoo: To stop the Google machine

I am on the conference call with Steve Ballmer CEO, Chris Liddell CFO, Kevin Johnson President PSD, and Ray Ozzie Chief Software Architect. Chairman Bill Gates is sitting this one out, a sign of his pending departure from the day-to-day grind in Redmond. We have...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Yahoo Stock, Data Centers, Research & Development, Microsoft Office, Social Networking, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Business Operations, Office Suites, Software, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Dan Farber

Blog posts 2008-02-01

Telecom immunity bill advances in Senate; Dodd promises filibuster

The battle over telecommunications immunity continued Monday with a Senate vote, 76-10, to advance for a floor vote a bill protecting the companies from lawsuits relating to cooperation with national surveillance efforts. The Times reports that most Democrats voted to move forward, as a bid by...

Tags: Bill, Federal Government, Government, Immunity, Networking, Richard Koman, Sen., Telecom & Utilities, Telecommunications, Telephony, U.S. Senate

Blog posts 2007-12-17

Are the people telling Google it's time for a redesign?

I was waiting at an airport for a very long flight the other day when I came across the Search Results League Table. This was the one declaring that, for example, Jessica Alba was the 10th most popular search inquiry on Yahoo. Yes, only 10th. ...

Tags: Google Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Public Relations, Branding, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Chris Matyszczyk

Blog posts 2007-12-07

Video demo: Flixster built-into a MySpace profile via Google's OpenSocial framework

Dan Farber and I just got done participating in a news teleconference with executives from Google and MySpace including MySpace CEO Chris DeWolfe, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt who talked about how MySpace's adoption of Google's recently announced OpenSocial framework will hopefully lead to OpenSocial's adoption as the...

Tags: Google Inc., Google OpenSocial, Video, MySpace, Aber, Social Networking, Podcasts, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Internet, Andy Smith

Blog posts 2007-11-01