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Dan Farber is vice-president of editorial at CNET Networks and editor in chief of ZDNet. Dan has more than 20 years of experience as an editor and journalist covering technology. He joined ZDNet in 1996, and led the development of ZDNet's worldwide network of more than 70 technology-focused...- more about Dan Farber »
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- From cave paintings to camera phones
- In his recent Guardian column, Nick Carr opines on the newest leisure time activity--the self-recording of one's daily life. "Today, we seem to be operating under a new and very different dictum: the unrecorded life is not worth living," Nick writes.He traces the phenomenon from painting on cave walls...
- Tags: Web Technology, Personal Technology, General
- Blog posts 2007-06-10
- The dangerous assymetry of open source
- Nick Carr puts Larry Ellison's move on Red Hat in perspective. Oracle is taking advantage of the "cheap input" produced by the open source community, Nick says: His attack on Red Hat would never be called neighborly, but it is, as Business Week's Steve Hamm puts it, "a ruthless and...
- Tags: Red Hat Inc.
- Blog posts 2006-10-26
- Nick Carr breaks down the evolution of Office suites
- Nick Carr weighs in on the definitional debates about Office 2.0, or the post Microsoft Office era that is emerging, and offers his view of the evolution of office software:Office 1.0 (1980s): a set of discrete and often incompatible applications for word processing, spreadsheets, presentation creation, and simple database management....
- Tags: Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Office
- Blog posts 2006-09-14
- Dell hits a rough patch
- Nick Carr writes that Dell's pioneering direct sales model is showing signs of fatigue due to growing support costs: So there, perhaps, is the flaw in the direct sales model, particularly when it's applied to a commodity product like the PC: You have a cost disadvantage in customer support, which...
- Tags: Dell Computer Corp.
- Blog posts 2006-07-23
- CIOs fleeing IT?
- Nick Carr connects some dots, leading to a conclusion that CIOs want to distance themselves from IT: IT has become an albatross for CIOs. Smart ones are trying hard to distance themselves from "the technology" in order to escape the dead end of the data center. The CIO role...
- Tags: Nick Carr, information technology
- Blog posts 2006-05-18
- Follow the money
- Nick Carr asks who is making the big money in the Web 2.0 era of user-generated (or user-submitted if you are Google) content. Certainly not the users, and the Web sites monetizing the content aren't overflowing with riches. Try infrastructure companies like Limelight Networks, which provides content delivery network services...
- Tags: YouTube Inc., Limelight Networks, YouTube
- Blog posts 2006-05-01
- The crossroads of SaaS
- Nick Carr takes up where I left off with Salesforce.com's vision of moving beyond CRM and into the packages software territory dominated by Oracle, SAP, Microsoft and other packaged applications. He makes a good point about the SaaS purists and the old guard heading for a potential showdown: How...
- Tags: Saas
- Blog posts 2006-03-06
- Utility computing and private IT generators
- Deal Architect Vinnie Mirchandani notes that Nick Carr has posted the slides from his talk at the Open Source Business Conference about the coming age of utility computing. Like electricity, organizations will inevitably be powered by automated, centralized grids of metered computing power, Nick predicted.Vinnie excerpts from his post, Utility...
- Tags: information technology, Nick Carr, utility computing
- Blog posts 2006-02-16
- The end of corporate computing?
- Nick Carr has followed up his "IT Doesn’t Matter" article (Harvard Business Review, 2003) and subsequent book, Does IT Matter? (Harvard Business School Press, 2004), this time with another clarion call for extinction of enterprise computing as we know it. As in his previous article, "The End of Corporate...
- Tags: information technology, Nick Carr
- Blog posts 2005-04-18
Additional Resources
- Conversation with Richard Muirhead of Tideway Systems
- Richard Muirwood, CEO of Tideway Systems, and I had our semi-annual chat the other day. Tideway's Tideway Foundation™is a management tool making it possible for organizations to get a clear understanding of the underlying physical and virtual infrastructure supporting their business applications. They call what they do "dependency mapping." ...
- Tags: Tideway Systems, Richard, Productivity, Data Centers, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-11
- Netbook returns blamed on Linux 'teething problems'
- Higher return rates for Linux-based netbooks don't necessarily reflect badly on the open-source operating system, according to Ubuntu backer Canonical. The return rate on Linux-powered netbooks may be higher than that for Windows netbooks, but this isn't necessarily a bad thing for Linux, according to Canonical. ...
- Tags: Ubuntu, Linux, UNIX, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Open Source, Software, Matthew Broersma ZDNet.co.uk, netbook, Windows XP, MSI Wind, Asus Eeee
- News items 2008-10-10
- Virtualization 2.0 panel recording from NGDC is available
- Back in August, I had the opportunity to moderate a panel at the Next Generation Data Center Conference, entitled "Virtualization 2.0".The panel included Albert Lee, Chief Strategy Officer and Board Director of xkoto, Greg O'Connor, CEO of Trigence, Jonah Paransky, Marketing VP of StackSafe and Lawrence Stein, Engineering VP of...
- Tags: Panel, StackSafe, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Corporate Governance, Hardware, Storage, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- News to know: Apple's $800 laptop; MS and Mac Patch Days; Vista Home for business
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Mac OS X Patch Day: 40 security flaws fixed MS Patch Tuesday heads-up: 11 bulletins, 4 critical Ed Bott: Look who's buying...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Laptop Computer, H-1B, Notebooks, Human Resources, Labor Relations, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, David Grober
- Blog posts 2008-10-10
- Desktone "Desktops as a Service"
- I had the opportunity to chat with Desktone about their recent announcements. In the last little while they announced a pilot of virtual desktops as a service and partnerships with both Wyse and Microsoft. Here's what Desktone had to say in the desktop as a service announcement: Desktone,...
- Tags: Virtual Desktop, Desktone Inc., Desktop Virtualization, Desktops, Hardware, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- News to know: IBM earnings, Blackberry Storm, WiMax arrives, Oracle+ Primavera
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Sam Diaz: IBM reports early. Profits up 20 percent, full year estimates reaffirmed. Larry Dignan: IBM: Beats earnings target but... Times are officially...
- Tags: Touch Screen, Larry Dignan, Richard Koman, RIM BlackBerry, Earnings, IBM Corp., E-mail, Keyboards, Microsoft Windows, WiMAX, Monitors & Displays, Online Communications, Hardware, Peripherals, Operating Systems, Software, Wireless, Components, Sam Diaz
- Blog posts 2008-10-09
- Large Hadron Collider gets fresh power supply
- Cern is planning to build a new computing hub in France, because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. The lab cracking data from the Cern Large Hadron Collider experiment needs a new computing hub because its existing one is sucking the power grid dry. ...
- Tags: CERN, Power Supply, Grid, Computer, Hadron Collider, Productivity, Large Hadron Collider, particle accelerator, physics, Nick Heath, silicon.com
- News items 2008-10-08
- Cisco SONA
- Cisco caught my attention by asking me if I wanted to see the results of a study indicating how organizations are seeing Web 2.0 and/or Service Oriented Architecture SOA application adoption. Having executed dozens of studies of this nature while I was at IDC, I was interested in the results,...
- Tags: Network, Cisco Systems Inc., Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- News to know: Clickjacking redux; SAP pricing; BlackBerry Storm; Windows 7
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Webcam hijack demo highlights clickjacking threat Dancho Danchev: Atrivo/Intercage's disconnection briefly disrupts spam levels Adobe posts workaround for clickjacking flaw, NoScript releases ClearClick ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, SAP AG, Apple Inc., RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Corp., Pricing Strategy, Advanced Micro Devices Inc., Microsoft Windows, Semantic Web, Linux, Operating Systems, Open Source, Software, Internet
- Blog posts 2008-10-08
- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homeworkVista needs a better UIBut I wouldn't know that personally as I have never used it and instead relied on the anecdotes of others (well I have fiddled with it in stores and found it was very different yet had no compelling...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Apple Mac OS X, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Corp., OpenOffice
- Discussion threads 2008-10-07
- Windows Vista Woes or helping my Grandson with homework
- Considering my background, it's not at all hard to understand how I've become the tech support helpdesk for family, friends and the neighborhood as a whole. I've done my best to accept my lot in life with grace and courage. This time, my Grandson, Steven, was trying to complete a...
- Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft PowerPoint, Laptop Computer, Steven, Microsoft Windows, Linux, Operating Systems, Microsoft Office, Software, Office Suites, Dan Kusnetzky
- Blog posts 2008-10-07
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