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Has Steve Jobs dropped the iTunes ball?

Has Steve Jobs been too focused on the iPhone over the past six months and allowed problems to develop over in an established part of Apple's business - iTunes.  The New York Times reports today that Universal Music Group has notified Apple that it will not renew its annual contract...

Tags: Thoughts, Industry, In the news, Gadgets, DRM, Apple

Blog posts 2007-07-02

AACS vs. The bloggers

The BBC is carrying the story that the AACS Licensing Authority AACSLA plans to fight the bloggers who "crossed the line" and posted the processing key which can be used to break the copy protection on HD-DVDs."It started out as a circumvention effort six to eight weeks ago but we...

Tags: Thoughts, Legal, Industry, In the news, DRM

Blog posts 2007-05-04

$175 OLPC deals blow to open source, guarantees Microsoft's continued dominance

Yesterday Nicholas Negroponte, former director of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab now head of the nonprofit One Laptop Per Child project, gave analysts and journalists an update on the OLPC project. Two big changes were announced - the $100 OLPC is now the $175 OLPC, and...

Tags: In the news, Industry, Linux, Microsoft, Software, Thoughts

Blog posts 2007-04-27

Making sense of "mean time to failure" (MTTF)

Last week researchers at Carnegie Mellon University published a paper which examined the real-world reliability of hard drives. It concluded that hard drive failure rate was much higher by a factor of about fifteen times higher than that expected based on mean time to failure MTTF information supplied by...

Tags: mean time to failure, hard drive

Blog posts 2007-03-12

Are you ready for DST changes?

This year sees Daylight Saving Time in many jurisdictions of the United States and Canada move as a result of Energy Policy Act of 2005 from its usual slots of the first Sunday in April and and the last Sunday of October to the second Sunday in March and the...

Tags: Industry, In the news, Thoughts

Blog posts 2007-03-05

Will a federal monopoly suit against Apple be good for consumers?

It seems that with success attracts lawsuits and huge success attracts antitrust lawsuits. Apple is currently facing a number of lawsuits, and one in particular has the potential to be on a similar scale to the federal antitrust battle that hammered Microsoft.The charges leveled against Apple are very serious...

Tags: In the news, Legal, Thoughts, Apple, Apple Computer Inc., Apple iTunes

Blog posts 2007-01-05

The desktop AV debate

I knew that Jim Allchins comments about allowing his seven year old son to use a Vista box without antivirus software installed would cause a bit of a stir. After all, it goes against the grain. It challenges a way of thinking thats become the norm. Whats...

Tags: Desktops, PC, software, security, performance, security company, desktop

Blog posts 2006-11-15

Additional Resources

Photos: Up close with the Blue Angels

News.com reporter Daniel Terdiman visits Florida's Naval Air Station Pensacola, home of the Blue Angels. by CNET News.com

Tags: Angel, Photograph, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-04

Photos: Cracking Open the Apple Macintosh Classic

TechRepublic examines just what went into one of the most famous personal computers ever manufactured--and what tech was like in 1991. by CNET News.com

Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Photograph, Desktops, Productivity, Hardware, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-04

Stolen: Google employees' personal data

Names, addresses, and Social Security numbers of pre-2006 staffers were taken from offices of Colt Express Outsourcing Services. Google has confirmed that personal data of U.S. employees hired prior to 2006 have been stolen in a recent burglary. Records kept at Colt Express Outsourcing Services, an external...

Tags: Google Inc., Social Security, Sales Channel, Operational Accounting, Financial Services, Government, Sales, Finance, ZDNet Australia, Privacy & data protection

News items 2008-07-03

Photos: Legless artist trains camera on strangers

Kevin Connolly's series of digital photos show strangers looking at him with expressions ranging from fear to confusion to sympathy. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Camera, Kevin Connolly, Digital Cameras, Digital Photography, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-03

Why tech jobs are beating the employment odds

Why tech jobs are beating the employment oddsCan somebody tell me whenan economist has ever called it right? Every piece of economic news includes the line "more than" or "less than" what economists predicted.Why do we even listen to these folks?I'd have just put it more brutally...US companies have wanted...

Tags: employment odd, tech job

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

12 terabytes of YouTube data

12 terabytes of YouTube dataHorrible loss for ConsumersThis Judge needs to be taught what he has the power to do, and not to do. This is a clear violation of the Video Privacy Protection Act. Not to mention a major privacy issue for all of us that have ever watched...

Tags: Corporate communications, Digital media, Google Inc., YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

Photos: Engineering New Orleans, post-Katrina

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers is putting a great deal of money and effort into new hurricane protection systems that it hopes can reduce the risk of catastrophic flooding in the future. by CNET News.com

Tags: Photograph, Strategy, Management, CNET News.com

Image galleries 2008-07-03

Google Talk isn't the only iPhone optimized IM client

The news that Google Talk has now been optimized for the Apple iPhone web browser is all over the internet this morning. I also wanted to let IM users know there are other web browser based options for clients other than Google Talk. by Matthew Miller

Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Google Talk, IM, Web Browser, IM Client, Instant Messaging, Web Browsers, Internet, Online Communications, Matthew Miller

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Amid ugly job picture, tech related employment holds up

The U.S. economy lost 62,000 jobs in June for the sixth straight month of employment losses with an unemployment rate of 5.5 percent, but underneath the technology sector is holding up well, according to Labor Department statistics. What a difference a downturn makes. Last...

Tags: Job, Technology Sector, Industry, U.S. Department Of Labor, Recruitment & Selection, Data Centers, Strategy, Human Resources, Workforce Management, Storage, Hardware, Data Management, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03

Firefox 2 dirty dozen: Critical vulnerabilities patched

Firefox 2 dirty dozen: Critical vulnerabilities patchedWasn't Able to Upgrade to 3.0On my main XP Pro machine, with a dozen or so add-ons, I wasn't able to go to FF 3.0. The app does its analysis, says it's going to disable incompatible add-ons as usual, then just hangs, running in...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Windows XP, Desktops, Mozilla Firefox, critical vulnerability, Mozilla Firefox 2.0

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

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

Helpdesks and productivity

Helpdesks and productivityGood start, and then...You lost it.1980 CalledThey want their mainframes back. :DWhy don't you explain your present value...calculation. Do you even know what present value means? What time period are we talking?Huh?You imply that on a Sun Ray platform the only problems are the applications or how they...

Tags: Call centers, help desk, Sun Microsystems Inc., Sun Ray, PC

Discussion threads 2008-07-03

News to know: Searching Silverlight; IE 8; Dell; Google vs. YouTube

Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft: Silverlight content searchable, too Ryan Stewart: Brian Goldfarb talks about Silverlight 2 and Deep Zoom with Michael Cot LineRider releases a Silverlight 2 version Microsoft steps up self-policing of its OSI-approved source licenses ...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Security, Google Inc., Dell Computer Corp., Microsoft Silverlight, Mobile, YouTube Inc., Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Linux, UNIX, Keyboards, Operating Systems, Advertising & Promotion, Open Source, Software, Hardware, Peripherals, Marketing, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-07-03