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- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family today
- Apple to announce entirely new iPod family todayAh...The Bauble Factory has been fired up again and is ready to blind the clueless into buying yet another brand new bauble to replace the not-so-shiny-anymore bauble.Who knows, maybe this time around they will have Invented the Subscription Service. Then we should...
- Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., new iPod family, iPod family
- Discussion threads 2008-09-09
- Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash
- On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...
- Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2008-08-28
- Hasta la Vista, Nvidia
- If you own an Nvidia display adapter and you run Windows Vista, I have good news and bad news.The good news? Nvidia has released another update of its drivers for 32–bit and 64–bit Vista. ForceWare Release 162 was posted to Nvidia’s website on July 26.The bad news? The list of...
- Tags: Windows Vista, Hardware
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- Day 3 with a new Dell and Vista
- Coming in late? Catch up with the Day 1 and Day 2 installments. The executive summary: I’m documenting my experience with a new Dell C521 running Windows Vista Home Premium. A buggy BIOS update delivered by the Dell Support tool caused a catastrophic hardware failure on Day 1, but after...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-06-14
- Is Jobs planning a hostile takeover of the Windows desktop?
- Let’s just get this out of the way right at the start: Steve Jobs is a genius and rarely makes stupid decisions. If you accept that statement as gospel, then you have to assume that Jobs has a brilliant master plan behind yesterday’s announcement that Apple’s Safari browser would be...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-06-12
- Microsoft's licensing mess
- If you've been selling a product for more than 10 years and you've shipped hundreds of millions of units, you'd think your customers would know what they're buying. For Microsoft, that's not the case.The culprit is the hopelessly confusing, practically Byzantine Windows licensing structure, which consists of a maze of...
- Tags: Windows XP, Windows Vista, Microsoft, Licensing
- Blog posts 2007-06-07
- Nibbles, Not Bites
- Frank Hayes makes a strong case for smaller, more transparent IT projects. He says that smaller projects nibbles are more manageable and controllable than the larger big-bang projects bites that weve all come to know and love and also hate. From his article: Call that the “little nibble” approach...
- Tags: Project strategy
- Blog posts 2007-06-06
- Hackers use evasive manuevering to escape detection
- Hackers use evasive manuevering to escape detectionThreatsThreats that have emerged over the years have followed a similar pattern: Attackers find a way to breach a system to gain access to valuable informational assets; in response, systems administrators and security professionals develop detection and prevention methods; attackers then find new ways...
- Tags: Hacking, SECURITY, Financial accounting, Viruses and worms, manuevering, evasive manuevering, hacker
- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- On the road with Windows Vista
- I’m away on vacation this week, nearly 7,000 miles from home. But I’m not out of touch. Judy and I have been coming to Italy for the past five years, and it’s instructive to see with each visit just how much the experience of leisure travel has changed for use...
- Tags: Windows Vista
- Blog posts 2007-05-15
- Microsoft, Yahoo, Google: All Aboard!
- Information Architects New Years gift to the world was: Web Trend Map 2007!What is it?It shows all the big players, the current Internet trends and how they’re connected, using the Tokyo Metro map. It’s totally unscientific and almost useless, but definitely fun to look at. Fun indeed. But what is...
- Tags: Culture, Google, Microsoft, Web 2.0, Yahoo
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- AMD's new chip a Phenom
- Why is AMD changing the name of its high-end desktop processor line from Athlon to Phenom? It’s a metaphor for the companys expectations for the chips, due out later this year. AMD is aiming for its Phenom to be just that; a marvel of performance and unit sales, representing a...
- Tags: dual-core processors, Desktops, AMD, multicore processors, semiconductors, Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Is AMD serious about delivering open source graphics drivers for ATI products?
- Last week, Henri Richard, AMD’s executive vice president of sales and marketing, told an audience at the opening keynote of the Red Hat Summit promised open source graphics drivers for ATI products. Richards is quoted as saying “I’m here to commit to you that it’s going to get done.” ...
- Tags: AMD
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Google privacy jungle: Where is YOUR data? Don't ask!
- "Google CEO wants your personal information" I underscored in reporting Google’s announced claim of “taking steps to further improve our privacy practices” two months ago.The touted Google privacy “step” at the time was that user search data will be “much more anonymous, so that it can no longer be identified...
- Tags: SECURITY, Google Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Two open source dilemmas
- Neelan Choksi should have been happy yesterday.Hes been promoted to Chief Operating Officer at Interface21. The company just got $10 million from Benchmark Capital, which previously backed Red Hat, JBOSS, and mySQL among others. It was the last day of JavaOne so he was just a few hours from his...
- Tags: open source, Choksi
- Blog posts 2007-05-12
- Bloggers no fan of Clinton - but does it matter?
- Sam Stein, writing at The Politico, identifies Hilary Clintons "blogger problem" but wonders if it makes a difference. Are politicians and politics-watchers losing perspective with their obsesson with the "netroots" when they should be watching their base? “Her model of doing politics is based on pandering to individual groups,”...
- Tags: Elections, Government technology
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Notes from Apple's shareholder meeting
- Apple held its annual shareholders meeting in Cupertino on Thursday. Steve Jobs and other company executives addressed pointed questions about the lingering stock options scandal, the Leopard delay, Apples green policies and iPhone. Macworld and CNBC have posted notes from the meeting. Some highlights:"Backdating stock options is unfair to shareholders...
- Tags: IBM Lotus Notes, Steve Jobs, shareholder, Apple iPhone, Apple Computer Inc.
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Racing Towards the Future, Stuck in the Past: Microsoft BI Moves… Not Far Enough
- Attending Microsoft’s first Business Intelligence Conference has been an illuminating experience, mostly for how Microsoft’s major strengths in BI are becoming its major weaknesses. The issue is one that I’ve ranted about in the past, and it’s an industry-wide problem, not just Microsoft’s. After a day sitting through the pre-conference...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- Google vs. Microsoft Office? NO: vs. Open Office (.org)!
- If we take Google CEO Eric Schmidt at his public words, Microsoft Office is welcome at the Google Apps table. But what about OpenOffice.org? Will the Google chief’s we can all get along in the cloud PR stance apply as well? "FREE OFFICE SUITE" is the succinct,...
- Tags: Enterprise, Google Apps, Google Software Applications, Microsoft, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2007-05-09
- SAP Does CPM: Et Tu, Oracle
- SAP has fired back at Oracle, in rather short order, with the acquisition of OutlookSoft, a corporate performance management vendor based in Stamford, Conn. It looks like short order of course, as Oracle announced its Hyperion acquisition a scant two months ago. But SAP, having passed a while ago on...
- Tags: Uncategorized
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
- NBC takes (no) 30 second video pre-roll ad stand
- How committed is NBC Universal to capturing the “rising currency” that is broadband video on the Web?Peter Naylor, SVP, Digital Media Sales, NBC Universal, reaffirmed NBC is in to win, as the kick-off speaker, and principal sponsor, of yesterday’s Interactive Advertising Bureau IAB Leadership Forum on Digital Video that took...
- Tags: Marketing, Television, TV, Video, YouTube
- Blog posts 2007-05-08
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