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CES: World's #1 gamer Jonathan Wendel a.k.a. Fatal1ty on life as a pro-gamer

A couple of nights ago, I had the opportunity to interview Rafik Bryant a.k.a. LoSt CaUzE -- a kid at least to me that makes an insane amount of money at professional video gaming. I caught up with Bryant at a CES after hours press event known as Showstoppers. Bryant...

Tags: General, Hardware Infrastructure, Entertainment, Personal Technology, Video, Events, CES 2007, Cool Tech Gear, Fatal1ty, Jonathan Wendel

Blog posts 2007-01-11

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My Awesome IT Job: Director of Rich Media Group at Microsoft

Hey, we all complain about work from time to time; we've all had lousy jobs. But before you call it a day and head off to the support group that meets at the bar, here are a few words from an IT pro that loves their work. ...

Tags: Information Technology, Microsoft Corp., Photograph, Rich Media, Strategy, Management, Deb Perelman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .SLAI think it's important to know the Service Level Agreement when such crisis occur. Legal action might deter such problem from recurringFor those who want to implement and control their own cloud computing, you can...

Tags: Service level management, Stikipad

Discussion threads 2008-10-08

What happens when the "cloud" starts to precipitate? A hard rain's agonna fall . . .

I use a lot of online services and I try to push as many applications as I can into the cloud. This means that I can work from anywhere on virtually any computer device. I don't need a personal computer (but I do need a personal cellphone - the new...

Tags: Web, Web Service, Web Services Company, Web Services, Cloud Computing, Channel Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Marketing, Tom Foremski

Blog posts 2008-10-08

Google extends AdSense into video games

Google has injected some legitimacy into the Web-based video game market, announcing a beta launch of AdSense for games. Techmeme In-game advertising isn't new. Many of the more popular games for the big console players have had ads embedded in them for a while. And the feedback...

Tags: Google Inc., Advertisement, Video Game, Video, Google AdSense, Games, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-08

New book details how to break iPhone passcodes and recover data

O'Reilly just released a new book, iPhone Forensics, Recovering Evidence, Personal Data, and Corporate Assets (US$39.99) by Jonathan Zdziarski. Any given iPhone is likely to contain sensitive information belonging to its owner, and some types of information that may belong to others: corporate email, documents, and photos, to...

Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, E-mail, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Jason D. O\'Grady

Blog posts 2008-10-07

Is Apple out of ideas?

Is Apple out of ideas?At this point they might not need muchApples' greatest growth prospect lies in computers, due to its smaller market share. There's a lot of room for growth there. Within that market, Apple has been able to cement a reputation, especially with consumers, of very good...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Notebooks, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-10-02

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blogSounds like xVM server to me.Perhaps I misunderstood your thoughts, but what you describe sounds an awful lot like the xVM Ops center server product from Sun.More virtual crapVirtualization allows projects that didn't buy the hardware, to run on the hardware. IOW the...

Tags: Data centers, Servers, Jonathan Schwartz, NOW IT, blog, server, data center, new server, virtualization

Discussion threads 2008-09-18

News to know: Palin's email hacked; Seinfeld-Microsoft; Tech meltdown; Visual Studio

Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Ryan Naraine: Sarah Palin's Yahoo account hijacked, e-mails posted online Adam O'Donnell: Don't be the next Sarah Palin (security victim, not VP candidate) Wikileaks: Sarah Palin...

Tags: Microsoft Visual Studio, Yahoo! Inc., Blog, Microsoft Windows Live, Microsoft Corp., Brondell, Microsoft Windows, Virtualization, E-mail, Remote Access, Cloud Computing, Blogging, Storage Management, Utility Computing, Operating Systems, Software, Hardware, Online Communications, Internet, Storage, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-09-18

An open response to a Jonathan Schwartz blog

Just recently Sun President and CEO Jonathan Schwartz blogged about his company's new xVM product and its relationship to what some big system operators want. Great, but to put my response to xVM in terms that don't refer to places where the sun don't shine, he's been hanging out with...

Tags: Data Center, Sun Microsystems Inc., Blog, Jonathan Schwartz, Customer, Wine, xVM OpsCenter, Data Centers, Virtualization, Cloud Computing, Storage Management, Storage, Utility Computing, Hardware, Data Management, Paul Murphy

Blog posts 2008-09-18

Apple's iPod range

Apple's iPod rangeApple's iPod rangeAt what point is thin too thin? The ipod touch was already fairly thin but comfortable, the thinner model at what point does it break? Sometimes I wear mine on my hip and other times on my arm. Now if its on my...

Tags: Digital music, Digital media, Engineering, Archos 605, Apple iPod, Apple Inc., battery, Apple iPod range

Discussion threads 2008-09-09

MS Patch Tuesday: 8 critical security holes patched

Microsoft shipped four high-priority security bulletins today with patches for at least eight code execution vulnerabilities affecting millions of Windows computer users. The September Patch Tuesday updates, all rated "critical," correct security flaws in the Windows Media Player, the Windows Media Encoder, Microsoft Office and the Microsoft...

Tags: Windows Media, Attacker, Microsoft Office, Vulnerability, Microsoft Office OneNote 2003, Microsoft Corp., Windows Media Encoder Bulletin, Microsoft Windows, Operating Systems, Security, Software, Ryan Naraine

Blog posts 2008-09-09

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

Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselves

Echo chamber: Social media strategists are talking to themselvesGood Article!Good article, Jonathan! Two thoughts...1.) Your comment about social media not making it to the table is troubling. The ad agency of the future (or now, if someone pulls this together) will simply embed social media along with traditional advertising and...

Tags: social media, advertisement

Discussion threads 2008-08-21

Yahoo announces Icahn's board members

Yahoo appointed former Viacom CEO Frank J. Biondi, Jr. and John H. Chapple, former CEO of Nextel Partners, to its board of directors, filling the two new seats created when activist investor Carl Icahn agreed to drop his proxy fight for control of the board last month. Icahn is also...

Tags: Board, Yahoo! Inc., CEO, Chapple, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-14

SAP: Oracle price-gouges customers even more than we do

Doug Merritt, SAP's EVP and GM of Business User Global Sales, predictably came up with quote of the day on day one of the BusinessObjects influencer summit. During a 'fireside chat' in a near freezing air conditioned room with fellow Irregulars Mike Krigsman, Sandy Kemsley and Brian Sommer and myself,...

Tags: Oracle Corp., SAP AG, Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Pricing, Strategy, Sales, Marketing, Management, Dennis Howlett

Blog posts 2008-08-12

Revisiting iPhone's app kill switch

The saga around Apple's alleged App Store kill switch gets more curious by the minute. Remember Apple's ability to nuke software remotely on the iPhone? Well, the findings and the forensic code analysis from the source of the ruckus--Jonathan Zdziarski--are being called into question Techmeme. ...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., app, revisiting iphone, gruber, tools & techniques, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-08

A look at risk-reward: Apple may nuke apps on your iPhone remotely

Apple apparently can disable App Store software remotely on your iPhone 3G. The iPhone calls home and poof the application is nuked. Needless to say that this has caused a bit of a blog ruckus Techmeme. MacRumors notes that Apple has come under fire for removing App...

Tags: apple iphone, apple inc., 3g, tools & techniques, cellular phones, consumer electronics, personal technology, management, larry dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-07

Schoolyard antics take Microhoo drama to new level

Something doesn't smell quite right here. Techcrunch reports earlier today that Jonathan Miller, former AOL chief executive and one of the names that popped up as part of Team Icahn on the newly expanded Yahoo board, has been blocked from serving on that board by a non-compete...

Tags: Time Warner Inc., Yahoo! Inc., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-01

Microsoft says Yahoo is rewriting history; Time Warner blocks former AOL chief from Yahoo board seat.

Yahoo's board meeting is still going but word is that Microsoft has issued a statement criticizing Yahoo's interpretation of the negotiations. "Yahoo is attempting to rewrite history yet again with statements that are not supported by the facts," Microsoft says. We've put in a request for the...

Tags: Time Warner Inc., America Online Inc., Board, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-08-01