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AZ delay may scuttle election recount: Arizona is unlikely to conduct a hand count to verify its touch-screen voting because the secretary of state failed to submit recount procedures in time for federal review, the Arizona Daily Star reports. Because of concerns about the use of electronic machine voting, the Arizona Legislature passed a law...; Tags: Kevin Tyne, recount, Jan Brewer; Blog posts 2006-09-12

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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
Dishing It Out: There may soon be just one satellite radio company. Now, the stars seem to be aligning for there to be just one satellite TV company, as well. First, in radio. The FCC is close to making a decision that will let Sirius Satellite Radio Inc acquire arch-rival...; Tags: AT&T Corp., DirecTV, Satellite, Satellite Television, Liberty Media Corp., John Malone, TVs, Tv & Home Theater, Satellite TV, Network Technology, Personal Technology, Home Entertainment, Consumer Electronics, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld; Blog posts 2008-07-02
Search-ability in Flash: Last night Adobe announced that we've given a special version of the Flash Player to Google and Yahoo that will more accurately let them crawl through Flash content. Even though Google has been indexing .SWF files for a while and even been able to pull out some text, they haven't...; Tags: Search Engine Optimization, Google Inc., Search Engine, Flash, Search, Marketing Research, Marketing, Ryan Stewart; Blog posts 2008-07-01
MobileTechRoundup show #138, Doesn't anyone else have a Nerd Club at work?: James, Kevin, and I spent a bit more time than planned talking about the upcoming iPhone 3G on MobileTechRoundup show #138, but we eventually did move on to talk about lots more in the world of mobile tech. I talked about my experiences with upgrading the Nokia N78 over the...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Mobile, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-27

Pondering Apple in a post-Jobs world: Before all of you start sending nastygrams my way about how tasteless and premature this blog post is, let me just say upfront I agonized about whether or not it should even be written in the first place, and my industry colleagues I consulted about it told me that the...; Tags: Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Strategy, Corporate Governance, Management, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Jason Perlow; Blog posts 2008-06-18
Black Hat '08 preview webcast on its way: Ladies and gents, For those who hadn't heard, I will be presenting at Black Hat Vegas '08 this year with Rob Carter, John Heasman, and Billy Rios. Our presentation is called "The Internet is Broken: Beyond document.cookie - Extreme Client Side Attacks", which may sound like a...; Tags: Black Hat, Webcast, Nathan McFeters; Blog posts 2008-06-15
MobileTechRoundup show #137, Who plans to buy an iPhone 3G?: There was lots of news in the mobile space this week with the iPhone 3G leading the way so we spent a good chunk of MobileTechRoundup show #137 talking about the new iPhone, 3rd party applications, and MobileMe. Listen to the show to find out if Kevin, James, or I...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Apple iPhone, Podcasts, 3G, Internet, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-13
You almost had us Steve, but the new iPhone 3G models comparison price is at least $160 higher than existing iPhones: I have to admit the reality distortion field that Steve Jobs can generate is very powerful and he even had me praising the huge apparent price drop of the iPhone 3G and thinking this was one of the few significant differences in this latest generation iPhone (others being battery life,...; Tags: Apple iPhone, SMS Message, 3G, Text Messaging/SMS/MMS, Cellular Phones, Telephony, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Online Communications, Networking, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-09
The new iPhone 3G data plan/monthly fee will rise $10/month on AT&T: OK, one of my questions has been answered and it isn't what I was hoping for. According to the AT&T press release, the new iPhone 3G data plan will actually increase US$10/month to US$30/month. In addition you will need a voice plan starting at US$39.99/month so the total monthly fee...; Tags: Apple iPhone, AT&T Corp., 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-09
iPhone 3G announced for July 11th availability, but lots of questions remain: Wow, the WWDC keynote by Steve Jobs, live coverage here, went on for almost two hours with the first hour mainly devoted to application demonstrations for apps that won't be available until July, September, and beyond. It concluded in the last few minutes with the announcement of the iPhone 3G...; Tags: Apple iPhone, 3G, Cellular Phones, Wireless, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-09
MobileTechRoundup show #136, Netbook, Netbook, Netbook: Listen here (MP3, 32.4 MB, 35:20 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS John posted a Netbook roundup from Computex article that I thought would go perfectly with our latest MobileTechRoundup show #136 where...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-06-06
Risking Another Frontline Disaster: The Wall Street Journal says in an editorial that FCC chair Kevin Martin is about to screw things up again on the public wireless Internet front. The first time around Martin tried to rig the D block auction to hand 700MHz spectrum over to Frontline Wireless, formed by former commissioner...; Tags: FCC, Auction, Journal, M2Z, Federal Government, Government, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-06
NASA IG: Scientists were muzzled: Remember this? How NASA climatologist James Hansen claimed he was being muzzled by public affairs toadies trying to enforce the administration's "there is no global warming" stance? Two years later, the agency's inspector general agrees. The Times reports: The report, signed...; Tags: NASA, Scientist, Global Warming, Richard Koman; Blog posts 2008-06-03
Tackle complex reengineering projects -- one bite at a time: Developers are rarely charged with creating entirely new "Greenfield" systems. IT projects are typically mired in the accumulated complexities of pre-existing systems. This sample chapter from Eating the IT Elephant: Moving from Greenfield Development to Brownfield looks at the problems that evolving legacy environments pose and offers an approach for...; Tags: Information Technology, Re-engineering, IBM Corp., IT Project, Organizational Structure, Strategy, Human Resources, Management; Book chapters 2008-06-03
Microsoft to put Live Search Toolbar in front of millions of HP consumer: It seems that Microsoft is turning to HP to help spread the word about Live Search: Microsoft Corp. today announced that it has won a key distribution deal with HP, the world's largest PC manufacturer, to install a Live Search-enabled toolbar on all HP consumer PCs planned to ship...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Toolbar, Microsoft Corp., Adrian Kingsley-Hughes; Blog posts 2008-06-02
Microsoft inks HP search deal; How many consumers will change the default?: Hewlett-Packard will make Microsoft's Live Search the default search engine on every consumer PC shipped in 2009 and the deal may be a hit if you assume that most folks are too lazy to change browser settings. Can Microsoft buy its way to being a search player?...; Tags: Hewlett-Packard Co., Microsoft Corp., Desktops, Web Browsers, Hardware, Internet, Larry Dignan; Blog posts 2008-06-02
Coach's 'Ubuntu' mantra helps lead Boston Celtics to NBA Finals: Doc Rivers' "Ubuntu" mantra helped lead the Boston Celtics to its first NBA Eastern Conference championship in 20 years. So said one ESPN commentator, citing the Beantown coach's use of the African term as a way to drive the team's "collective success." The sportscaster said it following the Celts win...; Tags: Ubuntu, Team, Mantra, NBA, Team Management, Linux, Open Source, Management, Operating Systems, Software, Paula Rooney; Blog posts 2008-05-30
MobileTechRoundup show #135, talking about the sub-notebook market: Listen here (MP3, 30.7 MB, 33:20 minutes) Subscribe to the show with this link RSS Kevin, James and I spent a large chunk of MobileTechRoundup show #135 talking about the sub-notebook market with the new Nano...; Tags: MobileTechRoundup, Podcasts, Internet, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-30
The ultra portable/subnotebook market continues to grow: James, Kevin, and I just finished recording MobileTechRoundup podcast #135, which should go live soon, and we spent a fair amount of the show talking about the ultra portable PC/subnotebook market and how it has radically changed since the launch of the Asus EeePC last year. And according to the...; Tags: ASUS, Mini-notebook, Ultramobile PC, Subnotebook, CNET UK, MSI Wind, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Notebooks, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Matthew Miller; Blog posts 2008-05-30