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- Gartner in the dock over Magic Quadrant
- Friday October 23rd will see Gartner argue a motion to dismiss a complaint by ZL Technologies Inc about the famed Gartner Magic Quadrant. According to court papers, Gartner will argue to dismiss based on First Amendment rights citing that the Magic Quadrant is not meant to represent statements of fact...
- Tags: Quadrant, Analyst, Vendor, Gartner Inc., Vinnie, MQ, Blogging, Operational Accounting, Marketing Research, Internet, Finance, Marketing, Dennis Howlett
- Blog posts 2009-10-20
- News to know: T-Mobile; Cloud computing; Oracle; HP; Apple
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Andrew Nusca: HP revamps TouchSmart PCs with Windows 7; starts $899; will you ditch your desktop PC, HDTV? HP...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Google Inc., Cloud Computing, Hewlett-Packard Co., Oracle Corp., PC, T-Mobile, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows 7, Desktops, Palm Pre, Microsoft Windows, Smart Phones, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2009-10-13
- Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education
- The phrase "Amazon ate my homework" may certainly have been uttered on more than one occasion since the New York Times reported on Amazon's deletion of specific editions of George Orwell's Animal Farm and 1984 from Kindle e-book readers (and no, the irony wasn't lost on anybody). Unless you...
- Tags: Education, Digital-rights Management, Student, Amazon.com Inc., Textbook, Digital Rights Management (DRM), Digital Media, Security, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Christopher Dawson
- Blog posts 2009-07-20
- The Internet devalues everything it touches . . .
- Ever since I first heard about the Internet and then saw its incredible development and application across industries, I've been on the look out for the economic effects of this powerful platform technology. The specific economic influence I've been looking for is a strong deflationary trend. That's when we will...
- Tags: Software, Craigslist, Advertisement, Technology, IBDT, Internet, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-06-20
- Google isn't killing journalism, it's more of a suicide
- Google isn't killing journalism, it's more of a suicideNewspapers, RIAA and MPAANewspapers, RIAA and MPAA are all in the same boat, making buggy whips when the car came along. The obvious solution for the newspapers is to bribe the law makers into outlawing the internet and then we can all...
- Tags: INTERNET, Digital media, Strategy, Google Inc., RIAA, suicide, MPAA
- Discussion threads 2009-04-10
- Is privacy dead, or just very confused?
- Panel: Siva Vaidhyanathan UVA, Alice Marwick NYU, Judith Donath MIT, Danah Boyd Microsoft Personal information is a form of currency. Privacy is not a substance. It's not something you can trade, or give up. People are willing to trade a little bit of privacy for a better...
- Tags: Facebook, Privacy, Marwick, Security, Andrew Mager
- Blog posts 2009-03-14
- Yes, Twitter is dangerous
- Yes, Twitter is dangerousAny technology can be dangerous...Mike: Email, IM, text messaging, Facebook, MySpace, blogs, etc. all can expose organizational information to the wilds. And, as you point out, there are profound risks. Yet, the rewards in enhanced productivity, collaboration and communication usually far exceed the risks. If we worried...
- Tags: Telecom & Utilities, Twitter
- Discussion threads 2009-02-16
- We live in media as fish live in water
- The other day I was looking for a quote by Ted Nelson, a computer pioneer and maverick thinker. I found it: "We live in media as fish live in water." This is very descriptive of our daily lives, imho. As I searched, I was reminded of...
- Tags: Media, Video Game, Video, Computer, WWW, Macintosh Interaction, Productivity, Corporate Communications, Games, Marketing, Personal Technology, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2009-02-05
- Julius Genachowski & The FCC: A Failure to Communicate?
- So Julius Genachowski is to be Barack Obama's choice to head the Federal Communications Commission. Genachowski and president-elect Obama were classmates at the Harvard Law School. And Obama was his boss back then, too, at the Harvard Law Review. GigaOm...
- Tags: FCC, Barack Obama, Broadband, Ticketmaster Corp., Interactive Corp., Wireless, Federal Government, Internet, Broadband Internet, Network Technology, Telecommunications, Wireless And Mobility, Government, Networking, Tom Steinert-Threlkeld
- Blog posts 2009-01-13
- Are White House computers a crime scene?
- Are White House computers a crime scene?Really pointless attention huntingI am surprised that it takes some news author to bring up the issue of proper care and archiving of official communication and proper treatment of electronic information carriers.For one, it would take real numskulls in the president's entourage to leave...
- Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, Whitehouse, crime scene, White House, Bush-bashing, computer, Bush
- Discussion threads 2009-01-07
- MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?
- MySpace, MTV cast lot with Auditude: Who will follow?Troubling...While it somewhat promising to perhaps keep websites free from big media suits against them for user's upload content, it troubles me. Not the fact that MySpace and MTV are using it, but who else will use it in the future? AT&T...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, MySpace, MTV, Auditude, movie
- Discussion threads 2008-11-03
- Army voices Twitter fears
- Army voices Twitter fearsCaps LockCaps lock is cruise control for cool. They teach you this in the military.TWITTERNOTE HOW WELL YOU ARE QUALIFIED TO WRITE ON THESE TOPICSHOW MUCH MILITARY TIME NO YOU HAVE?AS WE ARE MORE AND MORE TECH DRIVEN USING IT TO BE FORCE MULTIPLIER IT HAS BEEN...
- Tags: SECURITY, Caps Lock, Twitter, voice
- Discussion threads 2008-10-27
- Creative Commons for students
- Creative Commons for studentsminors...One thing to bear in mind is that minors cannot license or re-license their own work without their parent's consent. Students can in some cases simply pull down content from the web and re-use it -- if the use is covered by "fair use" -- which...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Creative Commons
- Discussion threads 2008-10-02
- Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalition
- Microsoft joins the 'everyone but Apple' digital-media coalitionAn elaborate consumer control systemAny consumer who willingly signs on to this is either naive, or a complete idiot. Do not allow companies to monitor your activities, and ultimately control you, then insult you by saying that you are in control. This is...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Yes DRM, digital media, Microsoft Corp., digital-rights management, DECE, Apple Inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-09-15
- A good teacher goes a long ways
- A good teacher goes a long waysWe have had them, but we are losing them.In my area, we are getting fewer and fewer willing to work as a teacher. When the starting pay is less than 20% of the cost of the cheapest house in our area, it gets...
- Tags: Food & Beverage, food
- Discussion threads 2008-06-09
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?
- How artificial is the crude oil price? Have we passed peak oil?What's wrong with walking to workAlthough I accept that "nobody wants to sit in the dark" the notion that "nobody wants to walk to work" is ridiculous.It is the car addiction of countries like USA that has led...
- Tags: Self-Interest, Oil Prices, oil
- Discussion threads 2008-05-12
- The glide path to an open society
- The International Olympic Committee IOC, the Switzerland-based group responsible for Olympic event planning, has been putting pressure on China to open the Internet during the games in Beijing as part of host-nation commitment to media openness. As Ars Technica reported, the results have been decidedly mixed. Though Chinese Internet users...
- Tags: China, Government, Vertical Industries, Internet, Enterprise Software, Software, John Carroll
- Blog posts 2008-04-07
- Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users
- Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows usersNice and easy, but.....Not for me. This way, Windows (and all it's security risks) can influence (damage?) my beautiful shiny clean Ubuntu.That thought makes me uneasy.I want Windows completely quarantined.But I agree: for beginnners with Linux, this is a...
- Tags: Operating systems, UNIX, OPEN SOURCE, Ubuntu, Ubuntu 8.04, Linux, Microsoft Windows
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- MPAA: Net neutrality an assault on creativity
- MPAA: Net neutrality an assault on creativityI think you made a typo in the title.It says "creativity" where it really meant to say [b]"PROFITS."[/b]You should read Blender's [u http://www.blender.com/articles/default.aspx?key=18696&pg=3]20 Biggest Record Company Screw-Ups of All-Time[/u] and pay particular attention to #1.YawnSome members of the MPAA sell DVDs for $3 in...
- Tags: Government, Network technology, Broadband Internet, MPAA, Net Neutrality, assault, piracy
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
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