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- Katie Moussouris on HOPE 2008: HOPE Springs Eternal
- Guest Editorial by Katie Moussouris of Microsoft If cyberspace is a mass, consensual hallucination, as William Gibson characterized it, then HOPE was a dream manifested in meatspace that would not die. While Hackers On Planet Earth has been running every other year since 1994, it was...
- Tags: symantec corp., ip, tool, con, katie moussouris, last hope, wiki, internet, productivity, security, network technology, online communications, networking, nathan mcfeters
- Blog posts 2008-07-28
- Can XM-Sirius merger stand up to Washington politics?
- After well over a year of scrutiny, the proposed merger between the country's two satellite radio providers - XM and Sirius - is finally on the home stretch, set for an approval vote as early as Aug. 1. But wait. This week, one of the FCC commissioners proposed even more...
- Tags: merger, xm satellite radio inc., radio, satellite, sirius, commissioner jonathan adelstein, satellite radio, advertising & promotion, mergers & acquisitions, digital music, network technology, consumer electronics, personal technology, marketing, investment, finance, networking, sam diaz
- Blog posts 2008-07-18
- Why computers fail
- Good failure data for PCs is hard to find: who knows how many times PC users are told to reinstall Windows? But in a recent paper, Bianca Schroeder and Garth Gibson of CMU found some surprising results in 10 years of large scale cluster system failures at Los Alamos National...
- Tags: checkpoint, multiprocessor, failure, computer, desktop computer, lanl, desktops, processors, hardware, semiconductors, components, robin harris
- Blog posts 2008-07-01
- Photos: Where Gibson guitars are custom-made
- In Nashville, News.com's Daniel Terdiman gets a rare look inside the factory that crafts unique guitars for rockers--and Microsoft employees. by CNET News.com
- Tags: nashville, photograph, cnet news.com
- Image galleries 2008-06-30
- Cloud computing meets capitalism: We all become a business of one
- Folks spend a lot of time talking about cloud computing. It's a move back to the mainframe. Cloud computing democratizes IT infrastructure. The cloud will be the reason Amazon and Google will be the dominant players on the Internet. You have heard a lot of it before. But the real...
- Tags: google inc., youtube inc., amazon.com inc., lindsay, cloud computing, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-06-10
- When did people forget how to spell? Or complete sentences? Or form thoughts?
- I just bought an electric guitar, ostensibly for my 5-year old, who requested one for his birthday, but really as an early graduation and Father's Day gift for myself. I didn't spend much; I found a good deal on an Epiphone "starter pack" and had myself an amp and...
- Tags: standards, kid, quality, business operations, christopher dawson
- Blog posts 2008-05-20
- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)
- (Photos: Taking apart the robot guitar)Competition for TransperformanceThe automatically tuned guitar has already been done, but it looks like Gibson has significantly reduced the size and weight of the components. I'm curious if it allows non-standard tunings to be pre-programmed and called up at will.http://transperformance.com/RE: (Photos: Taking apart the robot...
- Tags: robots, tuning, robot, photograph
- Discussion threads 2008-04-18
- Churchill Club podcast: Navigating media upheaval
- In this installment of the Churchill Club podcast series, experts weigh in on the upheaval in the media and what you can do to cash in. Speakers: Neil Chase, VP, Author Services, Federated Media Gordon Crovitz, Former Publisher, The Wall Street Journal and...
- Tags: upheaval, podcasts, internet, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-04-15
- Robotics Manufacturer Automates Collaboration With Digital Note-Taking Program
- Autonomous Solutions ASI is the world leader in large vehicle robotics building innovative solutions for clients in industries ranging from agriculture to the military. To effectively manage these multi-million dollar projects, ASI needed a system of collaboration that would support open communication across geographic as well as organizational boundaries. Though...
- Tags: robotics, collaboration, microsoft office, microsoft corp., robots, groupware, emerging technologies, enterprise software, software
- Case studies 2008-04-04
- News to know: Microsoft, Apple update techniques; Ubuntu; Hacking Java; XP SP3
- Notable headlines: Ed Bott: What Microsoft can teach Apple about software updates Compare and contrast gallery right. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes: Ubuntu 8.04 "Hardy Heron" beta - making life easier for Windows users Nate McFeters: Defeating the Same Origin Policy part 2 ...
- Tags: tom foremski, technique, ubuntu, google inc., hacking, social media, apple inc., microsoft corp., microsoft windows vista sp1, microsoft windows vista (longhorn), microsoft windows xp, service-oriented architecture (soa), operating systems, microsoft windows, software, web services, enterprise software, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-25
- Australian Tax Office CIO: Bill Gibson
- Bill Gibson, CIO of the Australian Tax Office, talks to ZDNet Australia about why he doesn't completely trust open source software; how the ATO handles security and why competing vendors will have to learn to work together. He also discusses new collaboration technologies he's exploring within his organization, such...
- Tags: cio, collaboration, groupware, enterprise software, software, administrator
- Blog posts 2008-03-24
- Gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'
- Gibson sues over 'Rock Band,' 'Guitar Hero'Dumbest thing I've heard todayIf you need to burn off some of your profits, Gibson, why not do a price drop on your product instead of feeding it to your lawyers?
- Tags: gibson, rock band, guitar hero
- Discussion threads 2008-03-24
- Red Hat takes the open source security challenge
- One big hole for open source lies in security. It's not a real hole. It's a meta-hole. But we still view it as a hole, so it's a hole. That hole opened up again in Australia this week, where a "loud minority" got personal...
- Tags: security, red hat inc., hole, open source, dana blankenhorn
- Blog posts 2008-03-21
- Gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent
- Gibson: Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patentTotally BogusNot only did Gibson wait three *YEARS* to file this, but they also licensed the guitar design to begin with, so its not like it was a secret. One can assume that they will soon file a lawsuit against the makers of Rock Band...
- Tags: games, gibson, guitar hero, activision inc.
- Discussion threads 2008-03-13
- News to know: IE 8; Big storage; Gnome 2.2; Apple; Acer; Tech lobbying
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Will IE 8 break the Web? Microsoft buys virtualization vendor help with Vista migrations There's more than one way to make Microsoft software 'serviceable' Windows Home Server users want their Power Pack 1...
- Tags: apple iphone, web, yahoo! inc., storage, gnome, apple inc., microsoft internet explorer, microsoft corp., acer inc., channel management, virtualization, internet, open source, marketing, hardware, larry dignan
- Blog posts 2008-03-13
- Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: Gibson
- Activision's 'Guitar Hero' violates patent: GibsonMessage has been deleted.That doesn't compare with a patent for toilet paperI have it. Everyone who wipes their a** now owes me money.The inspiration for the patent came from inspiration from a foundation comprising of idiots who patent the obvious.I'm so brilliant.-MWow! Gibson's showroom must...
- Tags: games, guitar hero 3, gibson, patent, activision inc., guitar hero
- Discussion threads 2008-03-12
- The+SSD+failure+debate
- The+SSD+failure+debateMost SSD doom and gloom writers seem uninformedThey know one thing - that NAND and NOR have erase cycle endurance limitations. Then, they create a whole doom and gloom campaign around that one limitation. It's irresponsible technical journalism. Not only are SSD's super reliable, they are are future...
- Tags: advertising & promotion, notebooks, storage, ssd
- Discussion threads 2008-02-27
- The SSD failure debate
- To listen to some people talk about it, Solid State Drives SSDs – like the 64GM model from Samsung that you can get in the new MacBook Air – are doomed to fail. SSD is defined as "A disk drive that uses memory chips instead of rotating...
- Tags: jason d. o'grady
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- The real difference between Microsoft and Google
- The real difference between Microsoft and GoogleRE: The real difference between Microsoft and GoogleSix years ago, I attended a seminar about Linux saying that MS is going down and Open Source is winning On a PowerPoint slide. They even showed the same picture Titanic sinking on the seminar.Now, MS still...
- Tags: microsoft corp., google inc., real difference
- Discussion threads 2008-02-15
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