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Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing

At the close of the first day of the Open Source Business Conference, Mitch Kapor explained why he thinks Wikipedia is the next big thing. He first deconstructed the online encyclopedia, which is one of the top 20 Web sites, and punctured holes in myths, such as “someone has to...

Tags: Mitch noted.After, Wikipedia

Blog posts 2006-02-14

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Amazon's "Remembers" feature needs to go further

Several of my ZD Net colleagues noted the launch to Amazon's iPhone app this week. The feature that is most interesting, in my opinion, is the Amazon Remembers, which lets users snap a photo of a product with their iPhone and upload it refer to later, when shopping, and so...

Tags: Amazon.com Inc., Amazon Remembers, Scanners, Productivity, Hardware, Peripherals, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-12-05

We can make you better, faster, poorer

Our colleague Mitch Radcliffe needs a new neck. He says he has good insurance, but the carrier won't spring for the replacement part he wants. (They even have PDF installation instructions. Great for do-it-yourselfers (that's a joke).) Mitch says new discs would be better than...

Tags: Patient, Fusion, Carrier, Mitch Radcliffe, Insurance, Financial Planning, Business Operations, Corporate Insurance, Finance, Dana Blankenhorn

Blog posts 2008-01-08

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Mac migration a breeze, Vista's migration is a headache

The Great Vista/Mac Showdown: Mac migration a breeze, Vista's migration is a headacheLies?If he'd had more software installed on that Mac it sounds like the migration wouldn't have gone so well. By the sound of it he lost all his 3rd party software. ...He simply only had a...

Tags: Desktops, Apple Macintosh, Microsoft Corp., migration, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista, Apple Inc., software

Discussion threads 2007-02-06

Lawrence Lessig and free media

I caught Mitch Ratcliffe's recent blog post, titled "Lessig's Razor," and found myself in wild agreement. Opposing Lawrence Lessig's position on the importance - or rather, the lack thereof - of digital copyright, Mitch noted that lawyers which Lessig is rarely produce the writing or video or music that people...

Tags: Lawrence Lessig, Eric Flint

Blog posts 2006-06-02

Biggest 20-year PC breakthrough? IBM's manual

What made the IBM PC a truly revolutionary device when it debuted in 1981? The technical reference manual that came with it, for one thing. SAN JOSE, Calif.--What made the IBM PC a truly revolutionary device when it debuted in 1981? The technical reference manual that...

Tags: PC, IBM PC, Compaq Computer Corp., IBM Corp., Desktops, Hardware, Michael Kanellos

News items 2001-08-09

Jobs talks turkey at shareholder meet

After investors re-elected the board and approved a stock split, the company's CEO and other Apple execs fielded questions about Apple's products, operations and future directions. Cupertino, Calif. -- A day after the company announced a hefty second-quarter profit, Apple shareholders gathered here on Thursday to re-elect the company's...

Tags: Shareholder, Job, Steve Jobs, Board, Apple Inc., Corporate Governance, Financial Accounting, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Finance, Stephen Beale, Technology News

News items 2000-04-20

Your last-minute Y2K prep primer

You're probably the type of person who waits to do their taxes on April 15th. Now that devil-may-care attitude has brought you hard up against the Y2K problem and you want to take some steps to prepare your PC and home for Y2K. Fortunately, like your taxes, Y2K preparations...

Tags: Apple Macintosh System, Fixes, Y2K, Data, Mitch Ratcliffe

News items 1999-12-29

Another headache for Apple?

The lower-cost consumer PowerBook model may be in danger of being scrapped because of engineering problems, sources say. One of Apple Computer's key new product lines -- the low cost consumer PowerBook, or P1 -- is in danger of getting scrapped by the company because of serious engineering concerns...

Tags: Apple PowerBook, Apple Inc., P1, Product Architecture, Notebooks, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Elliot Zaret, Technology News

News items 1999-06-22

Daily Fix: Progress aplenty

ZDY2K salutes the Congress, which this week passed the Small Business Year 2000 Readiness Act and sent the bill to the President for a signature. The bill will provide $500 million in special loans, up to $1 million in loan guarantees to an individual small business, for making Y2K...

Tags: ZDY2K, Y2K, Mitch Ratcliffe

News items 1999-03-24

The Yourdon fracas

(Continued from....) Yourdon demonstrates his willful indifference to evidence that contradicts his views when he explicitly says that "[A]ll it says is that reservations-processing is part of the 80 percent that did get finished on time. I assume that Mr. Ratcliffe would agree that we need much...

Tags: Yourdon, Ed Yourdon, Y2K, Mitch Ratcliffe

News items 1999-03-03

Daily Fix: The truth and Gary North

You may recall that last week I published two columns, Economics 1010100010010011 ... and How Y2K Might Bite The Economy, responding to Ed Yourdon's article predicting a year of serious disruptions and a decade of depression. He put forward a thesis, I responded with an antithesis -- after...

Tags: Ziff-Davis Inc., Yourdon, Company, Y2K, Mitch Ratcliffe

News items 1999-03-02