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Attention on the brain

Attention was the subject of the SDForum Search SIG tonight at AOL's Mountain View office. In fact, it's been the subject of attention and lively debate for the last few weeks, especially at the recent ETech to PC Forum conferences. In my post from ETech, "The amorphous attention economy,"...

Tags: Blogging, Root Markets, Gabe, Memeorandum

Blog posts 2006-03-17

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Open source needs successful champions

Open Source powers the Internet period!Open_Source powers the ENTIRE Internet withrouters/switches/servers you name it like Microsoft sitting behind caching Linux distroname servers.Now you tell me what does it need now???It is the FUTURE of smart devices, appliancedriven infrastructure, just like VMware using a Linux derived kernel and it is #1...

Tags: Linux, software cost, Linux Distro, open source, operating system, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-11-05

Two bars at home; three at work. Wireless coverage data is going granular

Say goodbye to those no-help coverage maps that the wireless carriers use to show you how great their coverage is from one coast to the other. So hello to granular maps, those that measure the true signal as well as the actual data coverage down to the Google Maps street...

Tags: Phone, Coverage, Cell Phone, Carrier, Wireless, Wireless Coverage Data, Telecom & Utilities, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-10-06

Sony's Reader: The road ahead

Sony's Reader: The road aheadDRMDRM and more DRM. Paper books are so much better. Sony's record on DRM is worst than terrible. How will I trade e books with my sister? How many e books will ever be sold in flea markets or secondhand book...

Tags: E-books, Digital rights management (DRM), Sony Corp., Sony Reader, e-book, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2009-08-05

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...

Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...RE: Battling for the Mother Of All Monopolies...This battle and the comments are reminiscent of the discussions when PCs first started showing up. IBM was dominant in a way that everyone agreed Microsoft did not have a chance. Corporation all agreed that...

Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2009-07-08

CIOs should take a few punches amid the downturn to save IT

Guest post: TechRepublic's Patrick Gray believes that IT leaders still looking to find a seat at the C-level table might gain that influential position by taking a share of the responsibility for the failures that led to financial crisis. For more posts like this see TechRepublic's...

Tags: CIO, Financial, Information Technology, Financial Crisis, Patrick Gray, Prevoyance Group, Strategy, Management, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2009-05-18

Money, at the root of all roots

Food and how we get it. One of the crucial issues of this era. A report in Europe has just predicted famine and all manner of social and political disaster due to global warming. Famine, as in starvation. How we get our food will only become...

Tags: Food, H1N1 Flu, Famine, Food & Beverage, Blogging, Manufacturing, Internet, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-05-14

RealDVD hearing: Don't block the software because of what-ifs

If I could be be punished for the things I could do - instead of what I actually do - I would been behind bars years ago. Hollywood movies studios are trying to punish RealNetworks for something that its software could do, not what it actually does,...

Tags: Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-04-28

SLA's and the Real World

There's a solid post by Jevon McDonald (who has long questioned whether there is a viable 'Enterprise 2.0' market) this weekend, titled 'Understanding the role of Enterprise 2.0 and moving towards a Social Business' on the 'Fast Forward' blog, which is focused around the FAST search...

Tags: SLA, Information Technology, Enterprise 2.0, Jevon, Global Technology Services Division, Oliver Marks

Blog posts 2009-04-20

How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry juggernauts? Very.

How vulnerable are the iPhone and BlackBerry juggernauts? Very.My question is about the Palm PreI've heard that you can't access the Graphics subsystem through the SDK. Does this mean that there'll be no games at all, or will all of the games be flash based?bad analysis"Commodity market. And commodity markets...

Tags: Handhelds, Digital media, Digital music, Apple iPhone, RIM BlackBerry, BlackBerry juggernaut

Discussion threads 2009-04-02

77% of Americans think media is making economic situation worse

77% of Americans think media is making economic situation worsePerception ...They are not making it worst, but making the perception that is worst than really is.I see media is the unstated political partyand everything everybody else does not what media outlets do or the overall theme of a segment is...

Tags: Advertising & Promotion, media, economic situation

Discussion threads 2009-01-01

Holiday Gift Guide 2008: Laptop picks by the inch

There has never been more choice in notebooks. The standard 12-inch ultraportables, 14-inch thin-and-lights, 15-inch mainstream laptops and 17-inch desktop replacements are still commonplace. But there are new shapes and sizes filling in the gaps ranging from 11 inches all the way up to 18 inches....

Tags: Sony Corp., Hard Drive, Sony Vaio, Hewlett-Packard Co., Gateway Inc., Lenovo Group Ltd., Battery, Memory, Configuration, Intel Core 2 Duo, Series, Graphics, Laptop Computer, Intel Corp., LED-backlit, IdeaPad, U110, ThinkPad X200, X200s, Dv3510nr, Sony VAIO FW, Gateway P-Series FX Edition, 8930G, Notebooks, Processors, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Semiconductors, Components, John Morris

Blog posts 2008-12-09

On the Mac mini's passing: not so fast

On the Mac mini's passing: not so fastThe Mac Mini is the only Apple device I would consider buyingThe 2 people I know who bought a Mac Mini are very happy with it although they very quickly replaced OS X with Windows so they could use the far superior MCE....

Tags: Desktops, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Microsoft Only, mini, Apple TV, Apple Inc., Apple Intel Mac Mini, Apple Macintosh, WMC, TV, MCE

Discussion threads 2008-11-06

Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft Fades

Ghost Story: Fear of Microsoft FadesIt's funny...These kind of articles are coming just in time for the PDC. CNET has one too.http://news.cnet.com/8301-13505_3-10077866-16.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20MS bashers are really desperate. Is this because of what Microsoft announced (Azure, Live) on PDC is something that will make them even more successful? Just a thought.Fear, or...

Tags: Microsoft Just, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-10-30

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

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solution

Zoho bitterness at the credit crunch...and a solutionMissing Facts...You're missing several key facts about our current mess...1) The banks were forced into making high risk loans by our delightful government. Based on a study later determined to be flawed showing bias in lending, the Clinton administration passed laws requiring banks...

Tags: Government, Obama, JFK

Discussion threads 2008-09-30

Apple security not ready for enterprise prime-time

Apple security not ready for enterprise prime-timeNo win for anyone.So nobody can win no matter what track they take. Apple gets nailed by IT departments whining about how security updates are random, not on a specified schedule, and they're unable to plan.Microsoft gets nailed by IT departments whining about how...

Tags: Operating systems, Cyberthreats, fanboy, Apple Inc., Apple security, security, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2008-09-19

Are you underinsured?

Are you underinsured?The problem is costs.Being uninsured is not the problem. It is a symptom. It is the cost of medicine. It is so expensive, that we cannot afford the insurance no matter who handles the policy. The profit margins on all the suppliers of medicine are absurd. A push...

Tags: Vertical industries, Benefits, HEALTHCARE, Being Uninsured, Insurance deductible, health care, insurance, national healthcare

Discussion threads 2008-06-11

Market Alternatives for Sun

Market Alternatives for SunLack of dividend is the root of the problemAlmost none of these tech companies issue dividends, and those that do have quite low yields (MSFT 1.57, Intel 2.3).It used to be that the dividend was a major reason to be an investor, but take that away, and...

Tags: Financial Planning, Financial accounting, Sun Microsystems Inc., dividend

Discussion threads 2008-05-28

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan Bs

Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsOther winners include1) Office chairs producers2) The free marketsRE: Microsoft walks away from Yahoo: Assessing winners, losers and Plan BsGoogle is a winner? Uh no. Google has been intefering with this deal from the beginning and should be put...

Tags: advertisement, audio track, Yahoo! Inc., Microsoft Corp., Plan B

Discussion threads 2008-05-04