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Get this: in tech hub Seattle, School Board still uses dinosaur VAX!

For those of you who have been around the silicon-based world for awhile, the mere mention of VAX computers might spark a memory or two. That pic might jog your memory. First debuted back in 1977, courtesy of Digital Equipment...

Tags: Board, Memory, Official, Digital Equipment Corp., Seattle Times, Corporate Governance, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Russell Shaw

Blog posts 2008-02-26

Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?

Why Has Microsoft Office Evaded European, US Justice?Very good point. MS has to be laughing here. Everybody focusing on MediaPlayer and IE, while they quietly use MS Office to cause interoperability problems and maintain the Windows monopoly. There is a reason that MS if fighting ODF tooth and nail and...

Tags: Linux, Web browsers, Operating systems, Seattle Times, Microsoft Corp., Has Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office

Discussion threads 2007-09-17

U.S. attorney probing HP leaks investigation

U.S. attorney probing HP leaks investigationHuh? What is there to investigate?Lets see, HP fully admited that the PI they hired in turn sub-contracted some of the work to a third party and that third party admitted what they did. What is there to investigate?Wilson, Sonsini, Goodritch & RosatiThere were...

Tags: Corporate governance, Seattle Times, U.S. Congress, Hewlett-Packard Co., Goodritch & Rosati

Discussion threads 2006-09-11

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global Fund

Gates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundGates Foundation gives $500 million to Global FundBig ups to the Gates Foundation. It's through charities like this and philanthropists like Bill and Melinda Gates that donations for good causes are possible. The people with these diseases will be overjoyed knowing...

Tags: Nothing, Mr Gates, Gates Foundation, Bill Gates, United Way, Global Fund, philanthropy, Seattle Times, Microsoft Corp.

Discussion threads 2006-08-09

Additional Resources

Inside India's CAPTCHA solving economy

No CAPTCHA can survive a human that's receiving financial incentives for solving it, and with an army of low-waged human CAPTCHA solvers officially in the business of "data processing" while earning a mere $2 for solving a thousand CAPTCHA's, I'm already starting to see evidence of consolidation between India's major...

Tags: CAPTCHA, Dancho Danchev

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Empower your people

It's the beginning of the year and I'm going out of my mind. Even though we've added my position of "Technology Director" and I don't have to teach anymore, we're still not exactly overstaffed on tech here in the district. I'm supposed to be handling curriculum and designing...

Tags: SiS, E-mail, Workforce Management, Online Communications, Human Resources, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2008-08-29

Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?

Comcast's Web limits: Saving bandwidth or stifling innovation?Beef it upWhy Comcast should beef up their network:Imagine its 5:00 PM on a normal Friday evening, you get home hoping to relax in front of the TV to watch a movie or two. You turn on the TV only to discover that...

Tags: Broadband Internet, Strategy, Web, Comcast Corp., bandwidth, network

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

Say goodbye to Yahoo! MashSocial networking is the problemThe whole "social networking" paradigm has a fundamental problem, and that is that keeping in touch with other people shouldn't be an objective in and of itself.Yet a lot of these "concepts" are just that: get people into a herd mentality so...

Tags: Social networking, Yahoo! Mash, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people will still be using it as long as their friends are using it. Yahoo's mashup social network...

Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Social Networking, Collaboration, Networking, Online Communications, Marketing, Advertising & Promotion, Andrew Mager

Blog posts 2008-08-28

The importance of the Veoh decision

The importance of the Veoh decisionThe problem is "appropriate steps".The question is, how thoroughly does a store-and-serve operation have to police what it's storing?In this case, removing something shown to be violating copyright on notification is sufficient. And that's reasonable.The problem is the situation when there are millions of...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Tools & Techniques, Veoh

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customersDemocracy versus politicsThank you for discussing the difference between spectator politics and participative democracy. It seems to me that technology can definitely be put to better use for enabling the latter. At the risk of rambling, perhaps that might be a role that the newspaper...

Tags: Government, Attention Craig Newmark

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

First images of Google-powered HTC Dream

First images of Google-powered HTC DreamHopefully, we can eventually break the lock on cell phones. There is NOreason that the carriers are involved in your cell phone purchase. Imagine how outraged we would be if the ISPs required us to buy out computers from them and told us what applications...

Tags: Telecom & Utilities, First image, High Tech Computer Corp., phone, image, Google Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

SaaS market will 'collapse' in two years

Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes says SaaS is the third attempt at "on demand" in his lifetime and predicts it will take the same path as the first two--to oblivion. Lawson's CEO, Harry Debes, doesn't believe in software-as-a-service SaaS. ...

Tags: Software-as-a-service, Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Emerging Technologies, Software as a service, SaaS, software, Lawson, Asia, Victoria Ho, ZDNet Asia

News items 2008-08-28

Bloomberg publishes Jobs obit but why?

Bloomberg published an obituary for Apple CEO Steve Jobs after the closing bell on Wednesday and quickly retracted it. Amid all the rumors of Jobs' and his pancreatic cancer Bloomberg's timing couldn't have been worse. However, the Bloomberg incident may reveal that rumors about Jobs' health are intensifying. ...

Tags: Job, Steve Jobs, Bloomberg L.P., Vertical Industries, Benefits, Healthcare, Financial Accounting, Enterprise Software, Software, Human Resources, Finance, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-08-28

Resurrecting E-voting

Resurrecting E-votingDifficulty of subverting voting machinesIt seems to me that any system can be tampered with to render the vote dishonest. However, some configurations make such tampering very hard while others are much easier to subvert. You should talk about the relative difficulty and not whether or not...

Tags: SECURITY, Resurrecting E-voting, risk, e-voting

Discussion threads 2008-08-28

Free KPMSS Persistent Process Stopper (exe)

Target several processes to be send the exit signal repeatedly. It is simple to use and will surely be a useful tool to remove viruses that have multiple processes that automatically restart each other. Program features: sends an end signal to chosen the processes 20 times a second, easily see...

Tags: Process, KPM Software Solutions, Microsoft Windows, Cyberthreats, Productivity, .Net, Application Servers, Middleware, Viruses And Worms, Operating Systems, Software, Security, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Enterprise Software

Software downloads 2008-08-28

Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first place

Clean-tech gets political while China moves into first placeYou should add that there are about 5 times more Chinese, so, they arestill using 5x less per capita. I do agree that the rapid increases in use in China is troubling . . . . .

Tags: China Move, clean technology

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

Attention Craig Newmark: Citizens aren't customers

Craig Newmark, founder of Craigslist, has offered a thoughtful but misguided palliative at CNN to the shortcomings of the age of networked democracy. ... if you know how Americans use the Net to talk, you can easily stay in touch with real people. ...

Tags: Politics, Democracy, Government, Vertical Industries, Enterprise Software, Software, Mitch Ratcliffe

Blog posts 2008-08-27

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeover

Internet Explorer 8 gets a massive makeoverStandardsWhat I want to know, does the "standards" mode remove previous IE hacks? For example, using the underscore in CSS statements would be ignored by every browser except IE. If IE8 now supports standards but STILL reads the underscore hack, this could be a...

Tags: Web browsers, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Internet Explorer 8, IE8, Web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer 7, Adrian

Discussion threads 2008-08-27

NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?

NPR feature on OLPC - what went wrong?Very simply put, It became a religious war....Software is simply NOT a religion.So the software religious community needs to learn to sleep with itself.In retrospect, the OLPC has changed the world. Sure, it has spawned anindustry that is more to serve rich consumers...

Tags: One Laptop Per Child project, NPR

Discussion threads 2008-08-27