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Cast your vote in the Windows 7 release date prediction pool

Update 16-May-2008: I've tallied the entries so far. What's the consensus? See my follow-up post: Windows 7 ship date? The crowd has spoken… When will Windows 7 be ready for release? The tech blogosphere seems to have interpreted Microsoft's latest carefully parsed announcement as pointing to a...

Tags: Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows Vista, Rule, Tech Blogosphere, Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Software, Ed Bott

Blog posts 2008-04-09

Can High Tech Ever Be Really Hip?

The tech blogosphere is often a place where great ideas about society and politics intersect with technology, and the tech industry and society are usually the better for it. But I was reminded recently about how much the perception of hip and progressive and cool is in many ways a...

Tags: Tech, Disability, Tech Blogosphere, Joshua Greenbaum

Blog posts 2007-08-07

What's important to the tech blogosphere

What's important to the tech blogosphereBill Gates StoryI think Bill Gates stepping down from Microsoft had a bigger effect on Techmeme that Amanda's story.Funny, I could care less what they are doing...but I understand your point. I'm still never going to MySpace lol.GatesYou're right....Gates, Scoble, Congdom...three titans of technolgoy

Tags: Bill Gates, tech blogosphere

Discussion threads 2006-07-07

Additional Resources

Why on ZDnet?

I think most of the folks who read this section of ZDnet understand how digital tech and the future of energy, mineral and water and air resource use are so closely interconnected. But occasionally somebody who really doesn't want global warming written about, or hates the very idea that...

Tags: Pollution, Global Warming, Harry Fuller

Blog posts 2009-10-04

IDG on thin crowds: OpenSource World is invitation only

Earlier today, I posted an entry from the kick-off keynote at OpenSource World and noted that the crowds were pretty light. From my viewpoint, there were probably all of about 250 or so people in that room. Having attended LinuxWorld last year, I couldn't help but wonder what caused such...

Tags: LinuxWorld, Information Technology, Attendee, International Data Group, Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Storage Management, Strategy, Utility Computing, Hardware, Storage, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-08-12

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hit

Survey: Microsoft customer satisfaction takes second quarter hitIf they suck so muchWhy competitor can't manage to significantly increase market share in many fields where Microsoft is keeping(O.S) or even increasing(Server,B.I) its market share, like O.S market ?Could it be that much of the negative perception people has of Microsoft...

Tags: Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Product marketing, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft customer satisfaction, customer satisfaction, Microsoft Windows Vista, survey

Discussion threads 2009-07-15

Video of the day: Prankster mocks those who linked to fake Chrome OS images

Here in the tech blogosphere, we love our news scoops. And when we can't get them ourselves, we're quick to link to those who do get them. Apparently, that's not always the smartest move. At some point yesterday, when everyone and his mother was posting news about...

Tags: Google Inc., Prankster, Video, Blogosphere, Image, Blogging, Corporate Communications, Internet, Marketing, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-09

Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdict

Thomas-Rasset to appeal $1.9m verdictShe sure did ask for it.By sharing copyright protected songs. She should stop trying to blame the RIAA for her predicament. Regardless of the appropriateness or not of the $1.9M award two juries have found her guilty of willful infringement. Own up to it and take...

Tags: Litigation, Digital media, RIAA, Thomas-Rasset

Discussion threads 2009-07-06

The enterprise implications of Google Wave

Google announced their forthcoming service known as Wave this week to widespread coverage in both the press and blogosphere. Created by many of the same team members that created the highly successful Google Maps, the preview of the service itself on Thursday was quite compelling, resulting in a rare standing...

Tags: Google Inc., Blogging, Team Management, Collaboration, Groupware, Internet, Management, Enterprise Software, Software, Dion Hinchcliffe

Blog posts 2009-05-30

Netbooks are everywhere

Netbooks are everywhereHardlyIn fact I hardly ever see my basement or even the house anymore.Nice try though.How many Linux netbooks did you see?compared to XP ones? Did you see any Windows7b adopters in a non-geek audience?Where? Not anywhere I've seenI've been plenty of places and yet to see but...

Tags: Netbooks, nettops & MIDs, netbook

Discussion threads 2009-05-08

Three reasons companies fear social media â€" and why they shouldn’t

New Marketing Labs hosted the Inbound Marketing Summit here in the Bay Area last week. As I was unfortunately unable to attend, I asked my marketing-savvy friend Jane McMurry to provide a recap of her experience there. What she found is that despite all of the proven results and case...

Tags: Marketing, Social Media, Jane McMurry, Jennifer Leggio

Blog posts 2009-05-05

Screw Kindle...just give me a decent app for textbooks

When I first held a Kindle the first generation, I was instantly enamored. I was also in public education, so I couldn't afford one. However, there are few things on this planet that I like more than reading, so a little device that could hold a bunch of...

Tags: Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Kindle, Netbook, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Textbook

Blog posts 2009-05-04

How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?

How many Intel CPUs will fail the XP Mode test in Windows 7?Want to do the same post ...... for AMD CPUs? :)nope :/I just bought a Quad Q8300 a few weeks ago. I didn't put much thought into VT. My dad has a Core 2 Duo that...

Tags: Processors, Desktops, Intel Corp., XP Mode, Microsoft Windows 7, Microsoft Windows XP, CPU, Microsoft Windows, processor, Intel Core 2 Duo, PC

Discussion threads 2009-05-03

What would Larry Ellison do with Microsoft (it wouldn't be Vine)

The blogosphere is abuzz with the latest creation from Microsoft---Vine, a Twitter meets Facebook messaging system Techmeme.  The big question: Would Larry Ellison do this? Answer: Nope. Vine---and a lot of other Microsoft businesses (MSN, Xbox to name a few) take away from the real goal of...

Tags: Instant Messaging, Internet, Larry, Larry Dignan, Larry Ellison, Management, Microsoft Corp., Online Communications, Oracle Corp., Strategy, Vision

Blog posts 2009-04-28

RNC: Shortage of tech workers to build platforms, apps

The Republicans had big dreams of catching up to their Democratic counterparts when it came to the utilizing technology to advance their causes. Last summer, the Washington Post profiled the man that the Republican National Committee was counting on to take them to the next level, Microsoft and Yahoo veteran...

Tags: Republican, Worker, RNC, Tech Worker, Post, Blogging, Productivity, Internet, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-05

Apple kills rumor, handles desktop news exactly right

Score one for Apple when it comes to squashing a blogosphere rumor. The rumor mill had just started spinning its wheels with buzz of a March 24 Apple event - presumably to announce a refresh to the Mac desktop line - when the company unexpectedly made the...

Tags: Event, Apple Inc., Macworld, Blogging, Desktops, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-03-04

Apple roundup: Jobs-less meeting, to netbook or not, and an iPhone rumor

updated below What better way to kick off a Monday than with an Apple roundup that includes a pretty weak, albeit juicy, rumor. First there's the look ahead at this week's shareholder's meeting, which will be the first without CEO Steve Jobs since...

Tags: Apple iPhone, Steve Jobs, Blog, Apple Inc., Verizon Wireless, Netbook, Blogging, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Internet, Hardware, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-02-23

Could Jobs' departure = good news for education?

So Steve Jobs is on "medical leave." The blogosphere and major news outlets are buzzing about implications for the company and ZDNet's Larry Dignan sums it up nicely: In a nutshell, Apple will have almost six months without Jobs at the helm. The thing to watch...

Tags: Education, Job, Steve Jobs, Apple Inc., Desktops, Terminal Services, Apple Mac OS X, Netbooks, Nettops & MIDs, Hardware, Operating Systems, Software, Apple Mac OS, Christopher Dawson

Blog posts 2009-01-15

Rest in peace Roland Piquepaille

Rest in peace Roland PiquepailleFarewell...I enjoyed reading your blogs, even if I didn't understand them sometimes(!)They always made fascinating reading & I'll miss them.Rest in Peace, Roland.It's a sad dayI personally enjoyed Roland's work. I never met got to meet the man, but I'm sure he would have been...

Tags: Blogging, Roland Piquepaille, Roland

Discussion threads 2009-01-09

Holiday recap: Amazon bucks trend of worst retail season in decades

On this, the other Black Friday, here are a few bits of retail news worth sharing: Amazon said today that the 2008 holiday shopping season was its "best ever," even though a report released on Christmas Day called the season one of the worst in decades. ...

Tags: Wal-Mart Stores Inc., Amazon.com Inc., Sales Strategy, Sales Force Management, Sales, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-12-26