Archive for the ‘Infoworld’ Category
Wednesday, July 23rd, 2008
(This posts originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Here's a travel advisory: The next time you find yourself in a foreign city at night with nothing to do, take my advice: rent a movie in your hotel room. Don't go to discos. And if you do go out, ...
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Tuesday, July 22nd, 2008
Taking a hard, honest look at what you need to accomplish is the key to keeping your business competitive -- and yourself gainfully employed (This post originally appeared on Infoworld.com) by Dan Tynan Pity the poor IT managers. They're expected to know what their end-users want ...
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Monday, July 21st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The recording industry has finally met its match, and it's one bad mother -- or, more accurately, several good ones. The first good mother in our saga is Stephanie Lenz, who posted a 30-second video of ...
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Wednesday, July 16th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) If you thought the whole Microsoft-Yahoo-Icahn fandango was twisted and ugly before, well, it just got worse. Over the last three days these clowns have been eye-poking and face slapping like The Three Stooges -- sans the sophistication. ...
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Wednesday, July 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) So a New York judge last week ordered Google to hand over 12 terabytes of YouTube user information to Viacom. Yes, we know what you watched last summer, or at least Viacom's attorneys soon will. The ...
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Monday, July 7th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The Bush Administration's anti-recession tactics have given rise to an unexpected beneficiary: the Internet pørn industry. According to the Adult Internet Market Research Company, adult sites have been engorged with sales during the normally limp summer months. One ...
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Sunday, July 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) On this 4th of July weekend, let us celebrate the independence of Yahoo -- for however long it lasts. Because just when you thought Microsoft's bid for the Yahooligans was really truly deeply ultimately finally over, it really ...
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Saturday, July 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
It turns out the reports of XP's death may be slightly exaggerated.
Sure, the obits have been posted and the requiems are being sung. The fat lady has already packed up her girdle and gone home with a bucket of KFC. ...
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Tuesday, June 24th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Last week the House of Representatives passed a "compromise" amendment to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, though it sounds like the only things that have been compromised are our Constitutional rights. Now the Senate is poised to do ...
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Monday, June 23rd, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) A federal judge in Los Angeles has recused himself from a obscenity trial after a trove of dirty pictures were found squirreled away on his personal web site. Sounds scandalous, no? But the reality is both more complicated ...
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Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) The notion that we are swimming in broadband choices, floated last week by Cringester B. D. in rebuttal to my snarky jibes about the phonecablopoly (tm), did not sit well with Cringesters who are sitting in the cheap ...
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Monday, June 9th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) In case you've been living in a cave, today marks the first day of the Apple Worldwide Developer's Conference and Steve Jobs' keynote, which Apple watchers have declared will be the venue where Jobs unveils iPhone 2.0 -- ...
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Friday, June 6th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.) Boozes, babes, and Broadcom. Here's more proof that I got into the wrong end of this business. Ex-Broadcom CEO Henry Nicholas-- already nailed for stock options shenanigans that added a fictional $2.2 billion worth of revenue to his ...
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Thursday, June 5th, 2008
(This post originally appeared in Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) It's been a wild week here in Cringeville. My blog posts on YouTube v. Viacom and the FCC's proposal for a pørn-free wireless Internet have inspired raging debates about copyrights and corporate rights, free speech and free sex. ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
The FCC may soon require bidders on a swath of the wireless spectrum to deliver a free, wireless version access to the Net -- sans adult content.
Is a porn-free Internet possible or even desirable? Infoworld's Robert Cringely has some thoughts on the matter here. Tell us how you feel ...
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Tuesday, June 3rd, 2008
Lessons learned from the last downturn have IT confident it can weather any economic uncertainty ahead
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld.com.)
by Dan Tynan
Call it a slowdown, a downturn, or the dreaded "R" word, worries about the state of the U.S. economy have increased across virtually all sectors save one: technology.
But ...
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Sunday, June 1st, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field Blog.) Throttle this. Bit Torrent blocking Comcast got an education in the ways of the Net this week when hackers gained access to the ISP's domain name records and redirected Comcast.net traffic to a vandalized site. Teenage hackers with ...
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Thursday, May 29th, 2008
(Note: An edited/augmented version of this piece appeared on Infoworld.com.)
Sure, you may know all about the garage where Apple was born, Michael Dell's dorm room, or Bill Gates' youthful indiscretions. But that's all so 1997. The old guard of the PC revolution are giving way to the young Web 2.0 ...
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Tuesday, May 27th, 2008
Is Microsoft-Yahoo truly dead? Why did CBS buy CNET? How much would you pay for a letter from a dead genius? And what is Carl Icahn's problem anyway? The answers to these questions and more are found in this week's quiz -- provided you choose wisely. Correct responses are worth ...
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Monday, May 26th, 2008
(This post originally appeared on Infoworld's Notes From the Field blog.)
Bad news for Twitter. The original micro-blogging service (now available in brief, mega-terse, and vowel-free versions) has been accused of aiding and abetting bad behavior on the Web. I am shocked, shocked I tell you.
In case you've never used Twitter, ...
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