McCain: I'm No "Tech Freak"
OK, OK. We've all seen the stories: John McCain is "technology illiterate" and doesn't use e-mail. And some think it's a big problem. After all, his opponent, Barack Obama, is a BlackBerry-toting, social ....
OK, OK. We've all seen the stories: John McCain is "technology illiterate" and doesn't use e-mail. And some think it's a big problem. After all, his opponent, Barack Obama, is a BlackBerry-toting, social ....
A new blogging effort looks to build a new brand for conservatism. But has Barack Obama's movement already stolen all the Web mojo? Ed Cone, our resident political watcher, just posted an interview with Jo....
It's trendy to speak of politics in terms of branding, with the Republican and conservative brands widely believed to be in need of a tune-up. Hence The Next Right, a blog aimed at helping conservatives re....
Om Malik says, "even Silicon Valley can't ignore what's been going on in the overall economy." It's an important post. The consumer-spending analysis is not pretty, and it resonates far beyond the tech in....
There's an argument to be made for established companies to avoid the risk of innovation. But it's not the right one. Scott Anthony poses an interesting question: should successful businesses bother with ....
Dave Winer on the iPhone: "[P]eople who believe in open systems who bet heavy on such a closed system are going to learn again why they love open systems." Dave references Nik Cubrilovic, who writes: "Gee....
Salesforce.com, long the poster child for Sun Microsystem's software-as-a-service business, is ditching Sun's hardware and Solaris software for machines from Dell running the Linux operating system. The R....
One of the root causes of the gender imbalance in IT -- a major workplace diversity issue -- is understood to be the relatively low interest in certain sciences by female students. Now the federal governme....
I was trying to make it through the day without mentioning the iPhone, but a few items jumped out at me through the swirling ticker-tape -- things that are relevant to corporate IT. As Clint Boulton says,....
If this snippet of conversation about social nets for the enterprise leaves you wanting more...you can get more from this article.
Forrester looks at limits to growth for small, medium, and large IT organizations. Below, a chart from the report:
So it's Bastille Day, and that got me thinking about the Minitel -- the French teletext system that seemed so cool back in the pre-web era. When my wife and I moved to Paris in 1989, the Minitel was in fu....
Forrester says IT departments were slow to the Web 2.0 party, but they're catching up: "Budgetary controls, the need for integration and technical skills, and the growing importance of Web 2.0 tools are al....
FCC chair Kevin Martin comes out against Comcast, for net neutrality. Ars Technica: "Score one huge, precedent-setting win for net neutrality backers." Related: "Telecoms are poor-mouthing existing capac....
As mentioned in this column, the US lacks a serious technology policy and continues to face a digital divide in terms of broadband access. Looks like we could learn something from the Aussies: Australia'....