Frankenstein Wrecks the Dow
One of Western culture's most enduring stories is that of Dr. Frankenstein's monster -- dreamed up in the 19th century by an English novelist, Mary Shelley, and borne through the decades by movies, cartoon....
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Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:05 AM
Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:05 AM
Readers Say: Shrinking IT
Lots of feedback on this feature about big changes ahead for IT, especially the part about an outflow of jobs to other departments within the enterprise. Some readers were so freaked out by the projection....
Monday, May 10, 2010 10:05 AM
Facebook Woes Coming To IT
by Tony Kontzer Today's subject is privacy--or more appropriately, the lack of it. Whether you're in charge of customer data for a large corporation or simply one of Facebook's more than 400 million users....
Friday, May 07, 2010 11:05 AM
Wisdom 2.0
by Tony Kontzer A few hundred enlightened souls--or, more accurately, souls in search of enlightenment--gathered at Silicon Valley's Computer History Museum recently for the highly unusual Wisdom 2.0 Summ....
Monday, May 03, 2010 10:05 AM
Wading into Nick Carr's "The Shallows"
I'm reading Nicholas Carr's new book, The Shallows: What the Internet Is Doing to Our Brains. It's a departure from his previous books, The Big Switch and Does IT Matter?, which deal more directly with IT....
Wednesday, April 28, 2010 09:04 AM
iPhones and Ethics
by Tony Kontzer Of all the questions that come to mind when reading about what we can now safely call The Great iPhone Prototype Caper, one strikes me as the most confounding: What on Earth were all the p....
Monday, April 26, 2010 10:04 AM
Facebook's Identity Play
Who owns identity on the internet? Facebook is making a play for the title of gatekeeper-in-chief. As with many things Facebook, business ignores the social net at its own peril. Farhad Manjoo offers a....
Monday, April 19, 2010 10:04 AM
Behind the Times
The old joke about the New York Times is that nothing really happens until it appears in the Paper of Record. And nothing is too basic to be explained to Times readers ("Spring, a popular season that foll....
Monday, April 12, 2010 13:04 PM
CIOs Without Borders
by Tony Kontzer We in the IT press spend a lot of time writing about how technology helps organizations to achieve business objectives, but what we don't get to write about enough is the potential for tec....
Tuesday, April 06, 2010 15:04 PM
iPad in the Twitterverse
By Tony Kontzer It's déjà vu all over again. Less than three years ago, Apple revolutionized the mobile phone market with the introduction of the original iPhone, and now Steve Jobs &am....
Tuesday, March 30, 2010 21:03 PM
Oracle vs. Rimini Street
By Tony Kontzer If you haven't been paying attention to the emerging war between Oracle and Rimini Street, a third-party provider of support for enterprise applications, then it's time you did. The two are....
Thursday, March 11, 2010 09:03 AM
Pa. CISO Unfairly Fired
By Tony Kontzer I'm writing today to bring your attention to the case of Bob Maley. In case you haven't heard--and you probably haven't since very few IT news outlets have picked up on his--Maley was the ....
Friday, March 05, 2010 15:03 PM
RSA: Feds Wave White Flag on Cyber Crime
By Tony Kontzer The gauntlet has been laid down. In what amounted to a virtual waving of the white flag, federal officials made it clear to attendees of the RSA conference in San Francisco that the war ....
Friday, February 26, 2010 00:02 AM
Google and Media in the Internet Age
By Tony Kontzer No doubt we've all read with interest the abundant coverage (San Francisco Chronicle report here) of an Italian court convicting three Google executives on privacy charges. The court deter....
Thursday, February 25, 2010 08:02 AM
How IT Greases the Wheels
By Tony Kontzer My longtime family friend and financial advisor recently told me that he believes money is simply the grease in life. Money, he argues, does not do anything other than make the business of....