Mighty Mouse
Gartner predicts death of the mouse. Count me among the skeptics. The mouse is too useful and too habitual to go away so quickly. I love the detail in the video below that the world's fourth-largest computer network in...
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July 17, 2008
Thursday, July 17, 2008 10:57 AM/EST
July 16, 2008
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 1:49 PM/EST
Apple's Walled Garden
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: "Geeks and enthusiasts wearing...
Wednesday, July 16, 2008 10:43 AM/EST
When "Not PC" Doesn't Mean You Prefer Mac
HP gets into the mobile data center business. I'm not a particularly PC guy -- I'm one of the half-dozen or so people who admits to liking the New Yorker's Obama cover, and I still call mobile homes "mobile...
July 15, 2008
Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:12 PM/EST
No Sun in This Cloud
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 Register reports: "The move comes as Salesforce.com prepares to bring up a...
July 11, 2008
Friday, July 11, 2008 10:54 AM/EST
National Tech Policy
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's government has launched an ambitious...
July 10, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008 10:07 AM/EST
iPhone App Store: Open, But Not That Open
The launch of Apple's iPhone App Store isn't quite the cultural event as the launch of the new wonder-device itself, but it's still quite the big deal in certain circles. Rightly so. Bigthink from NYT: "When Apple opens its...
July 8, 2008
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 2:17 PM/EST
MSFT Prices Cloud Offerings
Microsoft unveils new hosting options for messaging, collaboration and communications software. More here, here: "Microsoft is aiming at users who might be persuaded to move to Google Docs with its Deskless Worker line-up." Previously: Building out the infrastructure that...
Tuesday, July 08, 2008 10:09 AM/EST
All ATwitter
Are things getting better for Twitter? Venture Beat says the company's usage numbers look good, but it's hard to see a CIO relying on the micro-messaging service for mission-critical jobs anytime soon. Dave Winer has some thoughts that should...
July 1, 2008
Tuesday, July 01, 2008 10:19 AM/EST
MSFT's Infrastructure Strategy
Infrastructure is a differentiator. I use FedEx as an example [...] what they did was find these strategic landing fields where they could get in and out quickly to key distribution points across the globe. It defined their company....
June 30, 2008
Monday, June 30, 2008 11:41 AM/EST
Partly Cloudy: Enterprise Software, Onsite and Off
Moving enterprise software to the cloud is a process, not an event, says Patrick Eischen, CIO of IBA Group, a fast-growing medical equipment and products company. IBA wants to push what it can into the services realm. "We look...
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