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May 23, 2011

Monday, May 23, 2011 12:16 PM/EST

Online Auctions: What's the Big Deal?

By John Parkinson Recently there have been a surge of "auction" sites that work differently from eBay and others of that ilk. These new incarnations are more like a cross between an auction (the competitive bidding process) and a lottery (concentration of value from many small players buying tickets to fund one big winner). It's an idea that's simultaneously brilliant in theory, yet hard to understand how it can possibly work in practice.

September 29, 2010

Wednesday, September 29, 2010 4:15 PM/EST

Wiretap My What?

By Tony Kontzer This is a big topic. We're talking about expanding federal government access to everything from emails and text messages to social networking posts and peer-to-peer messaging networks.

June 23, 2010

Wednesday, June 23, 2010 9:40 AM/EST

Killing the Internet

by Tony Kontzer If you aren't worried about the preservation of the Internet's frontier spirit, maybe you should be. The Internet--our Internet--is facing a fast-growing array of assaults that threaten to shake it to its core. No, I'm not talking...

June 21, 2010

Monday, June 21, 2010 10:40 AM/EST

BP Mismanages Data Flood

by Tony Kontzer Another gusher is giving BP headaches. For nearly two months, the nation has watched in horror as BP has flailed from one ineffective attempt to another in an effort to plug the Deepwater Horizon oil spill and...

June 14, 2010

Monday, June 14, 2010 10:51 AM/EST

Warming to the iPad

by Tony Kontzer Several months ago, I went out on a limb in predicting that Apple's iPad was a tweener device that didn't fill enough of a need to be an instrument of change. While I'm not prepared to give...

May 3, 2010

Monday, May 03, 2010 10:10 AM/EST

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 issues facing the enterprise....

April 26, 2010

Monday, April 26, 2010 10:46 AM/EST

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 clear explanation of how the new...

April 21, 2010

Wednesday, April 21, 2010 10:54 AM/EST

Governments Watching Google

"[W]e regularly receive requests from government agencies around the world to remove content from our services, or provide information about users of our services and products," says Google, which has now released data on where those requests come from. The...

April 19, 2010

Monday, April 19, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

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 follows Winter...") Even...

April 6, 2010

Tuesday, April 06, 2010 3:45 PM/EST

iPad in the Twitterverse

Twitter users offer a good barometer of the iPad's potential to change the way we do business. By Tony Kontzer

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