Internet strategy

February 16, 2010

Tuesday, February 16, 2010 8:05 PM/EST

Internet Addiction: A Mental Illness?

The leading psychiatric group won't consider Internet addiction as a form of behavioral disorder. Maybe it should. By Tony Kontzer

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February 11, 2010

Thursday, February 11, 2010 6:16 PM/EST

Iran, Social Networking and the CIO Conundrum

Iran's banning of social networking tools like Gmail and Facebook isn't an example for CIOs to follow, but it is a reminder that social media overload can take a huge toll on IT project success. By Tony Kontzer

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January 20, 2010

Wednesday, January 20, 2010 9:49 AM/EST

Network China Vs Command China

Thomas Friedman writes in the New York Times that China's restrictive internet policies are bumping up against its need to foster a data-dependent modern economy. He contrasts the old, Party-centric model, which he calls "Command China," with the new, business-driven...

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January 15, 2010

Friday, January 15, 2010 10:04 AM/EST

Twittering the Google-China Story

by Tony Kontzer Few technology business stories have triggered the range of responses that Google's well-documented standoff with China has generated. The topic seems ideally suited to the Twit Digest treatment, in which I take some recent piece of tech-related...

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January 13, 2010

Wednesday, January 13, 2010 9:42 AM/EST

Google, Good and Bad

Good Google finally stands up to censorship, and may leave China altogether. Could be time to revise Slide 9. UPDATE: Nick Carr writes, "Google's motivations are not as pure as they may appear...Like many other Western companies, Google has shown...

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November 2, 2009

Monday, November 02, 2009 11:42 AM/EST

Assessing the Internet at 40

by Tony Kontzer Numerous stories last week about the Internet turning 40 have proclaimed that the first message crashed the fledgling network, but let's try not to be negative. I mean, who wants to have their flaws pointed out to...

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November 1, 2009

Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:29 PM/EST

Breaching the Great Firewall

One of the first things I noticed upon checking into my hotel in Beijing in late October was that my personal blog was inaccessible. I was blocked by the Great Firewall of China. It's not that the Chinese government finds...

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September 23, 2009

Wednesday, September 23, 2009 10:25 AM/EST

Twitter For the Enterprise

by Tony Kontzer One thing I learned on Day 1 of The Twitter Conference: Twitter has no plans to adapt its platform for the corporate market. It turns out that the financial promise of secure, business-friendly micro-blogging would only get...

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September 16, 2009

Wednesday, September 16, 2009 10:34 AM/EST

Liking Apps Dot Gov, Loving Kundra

by Tony Kontzer United States CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled a key piece of the Feds' cloud computing strategy this week when he announced the opening of Apps.gov, an online marketplace for federal agencies looking for cloud applications. Clearly, the government...

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September 14, 2009

Monday, September 14, 2009 10:57 AM/EST

Cliq Means Business

by Tony Kontzer Last week, I happened to find myself on assignment for the Syfy (formerly SciFi) Channel technology blog DVICE, covering the launch of Motorola's great hope at rediscovering relevance: the Cliq, a phone that runs Google's Android mobile...

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