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July 15, 2008

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 10:49 AM/EST

A Victory for Privacy, a Reminder for CIOs

YouTube says, "We are pleased to report that Viacom, MTV and other litigants have backed off their original demand for all users' viewing histories and we will not be providing that information." Viacom seems to have reacted to the...

Tuesday, July 15, 2008 9:33 AM/EST

Title IX and IT Diversity

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 government is getting involved,...

July 14, 2008

Monday, July 14, 2008 4:01 PM/EST

In Which I Fail to Avoid Writing About the iPhone

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, "the variety...

Monday, July 14, 2008 2:23 PM/EST

Social Nets in the Enterprise

If this snippet of conversation about social nets for the enterprise leaves you wanting more...you can get more from this article....

Monday, July 14, 2008 2:13 PM/EST

Constraints on IT Growth

Forrester looks at limits to growth for small, medium, and large IT organizations. Below, a chart from the report:...

Monday, July 14, 2008 11:39 AM/EST

Evolutionary Dead-ends: Le Minitel

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...

Monday, July 14, 2008 10:43 AM/EST

IT Gets 2.0 Clue

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 all putting IT departments in the...

July 11, 2008

Friday, July 11, 2008 1:55 PM/EST

A Win for Net Neutrality

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 capacity to make their case against net neutrality."...

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...

Friday, July 11, 2008 9:29 AM/EST

Fauxpen Source Politics?

The Republican National Committee is opening its platform-writing process to the public. "All comments and feedback will be reviewed and taken into full consideration as we prepare for our convention in Minneapolis-St. Paul," says the website, which went live...



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