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...

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June 9, 2010

Wednesday, June 09, 2010 5:42 PM/EST

Got Cows?

by Tim Moran Would you like to save some big money running your data center? Got Milk? Well, not milk, exactly, but Got Cows? About 10,000 of them? An HP Labs research paper presented at the ASME International Conference on...

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Wednesday, June 09, 2010 11:08 AM/EST

John Wooden's Words For IT

by Tony Kontzer One of the things that distinguished legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, who died last week at the age of 99, was the wisdom he showered upon his players. A thinking-man's coach, Wooden believed more in success...

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June 2, 2010

Wednesday, June 02, 2010 10:44 AM/EST

Prepare For the Data Center Massacre

Here in Guilford County, NC, we're pretty excited about the announcement of a pair of new American Express data centers, to be built along the I-40/85 corridor at Greensboro's eastern fringe. The huge construction projects and eventual tax receipts are...

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May 28, 2010

Friday, May 28, 2010 9:47 AM/EST

Apple and Antitrust

by Tony Kontzer I'm not the type to say "I told you so," especially when I don't exactly have reason to say it. But in the case of what appears to be an antitrust storm brewing over Apple's domination of...

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May 24, 2010

Monday, May 24, 2010 9:29 AM/EST

Marshmallows in a Vacuum

An obit for Martin Gardner: "His was a clarifying intelligence: he said his talent was asking good questions and transmitting the answers clearly and crisply." That's kind of what you're trying to do, isn't it? Gardner was, of course, freer...

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May 19, 2010

Wednesday, May 19, 2010 10:31 AM/EST

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, cartoons, and parodies, becoming (like Google, Xerox,...

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May 17, 2010

Monday, May 17, 2010 9:38 AM/EST

Apple as Big Brother

by Tony Kontzer Apple has supplanted Microsoft as the technology world's biggest bully. When a company finds itself on the wrong end of an advertising campaign like the one launched last week by Adobe Systems, it's time to acknowledge that...

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May 12, 2010

Wednesday, May 12, 2010 10:27 AM/EST

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 projections that they hit "send" before...

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May 10, 2010

Monday, May 10, 2010 10:08 AM/EST

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, chances are you have reason to...

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