Outlawing e-personation May Be a First Amendment Issue
Ars Technica has a great if brief article on California’s attempt to make “e-personation” illegal. E-personation basically means someone impersonates someone else on the Internet. This could be via...
View ArticleSuper Wi-Fi Coming to a Store Near You
Television broadcasters may not be happy about it, but as a consumer this could turn into some serious wireless bandwidth. The FCC is opening up the spectrum typically reserved for broadcast TV, with...
View ArticleIs RDP Turning Back From the Grave?
If you’ve ever dabbled with virtualization for the desktop (by dabble, I mean “spent thousands and thousands of dollars making it work”), then you should already know that it’s not as easy as people...
View ArticleWhy the Sony Walkman is Another Microsoft Windows
Poor Sony. They just can’t kill the Walkman. It’s hard to believe that the Walkman is still a high-profit product in Sony’s portfolio, but continued consumer need, however small, seems to be strong...
View ArticleGoogle and Apple Are Smart, Microsoft Is Dumb
Tim Bajarin at pcmag.com just wrote an excellent article on the OS wars entitled “The New OS Wars: Winners and Losers”. It’s an excellent read and highly suggested.
View ArticleAttachmate Buys Novell
In a somewhat stunning development, Attachmate Corporation just bought Novell. The press release boils down to: “Novell, Inc. (NASDAQ: NOVL), the leader in intelligent workload management, today...
View ArticleThe Apple iPhone is more about the experience than the technology
The Apple iPhone is more about the experience than the technology
View ArticleDear Entrepreneurs: Is Russia The Next China?
Sometimes I wonder if we’re a tad hyper-focused on China. It’s difficult, if not impossible, to go a single day without reading an article about China, either as the up-and-coming industrial nation...
View ArticleDanger, Danger: The Cloud Will Eat Your Data
Newsflash: Placing your mission-critical data in “the cloud” may be hazardous to your health. You are at an increased risk if you are elderly, pregnant, or wish to keep your IT job.
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