Backspin: A festive song for the IT throng Try resting merry IT men / Let nothing you dismay / Remember data centers / Still run on Christmas Day Gaskin: Maximizing your technology dollar Replacing the technology you have with less expensive alternatives (like getting OpenOffice for free rather than spending hundreds on Microsoft Office) can save you money, but it won't really upgrade your business. Bottom line, most people see a word ... 'Net Buzz: 5 reasons you need recipes on your cell Mobio Networks is touting a new service that "provides instant access to hundreds of thousands of recipes anytime, anywhere" on your cell phone or gadget of choice. Johnson: Dilbert, the DMCA and the Internet bubble video Radiohead recently rocked the music industry by making its latest album downloadable for free, or more accurately, for “whatever fans wanted to pay.” The band was lauded for ushering in a new business model that disintermediated record companies and ... Cool Tools: Pleo: The robot you'll love It would be easy to call Pleo a robotic dinosaur toy, but that's unfair to both Ugobe, Pleo's maker, and to Pleo itself. Op-ed: The Cisco/Microsoft battle for unified communications Microsoft has done so many things right with its unified communications strategy that Cisco should be worried. Yet Microsoft has still ... Jericho Forum: Endpoint security: "Essential security" or "Impossible dream"? Jericho Forum executive explores issues of endpoint security in light of holiday giving of smart phones and other devices that ... Gearhead: Could malware cause deferred procedure call problems? Deferred procedure calls are consuming too many processor cycles, but could the problem be malware? Bradner: NSFNET: The vibrant ghost of Christmases past At the start of the Christmas shopping season 20 years ago the National Science Foundation announced that a group consisting of Michigan's Merit ... Dr. Internet: Fine tuning Eclipse to work with Leopard We've been using Eclipse to build multiplatform applications but things are broken on the Mac now that Apple has released Leopard and people are upgrading from Tiger. What changes are required in an Eclipse Rich Client Platform (RCP) application to ... Nutter's Help Desk: Rolling your own NAS I thought of building a RAID system. The Yellow Box gives 2 TB but I could build a box with 2.8 TB for less money. The main feature I would like is to be able to turn on the box for a short time (to back, daily or weekly) saving power and to ... Johnson: Wireless open access: happening or not? Seems like carriers and content providers alike have been bitten by the open access bug. Big news recently was Verizon’s announcement that it plans to open up its wireless network to any device or application. And Google upped the ante by announcing ... Backspin: Illegal wiretapping is a dangerous wedge Not only the government, but also trade groups want to get their fingers on the Internet for their own control purposes. They’re inserting thin wedges into the law and public policy, and if they aren’t stopped we are all in peril. Gaskin: Money saving tips On the response sheets I get from those who attend the speeches I make at the ITEC conferences, "Reducing hardware and software costs" always ranks in the top third of important issues. One of my goals is to help SMBs maximize the value of technology ... |
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