Sprint Says No More Tethering
Friday, October 30th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »I suppose they can't help themselves. They are a phone company, after all. How many of you out there use your smartphone to get online with your laptop by tethering the latter to the former? Uh, huh! I don't have to ...
AI Technology
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 121 Comments »I was recently interviewed by a reporter from ComputerWorld about overhyped technology, and it got me thinking about artificial intelligence. When I was reading books about LISP in the 1980s, I envisioned that by the 21st century we would ...
AT&T Hotspots To The Rescue
Thursday, October 29th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »AT&T has what I call a happy problem; too much traffic on its 3G network. That's happy as in for AT&T, not so for their customers who suffer through dropped calls and out of service time (see my blog posting earlier ...
Digital E-Memory
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 27 Comments »A researcher at Microsoft has spent the last 10 years putting all of the information in his brain onto computers in order to preserve it. According to CNN, Gordon Bell “carries around video equipment, cameras and audio recorders to ...
Microsoft Drops Iron Curtain On Outlook
Wednesday, October 28th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 31 Comments »And there was much rejoicing! Wow! Microsoft has announced that it will be opening up it's .pst file format (i.e. Outloook files) next year and allowing third party developers free use. Yup, you read right; Microsoft Outlook is going open ...
Second Look At Mac Mini Server
Tuesday, October 27th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Mea Culpa! This one got by me last week when Apple announced a slew of new product upgrades (not to mention that South of Market cool and just downright precious button-less mouse). Thanks to my faithful blog reader, Matt P., ...
Book Publishers vs. the Internet
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | 48 Comments »Business Week reports that book publishers are learning to love the web because they have no choice. They have resorted to new business practices in recent years, as evidenced by the popularity of electronic readers like the Amazon Kindle. ...
Business Trends That Are Impacting IT
Monday, October 26th, 2009 Posted in News and Blogs | No Comments »Forget Web 2.0 mashups for a minute. We are experiencing the mother of all mashups in terms of the economy, social networking and rapidly changing attitudes of consumers. Here is a link to a must-read on the subject from Mark ...
