Wednesday, February 01, 2012 2:37 PM/EST
By Tim Moran Cloud computing is high on the list of IT issues to be dealt with in 2012--and beyond. Its impact on today's business decisions and strategies is prime fodder for articles, blogs, and research reports all over the...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 11:07 AM/EST
When speaking last week about social media and such to the senior class at my daughter's high school, I began with the Wikipedia blackout and asked them what was up with that. "SOPA," responded the crowd. Now, they had just...
Tuesday, January 31, 2012 10:40 AM/EST
by Tim Moran Reports suggest that Chinese hackers have deployed a particularly nasty strain of malware, known as Sykipot, to effectively hijack the DOD and Windows smart card system used by government employees. Writes AlienVault: "According to our research, these...
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:14 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Apple sent ripples through the education and publishing worlds when it announced that it was looking to redefine the modern textbook. iBook Author could revolutionize the way schools and students use books. It could modernize learning and,...
Monday, January 23, 2012 10:16 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard It's not difficult to spot minor glitches and shortcomings at almost any e-commerce site. But it's shocking to visit a major retailer's site and experience functionality that works more like 1996 than 2012. Welcome to Home Depot...
Friday, January 20, 2012 11:37 AM/EST
While waxing nostalgic and looking for the roots of the rebellion against SOPA and PIPA I found a relevant bit of paleoblog navel-gazing come true. From 2003, as the power of social tools -- preached by pioneers like Dave Winer...
Wednesday, January 18, 2012 10:51 AM/EST
SOPA and PIPA may be bad news, but they aren't really fresh news. Back in 2002, the equation already had been worked out: Hollywood money + Congressional cluelessness = flawed legislation The issue at that time was a bill aimed...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012 10:34 AM/EST
by Tim Moran Hard on the heels of college bowl season comes the International Collegiate Programming Finals, a competition that promises "All the excitement of March Madness, without the sweat!" Sponsored by Windward, which started as a gaming company (Enemy...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:42 PM/EST
By Samuel Greengard I'm sitting in a Starbucks in my hometown of West Linn Oregon typing out this blog. There's nothing remarkable about that. These days, we're all wired in from everywhere. I've posted to Facebook from Galway, Ireland and...
Tuesday, January 10, 2012 3:33 PM/EST
Big BJ Barnes, the longtime sheriff of Guilford County, NC, looks like a southern lawman out of a bad old movie, but he's really smart and effective and seems likely to get reelected in this urbanized patch of Piedmont for...
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