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Todd Watson   11/20/2009   Post a comment
While Google introduces its new Chrome OS (which I'm hearing will be widely available in one year?  Did I mishear that?), IBM announced 10 new products today to help companies using IBM System z mainframe technology.
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To Cloud or Not to Cloud: IT Vendors Ponder the Question
Gordon Haff
Arms merchant or army? That's a fundamental question for vendors in the cloud computing space. Do they just sell their tooling to any and all comers, who then become the actual purveyors of hosted infrastructure, developer platforms, and software? Or do they offer their own cloud-based services, perhaps even keeping much of their technology in-house for competitive advantage?
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Groups Join Fight to Keep Big Brother Offline
Don Reisinger
Much has been made over the possibility of the U.S. government spying on Web users. There is a fear that through advanced technology, loopholes in federal regulations, and sheer gall, government officials will engage in acts that put the U.S. citizenry at risk. But whether or not the government is actually engaging in any activities online that puts its intentions into question is up for debate.
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Banks Cooperate for Better Risk Analytics
Mary E. Shacklett
With the value of toxic assets on the rise, large U.S. and European banks face many challenges on the road to recovery. Sharing key information may help these firms effectively track the way forward.
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How to Score, Not Bore, With Web Newsletter Graphics
Dan Cypra
A picture is worth a thousand words, or so the old saying goes. So understanding how to use images in e-newsletters effectively is quite important. Here are a few tips to ensure that your images in email newsletters work to your advantage.
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Tom Nolle
Total Telephony Transcends Telepresence
11|20|09   |   2:11   |   2 comments

The problem with telepresence is that it's not universally accepted, because video calling isn't. While we can all do video calling, we also apparently worry too much about how we look. If we want HD telepresence in our future, we have to dress down, mess up our hair, and dive into our online life.
Full Nelson
SanFran.gov
11|19|09   |   8:51   |   No comments

Fritz has an exclusive talk with the mayor and CTO of San Francisco about that city's latest e-government efforts.
Robert D. Atkinson
America Has Much to Learn About Digital Piracy
11|18|09   |   2:09   |   No comments

The US loses about $20 billion a year on pirated software, movies, and music. But public policy can help stem the tide of digital theft. For example, France has recently passed a 'three strikes and you’re out' law, whereby if after two warning letters an individual continues to download pirated software then his Internet access will be cut off. US policy makers should consider adopting similar policies.
Not Dr. Phil
Internet & TV in Perfect Harmony?
11|16|09   |   2:22   |   3 comments

A new set-top offers an Internet experience without screwing up what we like about TV.
Tom Nolle
Meatballs & Monetization
11|16|09   |   2:00   |   2 comments

Meatballs aren't an obvious source of monetization for the Internet, but Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs may well be just that, and might also represent a new dynamic in the complex world of Internet content delivery.
The Incredible Hultquist
Tweet Less, Get More Clicks
11|9|09   |   2:24   |   No comments

Evidence shows that you can tweet too much. Sites and services like Twitter and Facebook are a good place to reach your audience, but think quality over quantity.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 3
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11|6|09   |   1:46   |   No comments

A digital content market is emerging. Only two things are known about it: the first is that at some point the Internet will primarily become a paid network. The second known factor is that there are innumerable variables in the digital content market that have yet to be worked out. It’s not known, for example, exactly how users will pay for content (micropayments, subscriptions, bartering of farm animals, other).
Steven Peterson
iPhone App Makes Sense of Public Transport
11|5|09   |   1:19   |   No comments

Routesy is an iPhone application that uses the phone’s GPS to let the user know where and when the next train or bus is coming. The application’s developer, Steven Peterson, talks about why a mobile application makes sense, especially given that this transportation information is already available on the Web.
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Slobbering Over the N900
11|4|09   |   2:41   |   11 comments

Techies have been going crazy over the pending release of Nokia's N900 cellular phone, which incorporates a newly revised touch-screen operating system. Reiter's got one. Is the craziness justified?
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 2
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11|4|09   |   2:19   |   4 comments

Bad news! By eliminating the world’s digital divide we’re likely to create a new divide: the information divide, where we end up creating a two-tier Internet where access to 'quality' content is controlled and charged for by mega-corporations, and the gulf between information haves and have-nots is entirely dependent on how much money they have. This is, of course, an almost exact inversion of the current situation on the Internet – where access is expensive and content is free.
The Incredible Hultquist
Web 2.0 – Just Being There Isn't Enough
11|3|09   |   2:15   |   9 comments

As enterprises leap into the Web 2.0 world of blogging, commenting, and social networking, just 'being there' won't deliver ROI. You may want a 'Web Evangelist' to systematically harvest the feedback in order to polish your product or service.
Steve Saunders' Outernet
The New Information Divide: Part 1
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11|2|09   |   1:07   |   No comments

Good news! The cost of Internet infrastructure, services, and access devices has been plummeting at an accelerating rate over the last 10 years and will approach a point in the next 20 years where these technologies become so fantastically cheap that ubiquitous, low-cost, high-speed networks, storage, and access devices will effectively eliminate the digital divide for most of the world's population.
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Why Wi-Fly?
10|22|09   |   1:57   |   13 comments

The three main problems with using in-flight Internet.
Tom Nolle
Getting Broadband Empowerment Right
10|22|09   |   2:19   |   2 comments

The FCC is throwing money at rural broadband empowerment, but it's dealing with the wrong problem. The real issue is how we get users who could get broadband but choose to reject it to change their minds. The answer lies with mobile technology – but it may surprise you!
Not Dr. Phil
Twitter: Not a Difference Maker
10|21|09   |   1:55   |   1 comment

Companies often place too much importance on inaccurate or abrasive Twitter posts. The result: They end up looking foolish and waste lots of time.
Tom Nolle
So Many Ads, So Few Clicks?
10|15|09   |   1:59   |   6 comments

Some recent research shows that 8% of Internet users generate 85% of ad click-throughs. There are three possible reasons for this, and they go from bad to worse. Together, they show that we need to know more about Internet advertising.
what.the.ferraro
Flo 2.0: Mrs. Brady Gets a Website
10|15|09   |   1:46   |   11 comments

Florence Henderson, of Brady Bunch and Wesson Oil fame, is pitching a tech support site for digitally challenged seniors.
Full Nelson
Personal Mobile TV Makes Its Debut
10|14|09   |   2:28   |   7 comments

Mobile TV is everywhere, and yet, nowhere. Nobody uses it – because the handsets aren't good, the pricing is too high, and the coverage is not good enough. But Qualcomm's FloTV Personal TV aims to change all of that.
TeleGraham
China's Broadband Revolution
10|13|09   |   2:36   |   1 comment

China is investing heavily in fiber to the premises to propel itself into the world broadband Internet first division. What's it deploying, and what's it going to do with all that bandwidth?
what.the.ferraro
Twitter Conferences & the Demise of Humanity
10|13|09   |   1:56   |   6 comments

The rise of industry events centered solely on the topic of Twitter is enough to make some people cry. Literally.
David Buckholtz
VP Enterprise Technology & Quality, Sony Pictures Entertainment
10|7|09   |   1:24   |   No comments

David Buckholtz, discusses several key benefits that have driven his company to embrace software-as-a-service, including cost efficiencies, improved time to market, and offloading non-strategic business processes. He also talks about some of the challenges in moving to this model.
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