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Gordon Haff
Gordon Haff   11/20/2009   Post a comment
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?
David Vellante
David Vellante   11/18/2009   11 comments
I’m not a big fan of Apple Inc. (Nasdaq: AAPL)’s generally closed business practices, especially when it comes to the art known as the iPhone app approval process.
Rob Salkowitz
Rob Salkowitz   11/17/2009   14 comments
How would the industrial age have looked if Ford could have patented the concept of the assembly line? It probably would have looked a lot like the current stage of the information age, where broad patents over business practices represent the legal foundation of American intellectual property law as it applies to software. Now, the Supreme Court is hearing a case that could blast those foundations with a truckload of dynamite -- and no one has a clue how they might rule.
Pam Baker
Pam Baker   11/16/2009   13 comments
A recent Government Accountability Office (GAO) report warns that the H1N1 flu epidemic could overwhelm the Internet if a flood of office workers suddenly shifts to working from home.
Ross M. Greenberg
It’s dιjΰ vu all over again: Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT) comes out with a new operating system, and we all scramble about trying to get compatible drivers online for all of our oddball hardware and software.
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Jason_13   10/12/2009   2 comments
Sometimes the poor reliance on technology creates problems such as this. Another area is the use of automated filtering to try to detect fraudulent use of credit/debit cards. I know that a filter was tripped recently when one of my cards...
Allen_Falcon
Allen_Falcon   10/11/2009   1 comment
    Over the weekend, out of the mainstream press cycle, Microsoft and T-Mobile acknowledged that the server in Microsoft's Danger group earlier in the week would like result in total data loss for users impacted by the failure. Some...
Lippencotte
Lippencotte   9/24/2009   2 comments
In reading some information I found on another net I read this article that basically says; can't tweet at work here is a solution to work around this so that you can prove how valuable the service is.  It is configured to look like an...
mte01
mte01   8/17/2009   2 comments
Hey Nicole,    I have some technical jokes (my own invention) that are related to the Information & Technology world in general; where is the best place to put them in IE?  
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