Wednesday - April 19, 2006
Chinese President Hu Jintao met with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates and toured the software giant's Redmond, Wash., headquarters Tuesday. The meeting comes shortly after Microsoft announced deals that will ensure its Windows operating system will be featured in millions of PCs sold in the world's largest country. The Chinese leader and Gates did not publicly discuss the more sensitive subjects in the relationship between Microsoft and China, such as still-rampant software piracy and China's strict censorship policies.
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Monday - January 2, 2006
Looking for a Web hosting service provider? All vendors are not created equal. A little consumer education goes a long way toward ensuring you get a host that offers the right combination of products and services -- and at the right price.
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Sunday - January 2, 2005
A few years ago, the only IT system I wasn't responsible for at a multimillion-dollar company consisted of a SCO server with an ancient accounting application maintained by the remaining representative of the company that had originally sold it. At the time, I thought old Vitki (not his real name) was a fool. But an Apple-related incident over Christmas left me with more sympathy for him than I'd ever managed to feel before.
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Saturday - January 1, 2005
As if being the fastest university supercomputer wasn't enough, Virginia Tech's Power Mac G5-based machine just got an upgrade. Dubbed System X, the supercomputer cluster has been ramped up to operate at 12.25 teraflops. "This new number is an increase of almost two teraflops over the original System X," said Hassan Aref, dean of Virginia Tech's College of Engineering.
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Saturday - January 1, 2005
Internet security firms are gearing up for an onslaught of new attacks that hackers will hurl at inboxes and Web sites. As the computer industry awaits the release of Service Pack 2 of Microsoft's Windows XP hackers are waiting too. They have spent the last 12 months mastering mobile attack techniques and an arsenal of devastating weapons.
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Friday - December 31, 2004
The English language is a great tool. It's expressive, powerful, inclusive, and evolves through the democratic and open-source processes of accepting change on the basis of common usage. Great, but you know what it doesn't have? Enough useable swear words. Think about it, you probably know eight to ten "emotional verbalizations" applicable to a complete and unmitigated, but easily prevented, disaster caused by human laziness or incompetence.
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Friday - December 31, 2004
For the last three weeks I've been talking about the impact the new Sony, Toshiba and IBM cell processor is likely to have on Linux desktop and datacenter computing. The bottom line there is that this thing is fast, inexpensive and deeply reflective of very fundamental IBM ideas about how computing should be managed and delivered.
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Friday - December 31, 2004
Your most critical business decisions often come down to prices: how much to charge and how much to pay. Prices have been driven down in the South Asian call center industry in the last two years, thanks to a flood of new entrants into the industry, a glut of low-end capacity, and improvements in telecommunications services.
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Friday - December 31, 2004
Think of this scenario: You're shopping for a new home and instead of guiding you into a single-digit fixed-rate mortgage, lenders try to persuade you that an adjustable mortgage indexed to your income makes more sense. Structuring mortgages like that makes no sense, and it's making less and less sense to purchase software that way.
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Friday - December 31, 2004
Last weekend, hundreds of die-hard fans gathered at the Star Trek convention in Las Vegas to see the stars and mingle with other sci-fi-minded folks. Costumes and attitudes aptly demonstrated their commitment to the Star Trek philosophy, which has many similarities to American ideals.
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Sunday - December 26, 2004
Desperately seeking their future, African countries that virtually no Western commercial software vendors have cared about in the past are turning to free and open software. They are doing so at a pace just quick enough to alarm some commercial software vendors, who fear the prospect of an entire continent dominated by free software in the future.
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