Technology Today

• Say goodbye to Yahoo! Mash

  On today's web, so many social sites never get off the ground because users don't easily migrate from their online communities. As much as I want MySpace to die, people ...

  Tags: Yahoo! Inc., Andrew Mager, Advertising & Promotion, Online Communications, Collaboration, Marketing, Networking, Social Networking

  Aug 28, 2008 6:00 PM PDT

• The depressing future of the Internet

  A brief overview of how the Internet came about: some years ago, some military boffs thought it'd be awesome if computers could talk to each other, so the US could ...

  Tags: Zack Whittaker, Flaw, IPv6 Adoption, Internet, IPv6, Security, Computer

  Aug 28, 2008 3:10 PM PDT

• Comcast takes broadband cap plunge; Other carriers likely to follow

  Comcast will implement a 250 GB data monthly cap on customers starting Oct. 1. The move, reported first by DSL Reports, was confirmed by Comcast today Techmeme. On its site, ...

  Tags: Telecommunications, Network Technology, Larry Dignan, Networking, Comcast Corp., Broadband, Carrier, Broadband Internet, Customer

  Aug 28, 2008 3:09 PM PDT

• Android Market is Google's competitor to the Apple iPhone store

  I was sent a link to the Android Community site this morning that led to the Android Developers blog post on the upcoming Android Market that looks to rival the ...

  Tags: Matthew Miller, Apple Inc., Internet, Blogging, Apple iPhone, Google Inc.

  Aug 28, 2008 2:52 PM PDT

• Windows 7 pricing thoughts - Is Windows too expensive?

  I'm really hoping that Steven Sinofsky will kick off a discussion about Windows 7 pricing over on the Engineering Windows 7 blog sometime soon. I'm not holding my breath because ...

  Tags: Ubuntu, Pricing, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows 7, OEM, Marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Pricing Strategy, Software

  Aug 28, 2008 1:56 PM PDT

• Dell: Turnaround interuptus as share grab hurts net, margins

  Dell's second quarter earnings fell short of projections, but revenue was well ahead of targets. Translation: Dell is gaining share at the expense of its bottom line as price competition ...

  Tags: Dell Computer Corp., Finance, Larry Dignan, Revenue, Operational Accounting

  Aug 28, 2008 1:15 PM PDT

• Google, Mozilla extend search box deal

  That little Google search box in the upper right part of your Firefox browser will be sticking around through 2011, according to Mozilla. Mitchell Baker, Chairwoman of the Mozilla Foundation ...

  Tags: Financial, Web Browsers, Financial Accounting, Finance, Larry Dignan, Internet, Mozilla Corp., Operational Accounting, Google Inc.

  Aug 28, 2008 1:09 PM PDT

• Sprint unveils location-based 'geobrowsing' on eve of WiMax launch

  With the launch of its long-hyped WiMax service XOHM scheduled to debut in September in Baltimore, on Thursday Sprint announced a set of location-based personalization features that will enhance the ...

  Tags: Sprint Communications, Jason Hiner, WiMAX, Privacy, Sprint Xohm, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Aug 28, 2008 1:01 PM PDT

• An IE8 Beta 2 Q&A

  Yesterday I published my first look at the just-released Beta 2 of Internet Explorer 8. I got some great comments in the Talkback thread and via e-mail and thought it ...

  Tags: Microsoft Windows Server, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows XP, Beta, Ed Bott, Software, IE Beta Newsgroup, Microsoft Windows

  Aug 28, 2008 11:40 AM PDT

• The End of SaaS? Or Just the End of Hype?

  Lawson CEO Harry Debes started -- or rather continued -- a brouhaha that's getting some pixels in the blogosphere, and his position is worth commenting on for both its courage ...

  Tags: Software As A Service (SaaS), Cloud Computing, Joshua Greenbaum, Software-as-a-service, Emerging Technologies, Customer Choice

  Aug 28, 2008 11:21 AM PDT

• Public policy and open source

  What role should government have in moving open source forward? by Dana Blankenhorn

  Tags: Government, Dana Blankenhorn, Open Source

  Aug 28, 2008 11:16 AM PDT

• Community managers akin to 'Internet police'

  More fodder for the "marketing should stop trying to control the message" file. Don't control. Don't manipulate. Join the conversation. by Jennifer Leggio

  Tags: Management, Community Manager, Human Resources, Jennifer Leggio, Twitter, Team Management, Internet, Blogging, RSS, Benefits

  Aug 28, 2008 11:09 AM PDT

• Windows 7 must avoid the marketing trap that Vista stumbled into

  I've been following the Engineering Windows 7 blog closely and I've come to the conclusion that while Steven Sinofsky is a man of many words, those words don't say an ...

  Tags: Home Basic, Marketing Research, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Microsoft Windows 7, Marketing, Microsoft Windows Vista, Software, Adrian Kingsley-Hughes, Microsoft Windows

  Aug 28, 2008 11:06 AM PDT

• Why does Safari stink?

  I started my day with several calls from our Special Ed folks who suddenly couldn't access their student information portal (e-Sped). I could access it without problem, our Special Education ...

  Tags: Web Browsers, Apple Safari, Christopher Dawson, Hardware, Internet, Desktops, Portals

  Aug 28, 2008 10:34 AM PDT

• We can change your cells and cure your diabetes

  Transforming cells through the injection of genes is a very big deal. While it will take some time to prove, and even more time to reach the market, it's a ...

  Tags: Medical Research, Gene, Dana Blankenhorn, Stem-cell, Cell

  Aug 28, 2008 10:21 AM PDT

• A (Microsoft) Codename a day: Sputnik

  A piece of the infrastructure powering Microsoft's adCenter and paid-search technologies is today's featured Microsoft Codename of the Day. Read on for more about "Sputnik." by Mary Jo Foley

  Tags: Microsoft Corp., Sputnik ETL, Mary Jo Foley, Codename

  Aug 28, 2008 9:46 AM PDT

• Things you've probably done this summer instead of work

  Those deeply ingrained school year patterns of summers off aren't easily forgotten once you work all year round. Fact is, everyone slacks off a little in the summer, and this ...

  Tags: Hour, Worker, Odds, July, Deb Perelman

  Aug 28, 2008 9:39 AM PDT

• Wireless networks mimicking biological systems

  The goal of the EU-funded WINSOC project is to build self-organizing networks of wireless sensors by applying principles learned from living organisms. These wireless sensors will be used for a ...

  Tags: Wireless Network, Roland Piquepaille, Network, Wireless Sensor Network, Sensor, Measurement Data, Networking, Wireless, Wi-Fi

  Aug 28, 2008 9:29 AM PDT

• Guns n Roses leaker faces prison time

  How he got ahold of them, he's not saying but LA blogger Kevin Cogill did get ahold and posted unreleased songs from a new Guns n Roses album, Chinese Democracy. ...

  Tags: Bail, Federal Government, Government, Agent, Marketing, Corporate Communications, Business Operations, Judge, Public Relations, Skwerl

  Aug 28, 2008 9:07 AM PDT

• Google Apps dashboard: Serious about the enterprise?

  Google is developing a system status reporting dashboard for its Apps Premier product line. This decision provides further evidence Google is serious about becoming an enterprise software vendor. by Michael ...

  Tags: Dashboard, Michael Krigsman, PROJECT FAILURES ANALYSIS Google, Google Apps, Google Inc.

  Aug 28, 2008 8:22 AM PDT

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