Month: December 2003

Lessons at the Apple store. I spent nearly three hours with Steve Sloan today. He's one of those guys who helps run one of Silicon Valley's biggest educational enterprises (San Jose State University). We visited the Apple store for a while (I saw two Macs sold, both of which were purchased with Microsoft's Virtual PC,… Continue reading Lessons at the Apple store

Lessons in Technology from San Jose State University. While walking around Palo Alto and eating at the Cheesecake Factory, Steve Sloan and I talked about what he's doing at SJSU. He's one of those evangelists that don't show up on any mailing lists. He's probably influenced millions of dollars of purchases in the past decade.… Continue reading Lessons in Technology from San Jose State University

The End of Sun's Cobalt Servers “Sun Microsystems has taken the last of its Cobalt line of server appliances off the shelves in favor of the AMD based Sun Fire line.” The article makes note of several relevant bits of history regarding Cobalt, the Appliance Server market, and Sun's Linux strategies.  [Slashdot]

Microsoft at the Tipover Point David Gerard writes “In the wake of Microsoft's first flat quarter, The Inquirer brings us The IT Industry Is Shifting Away From Microsoft – Linux is being taken seriously, Microsoft is not trusted and our favorite monopoly is finding it harder and harder to compete with 'free.'”  [Slashdot]

Cyberstalking.  Barbara Fullerton provides an overview of an unpleasant new phenomenon, “CyberAge Stalking“, with safety tips, in an interesting LLRX.com article. Thanks for beSpacific for the pointer.  [Netlawblog]

Where in the World Is the Virtual IT Worker?. The long economic slump in technology has put many of the issues behind telecommuting and “telework” — working at home, a satellite office, or on the road — on the shelf. Organizations forced to slash staffing costs are more tied up with figuring out who to… Continue reading Where in the World Is the Virtual IT Worker?

OnlyOne offers single number for all calls. With the described Only One service the user controls what happens to incoming calls. Subscribers at work can have calls automatically forwarded to their cell or home phones if they fail to pick up, or vice versa, changing the settings quickly on their computers or cell phones. Callers… Continue reading OnlyOne offers single number for all calls

Topical feed. Doug Miller offers an interesting post on designing a site that offers several different news feeds, each automatically updated and covering its own topic. [Mark Bernstein]

Geek products I'd like to see in 2004. Opportunities A single spindle 1000GB hard disk for < $500.We're already at the dollar/GB mark if you buy at the 200GB->250GB sweet spot – if you factor in rebates you can get down to 60 cents per GB (a megaretailer recently had 250GB western digitals for $250… Continue reading Geek products I'd like to see in 2004