Emerging VAR Opportunity. Barb Darrow of Computer Reseller News focuses on our VAR initiatives in this week's issue. As Peter O'Kelly, an analyst with the Burton Group points out, one of the big opportunities for VARS revolves around the vastly improved forms tool in v3.0. Says O'Kelly: “You can build real, nontrivial forms-based applications without… Continue reading Emerging VAR Opportunity
Month: April 2004
Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources
Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources. This morning I opened up my mailbox to find an email from Jacco Tunnissen over at honeypots.net letting me know that my Linux harddrive forensic analysis presentation (slide deck here) is now being linked on the Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources page. One of these days I will… Continue reading Computer Forensics, Cybercrime and Steganography Resources
Time Records Often Altered, Job Experts Say
Time Records Often Altered, Job Experts Say. Experts on compensation say that the illegal doctoring of hourly employees' time records is far more prevalent than most Americans believe. By Steven Greenhouse. [New York Times: NYT HomePage]
Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America
Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America. Patrick Leary is chief evangelist for Alvarion, a service provider dealing in point-to-multipoint broadband wireless access. Steve Stroh is editor of Focus on Broadband Wireless Internet Access. Their talk at WTF 2004 incorporated insights on wireless broadband access, empowering rural communities, and competing wireless methods. What follows… Continue reading Wireless Wonderland: Unlicensed Wireless Broadband in North America
The End of the Oil Age
The End of the Oil Age. Kenneth Deffeyes is professor emeritus of geosciences at Princeton University. The author of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage offered his insights on the upcoming and ongoing oil crisis and some possible ways to respond to it. What follows is a partial transcript of his talk at WTF… Continue reading The End of the Oil Age
Like, umm an information superhighway?
Like, umm an information superhighway?. “That's what broadband technology is. It means we'll open the highways of knowledge — new highways of knowledge.” — President George W. Bush, March 26, 2004 You'd think he would at least give Al Gore credit for the metaphor. Bush's call in the speech for universal broadband by 2007 has… Continue reading Like, umm an information superhighway?
How hard is it…
How hard is it…. for your customers to help you design better products? Especially when your product is a tool? My Entourage for Mac OSX just crashed. I read a ton of email and usually leave the notes that need answering open until I get to them. Alas, when Entourage crashes, it forgets which mails you… Continue reading How hard is it…
Why not just shut down the whole damn Eastern seaboard?
Why not just shut down the whole damn Eastern seaboard?. I'm sorry, but this and this are just crap. Voters in Boston and New York City should remember the elected officials who brought the conventions and traffic disasters to town when they go to the polls this November. [Q Daily News]
cable offeri
Cable operators face a la carte pressuresThe US cable TV industry is like a restaurant with certain levels of prix fixe dining. In other words, you can't pick and choose between cable offerings, especially at the basic level. You may want ESPN at your house and not want Nickelodeon, love the Nature Channel but loathe MTV… Continue reading cable offeri
sweeps all before it
Dollar stores redefine the retail competition matrixAs Wal-Mart seemingly sweeps all before it, driving supermarkets, department stores, drug stores, toy stores, and others out of business, it is itself under pressure from an increasingly significant new segment. This is yet another illustration of the competition matrix at work. Wal-Mart, the master of the matrix is… Continue reading sweeps all before it