Author: Vince Kimball

Think Again “If you're thinking of buying any wireless gear that uses 802.11g, think again. Incompatibility between different manufacturers wireless cards and base stations is apparently a big problem since the final standards haven't been ratified (and won't be until later this year). That hasn't stopped everyone from jumping the gun a bit and releasing… Continue reading Think Again

Cluetrain-less.  Broadband for Suckers “In a shamelessly clever marketing gambit, Best Buy is selling shrink-wrapped AT&T Broadband digital cable kits for $10 a throw. The truth: There's no 'kit' inside, just a brochure with an 800 number and five pay-per-view movie coupons. Best Buy used to hand out the AT&T kits for free, but it… Continue reading Cluetrain-less

What Symantec Knew But Didn't Say. Security experts are fuming about a Symantec press release indicating the company knew about the devastating Slammer worm hours before the general public did. The company shared the knowledge with select customers but kept mum with everybody else. By Michelle Delio. [Wired News]

Ten Commandments of Content Management. From Progressive Information Technolgies (tagline: “Information Architects for Publishing”) comes the Ten Commandments of Content Management: Content must be stored only once. Content must be separate from tagging. Granularity of content must be available at any level. Use metadata to enhance content management capability. Loading, editing, and extracting must be… Continue reading Ten Commandments of Content Management

Yahoo News – House OKs National 'Do Not Call' List . A national “do-not-call” list intended to help consumers block unwanted telemarketing calls is moving closer to becoming reality and lawmakers say it will likely go into effect this year. [ … ] Telemarketers say the registry will devastate their business, endangering millions of jobs… Continue reading Yahoo News

Marc Barrot: “I've created a gallery to illustrate, with screen shots, how real Radio bloggers put activeRenderer to work.” [Scripting News]

Daniel Brandt: Google As Big Brother. Mind-bending. Read it and think. Google may not be the friend we all think it is. [Scripting News]

News.Com: Blue laser format gets green light. The nine companies promoting Blu-ray Disc technology–a next-generation recordable DVD format using blue-violet lasers–announced Thursday that licensing will begin Feb. 17. Blu-ray Disc technology allows for 27GB storage capacities on a single-sided 12cm disc. [Tomalak's Realm]

John Robb wants his information to shift with him, and I don't blame him. I do, too, which is why I was floored to see the LaCie Big Disk 500GB portable hard drive referenced on the Dreamweaver Talk mailing list. The dimensions are just a tad too large for true shirt-pocket or in-jacket portability (6.7×1.7×10.6… Continue reading John Robb wants his information to shift with him

DevNet – The Designer & Developer Center has been rebranded DevNet as part of the DevNet Subscriptions offering. Read Mike Chamber's article on what this means to the MX developer in the street.  [An Architect's View]