Blog posts on 2005-09

$1 trillion will be spent on media in 2009
$100 laptops for kids in developing world
$18 bln of semiconductors sold in July 2005
$3.2 bln will be spent on local ads in the US in 2005, 26% growth
$6.1 bln raised by venture capitalists in Q2 2005
'Lightweight' Linux?
(Other) governments' role in open source
1-800-FLOWERS had conversion rate of 19.4% in June 2005
1.13 mln plasma TVs sold in Q2 2005
10% of Web users read blogs at least once a week
100 GB of storage for your cell phone?
102.9 bln ad impressions delivered in July 2005, 10.8% of it belonged MySpace
12% of British turn to their laptops when bored
12% want video to go on their portable devices
123 mln mobile Americans to check their e-mails on the phone by 2009
13 nations advocate for open standards
14% of mobile phone owners have never downloaded any mobile content
15% of image hosting site users are girls 12-17
16% of CIOs plan hiring, 4% - firing
16.7% of 2004 ad spending went into new media
17.6% of Asian-Pacific companies are using system management software
180solutions explains new technology
180solutions has new plan to curb rogue installations
190 mln mobile phones sold in Q2 2005
190K tech jobs added in the first half of 2005
2 bln microphones to sell in 2005, 3 bln by 2008
2 bln mobile subscribers worldwide
20% of US adults believe VOIP is a European hybrid vehicle, 10% think of low-carb vodka
20% of US households have home network
20.8% of average working day is spent on media
207 mln mobile users use roaming
208 mln large TFT LCDs will be sold in 2005
21.8 mln broadband US households use cable, 14.7 mln - DSL
22.5 mln digital cameras sold in Western Europe in 2004, 29.8 mln in 2005
24.3 mln Americans and 27.8 mln Europeans will subscribe to VOIP by 2008
27% of US households interested in interactive TV
28% of UK taxi drivers, pub owners and hairdressers know about blogs
30.1% of Washington DC Web users read WashingtonPost.com
32% of online banking customers increased monitoring of their accounts
33% of Western European Wi-Fi-enabled laptop owners never use Wi-Fi
34% of Web ads belong to search ads, and 3% of search ads are paid by eBay
380 mln new wireless customers in 2005
381.3 mln mobile subscribers in Western Europe
39% of corporate employees believe IT departments can prevent spyware and phishing
4 mln IP phones will ship in US and Canada in 2005
40 mln PCs to ship in Asia-Pacific in 2005, 44.9 mln in 2006
43% of Web retailers plan an incentive program
43% of Web stores say 25-50% of their revenues come from holiday season
45% of active console gamers are under 18
45% of banking customers would like complete guarantee against identity theft
48% of Internet ads in the first half of 2005 were purchased on CPM basis
50% of digital music player owners have less than 100 songs on them
52% of TV ad viewers would buy a product after viewing commercials, 23% - after viewing branded progrqam
53% or companies to increase IT spending, 7% to decrease
53.6% of Google users are male, 50.2% of Yahoo! Search users are female
58% of IT buyers read vendor white papers
59.6% of Web radio listeners are male
6% of mobile phone owners have downloaded full songs to their phones
6% of US Internet users read blogs, 2% use RSS
60% of very small businesses cannot get broadband
61.3% of US home Internet connections are broadband in August 2005
63% of UK women use the Internet
65% of African-American female Internet users research products online
67% of Indian companies to increase IT spending
68% of Indian teens think advertising is a good way to learn of new products
7% of US wireless ARPU is data services
7.5 mln portable media players by 2009
70% of offline mobile phone buyers researched online
71 mln US households to have broadband by 2010
72% of small-cap investors increasing their IT investments in 2005
73% of residential VOIP subscribers to use wireless VOIP phones by 2009
743 mln mobile phones to sell in 2005, 899 mln in 2010
750K VOIP lines added in Q2 2005
76.5% of adults listen to music over the Internet, 65.4% play Internet games
78% of illegal music downloading in Canada is done by 12-24 year olds
780 mln mobile phones will be manufactured by year-end 2005
83% of US companies to use high-speed lines for WAN services by 2009
84K hotspots globally in Q2 2005
9.2% of online merchants have a return rate of 6-10%
9.8 mln PCs sold in Asia-Pacific in Q2 2005
90% of e-tailers with offline presence offer store pickups
94% of US adults think Internet is dangerous for children
A bold proposal: Make New Orleans a 21-century hub
A date to remember
A deafening silence: the media on Sun
A genetic algorithm beats the FBI
A nanolithography tool named SOUVENIR
A question of demand
A real mission statement can keep a project together
A recipe for the failure of Linux
A SOA future can't come soon enough for BEA and HP
A SOA future can't come soon enough for BEA and HP
A Sun blogs entry on Power Use
A trusted Linux milestone
Acronymophobia: How we (ZDNet) will refer to Vista
Adware behavior: Bill Day of WhenU
Adware distraction
Adware industry falling apart?
Against whom is Linux competing?
Algae to fuel our cars?
An 'eBay' of Web services
An insight into history
Analysis of ruling against Direct Revenue
Analysts deliberate latest merger wave
And now for some timely Palm analysis from the mainstream press
And now, without further ado: the Google PC
And you thought the Humvee was tough?
Andrew Rasiej & the politics of expediency
Another FCC E911 pushback: wise leniency or butt-cover backpedal?
Another SOA piece falls in place
AOL reportedly readying softphone for AIM
AOL's two big reasons for doing a video-enabled IM softphone
Apache Synapse: 'intermediary' or 'bus'?
AppExchange critique strikes a chord
AppExchange is so 1998
Apple hit parade may have a clunker
Apple responds to nano complaints
Apple's future subject of online roundtable discussion
Apple's hardware/software/web platform
Apple, insecurity, and x86
Are old computers more secure?
Are portals windows to the SOA?
Are the final open source skeptics coming around?
Are Wi-Fi meshes the answer to disaster communications?
Are Yahoo, AOL, and MSN messaging clients taking too many liberties?
Army deploying satellites for Katrina communications
Asia-Pacific broadband revenues up 27% in 2004
Asia-Pacific external disk storage revenue will grow 24.3% in 2005
Asia-Pacific PC market up 21.1% in Q2 2005
Asia-Pacific semiconductor market to reach $116.7 bln in 2005
Asia-Pacific server revenues to reach $4.4 bln by 2009
Asia-Pacific server revenues up 9% in Q1 2005
Ask Jeeves gets answers
AT&T urges FCC to set telecom mandates
Attention VoIP Suppliers and Enterprise ISPs: talk to your potential customers, not just to each other
Automating Linux security should be a higher priority
Average bank site is offline 15 hours a week
Average coupon in the Sunday paper insert is worth $1.09
Back-to-school consumer electronics sales to fall by $1 bln in 2005
Baffled on backup
Ballmer roars about the mid-market, SAP, salesforce.com
Beep beep
Benioff raised bar on executive nerves of steel
Best description of the intractable state of the DRM state
Best quotes so far from MIT EmergeTech
Big Brother's database
Bill: Give us the new Office 12 interface now
Blake Ross on Firefox vs. IE and other topics
Bloggers on Mass/MS flap
Blogging from MIT's Emerging Technology Conference
Blogosfear
Bosworth: Intelligent reaction, not intelligent design
Bosworth: The new model is, 'run like mad'
BPEL battle
Broadband modems, routers and gateways grew 3% in Q2 20005
Broadband penetration at 8.1% in Italy
Broadband penetration in France is 7.8%
Broadband penetration in Germany at 8.1%
Browser usage for September 2005: IE - 88.46%, Firefox - 7.86%
BSOD, meet your replacement: WSOD
Build 5219 (aka Sept CTP) missing PDC-demoed "mashup mojo"
Business app vendor consolidation shifts power on infrastructure choices
Business app vendor consolidation shifts power on infrastructure choices
Business intelligence reporting and analysis topped $5.5 bln in 2005
Business intelligence software up 12% in 2004
Business IP phone shipments to grow at 37% a year in Western Europe
Business Week's VoIP doom and gloom: they may not be all wrong, you know
By 2007 more than 50% of telecoms expect VOIP to constitute more than 50% of traffic
By 2008 50% of 40-inch and larger TVs will be plasma sets
By 2010 128.4 mln people will watch TV on their mobile devices
By 2010 46.5% of mobile subscribers will use 2G, 29.6% - 2.5G, 23.8% - 3G
Byte the power: PoE for VoIP is very juice-intensive
Can tech industry rise to Katrina's housing challenge?
Canadian online ad market to reach $519 mln in 2005
CardSystems to be sold to CyberSource
Carr gives Microsoft a taste of its own OpenDoc medicine (and I pile on)
Chess master Kasparov takes on tech execs...and Putin
Chikyu's journey to the center of the earth
Cisco admits IOS flaw, releases patch
Cisco out on top for vendor short lists, internal study finds
Cisco's Giancarlo: There's a new computer bus in town
Clearing out the cobwebs
Communication ships to grow at 11% a year
Computer change kicks kids of health rolls
Computer foulup slows SBA's Katrina relief
Congress calls for emergency comm upgrades
Conversations Within Cells
Converting search terms into intelligence
Copying and DRM: Opportunity or death for Tellywood?
Could technology tame future Katrinas and Ritas?
CRM competition in the time of open source
CRM mashup
Croatian IT services market up 16% in 2004
Culture is the ultimate barrier to technological change, says MIT professor
Curious about batteries
Dangerous legal loophole in child-porn prosecutions under review
Data center design drivers
David has Microsoft vistulations
David Pogue: FEMA website flap no big deal
Declaration of InDRMpendence
DEMOfall 05 take one
DEMOfall 05 take three--nothing non-linear
DEMOfall 05 take two
Demystifying EULAs
Detailed Firefox and IE vulnerability report
DHS' privacy officer moving to GE
Did Microsoft send the wrong guy to Massachusetts' ODF hearing?
Did Vodaphone just beat Google to the punch?
Difficulties of OpenOffice are overblown
Digital identity defined
Direct Revenue changing courses?
Direct Revenue losing customers due to lawsuit
Does IT create risky behavior?
Does your intranet need CPR?
Don Box: WinFS still not shipping in Vista
Don Quijote and the asteroids
Don't neglect intranets when securing servers
Draft of telecom rewrite preserves 'net neutrality'
DRM nightmare: Why $20,000 worth of gear won't play my 99 cent songs
E-commerce could reach $1 trillion by 2012
eBay buys Skype - Web as Platform implications
eBay Forum traffic skeptical of, hostile to Skype buy
eBay said in talks to buy Skype; I think this is a good idea
eBay to investors: Skype will be part of the 'power of 3'
eBay-Skype: Three VoIP entrepreueur views
Ed Zander, the mobile man
eDonkey accounts for 51% of P2P, BitTorrent for 34%
EFF's John Gilmore responds to my DRM nightmare post
Electric power from cows?
Electronic design automation software to reach $5.7 bln by 2009
Ellison, Microsoft reorg, GoogleNet, Demo, Vista and more (The Dan & David Show)
EMEA financial services providers to outsource $46.2 bln worth of IT in 2005
EMEA thin client market to reach 1 mln units in 2005
Energy CIO: Communicate by any means necessary
Enterprise Vista/Software Assurance tie gets mixed reviews from IT pros
EPA suffers from weak oversight
European banks to prioritize IT spending on security and data management
European corporate mobile e-mail market to reach 13.5 mln users by 2009
European mobile content and entertainment to generate 32 bln euros by 2012
European VC investments down 34% in Q2 2005
Evan Williams: From Blogger to Odeo
eWeek rounds-up Vista's developer helpers
eWeek's Rapoza is on the standards bandwagon
eWeek: Vista's "Freeze Dry" feature preserves app state during reboots
External disk storage revenues up 8.6% in Q2 2005
FBI making improvements on architecture, more work needed
FBI's "right" to pick your Internet apps
FCC chief calls for disaster communications group, but VoIP vendors shut out of monthly meeting
FCC chief: First responders need mobile, wireless system
FCC clears way for Wimax on the Gulf
FCC defends work in getting nets back online, but will more spectrum be allocated to emergency?
Federal sites improve in user satisfaction.
FEMA promises fix to IE-only website but so far its still IE only
FEMA was warned computers were inadequate
FEMA's IE Requirement
Fiber equipment sales to reach $1.9 bln by 2009
Finance-centered strategies
Financial service providers to spend $65.7 mln on IT in 2005
Finding half a million missing people
Finnish payphone industry finished: here's why North America won't be next
Firefox under the security spotlight
Firefox woes spread to Linux
First reactions to EJB 3.0
For non-proliferation's sake, Sun asks OSI to retire older open source license
For the National Archive, a new e-records system built by Lockheed Martin
Free electronic health record software on hold
Full text of Marc Benioff's internal memo to salesforce staff on Oracle/Siebel deal
Full-text of Microsoft's Sept CTP (PDC Build 5219) Fact Sheet
Fun with Mash-Ups
Future computerized lie detectors
Gartner bearish on on-demand services
Gartner predicts Linux' next target is the data center
Gates outlines new 'Dynamics'
Gates=code, Ellison=deals
GDrive wasn't such a bad idea....
George Ou: Is Word open enough for government?
Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks
Get a load of the new mortar for open source bricks
Gillmor Gang on muni WiFi
Glass vs. Non-Glass: A peek
Global PC market to grow 12.7% in 2005, 8.7% in 2006
Global semiconductor market to grow 4% in 2005
Global service provider router and switch sales up 10% in Q2 2005
Global wireless subscriber numbers: China - 398 mln, USA 202 mln, Russia - 115 mln, Japan - 95 mln
Glowing mice to speed up cancer research
Golf analytics: Meet clients at a virtual course while improving your swing
Good ideas are good ideas
Google conspiracy theories
Google exploits public databases for Katrina Search
Google gets smart
Google gives new meaning to Bush's low approval rate
Google rolls out blog search
Google sponsors another WiFi park: What's up?
Google Video and Flash
Google vs national security
Google's fiber network,Google Talk, Google AdWords: here's the common thread
Google, NOAA join forces to make available aerial photos of the Gulf
Google-NASA deal: Space agency's future looking brighter
GoogleNet and the Internet Age
Government on your cellphone?
Government's role in open source
Govt. open source conference in October
Govt., large co. records were backed up in Gulf region
Gulf States PC market unit shipments up 40% in 2004
Has Microsoft missed the SOA bus?
Has Microsoft missed the SOA bus?
Hayabusa is approaching Itokawa
Herding the on-demand ecosystem
Here's my Skype-within-eBay search results page mod
HHS command center in place to deal with Katrina's health crises
HHS reconstructing medical records from databases
Hi-end audio pro weighs in on DRM conundrum
High maintenance in the software industry
Home Depot traffic up 34% in July 2005
Hot site of the week: Google Earth, Google Maps
Hot site of the week: Grants.gov
How about AdWords via GoogleTalk?
How about Google WiMAX?
How does the average Joe patch Linux?
How Google's NYC Wi-Fi Hotspot could work with Google AdWords, AdSense
How open is Salesforce.com AppExchange?
How to become an offshore (outside the law) spammer
How to win funds and influence VCs
How Vista's User Access Protection (UAP) works/looks
HP issues response to Dell/Cingular 3G notebook pact
Hurd, Gerstner, HP and NCR
I design a way to integrate VoIP in Office 12
IBM gets on the bus, twice
IBM's potential MS-Office killer to roll out by year's end
IC wafer manufacturing capacity at 88.8% in Q2 2005
IE still required on FEMA site
If Linux is free, why isn't it cheaper?
IFPI's update on the illegality of AllofMP3.com
Image hosting site traffic up 406% from the beginning of 2005
Important Vistulations beta disclaimer
In 15 years 80% of households will own a high-def TV
In 16 developing countries more than 20% of cellular bill is going towards taxes
In 2005 47.3% of new broadband customers will sign up with cable
In 2009 online real estate ads will surpass newspaper real estate ads
In a world of proprietary boats, thanks but I'll take the life raft
In defense of OpenOffice.org
In Japan $122.1 mln worth of music is sold through cell phones, $4.8 mln - through PCs
In planning TechConnect, SF should look to London
In raising ante on definition of 'open', Sun shuts its critics up
Indian cellular services to reach $24 bln by 2009
Indian IT services up 27.4% in 2004
Indian PC market up 31% in Q2 2005
Information Commons: A bright star for the future of information
Intel wows Dubai with WiMax Demo
IP PBX shipments to outnumber traditional PBX shipments in 2005
IP VPN spending to reach $6.1 bln by 2009
Is desktop Linux stuck on stupid?
Is desktop publishing possible without Microsoft Office?
Is RealID an unfunded mandate? Rep. says no
Is the best IT model the centralized or decentralized approach?
Is the Firefox honeymoon over?
Is the Internet better organized than the government?
Is unsubscribing from spam enough?
Is Word 'open enough for Government work'?
IT marketing budgets to grow 6.4% in 2005
IT outsourcing in EMEA to reach $90.9 bln by 2009
IT serviced spending up 8.5% in 2004
IT spending by European insurance companies to grow at 3.4% a year between 2004 and 2009
IT spending by healthcare providers to grow 8.2-10.3% between 2004 and 2009
IT spending in financial sector to grow at 4.1% a year
IT worker confidence index down in August 2005
It's no accident: the six most visited sites all have IP voice offerings
IT's role in improving elections
iTunes phone video
JBoss CEO Marc Fleury comments on 'commercial open source'
Joy refreshes last two of his "six Webs"
Katrina may push agencies towards telework
Katrina rescue efforts: one giant step for satellite telephony
Katrina shows need for e-health records
Keystroke logger of the worst kind: a microphone
Keystroke monitoring to protect the public
L2-L3 Ethernet switch revenues up 10% in Q2 2005
Larry Ellison: The new software statesman
Lawsuit filed against 180solutions
LCD driver sales to generate $3 bln in 2005
Left and Right
License stand-down begins
LinkedIn vs. Plaxo: Is LinkedIn winning?
Linux and patch management
Linux and trademarks
Linux Mark Institute fights on
Linux revenues to grow at 64% a year in China
Linux: registering demand
Linux: when Yes becomes Nooo
Liquid language
Look for a Linux distro face-off in the embedded space
Look for a Linux distro face-off in the embedded space
Look out, Google, Microsoft, AOL- here comes...eBay? Yes, eBay
Looking at the brain, neuron by neuron
Looking inside your brain... without hurting you
Lukas, the robot that removes weeds
Make open source compatible with content
Make way for the loosely coupled business
Marc Fleury's best day ever
March 2006 deadline looms for implementing enterprise architecture
Massachusetts: Out of Office
Master data management - it's about information not technology
Mayfield's Web of verbs
Media convergence getting into higher gear
MEMS to grow at 19.87% a year
Microsoft brings roles to the mid-market
Microsoft 'enemies' make for strange bedfellows
Microsoft and public access
Microsoft and the HD DVD format wars
Microsoft blogger draws fire for criticising Massachusetts OpenDoc policy
Microsoft can still move deftly
Microsoft can still move deftly
Microsoft Dynamics too laggardly by half
Microsoft gives RSS a big bear hug
Microsoft gives RSS a big bear hug
Microsoft lashes out at Massachusetts
Microsoft needs to show developers it's serious about 'services'
Microsoft needs to show developers it's serious about 'services'
Microsoft Office versus Open Office shootout
Microsoft provides the Vista-Office advantage punch list
Microsoft recapitulates IBM
Microsoft sponsors race to Linux
Microsoft Vista conference call notes
Microsoft vs Mass.: What ever happened to 'The customer is always right'?
Microsoft vs. the OSI
Microsoft's architectural update for productivity
Microsoft's architectural update for productivity
Microsoft's fight with demons within bears fruit
Microsoft's fuzzy (but oh-so typical) ESB stance
Microsoft's SOA strategy: wait and see?
Microsoft's Start.com opens up
Microsoft's Web platform and why Windows devices remain key
Microsoft: Improvements in Vista's network performance may be frightening (fast)
Microsoft: No news on Virtual PC support for Vista64
Microsoft: No substitutes for Trusted Platform Module allowed
Microsoft: too little. IBM: too much.
Mobile phone service satisfaction declines 10% in 2005
Mobile phones are more than just phones in China
Mobile porn sales to reach $196 mln by 2009
Mobile subscribers with data packages pay extra $7.86 a month on average
Monitoring internet use: Good or bad?
More chatter on Massachusetts' OpenDoc plan
More on FEMA's browser boo-boo: Was FEMA not thinking clearly or just lazy
More on the iPod nano screen
Most popular employers among US computer science students: Microsoft, IBM, Intel, Apple
Most popular online radio networks: ClearChannel, Yahoo! Music, AOL Radio
Motorola's Ed Zander on leadership
Motorola's Ed Zander unplugged
Move over Microsoft, Dell. The $100 PC cometh. From MIT.
Mozilla faces the curse of popularity
MS Office chief responds to my post on continuous improvement
MS releases much anticipated 'PDC' build of Vista
MSN-AOL merger on the cards
Multi-core licensing
Muni wireless a $700 million business
My wonk-English translation: What the telecommunications reform bill draft really says
NAND flash to grow at 18% a year in 2006-2010
Nanohelices for nanoscale sensors?
Nanoscale optics for data transmission
Navy bans personal email, P2P
Network camera shipments to grow at 82.8% a year in 2004-2009
Network Computing: the Enterprise answer
Network security appliance market up 4% in Q2 2005
Network storage market up 16.1% in Q2 2005
Never mind the software, measure the results
New account fraud on average takes 59 hours to rectify
New blog mostly for Windows Vista coverage added to ZDNet lineup
New ITIL book on the horizon
New MS architecture: server = service
New Orleans city government improvises VoIP solution: fields Bush call
New rules needed on govt. use of commercial data
New VMware Workstation beta to support 64-bit guests
Next generation tech leaders
Next step after streaming: digital archiving of city meetings
No Linux trademark in Australia
NOAA Web site traffic up 402%
North American mobile infrastructure to reach $10.3 bln in 2005
Note to self: Hand that napkin in (to the US Patent Office)
Novell banging desktop Linux drum hard
Novell's Messman: Vista's cost to push users to desktop Linux
Now's the time for the network computer
Now's the time for the network computer
Now, that's what I call a marketplace
Number of broadband Americans up by 3% between December 2004 and May 2005
NY CIO Council: Federated approach to ID and access management
NY initiative advances cause of electronic medical health records
Obese employees cost their companies extra $460-$2485 a year
Of software ecosystems, symbiosis and co-innovation
Om: VoIP's Not Ready for Prime Time
OMB 'throwing out' current Core.gov, starting over
On the complexity of digital theft
On the joys of vegetable intelligence
On-demand CRM market shares: Salesforce.com - 49.5%, RightNow - 13.5%
Once more, DARPA calls robots to a Grand Challenge
Online ads to generate $18.9 bln by 2009, PPC to overtake impressions
Online display ads up 12.6% in the first half of 2005
Online newspaper revenues up 36% in 2005
Online photo service usage up 197% in July 2005
Online sales to total $172 bln in 2005, $329 bln by 2010
Only 21% of large enterprises highly satisfied with their wireless contracts
Only 27% of game-enabled cell phone owners play games
Only 7% of mobile consumers willing to pay for local search
Open Office Beta2 results added to shootout
Open source in Microsoft?
OpenAir's quiet achievement
OpenSUSE -the name says too much
Optical network hardware generated $2.7 bln in Q2 2005, 10% growth
Or, what about Verizon FiOS with GoogleAds?
Oracle and the open challenge
Oracle buys Siebel: Ellison firmly in CRM catbird seat
Oracle's buccaneers head for Port Fusion
Oracle's open source advocate
Oracle, the 800lb gorilla of on demand
Outwitted by its own ecosystem
Oversupply of LCD TVs to reach 6.2% in Q4 2005
Paced by IP telephony, wired and wireless ranks as top enterprise IT priority
PalmSource moved further into oblivion
Patent reform bill may raise questions for agencies using open source
Patterns of SOA success
PBX/KTS market up 12% in Q2 2005
PC Mag has best Vista build 5219 slideshow
PC market to grow 14.1% to 204.6 mln PCs shipped in 2005
PDC build (5219) of Vista64 arrives via Fedex
Peace with honor
Peanut allergies and invisible demand
Personal calls on wireless exceeded personal calls on wireline in the US
Phil Wainewright: AppExchange falls short
Philly's Neff faces questions over Wi-Fi plan
Plain talk about ESBs and SOA
Plain talk about ESBs and SOA
Plasma TV prices down 18% in the first half of 2005, down 3-5% in Q3 2005, down 1-2% in Q4 2005
Podcasts from State, NYPD
Pooping on Oracle's party
Posted: 24-image slide show of Vista install
PPT slides from eBay-Skype investor pitch
Predicting protein structures with computers
Primacy of hardware shines when Sun shares stage with BEA
Primacy of hardware shines when Sun shares stage with BEA
Profiting from disaster
Proof that XML is extremely bloated
Protecting astronauts from the Van Allen radiations
Ray Kurzweil accelerates change at weekend confab
Reclaiming the meaning of Office
Recovery 2.0: Open source disaster recovery
Red Cross building VSAT VoIP network for Katrina relief effort
RedCross.org traffic up 184% within 1 day
RedHat working on secure Linux
Regulatory compliance IT budgets in biotech companies to grow 5% next year
Remembering Bob Artner
Report: CDC need electronic access to airline manifests
Response to some readers' questions about my Ferrari testbed
Restoring the popularity of Computer Science
Rich DOJ database kept secret
RSS users are 78% male, 48% Internet users, but 83% are not aware they are using RSS
Running Silent
Salesforce CEO Benioff deputizes staff to poach Siebel employees
Salesforce enters its eBay phase
salesforce.com's Benioff officially responds to Ballmer's "roar"
Salesforce.com's Benioff: It's the end of Siebel
Saskatchewan: Wheat fields, modern cities.. but no VoIP
Satellite radio market: XM - 4.4 mln customers, Sirius - 2.1 mln
Scale-up and scale-out
SCO is failing
Scoble pitches softballs to Gates
Scoble: Vista videos on the way
Searching in 3-D
Security moves back into top 5 IT priorities
Self-repairing spacecrafts
Semiconductor capex to decline 6.5% in 2005
Semiconductor IP to generate $2.04 bln by 2009
Semiconductors to grow 7% in 2005
Server plans teeter-totter with storage, study finds
Service-enabling enterprise RSS
Should election software be open source?
Should more public agencies heed Massachusetts' OpenDoc policy?
Shouldn't Google Alerts include blogs?
Siebel exec says Benioff is 'running scared'
Siebel-IBM divorce might test J2EE's promise
Siebel/Salesforce.com war of words update
SimplyHired is on the job
Six Apart targets mainstream bloggers with Project Comet
Size still matters
Skype CEO: Wi-Fi will be a big part of our strategy
Skype releases new version: incremental, no eBay (yet)
Skype VP unfolds post-eBay roadmap
Skype's post-eBay roadmap
Skyping a good deal on eBay
So what's a smart display?
SOA + BPO = Chaos
SOA a beneficiary of pushback to Oracle-Siebel?
SOA conference series
SOA innovation amid spending crunch
SOA skepticism
Software as a service offers apps that actually work
Software that actually works
SOHO computer hardware spending to reach $8 bln in 2005
Solaris 10 is secure open source you can cuddle today
Some comforting news about packet data security checks and latency
Something about Microsoft, or Europe demands it share
Spyware tricks
Spyware tricks part II: follow the money trail
Spyware tricks part III: fighting back
Spyware: more on fighting back
Streaming .avi and MPEG files
Success-based SaaS
Sullivan takes me to the woodshed for a spankin'
Sun + Zinc = Clean Hydrogen
Sun says it's giving Dell an ass-whoopin
Sun's galactic server makeover
Sun's iPod moments
Supply chain management software down 0.2% in EMEA
Symbian phone shipments up 191% in the first half of 2005
Synergy Research spots latest IP telephony trends
System administration at scale
T-Mobile gets more from SOA
Taking a page from Microsoft, citizens group bashes Mass.'s OpenDoc plan
Technology at work (actually, at play)
Telecom and datacom equipment generated $57.5 bln in 2004
Testbed notes: Partitions, provisioning Vista x64, and VMWare
Thanks to tech, Gilligan couldn't happen today
The $100 PC, Palm/Microsoft bonding, AJAX disruptors and more (The Dan & David Show)
The best Wintel how to advice? Get a Mac
The Boston "Office" Party
The communications meltdown
The curse of moving
The Dan & David Show: Microsoft Dynamics, CRM dramatics, an OpenDoc rant and introducing 'Vistulations'
The Dan & David Show: PDC, Oracle/Siebel, salesforce.com, Sun's new galaxy and more
The default file format for MS-Paint is WHAT?!!
The DRM nightmare: Not only does it get worse, it recurs
The ecosystem benefits of Microsoft's VC-1
The electronic tollkeeper: States, drivers embrace electronic transponders
The future of Internet markets
The great Web 2.0 application (s)mash-up
The Linux killer application
The long tail of applications
The Longhorn legacy lives on
The new Mac mini PC clone
The perils of burglary in the Internet age
The RSS Space: The Next Google
The rumors were true: eBay to buy Skype for $2.6B
The server/desktop distinction
The SOA glass -- 35% full, 65% empty
The startup mess that Vista must fix
The STIENNON Fall '05 Road Show
The STIENNON Fall Road Show reprinted
The Unix business architecture
The Web-based Office will have its day
The wonderful land of Ogg
The wonderful world of XML?
The World's Biggest Walrus
The world's first single photon machine
Third of PC market in 2005 will consist of used PCs
This molecule walks like a man
Three-month average of semiconductor sales to grow to $18.11 bln in July 2005
Thurrott has better inside track than most
Time for Web-based office apps?
Time to drop the 'Web' from Web services?
To battle handset VoIP, cell carriers have three alternatives
To Microsoft's Chen: How about the way Linux does it?
Tom's Hardware: "Vista Ready" video cards won't crash OS
Top 10 ways to protect DNS
Top celebrities online daters hope to meet: Jennifer Aniston, Orlando Bloom
Top image hosting sites: PhotoBucket, ImageShack, Putfile
Top parent companies in August 2005: Microsoft, Time Warner, Yahoo!
Top priority for IT vendors in Asia-Pacific: quality and reliability
Top search engines in September 2005: Google - 56.9%, Yahoo - 21.2%, MSN - 8.9%
Top selling games in July: NCAA Football, Halo 2, Pokemon Emerald
Top sites in August 2005: Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN
Top sponsored links buyers: retailers and Web media
Top traffic growth on Katrina coverage: Nola.com, ABC News, MSNBC
Top Web annoyances: pop-ups, requiring extra software, dead links
Top Web retail traffic increases in August 2005: Overstock.com, Target, Wal-Mart
Top Yahoo! sites: mail, search, local
Top-selling games in August 2005: Madden NFL 06, Football 06, Ghost Recon 2
Transit agencies ponder, to iPod or not to iPod
Two ways of pushing Linux internationally
UC Berkeley laptop with 100,000 IDs recovered
UDDI , JES, and what, exactly?
Udell and Gates play all the acronyms
UK and Germany got most of the European outsourcing contracts in Q2 2005
UK broadband penetration at 9.3%
Ukrainian search engine market: Google - 40.4%, Yandex - 16%, Rambler - 14.7%
Understanding vulnerability: Does hiding information make us more or less safer?
Unix business architecture example
Upgrading first-responder comm problems not an easy fix
US business IT spending up 17.3% in Q2 2005
US Internet ad revenue up 26% to $3 bln in Q2 2005
US IT offshoring to double to $14.7 bln by 2009
US IT spending expected to grow 6.1% over the next 12 months
US online ads to grow 33.7% in 2005, best year in 2001-2009
US PC users are split between home Ethernet and home Wi-Fi
US tech spending to grow 7% in 2005
USA Today: Plenty of government technology, but a lack of will
USB flash drive revenue to grow 64% in 2005
Using 'catoms' for teleportation?
Using blimps to find diamonds?
Utah and Maine lead the states in e-government
Video clips: Benioff and Bechtolsheim
Vista UAP security feature fails one scenario
Vista's questionable TPM strategy?
VOIP subscriber numbers: Vonage - 1 mln, Time Warner - 614K, CableVision - 250K
VOIP to be $4.1 bln industry by 2010, not $5.4 bln industry by 2008
VoIP-enabled volunteers will call Katrina victims loved ones for free
Vonage: we have one million lines; bloggers: so?
Wafer fab equipment revenues down 9.6% in 2005
Waiting for the next UI breakthrough
Wanted: A CIPO for every software snippet
Wanted: A CIPO for every software snippet
Watts vs. market: the power of power
Web 2.0 and Semantic Web: Mars and Venus?
Web-based Office? Forget it. Online apps will be collaborative and intuitive.
Webmail services in the US: Yahoo! - 63.6 mln users, AOL - 48.7 mln, Hotmail - 44.4 mln
Welcome to this new ZDNet blog
Western European contact center sales to total $3 bln between 2005 and 2009
Western European IT security spending to reach $7.5 bln in 2009
Western European security appliance market up 27% in Q2 2005
What about VoIP users with hearing difficulties?
What about..'GoogleNet by Verizon?'
What ails Microsoft
What eBay's Meg Whitman has in common with Eric Clapton
What is a platform?
What is hot now on TechRepublic
What is Web 2.0
What Linux needs to succeed
What should cell do about Skype? Here are 7 options
What slows Linux most?
What will you do when the Internet collapses?
What's so special about Avaya? Maybe their mobility support
When it rains (3G notebooks), it pours
While Mass. takes the lead in open access, feds lock citizens into IE
Who's afraid of the big bad Ross (Perot)?
Who's the bigger geek: Bill Gates or Napoleon Dynamite?
Why Amazon needs Net2Phone- and vice versa
Why have a desktop machine anyway?
Why leaves change color
Why mid-sized companies are more concerned about VoIP security than smaller, larger competitors are
Why serious IP techies don't "get" eBay-Skype
Why spaghetti does not break in half
Why XML indeed?
WiFi and VPN... it makes sense now
Will enterprise users buy business VoIP from consumer VoIP providers?
Will PlayStation, xBox spur mass migration to VoIP?
Will seven (editions) be Vista's lucky number?
Will Vista's DRM/TPM integration foil virtual machines?
Will VoIP play a role in rebuilding the Gulf Coast?
Windows Mobile-based Treo imminent?
With AOL TotalTalk, The IM-to-VoIP rite of passage continues: but the real battle lies ahead
With infrastructure destroyed, should wireless become the standard?
Without T-1 QoS, consumer VoIP winners will be enterprise losers
WLAN switch sales up 52% in Q2 2005, Cisco and Linksys lead
WLAN switches up 45% in Q2 2005
Workflow on demand
Workstations up 12.9% in Q2 2005 in Asia-Pacific
Worldwide router sales up 4% in Q2 2005
Worldwide security appliance revenues up 16.6% in Q2 2005
Worldwide storage market up 11.8% in Q2 2005
XML as document format rules!!!
Yahoo and spyware
Yahoo Mail looking more like Outlook
Yahoo! and TV 2.0
Yahoo! steps in a pile of identity
Yes, server=service. Now walk the talk.
Yet another MS salvo in Massachusetts battle
You don't say...?
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Zimbra leads a path to AJAXed apps
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