Blog posts on 2006-02



OSS stacks in search of messaging infrastructure gain strong choices
$22.16 bln of venture capital raised by US VCs in 2005
$30 bln worth of TV phones to be sold in 2010
$340 bln of tech mergers and acquisitions in 2005
$765.1 bln charged to MasterCards in the US in 2005
''Scuse me -- while I kiss - uh, CLICK, this link
'Active cookies' for better security?
'Don't automate, obliterate'
'Dude'! The Mac Duo is almost $1000 more!
'Robot Ships' to clean virtual oil spills
1 bln Internet users worldwide in 2005
1 bln iTunes tracks sold
1.7 mln mobile phones sold in Taiwan in Q3 2005
10 bln IM messages exchanged daily
10 mln Internet users in Vietnam
10% of car owners with GPS do not program their route before departure
10% of digital music players in the US sold through Amazon
10% of software VC investments went into SAAS in 2005
10.8 mln mobile subscribers in Bangladesh
100 mln casual game players online
100 percent uptime
13% of Internet users watch movie previews online, 5% download movies
140 mln Bluetooth phones sold in 2005, 583 mln in 2009
15% of US mobile users use mobile Web
16% of US wireless customers have two or more cell phones
16- and 32-bit microcontrollers to outsell 8-bit microcontrollers by 100%
16.7 mln cell phones sold in Q3 2005
17 mln IPTV users in China by 2009
18% of Americans use residential VOIP
18.6 mln mobile subscribers in Nigeria
180solutions responds - questions need answers
180solutions wrap up
180solutions' S3 technology broken?
19.8 mln subscribers to buy VOIP from their cable companies by 2009
2 minutes with me, live from Lotusphere podcast
2-3% of US IT jobs to go offshore by 2016
20% of Australian phone users ready to cut the cord
20% of travel searchers book immediately after finding a travel deal
20.1 mln African Americans online by 2007
2005 e-commerce volume grew 24.6% according to Dept of Commerce, 23.8% according to comScore
21.4 mln printers sold in 2005
24% of rural Americans are online
24% of rural Americans have broadband
242 mln mobile phones sold in Q4 2005
25% of e-commerce operators get 50% of revenues during holiday seasons
27% of Japanese mobile consumer use bar code readers
29% of digital magazine subscribers use RSS feeds
3 ways meetings are broken
3.2 mln broadband VOIP subscribers in the US in 2005
3.8 mln of British mobile users had some SMS-related injury
30% of Internet users go online without any specific reasons
30% of US identity fraud is new account fraud
30Boxes takes a Web 2.0 approach to shared calendars
33.32% of US mobile users sent or received text messages
34 Web search startups funded in 2005
347 mln cable TV subscribers worldwide, only 50 mln have cable modems
36.9 mln DLC/MSAN ports to ship by 2009
37% of digital cameras sold in the US in 2005 were 5 megapixel, 37.5% - 3 megapixel
37% of Internet users spend less time reading books and more time online
38% of multinational companies plan to change the distribution of their research and development centers within the next 3 years
38% of teenagers are interested in buying digital music videos
39% of Americans play games on their PCs
39% of gift card buyers buy them online
398 mln mobile users in China
3D ads in the sky?
4 mln MSN Messenger users in Australia
4.6% of servers sold in Q4 2005 were blade servers
40 IPTV networks will have more than 100K subscribers in 2009
40% of SEOs missing out by using only Google or Yahoo!
40% of US broadband households are suburban
41% of consumers are purchasing less online due to identity theft issues
42% of consumers pay off credit card balances every month
43.18% of spam sent in Jan 2006 originated in the US
44% of Americans believe Google should have turned the search data to the Feds
45% of all mobile phones sold in the US in 2005 were cameraphones
45% of British IT departments say users should do their own backups
46% of rural Americans and 47% of urban and suburban Americans use DSL
48% of teenagers would watch a full length film on their cell phones
49% of US African-Americans are online
5% of Internet users paid for dating sites
52% of US households with access to Internet intend to buy a cameraphone
52.46% of Jan 2006 spam was drug-related
53% of 18-34-year-olds spend 1-2 hours on researching product before buying online
56% of Americans know what IPTV is
58% of US dial-up users say broadband is available in their area
6 Vistas - 3 Home, 2 Business, 1 "Ultimate"
60% of e-mail sent daily is spam
610 mln mobile subscribers in China by 2009
62% of African Americans, 51% of whites and 44% of US Hispanics have more than 2 TVs
63% of US Internet users share some content via e-mail at least once a week
65.7% of Americans to have broadband by 2009
66% of online users never read blogs
66% of teenagers send more IMs than e-mail
676K servers sold in EMEA market in Q4 2005
68% of UK mobile subscribers to use 3G by 2010
69.3 mln unique visits to TV network sites in September 2005
7% of VC money went into wireless companies in 2005
70% of Americans are unaware of the plan to make EHRs available to citizens by 2014
70% of Fortune 100 companies authenticate outbound e-mails
70% of Fortune 100 companies supply business cell phones to their employees
75% of music fans say CDs are too expensive
79% of mobile users think mobile devices are getting more complicated
87% of Canadian students use IM, webcam or telephone for sex
87% of employees know of company-preferred vendors, but only 38% consistently buy from them
89% of US small and medium businesses have broadband
9.67 mln simultaneous P2P users in January 2006
91 Internet suicides in Japan in 2005
A 1950s sci-fi show, mending broken hearts- and WiMAX
A calendar for you and the world
A disturbing little meditation on biometrics
A five-second vendor wrap-up
A generation of gamers turns out to be ready-made for the battlefield
A laser that sees through solid objects
A minor travelogue - or holiday report
A painful Vista networking bug
A piece of the Itanic story
A plan for true, online lobbying disclosure
A utilitarian conception of the GPL
According to a source who asked not to be named...
Ads for online recruitment generated $3.5 bln in 2005
Ajax homepages market review
Akamai experiments with super convergence hand-offs
All open source is doomed (yadda yadda yadda)
Almost 20% of current wireless users plan to cut the cord in the next 12 months
Almost the last word on salesforce.com's outage
Amazon.com got 43.2 mln unique visitors in Q4 2005
An easy fix for iPod volume issue
An open Hailstorm? Windows Live coming together
Anatomy of a virus
Anatomy of an award-winning website
Anatomy of Chinese censorhip
And we'll have FON, FON FON: Skype, Google to help fund global WiFi network
Another angle on best of breed in the web office game
Another open source-SOA monster mashup
Anti-censorship and anti-click fraud?
Anti-Spyware Coalition workshop and other news
Apparel and accessories online sales up 41% in 2005
Apparel/clothing shoppers visit Yahoo! and AOL
Apple "Special Event" Prognostication
Apple and fashion accessories
Apple revs Mac mini; announces iPod HiFi
Apple Scruffs
Apple special event invite a fake?
Apple's fragile hold on reality
Apple's Valentine's present: faster MacBook Pros
Apple, hypocritical?
Applying the Midas touch to Mactel
Are backbone providers cooperating with NSA?
Are rootkits always evil?
Are Salesforce's outages sullying the reputation of the SaaS model?
Are Salesforce.com's problems due to big iron?
Are security vendors prepared to deal with virtual machines? Probably not
Are you a pro- "Open Internet?" Libertarian or Republican? Better read this
Are you feeling angry? Log on the Net!
Arguing about arguing about China
Around the MashupCamp fire
As Arab company buys ports, tagging tech is slow to arrive
Ask and you may receive (a mashup)
Astonishing performance numbers from Freescale
AT&T's Whitacre not backing down about carriage fees
Attention Thieves
Aussie Olympic gold medalist is spyware pusher?
Australian online ad market generated $459 mln in 2005
Australian online ad market in January 2006
Automakers to spend $2.7 bln on online ads in 2007
Average Chinese Internet user gets 16.8 spam e-mails a day
Average family income fell to $70,700 in 2004
Average identity fraud cost $6,383 in 2005
Average VOIP user ARPU is $25
Balkanizing RSS and the risks to the information ecosystem
Banning rootkits
BEA's Breya down on JBoss
Benioff: Making AppExchange work for developers
Benioff: The duality of AppExchange
Benioff: Where ASPs (and Larry Ellison) got it wrong
Best search engines by conversion rate: AOL - 6.17%, MSN - 6.03%, Yahoo! - 4.07%
Best small business IT strategy: Smashup
Better tool for counting fish
Big guns firing blanks at on-demand CRM
Bill would tie CA edtech grants to copyright education
Bio-inspired intelligent machines
BitTorrent users, ignore Opera at your inconvenience
BlackBerry expert: shutdown only "10% likely"
BlackBerry releases full service interruption workaround software details
Blackworm already wiping some computers
Blog DoS'd
Bloggers - Please register on dominoblogs.com
Blogospheric pressure check
Book excerpt: Naked Conversations
Bring back my WABI, to me, to me
Brits vote to require passport applicants to get national IDs
Broadband fiber ain't what it used to be
Broadband penetration isn't the whole story
Broadband subscriber growth in Q2 2005
Browser wars 3: IE7 beta no match for Firefox
Building the virtual cubicle
Bummer. No announcement from FTC
Bush pushes alternative energy technology
Busting the myths of Email outsourcing
Butler Group: Red herring and bull?
Cable research industry working on new standard for VoIP enhancement
Cal. lawmakers considers open source e-voting machines
Calendars and PDAs don't cut it--yet
Callisto to push the limits of Update Manager
Can blogging replace journalism?
Can Gordon Cook's little list change the world?
Can Mashups as a Service reach critical MaaS?
Can virtualization double Apple's market share?
Can't buy me Lisp (not to mention love)
Capex spending by public telecom carriers up 6% in 2005
Car shoppers visit MSN and Yahoo!
Carry your PC in your pocket
Chertoff's fixes for FEMA inadequate
ChicagoCrime takes #2 spot in mashup camp
Chief process disruption innovation officer
China turns up heat on Google
China will have the largest number of broadband users in the world by year-end 2006
Chinese semiconductor assembly and test services to grow 28.4% in 2005
Chipped like a dog
CIO Sessions: Modernizing IT as Chrysler/Mercedes Benz
City of London goes wireless
Collaboration Loop: Lotusphere 2006 Impressions: The Future of Notes is...Notes
College students turn video skills to cybersecurity awareness
Colorado House committee refuses to ban VoIP tax
Comic relief - courtesy of customer service
Commercializing open source--make it transparent
Computers on the cheap
Concerned about VoIP E911? Here's a list of all PSAPs in the U.S.
Conflicts and passions
Congress lambastes Net companies for selling free speech cheap
Congress takes on search companies over China
Consolidating email on the Pod
Consultant: Free Muni WiFi is not always the best choice
Conversational intensity
Could Internet users help fight terrorism?
Court docs show Yahoo's partcipation in conviction
Craigslist CEO Jim Buckmaster talks business
Creating real business value with Web 2.0
Critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit
CRN: Demand Generator: Mitchell Kleinman, CCS Technology Solutions; The Client: Chick´s Sporting Goods
Damien Katz: Passion of the Notes
DARPA's 'Social Puppet'
Data centers saving money with open source hardware
Data on roughly 53 mln Americans was compromised in 2005
David explains why DRM is CRAP
David's whiteboard 'mashup'
DDOS attacks storming online payment processors
Debunking Consolidation
Decrease in spyware on the net?
Defense Dept. buys Linux supercompters
Demo 2006 highlights, Mashup Camp, patent abuse and more
Demo 2006 preview, part 1
Demo 2006 preview, Part 2
Demo 2006 security roundup, part 1
Demo 2006 security roundup, part 2
Demo 2006: Advancing search--Nexidia, Transparansee, Kosmix, Truveo
Demo 2006: Simplify and ice cream
Demo 2006: TagWorld, VSee, Plum
Desktop graphics market generated $1.6 bln in Q4 2005
Desktop management outsourcing reached $28 bln in 2005
Despite criticism, Treasury pushes big telecom contract forward.
Detecting single photons
DHS program tries to connect far-flung information, but at what privacy cost?
Did that last Skype call give you an earache? Here's why
Digismart mini projector
Digital transformations: One teacher's vision
Disaster recovery planning and hardware change
Disk storage revenue in Central and Eastern Europe up 10.8% in 2005
DNUG Conferences: IBM Lotus Technical Forum 2006 - English website now available
Documenting human capital: The next wave of economic development
Does anybody understand Ajax besides Google?
Does Nicholas Carr still matter?
Does ROI begat ROI, or smoke and mirrors?
Don't cry for me oh mySQL (the truth is Oracle can't have you)
Don't mess with Google, unless...
DRAM sales in 2005: Samsung - $8.02 bln, Hynix - $4.11 bln, Micron - $3.87 bln
DRM, copyright and the DMCA
Dropping Outlook from Office: smart or dumb?
Dumb idea?: Biometric hall pass for travelers
DVD recorder market up 141% in Asia
E-commerce, meet your successor: Knowledge commerce
E-mail marketing spending to reach $1.1 bln by 2010
Eclipse 3.2 memory requirement cut in half
Eclipse: 637, Netbeans: 7
edgeio launches with same goals as Structured Blogging
Edgeio stakes out the 'listing' tag
EFF warns against Google Desktop
EFF: Google over-steps on Privacy
EMEA business intelligence software up 10% in 2004
Emergency call center to Canadian Vonage 911 caller: "are you in Alabama?"
ENIAC: One of the first computers turns 60
Enterprise apps mergers and acquisitions generated $36 bln in 2005
Enzyme-based computers
Episode 105: PowerPage Podcast
Ethernet switch market up 3% in revenue in Q4 2005
Evangelist wanted, apply within
Exclusive: MacBook Pro unboxing pics
ExpectMore.gov: FEMA performance adequate
Expert: Skype calls nearly impossible for NSA to intercept
Extending PowerPoint with Freepath
Extending the Web to the street
Extremely critical Mac OS X zero-day exploit released
Fair housing group sues Craigslist for 'no minorities' listings
FBI's Mueller plays broken record at RSA
Fear mongering in the name of privacy
Federal money for basic tech research: Will the bucks actually flow
Fee-happy broadband cable shows its true "net neutrality" colors
FEMA wants IT system to manage disaster donations
Fighting complexity with complexity
Fighting spyware in the UK
Firefox 1.5 patches eight critical security holes
Fixing FEMA: Chertoff focuses on technology
Fixing what's broken at work is the challenge
Flickr has 100,000,000 photos
Folsom CA looks past Wi-Fi to WiMAX
For 85.2% of US companies more than 90% of revenues come from credit cards
For eating out online users head to Yahoo! and MSN
For Office 2007 at home, Outlook is out, OneNote is in
Forget Exchange, the hosted email debate has moved on
From Apple: Intel-based mini, iPod Hi-Fi
From the University of Michigan, a stinging rebuke of publishers
FSF's Stallman pitches new definition for C.R.A.P.
FTC slaps CardSystems
FTC threatens public humiliation for spyware advertisers
FY 2007 budget plans massive cutbacks for education tech
Gardening and the blogosphere
Gartner is like a mainframe in 1979
Gates: 'Ability to censor no longer exists'
GDS 3.0 Beta released
General purpose DSP market down 2% in 2005
Getting settled in...
Getting your fair share: Financing government IT operations
Gillmor Daily gets Sirius
Gillmor Gang: Memeorandum and the future of media
Giving enterprise software practices an 'angioplasty'
Global browser shares: IE - 85.8%, Firefox - 11.2%
Global business intelligence market will generate $2.5 bln in 2006
Global handheld market down 16.7% in 2005
Global Online Freedom Act, commercial open source, the end of passwords and more on this week's podcast
Global PDA market up 20.7% in Q3 2005
Gmail at the college level
Gmail Chat - new Google service merges Gmail with IM
Gmail chat breathes new life into Google Talk
GMail code hints at coming domain feature
Gmail fixed reply problem
GMail for your domain is reality
GMail popup blocker update
GMail popup has been fixed
Google = Blind Evolution
Google Agonistes
Google Analytics has new features
Google and BMW delisting fiasco shows stupidity of search engine optimization
Google and Yahoo! top search engines for consumer electronics
Google Apologist
Google Base for sellers
Google dashboard widgets for Mac
Google Desktop should concern Govt. IT managers
Google digitizes National Archive video
Google gained 75% more searches between December 2004 and December 2005
Google Groups gets more features
Google Page Creator: retro, or part of a future Web Office Suite?
Google Page Editor - What you see is what you get
Google Pagetastic?
Google responds to security concerns about new desktop search
Google says it will run out of people
Google to $260
Google to provide email hosting?
Google Trusted Tester program
Google wants Stanford grads
Google's bid for the last mile
Google's X-GOOGLE-TOKEN
Google, Earthlink file joint San Francisco WiFi proposal
Google, Skype and FON
Googling Google Survey: Part II
Government data-mining: No boundaries?
GPL 3.0 fight gets down to cases
GPL and definitions of freedom
Great Firewall hearings in a nutshell
Great new blog
Gregg Eldred writes of a customer loss
Grocery shoppers use AOL and Yahoo!
Gulp! Data retention now the law in EU
Hacktivism: Users in charge
Hal Varian on the $100 laptop
Handheld market leaders in Q4 2005: Palm - 45.6%, HP - 20.8%, Dell - 8.0%
Handheld shipments up 19% in 2005
Happy Anniversary ThreatChaos
Has CBS pulled content from Google?
Havana Bob
Hax0rs, botnets and adware
Hearings Tuesday on Community Broadband Act
Heisenberg Security at your service
Here come 'enterprise mashup services'
Here's the timeline for how the BlackBerry case will come out
Hey Bulldog
Home improvement shoppers start their searches with Yahoo! and MSN
Homeland Security: Outlaw rootkits
Hosted CRM, SaaS tectonic plate shifting
How corporations support open source
How to deploy Windows software on Sun Ray
HRBlock.com traffic up 84% in one week
Humanizing PowerPoint
I get mail
I reply to your "I don't RTFM" TalkBacks
I want my job to go to India
Idiot Wind
IE chauvinism creates hidden costs
IE7 isn't an Edge Case - but will win over the masses
If Google falls
If Oracle can buy out Open Source, why not Microsoft?
If the NSA could *really* find terrorists via VoIP intercepts, it might look like this
In civil and criminal cases, Internet subpoenas are business as usual
In Focus: Apple Security
In Focus: Oracle
In Focus: Web Office
In January 2006 Google displayed 41.4 bln sponsored search links, Yahoo! - 23.2 bln
InfoCards on the Vista horizon
Information Week: Credibility Of Analysts
Innovation has to be disruptive
Inside Mars rocks in 3-D
Intel the monopolist- Skype the enabler?
Internet 2.0 will be dominated by the new media and its technologies
Internet industry IT spending to grow 42% in 2005
Internet sources produced 51% of all new hires in 2005
Interview with Digg founder Kevin Rose, Part 1
Interview with Digg's Kevin Rose, Pt 2: On Personalization and Fighting Spam
Intranet Journal: Building an Intranet with Lotus Database Templates
iPod suit alleges volume levels cause damage
iPod Wishlist: audio input
Ireland is at 100% mobile penetration
Irish VC investments reached 30.58 mln euros in Q4 2005
Is AT&T-SBC tiff with SF newspaper really about fear of Google?
Is Firefox dropping the ball, like Netscape in 97?
Is Office more important than Windows?
Is open source now politically correct?
Is Oracle pushing open source leadership overseas?
Is security software a protection racket?
Is the US Constitution a good model for SOA governance?
Is there really life on Earth?
Is this Origami?
Is Work Broken?
Is your IDE *too* helpful?
ISPs hosting spyware - who are they?
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not outsource mission-critical functions
IT services spending in Baltic states up 12.7% in 2005
IT services spending to grow to $759.8 bln by 2009
IT spending by banks to reach $243 bln by 2009
IT spending by broadcasting and cable industries to reach $50.2 bln by 2009
IT spending by communications and media companies to grow at 5.6% a year
IT spending by insurance companies to reach $161 bln by 2009
IT wages up 3.1% in 2005
iTab: An iBook-based Tablet Mac
iTunes demo sites and gripes
iTunes Phone on the Cheap
iTunes U may make radical shift in online learning
JBuilder and Delphi are alive and well
Join the Rational Rants Fantasy Baseball League
Just a little bit OpenMFG
Justice knew Bush wiretapping illegal
Keep it simple, stupid
Krugle--Google for programmers
Larry Ellison's open source Fusion
LCD market up 535% in Indonesia, up 456% in Chine, up 417% in Korea
Learning math the "Numb3rs" Way
Least privilege is not panacea
Lengthy Heathrow logistics
Like a shy, small town bride, Net2Phone marries beneath their station
Link between Sumitomo Heist and Israeli mafia?
Linux is no tougher to manage than Windows
Lobby Google to include Java
Local ads are on the map
Local search to reach $13 bln by 2010
Long Island Power to plug in to Internet
Look for your own nits DHS
Lotusphere 2006 - "How to ´sell´ Notes and Domino inside your organization" PDF now posted at lotususergroup.org
Lotusphere presentation "The Boss Loves Microsoft - where does that leave Lotus?" PDF now posted
Lotusphere session evaluations
Lotusphere06 INV101 PDF now available, and another version of my PDF posted
Mac OS X for Intel hacked to run on generic PCs
Mac value debate: My $0.02
MacBook migration strategies
MacBook Pro 2.16GHz Web snafu
MacBook Pro Photoshop benchmarks
MacBook Pro speed-bumps delayed
Macintosh: The right model for the $100 laptop
Macworld takes issue with Mac Duo versus Dell Duo shootout
Making use of the world-wide services cornucopia
Marc Benioff and the strategy for AppExchange
Marten Mickos: MySQL's undaunted leader
Mary Beth has been taking on the critics
MashupCamp Day 2: The mashups
MashupCamp stokes the Web app fire
MashupCamp wrapup, Blackberry fate, Google Page Creator and more...
Mashups and the law
Massive data crunching on a laptop
Maybe $266 was too high
MC Press Online: Collaboration: Building the Application Team
Measure Map finds a home at Google
Meet Pleo, descendent of Furby
Meeting with Hong Kong's technology czar and other adventures . . .
Message to Google: Get some packaging ASAP
Microchip sales up 6.8% in 2005
Microsoft and speciation
Microsoft and Yahoo tell US government to deal with China issue
Microsoft gets testy with EU regulators
Microsoft posts EU response online
Microsoft pushes standardized SSO at RSA
Microsoft putting a push on RIM's Blackberry
Microsoft Watch: Microsoft´s ´Red Bull´ Explanation: A Lot of Bull?
Microsoft's brand confusion - MSN or Live?
Mind mapping a book review
Minneapolis passes on muni-owned Wi-Fi
MIS Asia: The right dosage
Mission-critical AJAX builds ROI envy behind the firewall
Mitch Kapor: Why Wikipedia is the next big thing
Mobile OS market shares in 2005: Symbian - 51%, Linux - 23%, Windows - 17%
More code foreshadowing perhaps?
More coverage from Demo 2006
More details of Office Live
More details on FEMA tech upgrades
More on botnets
More on SAP's 'hybrid' CRM
More on the Google Foundation
More on the University of Washington spyware study
More political ideals and business
More than a trillion dollars not reported on personal tax returns in 2003
Most of consumers willing to pay $1.75 per ringtone
Most quoted news sources in blogs: NYT, CNN, Washington Post, Yahoo! News
Motherboard shipments up 5.8% in 2005
MovieBeam Mousketeers need Steve now
MovieBeam Mousketeers need Steve now
MP3 players with HDD grew 549% in Australia in 2005
MSN has media network plans, but brand confusion still reigns
MSN re-branding - will it be to Live?
MuniWireless Atlanta starts March 7
Must (not) see HDTV
My BlackBerry prediction: injunction with 60-day stay
My what big IP teeth open source has
NAND market in 2005: Samsung - 52.9%, Toshiba - 21.9%, Hynix - 12.7%
NASA handler who muzzled scientist resigns; faked college degree
Need a challenge? How about a summer programming in Africa?
Negroponte steps down from MIT to pursue $100 computer
Neither a Linus nor a Bill be...?
Network Neutrality: The PR blitz is underway
Networking and security step up in Feb IT priorities rankings
Networks on wheels
Neutrality perspectives
New app enables Skype buddy lists over cellphones
New developments in Google/Justice struggle
New Eclipse supports JSE 6.0 and Intel Mac
New executive director for Google.org
New FirstGov search is live with great results
New Guild of Security Professionals Formed in UK
New home
New Intel CEO preps for massive marketing push of new brands
New Java data binding API not ready for prime time
New MSN Search design, next Google
New Notes/Domino 7 upgrading book
New push for SOA beyond enterprise walls
New Tablet PC mobility blog
New version of IDEA to support Eclipse compiler
New voices join our blogosphere
News site traffic in December 2005: Weather Channel - 30.5 mln, Yahoo! News - 27.8 mln
News.com: IBM patches Lotus flaw
No BlackBerry injunction today: here's what this means
Not your father's SDLC
Notes/Domino 7.0.1 coming
Now Johnny CAN program, says Behlendorf
Now that´s about as "Red Bull" of a Microsoft spin as I´ve ever seen
NSA Eavesdropping: Deep inefficiency
NSA pays a visit to Silicon Valley
NYU spyware workshop
Of Bollywood stars and Prozac
Of pigeons, rats and SMS
Office 2007 in October?
Office Live goes live today!
Office Live reactions - will the real Web Office please stand up?
Office Live: Application suite or platform?
Office Live: bring out the trolls
Office Still Dead
OK so we have iPod Hi-Fi: so what about iPod *Wi*-Fi?
Old-school conferences R.I.P.
OMB goes to the mat to save e-government programs
On high-tech hematology
On the Blackberry thing and questions to IBM
On the notion of a need for a Lotusphere in Europe
One step ahead of Chinese censors
One teacher's vision
OneCare Live secures the desktop for Microsoft
Online Ajax "desktops" try to change the rules of the game
Online medicine shoppers start their searches at Yahoo! and Ask
Online reporting system for lobbyists another failure for Fed IT
Open source goodness and business realities
Open source=political suicide?
Opening salvo in Net neutrality battle
OPM chief: As baby boomers retire from government, a new hiring regime is needed
Or, how I committed legacy, and got caught
Oracle's fiduciary duty to stop the open-source movement
Oracle's Purchase Corner's MySQL
Origami is Newton + XBox Portable
OS X users celebrate first wild worm
OSX.Leap.A: a near miss for Mac users
Outsourcing and competence
Over 50% of new heavy tracks sold by 2009 will have a fleet management solution
Packet 8 debuts several new calling features
Paper explains SIP calls' eight steps
Patent terrorists ruin an industry
Paul Saffo on Cyberbia and the future
PC market up 20.4% in Finland in Q3 2005
PDA shipments up 7.4% in Q4 2005
Permissum international exigo caveo
Philadelphia Story: Verizon opposition is setting muni Wi-Fi market on fire
Piel Frama Leather Case for Treo 650
PIM freaks spend 13% more on wireless bills than average cellular users
Plant cells for robot control
Podbop wins best mashup award
Political ideals and business
Prediction- Google-powered Star Office suite for Dell
Preventing the Future, $100 Laptops, and Powerful Ideas
Pros and cons on laptop/cellphone debate
Protecting copyright in an academic environment
PSAP manager on VoIP E911: "When your child is choking..."
Q1 2006 mobile phone sales likely to exceed Q1 2005 sales by 20%
Quantum computing without computing
R.I.P: The Telegram, The First Internet
Random journey observations
RawSugar's hierarchical navigation
Reader comments: Don't trust search engines or govt.
Real time Blogging from The ASC Anti-Spyware Workshop
Recording earthquakes on the sea floor
Redmonkers dissect Oracle's open source plans
Release 1.0 on making time count
Rep. Smith readies bill aimed at companies doing business in China
Report: Vonage to charge E911 cost recovery fees starting Monday
Report: Vonage to open their SIP credentials
Reporters Sans Frontieres testimony at China hearings
Reputation, trust and Salesforce outages
Responding to Readers
Retail e-commerce to reach $144 bln by 2010
Retail sales up 2.3% in January 2006
Retail spending in China to reach $1.2 trillion in 2010
Retailers to spend $136 bln on IT by 2009
Rethinking BPM in a mashup-based SOA world
Revealed: broadband cable providers in massive, revolutionary mesh network project
Revealed: Muni WiFi's enemy #1 is SBC-AT&T's #1 campaign contribution recipient
Reviews of IE7 Beta 2 Preview - will be threat to Mozilla and RSS Aggregators
RFID presence in retail industry generated $161 mln in 2005
RFPs in for SF Wi-Fi; Google teams up with Earthlink
RIA clients: Not just for the Web anymore
Riya going public beta in two weeks...
Router shipments up 14% in 2005
RSA begins today
RSA Buzz
RSA Update
RSS tools at Demo 2006
Rural Internet users less active than urban and suburban
Salesforce.com down...again
Salesforce.com puts its reputation on (the) line
Salesforce.com's new transparency
SAP hosted CRM on tap tomorrow
SAP owns 41% of Western European ERP market
SAP rolls out 'hybrid' CRM
SAP's gridless on-demand model
SAP's skewed open source dogma
SAP: Less mature open source won't survive enterprise consolidation
Say hello to a new GMail chat feature
Say hello to MacBerry
Scalix scales up email
School Library 2.0
Search engine loyalty: Google - 71%, Yahoo - 48.1%, MSN - 27.8%
Search engine shares in December 2005: Google - 48.8%, Yahoo! - 21.4%, MSN - 10.9%
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Search is the most popular Internet application in Italy
Searching for Check Point Software
Second iTunes phone ships from Motorola
Security gurus report on the state of cybersecurity at Demo 2006
Seeding the planet with OpenSparc
Seeking inspiration from OSDL CEO Stuart Cohen
Self-IT analysis is the wave of the future
Selling social infrastructure
Semantic Web tools for car design
Semantic Web tools to make friends
Semiconductor revenues to grow 5.3% in Singapore and 10.3% in Malaysia
Semiconductor sales to grow by 9% in 2006
Senators grapple with Net neutrality
Server market up 12.7% in 2005
Shared nothing coming to open source
Should librarians be the keeper of edtech? One blogger says yes, others disagree
Show n tell exposes sizeable talent
Show n tell Thursdays
Silicon wafer area shipments up 6% in 2005
SIPphone announces new PC-mobile phone Area775 service
Sizing an open source company is not always easy
Skype expert: SkypeOut a "lousy PSTN experience"
Skype for your Pocket PC- step by step
Skype over 3G Symbian handset: how much latency is too much?
Skype security chief defends their PKI model
Skype won't say it, but they're really going after Cisco
Sleepycat: Open source plays with strings
Smith to introduce Global Online Freedom Act
So where's the VoIP in Office Live?
SOA governance: 'hot,' but vague
SOA is useless without good data
SOA requires that you get your data act together
SOAP vs. REST: put it to rest
Software, as a service, on a client
Solution to annoying GMail Talk popup
Some lessons from my WiFi screwup
Some predictions for the coming 'mashosphere'
Someone in Congress finally flags the evil broadcast flag
SONR: statistics for podcasting
Sony's misguided e-book Reader
Sophos discourges ActiveState
Sorry, tech companies of the world: I don't "RTFM"
SourceForge gets 24 mln unique visitors a month
SPARKing convergence between Web 2.0 and SOA
Spending on search engine ads to grow 26% in 2006
SpikeSource and SugarCRM light the LAMP
SpyAxe replacement: SpyFalcon
Spyware business booming - triples according to Webroot
Stalking the bipedal business jargon idiot
Standards V. Standardization
Stateful services
Steve Gillmor: God incarnate?
Storing hydrogen in carbon nanotubes
Stowe Boyd points to the transparent future
Success is simply complex in media
Sun's analyst day bright spots
Super Bowl commercials on your iPod
SuperGlu for educators
Surprise: Web services still in rudimentary stages
Swarms of microrobots with big goals
Symantec catches up with 'serviced client' model
Taiwanese digital still camera shipments grew 51% in 2005
Take a deeper dive on the AJAX-SOA match-up
Tech CEOs urge progressive policies on wireless
Tech educators slam Bush budget
Tech Review on net neutrality: An attack on Web 2.0
TechCrunch leads Silicon Valley Web renaissance
Telco cowardice and DRM
Telecom industry spending up 8.9% in 2005, up 10.2% in 2006
Telecom services shoppers prefer Google
Telecom spending up 9% in 2005
Thai head phone stereo market declined 67% in 2005
The 'truthiness' of mashups
The 14-year old coders are back in business--proof of Internet 2.0
The age of profit-driven Internet thieves
The Age-Razor Blog: The nightmare of Lotus Notes
The Australian: Toyota board drives paper away
The Beat Generation influence on blogging
The Dog told me
The economic weight of the blogs
The four most common Unix security mistakes
The future is hosted, online e-mail
The googlebot can find pages not directly linked
The great SOA vendor divide: business vs. tech
The Guardian UK: Survival of the unfittest
The Guardian: ´We are trying to make it better´
The Hindu: Carrying Lotus files on a thumb drive
The House crosses Wikipedia
The IRS' Gates-only computer
The Mac Mini and iPod Hi-Fi in pictures
The megahertz myth and the UltraSPARC T1
The next little thing: replacing oil
The Oracle "monopoly"
The politics of science
The power of simplicity at the edge
The Revenge of Samuel Slater
The scandal of SAP's idle CRM seats
The trouble with RealID is RFID
The wild world of open source
The wonderful nanoworld of corrosion
The world's fastest camera
There's no such thing as good S.H.I.T.
TheStreet.com columnist: Vonage IPO "will sink"
Thinking about Linux security
Thinking twice about doing business in China
This openness stuff isn't as easy as it looks
This program blocks all anonymous VoIP calls
Time for another desktop Linux discussion?
Time for event-driven SOA
Time to learn LISP
Tom Duff called it
Toot! Toot!
Top ad buyers on Google and Yahoo! Search in January 2006
Top music sites: Yahoo! Music, AOL Music, iTunes
Top online advertisers in Australia in Q4 2005
Top online advertisers in Jan 2006: Vonage, Netflix, United Online
Top online advertisers in November 2005: Vonage, Netflix, Classmates.com
Top online photo developers: Kodak Gallery, Shutterfly, Snapfish
Top PC games in 2005: World of WarCraft, The Sims 2: University Expansion Pack, The Sims 2
Top sites in Jan 2006: Yahoo!, Microsoft.com, MSN
Top social network sites in UK: Friends Reunited, Blogger, bebo, MySpace
Top spamming domains: hotmail.com, yahoo.com, msn.com
Top tax sites: HRBlock.com, TaxCut.com, IRS.com
Top Web parent companies in Jan 2006: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Time Warner
Top-selling console games in 2005: Madden NFL 06, Pokemon Emerald, Gran Turismo 4
Top-selling software titles in 2005: TurboTax, Norton AntiVirus, Spy Sweeper Tech Bench
Top-selling TV brands: Sharp, Sony, Philips, Samsung
Torino2006.com gets 748K unique visitors a week
Tracking food products with Internet
Tracking the cracks
Trash your in-house email?
Treo 700w, Windows Mobile 5.0 marred by flaws
Trolling for page hits
TSA's Secure Flight insecure, delayed again
TV didn't shred my brain....
Two MILLION miles
Two Tablet PC add-ins bring Office closer to ideal
Two takes on China
UK e-commerce up 28.9% to $14.31 bln in 2005
Unix server revenue down 5.9%, Windows server revenue up 4.7%, Linux server revenue up 20.7%
Unwanted new jeans UI feature
URL Hotties
US camera accessories market generated $598.1 mln in 2005, 27% growth
US consumer electronics spending up 8% in 2005
US DVR penetration reaches 7%
US e-commerce up 3.3% in Q4 2005, 2.4% of all sales were e-commerce
US server market down 0.2% in Q4 2005
US spending on digital content generated $987 mln in the first half of 2005
US unemployment is at 4.7%
US video game sales down 5% in January 2006
USA to earn $25 bln from wireless licenses in 2007-2009
USPTO to re-examine JPEG patent
Utilities to spend $115.9 bln on IT by 2009
Utility computing and private IT generators
VARBusiness: Big Blue Strikes Back With Next Generation of Notes/Domino
VCs form Command Information to bring IPv6 to government agencies
Venture capital market in India reached $1.5 bln in 2005
Very high-speed nanoimaging
Videos from Demo 2006: Blurb, Riya, StreetDeck, Pleo
Virtual wall-to-wall flip charts
Virtualization plasma
Virtualization sparring among chip makers
Visa owns 55% of Hong Kong credit card market, MasterCard - 35%
Visiting IS456 Knowledge Management Systems
Vista versions not so confusing after all
VMware finds value in volume...and free
VMWare Player triggers Windows Activation process
VOA-funded Circumventor software allows Chinese an endrun around censors
VoIP carrier supplier offers his vision- in PowerPoint slides
VOIP minutes in North America: 53% - broadband providers, 21.7% - Vonage, 14.4% - Skype
VoIP service Jajah changes EULA to ease spyware concerns
VoIP to cell to WiFi to WLAN on one device? Yes!
Vonage and phone sex: there IS a connection!
Vonage files IPO: and I have their description of strategy going forward
Vonage IPO analysis: they better execute-or else
Vonage IPO filing describes E911 chamber of horrors
Vonage: here are the seven "Risk Factors" we worry most about
Vulnerability statistics for Mac and Windows
Vyatta: Open source telecom
Wall St cools on leading on-demand vendors
Walt Mossberg on DRM
Want Outlook? MOOL might be right.
Warnings on voter databases
Watch out for WikiBooks
Watching the brain when processing language
WBAY-TV: State cancels contract to install new e-mail software
We can replace the phone company
Web 2.0 for the enterprise?
Web 2.0: It's all in the meme
Web Office Suite: best of breed products
Web services standards: 60 and counting
Websense report of 15 million malicious websites contradicts University of Washington study
Week's developments prove BlackBerry shutdown a race against time
Welcome to the Enterprise Web 2.0
Western European IT spending by transport industry grew 3.2% in 2005
What does mobile productivity look like?
What Fred said
What is Oracle up to?
What Mactel means for Apple
What makes on demand better
What makes on demand different
What's the true cost of running email in-house?
What's wrong with this cell phone picture?
Whatever happened to Office subscriptions?
Whatever Office Live is, it ain't the Web Office
Where is the outrage as mainstream vendors acquire open source software firms
Who are you? Your government wants to know...
Who do you trust more than Microsoft?
Who do you trust?
Who visits online music sites
Who's killing the software industry the fastest?
Why China censors Wikipedia
Why Gates is right about the $100 laptop
Why incorporate IT managment frameworks?
Why is Skype giving AMD the second-class treatment?
Why pay SAP for software you don't use?
Why should anyone believe the Bells?
Why standardization is necessary
Why the 1GB iPod won't do video; RIP shuffle?
Why you need a Web Office
Wi-Fi Tax?
WikiProject on the History of Science
Will BofA's SiteKey thwart phishing attempts?
Will SOA make offshoring unnecessary?
Will the real C++ please stand up?
Will there be a BlackBerry shutoff? Eight experts tell me
Will Vista fail antitrust compliance?
Wimamp exploit used to push spyware
Windows Defender beta 2 and Microsoft anti-malware apps
Windows only: Scientists using Macs unable to apply for many US grants
Wireless for mine safety? Fed. agency is looking into it
Wondering what is up with Google and Dell
Workforce Insights: Telecommuting: Why Managing People You Can´t See Is Visionary
Workplace Forms beta
Worldwide server sales in 2005: IBM - 32.9%, HP - 27.7%, Dell - 10.3%
Yahoo doubly complicit
Yahoo home page shuffle
Yellow is the new black
Yes, there will be a BlackBerry injunction
Yes, we're relevant; here's an acronym to prove it
Yes. You should outsource your e-mail
You'd better call social services
ZDNet readers chime in with own Treo horror stories
Zillow: Welcome to Whoville, where everyone knows your property value