Blog posts on 2006-03

$144 mln of VC money invested in open source companies in Q1-Q3 2005
$1m in edtech grants for Pa. schools
$243 million and counting
'Cool robots' for Antarctica... and Mars
'Resistance is flea-tile'
'Space-cooled' jackets down to Earth
'Talkative' business objects
'Trapped data' raises switching barrier to newer, sometimes better services
-Now- we´re talking
1,027,713 thin clients shipped in EMEA in 2005
1.5 mln Vonage customers
1.57 mln Americans paid their taxes with credit cards in 2005
1.6 mln UK Internet users paid a visit to an energy Web site in Feb 2006
1.6% of online store revenue is credit card fraud
1.9 mln Americans work in consumer electronics industry
10.2 mln cosmetic plastic surgeries in the US in 2005
105.9 mln power over Ethernet switch ports to ship by 2009
125.8 mln mobile subscribers in Russia
148 petabytes of external disk storage sold in Asia Pacific in 2005
180solutions on the move, literally
19% of IT managers said their IT purchasing budgets grew by 10% or more
2.75% of mobile subscribers use virtual operators
2.8 bln DSPs to ship by year-end 2009
234.5 mln PCs to sell in 2006
24% of customer support requests in multichannel businesses are handled through Web
25% of US employees use work Internet for job hunting
26% of dial-up Americans and 43% of broadband Americans read Internet news
29K legal jobs to migrate to India by 2008
3 mln Americans to sign up for VOIP annually between 2006 and 2010
3 mln intelligent antenna handsets to ship in 2006
3 mln phone users in Ghana
3 mln plasma TVs sold so far
3.4 mln unique visitors to Flickr in December 2005
31% of US companies plan to continue hiring in Q2 2006
31.2 global households to have DVRs by 2006, 49 mln by 2007, 71.6 mln by 2008
31.6% of Americans would like to buy wired and wireless from the same company
33.6% of money made on digital cameras in 2010 will be from DSLR cameras
33.6% of servers sold in Q4 2005 were Windows servers
34% of general US population goes to see new movies
35,000 IT companies in the US, most of them with revenues less than $5 mln
36% of all ads sold on Google and Yahoo! search pages are local ads
39% of all Internet users and 44% of broadband Americans head to portals for news
39% of email admins would rather go through colonoscopy than find the cause for email problem
3D face imaging in 40 milliseconds
3D virtual fish dissection
4.2 mln residential VOIP users in 2005
4.2 mln Taiwanese PDAs shipped in Q4 2005
40% of broadband users rely on Internet more than other media
40% of data centers run healthy mix of Unix, Linux and Windows
40% of mobile users would pay extra for multimedia
41% of CD revenues in 2005 ame from heavy buyers
43% of broadband users aged 50+ get their news online
430 mln WLAN chipsets to ship in 2009
44 mln broadband networks in the US
45% of US small businesses buy from Microsoft
452K front video projectors to sell in the United States in 2006
46.5% of Americans suffered from white collar crime in 2005
48 mln WiMAX connections by 2010
5,699,528,000 online searches in January 2006
50 mln Americans read news on the Internet
500 mln Bluetooth radios to ship in 2006
51.54% of movie site visitors are male
53 mln IPTV subscribers by 2009
54% of US workers do not want the job of their boss
56% of online holiday shoppers search first and buy later
57% of US businesses are losing money to cybercrime
59% of gift card owners spend more than gift card value when visiting the store
6,200 keyloggers out there
60% of IT execs see IT spending rising by 2009
60% of WLANs completely unprotected
61% of entrepreneurs feel bullish about the market
62% of Americans expect a refund from IRS, 22% owe money
62% of e-commerce traffic happens on weekdays 8am-8pm Central
627 exabytes of flash memory to ship in 2006
7.2 mln WiMAX customer premise devices to ship by 2010
7.92 mln phishing e-mails sent daily
74% of single Americans have explored online dating
77 Gateway Firewalls
77% of Americans think alternative energy projects should be top priority for Bush administration
78% of TV advertisers say TV advertising is less effective nowadays
82% of US teens have a PC, 71% have Internet access, 44% buy online
91% of emails in India are spam
92% of Web sites offer contact by e-mail option, only 41% acknowledge the e-mail
95% of affluent Americans bought online in 2005
A 'Google' approach to lobbying
A cyberterrorist is busted but the problem remains
A field guide to digital audio recorders
A glimmer of hope for edtech funding
A new kind of DDoS attack?
A OneCare success story
A signature of the big bang
A teacher turns students into podcasters
A Texas-sized e-mail decision goes to Domino
A thousand stories emerge in the SOA city
A tiered Internet is nothing new: and here's how VoIP call quality suffers
Aaron vs. Goliath (box.net vs. Google's gdrive)
Adult dating site traffic: AdultFriendFinder - 10.1 mln visitors a month, SexSearch.com - 3.2 mln
Advanced TV chips generated $402 mln in 2004
Advertisers using badware: who are they?
Agencies get failing grades in cybersecurity, DHS worst of all
AJAX and Rails at ETech
Alan is highlighting one of my favorite Notes features
Alexander Graham Bell, your name gave us 130 good years
Americans OK with online monitoring but not wiretaps
An all-UMPC podcast
An exciting week for the Web as Platform
An open source tax credit?
Analyst: Web services not always right for SOA
Analysts: The time for VoIP is now
And now for the worst Wi-Fi hotels
Anonymize for safety, Cottrell tells feds
Another Adam Bosworth sighting
Another day, another word processor
Answering Sun's open source Java question is easy, and it's one word
Anti-Bully resolution passes in Miami
Anti-spyware program installs adware from BestOffersNetwork
Antitrust frustration
Apple adds volume limiting to iPod
Apple and Apple Corps: Can you work it out
Apple Corps: Let it be...
Apple patches 20 security holes
Apple patents new wider "touchpad"
Apple plugs 20 security holes
Apple's 30th, cell phone dangers, open source dress codes and more...
April 11 Internet Explorer ActiveX security update could change streaming forever
Are hand-me-downs really worth it?
Army adopts Linux clusters to double computing capacity
ARS Technica reviews the MacBook Pro
Asia-Pacific server market up 22% in Q2 2005
Asian VOIP market to reach $10 bln in 2009
AT&T and telco monopolization
AT&T: Nothing neutral about this network
Attention on the brain
AttentionTrust and GestureBank
Australian press on Dale Begg-Smith and spyware
Autodesk CEO Carol Bartz unplugged
Automating future aircraft carriers
Avaya CEO is right: VoIP is not just a "cost-reduction case"
Average cell phone conversation lasts 3 minutes 15 seconds
Average IT contract in Asia-Pacific is $18.9 mln
Average IT contract in Australia is $26.2 mln
Bad hair day? Who cares...
Base station RF semiconductor market to reach $4 bln in 2008
Battle hardening and Mac OS X
BBC Jam: 120 websites to turn kids onto learning
BeanShell: groovier than Groovy
Bebo is the most popular brand among UK teens who are online
BellSouth's WiMAX plans: cannibalization or competitive weapon?
Beta of Microsoft's antispyware tech falls short in tests
Better Mac OS X Security Numbers
Big day for RSS on Windows
Big flash memory drives on the horizon
Bill Gates keynote from Microsoft Mix 06 - IE7, RSS, Web Office
Bill imposing new penalties for cell phone record abuse passes Congress
Bill Joy: Pandemics, biofuels and the $10 PC
Bill to exempt online speech from campaign regs passes House committee
Bill would use federal insurers' reserves to fund electronic health records
BitLocker, TPM, and tinfoil hats
Black-eyed peas and nanotechnology
BlackBerry exec: VoIP is big part of our plans
Blackberry switch will cost $844 per client
Blinkx Pico - real -time contextual search
Blocking blogsites
Blog swarm on Writely
Bloggers and journalists: a false conflict
Blogging award winners say the format is changing education
Blogging is crucial to SAP's attack Oracle plan
Blogosphere founder quits blogging says he has better things to do
Book: the business of SOA is... business
Botnet drama: database theft, IM attacks, financial fraud
Breaking Flash on Intel Macs
Bring on the packaged mashup platform
Bringing order to Threat Chaos
Broadband over power line's ham radio problem- and vice versa
Broadband penetration in Europe is at 13%
Build SOA without the hype? ha!
Burners without Borders deliver Wi-Fi to the Gulf
Burning down the house: Slashdotters debate if Vonage's slow E911 response hurt
Burning Man vets use mobile-hot spot tech in Katrina region
Business networking equipment generated $27 bln in 2004
Business outsourcing market up 33% in 2005
BusinessWeek: Microsoft´s Enterprising Endeavor
Cable broadband ISP's QoS enhancement surcharge draws Vonage's ire
Cablevision's DVR move will force TiVo's hand
Can closed source survive?
Can SOA rescue us from smelly technology?
Can we save the Amazon rainforest?
Can wine over WiFi save your long-distance relationship?
Cato paper slams DMCA
Cell phone penetration in Mexico reached 46% in 2005
Central and Eastern European mobile services spending rose 13.5% in 2005
Central and Eastern European mobile subscription revenues up 13.5% in 2005
CEOs speak up against dumbed-down tests
ChargerChecker fixes MagSafe interruptus
Chavez beefs up commitment to open source for Venezuela
Check Point Acquisition of Sourcefire Checked by Feds
Check Point Drops Sourcefire
Chertoff floats customer data retention plan
Chicago Trib discovers identities of hundreds of CIA agents
Chinese authorities take a stab at blogging - sort of
Chinese control of domain names
Choosing America
Cicerobot, your next museum guide
CIOs without IT skills = trouble
CircuitCity.com traffic up 60% in September 2005
Cisco routers become less proprietary
Claria quits adware
Clouds over Redmond
Code generation considered harmful
Comcast Cable guy to customer: "our VoIP sucks.. Vonage is the best"
Coming up: Apple turns 30
Coming up: PC Forum
Commerce Sec. lashes out at French copyright law
Computer Sweden: IBM mer aggressivt mot Microsoft
Console market shares: PS2 - 51%, XBox - 34%, Nintendo - 15%
Consumer credit up 2.2% in Jan 2006
Consumer Web apps: Road kill or the road to success?
Consumers won't get Vista until 2007
Cook County evoting machines delay vote tabulation
Copyrights, DRM, and networks?
Craig Newmark's modest anti-spam proposal
Crazy Egg Web page tracker teaser
Creating order out of information chaos
Criminal charges filed against spyware company Enternet Media
Critical Defense IG report disappears from the Web
Cut and paste Web
David DeWell: Magic show!
Day 2: Eclipse on Mars
Day 2: Joel Spolsky Live at EclipseCon
Day 2: Scripting Eclipse
Day 2: Stories along the Eclipse Way
Day 3: Stein: "In 5-10 years, most of the software you use will be free"
Day 3: Ward Cunningham: "Trust me, I am not a bozo, I am worth your time"
Day 4: Borland's Ted Nielson says: "DevCo" will continue JBuilder tradition on Eclipse framework
Day 4: Callisto, Callisto, Callisto.
Day 4: Madhu: "Eclipse is a 21st century tool, Visual Studio is 20th century"
DC Wi-Fi plan runs risk of missing poor neighborhoods
DDOS moves upstream
de Raadt, the suits, and the rebellion
DearAOL.com coalition tangles with Esther Dyson over Goodmail's CertifiedEmail approach to spam eradication
Defense worried about Israeli acquisition of SourceFire
Dell, you don't get it, do you?
Democrats datamining!
Denmark may follow French suit on DRM
Dept. of Ed.'s Magner: Technology can transform education
Designing safe guns... with pleasure
DHS gets failing grade in cybersecurity
Digital Universe wants to be the Wikipedia academics can count on
DirectRevenue settles class action lawsuit
Discovering best practice in SaaS
Discovery offers Web-based study aid
DIY Photoshop Torture Test
Do we need an open source DRM?
Doctors without email? What year is it?
Document locking
Does Google acquisition of Writely improve ODF standing in govt?
Does open source have boundaries?
Does Sourcefire investigation reflect lack of understanding of open source?
Dogster or Newsvine in the Fox Interactive house?
Don't drink the Kool Aid -- this is important
Don't know where your code comes from? Send lawyers, guns, and money
Don't neglect the third R - 'rithmatic
Donated computers - the good, the bad, and the ugly
DoS? C'mon Sun, who are ya kiddin'?
Double billing as business model
DRAM market to fall by 20% in 2007
DRAM revenues reached $6.5 bln in Q3 2005
Drinking too much Google Kool-Aid
DRM and the myth of the 'analog hole'
DRM threatens 'fair use' rights
DRM: AACS, DTCP-IP, and your rights to video content
Drowning in waste paper
DSL operators added 5.2 mln, cable companies gained 4.4 mln broadband subscribers in 2005
DSL prices down 7.1% in 2005
Early admission for Vista?
eBay faces partial shutdown in patent dispute
EclipseCon Day 1: Community Awards
EclipseCon Day 1: Lunchtime topics
EclipseCon Day 1: NetBeans pickets Eclipse conference
EclipseCon Day 1: Tutorial: Eclipse Forms
EclipseCon Day 1: Tutorial: The Eclipse Debug Framework
EclipseCon Day Zero: Blogging convention
EclipseCon Day Zero: Tired but excited
EclipseCon shows a swiftly expanding role for the open tools foundation
Economic diversity is the future of media
Ed Whitacre's turnaround: I know spin when I see it
Edtech advocates take to the Hill
Electric pigs use sun for dry cleaning
Embracing and Extending Microsoft: JotSpot's Joe Kraus on the Web Office
EMEA LAN switch market up by 10.6% in Q4 2005
EMEA routet market up 12.3% in Q4 2005
EMEA server revenues down 4.4% in Q4 2005
EMEA WLAN market up 33% in Q4 2005
Emergency Number Association describes E911 challenges, offers plan
Empty towns, packed graveyards
Enjoy Vista, the operating system as you know it is dead
Enterprise router revenue reached $859 mln in Q3 2005
Eolas work-around puts the brakes on Rich Internet Applications
ESBs: fly in the SOA soup?
eSchool News top ed blogs
ETech 2006 wrap-up
ETech: Attenuation, Web 2.0 and spimes
Ether calling Edgeio
European navigation market to ship 6-9 mln GPS systems in 2006
eWeek: IBM Collaboration Tech Helps WBC Play Ball (updated)
EXCLUSIVE: here's the complete AMD Skype subpoena
EXCLUSIVE: Seven ways that Skype is fumbling their Skype for Business launch
EXCLUSIVE; Google Judge's questionable past
Exploits in the wild for IE6 flaw growing! Hardware-enforced DEP promising!
External storage market up 17.9% in Q4 2005
Extremes will drive online enterprise software adoption
Eye tracking Web usability
FBI"s Sentinel project goes to Lockheed
FBI's Sentinel will cost another $500m
FCC frees Verizon from a host of regs
FEC leaves Internet largely free from campaign rules
Federal government pulling back from the Web
Federal ID cards falling seriously behind schedule
Federal push for interoperable wireless standards?
Feds want Google data in 21 days.
Firefox 2.0 is here!!! What, it's not? Oh...
Firefox is slow and buggy (but I'm hooked anyway)
First 3G BlackBerry readied: here are specs, a pix
First UMPC you can actually buy
Flapless planes in the sky
Flash, AJAX, WinFX and the importance of experience
Flexible paper batteries
Flowers, gifts and greetings site traffic up 25% in February 2006
Following the money on the net neutrality issue: meet Joe Barton's friend$$
For Vista, a few extra months can only help
Forbes: Microsoft Vista: Not "People Ready"
Form without revolution
Fox Interactive buying up Web 2.0 companies
Fox Interactive pulls in NewRoo
French law mandates open DRM
From biological imaging to Sudoku
From World of Warcraft to the boardroom
Full marks to IBM Lotus
Full text of Google Analyst Day powerpoint notes
Gates disses $100 laptop (again)
Gates: five ways we're service orienting
Gates: We are brave enough to compete with Google
GCN's Temin on the metadata problem and switching to Web services model
Gelsinger: Intel's Woodcrest will be a game changer
GestureBank Q 'n A
GestureBlank
Getting Things Done in Santa Monica
Give Microsoft an 'A' for effort
Global mobile phone market in Q4 2005: Nokia - 35%, Motorola - 16.3%, Samsung - 12.1%, LG - 7.2%
Global pure-play business process management market generated $600 mln in 2004
Global server market up 4.4% in 2005
Goog.biz domain was 50K on eBay, now being auctioned for 5K
Google about to print $2.1 billion
Google acquires Writely - one of my Web Office Suite picks
Google annual report notes vulnerabilities
Google Base and Trogdor?
Google bullish for Atom, says Google evangelist at Microsoft's Mix 06
Google Calendar details leaked - the Web Office Suite is nigh!
Google Desktop leaves beta with Quick Search
Google does it again
Google Finance, a bit thin
Google GDrive is not a rumor
Google Health, what is it?
Google lands on Mars
Google MBD
Google Music forges ahead
Google Page Creator security flaw?
Google Purchases won't compete with PayPal? Really?
Google purchases Writely
Google Reference, a Wikipedia partnership?
Google Related Content in testing
Google seeks employees for TV service
Google study reveals "Golden Triangle"
Google trots out execs to quell analyst jitters
Google updates homepage content page
Google Video Player 1.0.1.0 released
Google Video update
Google vs. DOJ, Net Neutrality, PC Forum and more...
Google wants to sell ads over Wi-Fi? Get out the smelling salts!
Google's calm before the storm
Google's market vulnerability
Google's Napoleonic Complex
Google's new lobbyist: Hastert's son
Google's walk on K Street
GOP does rootkit? No, but...
Govt. employees not immune from high-tech layoffs
Govt. employes breathe easy - Blackberry is safe again
GTD jump start
Guy Kawasaki on Apple's 30th
Haephratis Get Plea Bargain
Has Linux patching surpassed Mac and Windows?
Hasta la Vista Secure TPM
Have 802.11g, will travel: HotelChatter blog names the best hotels for Wi-Fi
Have educators fallen off the tech bandwagon?
Health IT leaders show off to Gates
Help for atrocius spelers everywehre
Here Jini, Here Jini, Jini, jini
Here's an idea - send Vista to everyone who buys a new PC this holiday season
Here's an idea: pendant with sound files from the departed
Here's how to run Skype from your iPod
Here's the worst Verizon DSL service horror story you will EVER read
HHS departments getting interoperable
Higgins and Vendor Sports
Hiring better finance people will lead 30% of customers to pay their bills faster
Hot trends in state and local contracting
House watering down Calif. identify theft law
How about some Fried Phish?
How clean is open source? DHS-funded study has some answers
How Google can tell Ed Whitacre to get lost
How much Vista sucks (or doesn't)
How NASA can help detectives
How to describe SOA in 100 words or less
How Vista can help reduce the $9 trillion national debt
HP investors sue over Fiorina payout
I got kicked off my server...
I take you into a Cisco/Linksys wireless broadband testing lab: pix, too!
IBM dumps Microsoft? Not.
IBM Rapid FUD Responder blog: migration case study says very little
IBM sprinkles 'holy water' on SOA governance concept
IBM Watch: In the Crosshairs-IBM Is Target of Microsoft Marketing Blitz
IBM's Sutor responds to ODF SDK analysis
IBM's Sutor takes gloves off on MS ODF comment
IBM's Sutor: ODF SDK moves up on IBM's ToDo list
IBM: It´s a great time to be an innovator
IDC's top ten predictions for SaaS
IDF signals the beginning of a new era for Intel
IE7 beta 2 immune to IE6 bugs but has own issues
If you are thinking about Skype in your enterprise, YOU MUST read this first
Ignorance, Wal-Mart and desktop Linux
Illumio's community marketplace for expertise
IMDB.com top movie site on Oscars night
Immigration debate turns to H-1B visas
In a perfect world, Larry Lessig would be on the FCC
In Focus: Benchmarks
In Focus: DRM
India's EDUSAT dedicated to education
iNetWord (Web-based "Word") prez responds with correx
Information overload at the enterprise level
Information portability, trust, and an Online Software 'Bill of Rights'
Ingres CTO says Oracle will fail in bid to control open source
Ingres has giant ambitions in enterprise IT
Ingres prepares for assault on Oracle's turf
Initial Core benchmarks look dire for AMD
Inside Intel's Developer Forum
Intel Developer Forum preview
Intel Macs: more fun with numbers
Intel releases ruggedized laptop for India
Intel's DRM by any other name is still DRM
Intel's new chips: WiFi-WiMAX handoffs, 802.11n notebooks, BlackBerry multimedia
Intel, Google and marketing gurus
Inteligami device debuts today
Intelligent economy
Internet ad market reached $12.5 bln in 2005
Internet blows CIA covert agents' cover
Internet Explorer 7 anti-phishing tech: Work-in-Progress
Internet Explorer 7 beta 2 - first thoughts
Internet Identity Workshop
iPod IPhone appears on the way: here's a mockup
iPods transform small rural college
IRS gets high mark for tax-time website
Is Ballmer's latest more than mere FUD?
Is Google already a portal?
Is it smart to start SOA at the top?
Is Linux ready for college?
Is Myspace really as bad as it seems?
Is open source just for the poor?
Is the GPO still relevant in the digital age?
Is the Sony PSP a better iPod Video?
Is this a blimp or a plane?
IT Commandment: Don't pretend
IT Commandment: Leave the ideology to someone else
IT Commandment: Put thy users first, above all else
IT Commandment: Thou shalt honor and empower thy (Unix) sysadmins
IT Commandment: Thou shalt not confuse projects with planning
IT improvements key to disaster response
IT marketing budgets to grow by 7% in 2006
IT Matters Audio Interview: SourceLabs founder Byron Sebastian
IT spending in Central and Eastern Europe to reach $40.5 bln by 2009
It was inevitable: 'SOA for Dummies' on the way
It's a whole 'nother ball game
It's official: Google acquires Writely
It's official: SaaS is the Next Big Thing
It's Sunshine Week, newspapers' annual push for open government
It's time to fix Banking security from the ground up
Itanium, Apple CRAP, the future of enterprise software and more...
Japanese cell phone market up 11.4% in January 2006
Japanese kids generated $275 mln for wireless industry in 2005
Javascript to test new Google interface
Jobs iPod Hi-Fi: Home stereo reinvented? Or load of HorseCRAP?
Judge denies DoJ access to searches
Judge: Google will have to turn over index excerpts
Jumpline: Not your average Web hoster
Just how dangerous is MySpace?
Justice Dept. subpoenas go far beyond search companies
Kansas City Star: The bottom line on blogging
Kapalienator.WEB: Convergence: Websphere & Domino
Know thy competitor
Laurette Rynne: Outlook vs. Notes user guide
Leaked Microsoft memo talks up Windows Live
Learning cybersecurity from the Air Force
Learning from past Web Office mistakes
lekkimworld: Is the lack of Java skills in the Notes/Domino developer community the Achilles´ heel of IBM?
Lekkimworld: Migrating Outlook Express e-mail to Lotus Notes
Lenovo-U.S. State Department PC deal under scrutiny by security commission
Like it or not, open source is a movement
LinuxQuestions.org members make their choice
Little Brother Cisco in China
Live Clipboard gives Windows assets a new set of wings
Live Clipboard: an idea whose time has come
Live in action: botnet, fake Windows sites and keylogger
LiveSoft: Spin-off Windows Live with an IPO?
Local Chat 2.0 for Google Personalized Homepage
Local governments to spend $8.6 bln on wireless in 2010
Louisiana portal strives to simplify information hunt
Lycos Phone? No thanks
Mac OS X 30 minute hack "woefully misleading"
MacBook Pro benchmarks: launch times
MacBook Pro demand outstripping inventory
MacBook Pro's crazy new LEDs
Mad about DRM techs or the DMCA? Here's the fastest way to let your Congressperson know
MagSafe being withheld from third parties?
Malware pushers already using zero-day exploit
Manufacturing orders down 4.5% in February 2006
March Madness cost US employers $3.8 bln in productivity
March Madness, March Sadness
Marketing e-mails sent on Sunday generate 7.2% click-through rates
Marketing is the billion dollar question in open source
Mashing up education
Mashup or meltdown for Microsoft?
Mashups: who's really in control?
Maxxuss: "I've hacked the Skype-AMD 5-person call limit"
McAfee in the news
McNealy pitches Solaris to HP's Hurd
Measuring Source Lines Of Code (SLOC) - there are bigger birds than Microsoft's albatross
Median startup valuation at $15.2 mln in 2005
Metro-wide Wi-Fi in five years? Sorry, that's not fast enough
Mice with glowing hearts to help us
Microbots, laser-suspended telescopes, Martian crops
MicroID could support trust networks
Microsoft 10 aims to be hip video community
Microsoft acquires Onfolio - great for IE users
Microsoft buys Alohabob
Microsoft cryptographer: There are no back doors into Vista
Microsoft delays, reorgs, Net neutrality and more...
Microsoft denies fingering Chinese dissident who used Hotmail
Microsoft details frugal licensing policy for Virtual PC on Vista
Microsoft joins OpenDoc committee, and the motive is...?
Microsoft shifts gears for the Live era
Microsoft will solve the spyware problem? Not.
Microsoft's 50 million line albatross
Microsoft's most misunderstood application
Microsoft, IBM and open source
Microsoft: "Presenting intelligent opportunities" based on flawed, irrelevant website polls
Millions for Verisign, ICANN in domain deal
MIT's Frank Moss on creative education
MIT's Wi-Fi network knows where users are
Mitch is 90% right about change
Mix '06: Gates ready to embrace and extend
Modernizing tax computer systems offering states great benefits
Momentum for Net Neutrality
Mooning over Mars
More brand-name confusion in Redmond
More details on contractors' rip-off of FBI
More hacktivism against blogs
More IT pratfalls at the FBI
More on botnets
More on Donations
More on the mysterious MagSafe connector
More unsolicited advice for Sun: Buy Borland's IDEs
More yak on Microsoft's moves
Most amazing spin on Mac vulnerabilities ever!
Most popular sites among 30-something Brits: Barclays, Argos, Halifax
Most popular sites among 40-something Brits: Premium TV, Abbey National, Genes Reunited
Most popular sites for 20-something Brits: BSkyB, PayPal, Amazon, Wanadoo
Moving from 'need to know' to 'need to share'
Much ado about Writely - this changes very little
Music vendors versus France
My analysis: what will the AT&T-BellSouth merger mean?
My interview with AMD's lead attorney on the Skype-Intel case
My interview with Borland's Tod Nielsen on the future of development producitvity
My laptop, my tricked out ride
My morning at Intel
My top five predictions for SaaS
MySpace: We're not so bad - really!
Nakedness, overload and other maladies of the Conversation Age
NAND flash up 30.2% in Q3 2005
NASA's new comms policy gets thumbs up from scientists
Navy buying $26m of PackBot robots
NCAA Basketball site gets 8 mln unique visitors in one day
Needed in Europe next Wednesday?
Net firms lash out at anti-net neutrality bill
Net neutrality and market interference
NetJaxer - a Web/Desktop integration product... but is it useful?
NetSuite goes vertical
NetSuite preps ground for IPO
Network World: Best blogs for buyers
Network World: Macs are cheaper than PCs by half
Network World: VoiceCon: Cisco, IBM demonstrate telephony integration
New APIs from Yahoo and browser-based authentication
New interview on ibm.com/lotus: “Customers content and creative�
New Plazes beta
New rogue anti-spyware and SpySheriff clone
New rules: the mashup of business strategy and corporate comms
New Windows Live releases - including Search and Toolbar betas
Nexaweb draws a brilliant bead between SOA and AJAX values
Next thing ya know, Apple will try to patent RSS
Next Week: Freedom2Connect
NJ bills would require user logging
No endorsement for 3rd party IE patches this time?
No to Internet taxes
Nordic IT market up 6.6% in 2005
Norway top open source development country
Norwegian customers back Notes/Domino at LCTY
Not ready for (business) prime time
Novatium's $100 thin client PC
Novell: New SUSE desktop ready for enterprise desktops en masse
Now running Sametime 7.5
Number of new domains by registrars in the past 6 months
Number of phishing Web sites up 65% in December 2005
Number of US online searches month by month
Off-topic: Inject, drip, convalesce, and thank you.
Off-topic: Mandatory ID cards sell out our principles
Office Really Really Dead
Office vs. Office
Office vs. Office question misses the point
On heels of Writely buy, what of INetWord, Zimbra, WikiCalc?
On pushing it around
On the road to EclipseCon: Genuitec bridges NetBeans/Eclipse gap
On-demand vendors: do as I say, not as I do
One year anniversary of the Sumitomo Heist
Online gambling reached $10.9 bln in 2005
Online gaming subscriptions generated $2 bln in 2005
Online sales of luxury items up 28% in 2005
Only 26% of Internet users use shopping search engines for shopping research
Only 39% of Internet users view dating site users as desperate
Only 5% of satellite or cable TV customers would switch to telecom TV
Open source and the military
Open source and the public interest
Open source community needs a haircut and to dress for success
Open source is a family
Open source Java heating up
Open source routers shine at Vyatta secret society
Open Spectrum: Who really wants ubiquitous bandwidth?
Origami unveiled
Oscars.org attracted audience of 100,000 on Oscars night
Otellini: TBD on Vista delay
Out source or open source?
Outsourcing and confidentiality
Outsourcing and the debit card hack
Outsourcing and the network effect
Outsourcing: Born of incompetence?
Ozzie and the Gang
PA-RISC and the freedom to choose
Pa. education leaders taking math & science seriously
Paid online content spending reached $2 bln in 2005
Palm turns 10
Patches: Once a month is not enough
Patent reform unlikely to get help from Supremes
Patently Ridiculous
Patents in the news again as Supreme Court hears eBay case
Paul Mooney takes on the released "red bull"
PC Forum photo gallery
PC Forum: Searching the dark matter and users
PC Forum: Shifting the balance of data power
PC Forum: The paradox of choice
PC game market sales and forecasts
PC graphics market generated $1.49 bln in Q3 2005
Pedal to the metal, eye in the sky
Personal Robots in LegoLand
Photo of the day
Photo of the Day: Phil Wainewright visits SF
Pierre Omidyar's three laws
Planning for the unthinkable
Platform-itis: the bird flu of digital content marketing
Playboy, Pornography, and Eclipse
Playing it too safe
Plus size clothing is $32 bln industry
Podcasting made easier with GarageBand
Politics site traffic up 18% in February 2006 after Dick Cheney shooting accident
Pre-mashed online suites: Google Calendar plus Gmail plus Maps plus Search plus ...
Prehistoric Apple UI photos
Pricing out the Philly Wi-Fi deal
Privacy groups attack IRS rules on sale of tax data
Privacy still a low priority, CIO study finds
Product lifecycle management market to reach $12 bln in 2006
Professors say DMCA stopped them from talking about Sony rootkit
Profit's calling in the Ether
Project Inkwell and the Future in Review
Promise yet questions at Ajax confab
Purdue flags flailing students with course mgt. software
Quaero and industrial policy
Quote of the day: Justice Breyer
Quote of the Day: Mark Cuban
Quote of the day: Steve Ballmer
Rage against the ESB machine
Ray Ozzie meets the Gillmor Gang
Ray Ozzie proposes universal Web clipboard
Read the fine print: three things you didn't know about your Vonage contract
Real CL2 Screenshots
Recent Blackberries are steps backward from earlier designs
Red Hat steps up with virtualization
Red Hat's business model
Regime change at Microsoft
Registration now open for May DNUG Conferences: IBM Lotus Technical Forum
Religion in schools
Respect
Retail sales up 3.2% in February 2006
Retail search engine keywords up 2.5% in Q4 2005
Ring tones? Hate 'em. Video ring tones? Don't get me started
Riya goes into beta
Robots to help farmers
Rogue Wave has identified a top-tier SOA capability that deeply exploits parallelism and virtualization
ROTFL alert: this blog attacked by splogs but Technorati and MSM don't get it
Rough & rugged laptops featured at FOSE
Ruby on Rails: Enterprise ready or not
Rural broadband issues must be tackled before federal telework practical
Saar Drimer's predictions for Israeli Trojan prosecutions
Safety first?
Sales of home audio equipment down 18% in 2005
Salesforce.com faces up to integration challenge
Salesforce.com going after 'packaged' apps
Salesforce.com has plans to stem outages
SAP's Jeff Nolan says his mission is to disrupt Oracle
Save the Coders Foundation
Saving energy with probabilistic chips
Saving government docs with OpenDoc
Scheduling (enough said)
Schools' IT chief's bribery conviction upheld
Search cos. considering industry standards for China
Search engine market shares in Jan 2006: Google - 41.4%, Yahoo! - 28.7, MSN - 13.7%
Security industry "out of gas"? Not.
Semiconductor market leaders in 2005: Intel, Samsung, TI
Sen. Stevens gives mixed signals on net neutrality
Senator Wyden describes his 'net neutrality' bill- and we have the bill here
Service provider router and switched generated $1.86 bln in Q3 2005
Session seeks SOA secret sauce
Shaw-Vonage Canada fight heating up
Should universites change teaching to accomodate a generation raised on mobile technology?
Silicon Valley Sleuth doesn´t want to know about my travel
Simultaneous Vista and Office 2007 launch?
Six Apart adds business class service
Six Apart adds widgets to TypePad
SketchUp snapped up by Google
Slashdotters fume at Shaw Communications QoS fee
Slip Slidin' Away...
SMS remains the most popular data app in Asia
SMS-based cheating on the rise on British exams
Sniveling about Steve Jobs
Sniveling about Steve Jobs
SOA an 'unnatural act' for government?
SOA governance demands a human face
SOA Initiation Patterns
SOA rollout process still seems messy, perhaps for the best
SOA's loose coupling makes performance difficult to monitor
Solving online apps issues - a third party opportunity?
Some Vonage users are frustrated about Comcast connection quality
Something New
Sorry, the VON Show is not "CES for VoIP"
Sourcefire acquisition scuttled
South Dakota gives laptops to all
SPARK and MIX: Bounding the future of the Web
SPEAK UP 100 honors schools with best edtech policies
Splunk planning IT troubleshooting Wikipedia-like service
Spyware in you cell phone -- what next?
SpywareQuake - newest rogue, replacing SpyFalcon and SpyAxe
Start SOA small, miss the big picture?
State and local IT business doing very well for Northrup
State Dept. buy of 15,000 Chinese computers spawns fear in DC
Statistics on eBay Web Services usage
Staying within policy
Stephan Wissel: What are the strongest aspects of Lotus Domino?
StepMail: Stepping through email
StopBadware.org issues first reports
Storage software market leaders in Q4 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Strategies for reducing printing costs
Strategy comes down to making choices
StreamCast sues Kazaa, Skype: here's my take
Study finds brain tumor connection to cell phone use
Study: assemblers do better than innovators
Subsidizing the status quo Internet
Subsidizing the status quo Internet
Sun claims it's ready to open-source education
Sun Grid rising at network.com
Sun Grid: $84,000 per day
Sun's McNealy decries proprietary Frankenstein
Sun's software chief heads for Adobe
Superintendents gone wild
Supremes decline to hear net obscenity case
Survey: C++ may live on in SOAs
SXIP 2.0 refined user-centric identity infrastructures
Tablet envy
Take the spyware quiz
Taking bets on the Windows Vista launch date
Taking Notes podcast: Episode 16 now available
TakingNotes podcast: Submit your questions
Talking IT strategy with SAP's Jeff Nolan
Tech session: Vast and the long tail of classifieds
Technical knock out
Tempmarks: MacBook Pro versus PowerBook G4
The A Team
The absolute last word on Microsoft Application Analyzer for Lotus Domino 2006
The Allchin Tax Cut
The amorphous attention economy
The arrival of geosensor networks
The Beatles in court (again) with Apple
The competence of IT outsourcing
The consequences of information overload
The Cookie Monster in the Closet
The crossroads of SaaS
The dance of three atoms
The first picture of Google CL2?
The future of interfaces--Multi-touch
The Gartner Rules: Linux, Sun Ray, and Windows/XP
The growing primacy of data over software
The hard lessons of blogging
The Java Desktop System and "real-technic"
The keyboard matters
The latest in spring FUD from Wasabi
The Linux desktop market
The Lord taketh and giveth away...even for Steve Jobs
The mental typewriter
The new world of 'blogjects'
The only thing you can count on is change, the rest is S.H.I.T.
The open source imperative hits breathalyzers
The real impact of Web Office
The real reason why BlackBerry settled
The shift to Social Computing
The sickest thing I've ever seen
The smartest dumb idea around
The Solaris security record
The three tactics the broadband monopolists are using to fight net neutrality
The whole network is the computer
There's one born every minute
ThinkFree Online joins Web Office sweepstakes
Thinking about Vigilantism
This conversation is being recorded
This is spooky - virtual machine rootkits
Three schools, two in NC, win $250K packages for tech visions
Tim Cramer: Matisse port "positive for Java community"
Tivo-ization
To Critics of MySpace: leave the kids alone!!!
Toothbrush Tech
Top ad buyers on movie sites: Walt Disney, GE, NewsCorp
Top DRAM vendors in Q3 2005
Top external storage vendors: EMC, HP, IBM, Dell
Top Internet advertisers in February 2006: Vonage, Netflix, GUS
Top mobile sports sites by ethnic group visits
Top movie sites: IMDB, Netflix, MSN Movies
Top NCAA-related sites: ESPN.com, CBS Sportsline, Yahoo! Sports
Top registrars by new domains added between Sep 2005 and Feb 2006: GoDaddy, DirectNIC, eNom
Top sites for UK users 50 and over: IncrediMail, uSwitch, OneTel
Top sites in February 2006: Yahoo!, Microsoft, MSN, Google
Top storage software vendors in 2005: EMC, Symantec, IBM
Top video sites: MSN Video, YouTube, Google Video
Top Web companies in February 2006: Microsoft, Yahoo!, Time Warner
Top Web traffic growth in Feb 2006: FTD, PowerBall, NASCAR, 1-800-Flowers, TaxACT
Torino2006.org traffic up 445% in February 2006
Traffic to NCAA sites from work exceeds traffic from home
Traffic to tax Web sites up 28% in February 2006
Treos Interruptus?
Trial offer: Use the IBM Workplace Managed Client for 180 days -- at no charge
TV market leaders in 2005: LG, Samsung, TCL
U.S. patrols border with unmanned plane
U.S. says no to Sourcefire/Snort deal
Uber-governance? Maybe we're not quite ready for that
UK online ad market generate 1.1 bln pounds in 2005
UK search engine market shares: Google - 75%, Yahoo! - 9.3%, MSN - 5.46%
Ultra Wideband standards issues resolved: devices expected by 2008
Ultra-Mobile PC (aka Origami) now official
Understanding Google: Exclusive look at a JupiterResearch report
US adware business is doomed
US broadband penetration number 2003-2006
US digital camera market to reach $6.8 bln in 2006
US is at 70% wireless penetration
US jobless benefit claims down by 11K in one week
US market for office copiers and multifunction products reached 492K units in Q3 2005
US personal incomes up 0.7% in Jan 2006, inflation up 0.2%
US search market shares in January 2006: Google - 48.2%, Yahoo! - 22.2%, MSN - 11%
US teens activity matrix - how teens spend their spare time
Using a Treo as a Bluetooth modem with a MacBook Pro
UUSEE.com generated 5.5 mln page impressions during Chinese New year
Video: Weblogs in the classroom
Visiting the Cardiff Giant
Vista "bloated"? Not exactly...
Vista delay - a look into the abyss
Vista takes a serious stab at malware
VoIP E911 challenges: and the Master Street Address Guide
VOIP integrated circuits to generate $1.3 bln in 2009
Vonage over Comcast user: here's my proof there are problems
Vonage vs. Comcast row continues on Slashdot
Voting machine transparency costs one county clerk
Wanderlust
Washingtonpost.com: IBM Makes A Play for Microsoft´s Customers
Web 0.01 - Engelbart's 1968 oNLine system being built in 2006!
Web 3.0 at Spark in Las Vegas
Welcome to SIP, Cisco!
What are the most egregious Notes error messages?
What could you use Origami for?
What digital divide?
What else can a PC client do?
What Esther really said about Goodmail
What I like about Yahoo! Messenger With Voice: and what I'd improve on
What is Google's Lighthouse?
What is open source marketing?
What port security, patents, and out-sourcing have in common
What went wrong with FBI's Triology?
What will Skobee do? Not VoIP-not yet, anyway
Whats wrong with WikiPedia?
When asked for your ID by the airlines, show them this
Where do security companies go to die?
Who needs Vista in Q4 when you have Viiv
Who needs who in open source?
Who owns the Internet pipes?
Who will upgrade to Office 2007?
Who's next for deregulation? AT&T
Who's phishing for your students?
Who's the bigger "Bully?" School board or game maker?
Who's the boss?
Why are universities not more enamored of open source?
Why convergence marketing is suffering from "domain poisoning"
Why doesn´t this surprise me
Why every student should know HTML
Why lifecycle management is critical
Why open source still obsesses about Microsoft
Why SaaS pricing won't add up
Wikipedia's Wales on education: Openness leads to critical thinking
Will DOJ subpoena Google video porn searches? Then hey DOJ-subpoena this!
Will Foldera hit the mark?
Will ITIL make SOA governable?
Will open spectrum be allowed?
Will SOA force the IT value issue?
Will there be a 'Dell' of software?
Will virtual humans replace machines?
Will Windows Vista make spyware a thing of the past?
Windows bloat? It's always been that way
Windows Defender annoyances
Windows Defender Beta 2 vs. spyware
Windows Live Developer Center - a look at what's on offer
Windows Live Search review
Windows on a Mac: a video tutorial
Windows Vista shifts the platform
Winer on wikis: Just add OPML
Wired and wireless at the same high speed
Wireless ad hoc networks
Woophy's view of Earth
Word of the day: Orthogonal
Word processing is not an application
Workforce performance management to grow at 16.3% a year
World of Warcraft guild masters apply here
Worldwide storage software market up 11.2% in Q4 2005
Would you really buy a 150-line VoIP solution at CompUSA?
Write no more?
Write that grant!
Writely = Microsoft's Pearl Harbor?
Writely, Live Clipboard, IDF, Origami, bad Wi-Fi, attention, intention and more...
Writely: Great changes, same paradox
Wyden introduces Net Neutrality bill
Wyden: "toll-strewn info superhighway on way"
Wyse CEO proclaims 'perfect storm' for thin clients
XML founder takes on WS-splat
Yahoo calls for international cooperation in Internet laws
Yahoo ups the ante with APIs
Yahoo! VoIP gets little buzz- on Yahoo!
Yahoo's Domain Keys back at Google's Gmail?
YouTube going from personal to professional
Zero-day exploit for IE6 flaw released!