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Does Bill Gates remember 1984?
Internet: From the NYT, when Bill Gates discusses trusted computing, does he even remember 1984? Personal computers are tools of empowerment, not intellectual property management: Microsoft denies that...
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Privacy: Brian Carini suggests that privacy policies are worthless without enforcement: What is needed is DRM for privacy. Digital rights management technology could protect personal information the...
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Tech: The New York Times: Whose Data Is It, Anyway?: “While no case law exists in this area, several lawyers who are experts on estate planning and probate matters generally agreed that anything stored...
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Tech: The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Facing the World With Egos Exposed: “‘Some people set themselves up for failure by sending in photos that aren’t flattering,’ said Abraham...
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Tech: The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > In the Virtual Stacks, Pirated Books Find Eager Thumbs: “While the music industry’s effort to quash the trading of pirated songs over the...
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Tech: The New York Times > Technology > Where Entrepreneurs Go and the Internet Is FreeFree WiFi rules.
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Tech: The New York Times > Opinion > Making Votes Count: Gambling on Voting: “Election officials say their electronic voting systems are the very best. But the truth is, gamblers are getting the...
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Tech: Technology News: Networks: Comcast Slows Flow of Spam: “Comcast, the country’s largest provider of high-speed Internet access, has begun blocking a channel frequently exploited by spammers to...
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World: The New York Times > Technology > Circuits > Turning the Tables on E-Mail Swindlers: “Now, however, an ad hoc militia of self-styled counterscammers on several continents is taking the...
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Tech: Yahoo! News — Italy School Foils Cheats by Blocking Phone Signals: “Mobile phone-savvy teenagers tempted to cheat on exams by sending text messages or scanning pictures of tests could be thwarted...
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Tech: McDonald’s aims to make fast food faster — Jun. 18, 2004: “McDonald’s, which only recently admitted its service problems and vowed to fix them, is ironing the kinks out of technology some believe...
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USA: Yahoo! News — Report: WTC Towers May Have Been Weaker: “The World Trade Center’s designers may have severely underestimated the forces that wind exerted on the twin towers, leading them to design...
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Tech: Yahoo! News — Wall Street Welcomes Blackboard: “‘In many ways, I think Blackboard is the coming of age of a lot of the Internet opportunities,’ said April L. Young, a managing director at...
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Tech: Comical lesson has yet to be learned from the RIAA’s battles: “With the cost of CDs rising to $19 a disc, users now prefer to sample before they buy, and the best way to take a customer who...
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USA: Yahoo! News — 48 Nobel Prize winners slam Bush, back Kerry: “The star-studded scientific endorsement for Kerry came on a day when the presumptive Democratic nominee stood in Civic Center Park and...
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Tech: The New York Times > Technology > AOL Engineer Sold 92 Million Names to Spammer, U.S. Says: ” software engineer for America Online stole the Internet provider’s customer list — some 92...
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Tech: Yahoo! News — Coke Cans Concern U.S. Military Bases: “But Bruce Don, a senior analyst at the Rand Corp. said the military’s concern is rational and appropriate. ‘There’s a lot of reason to worry...
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USA: The New York Times > Technology > Knowing Their Politics by the Software They Use: “The Web sites of Senator John Kerry and the Democratic National Committee run mainly on the technology of...
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Better beer from failed digital music technology
Tech: New Scientist: “Brighter, clearer beer could be on the way thanks to a superfine filter that owes its existence to the failure of a decade-old recording technology. In the early 1990s, Philips of...
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Bill Gates thinks DVDs will be obsolete by 2014
Tech: Yahoo! News — DVDs will be obsolete in 10 years: Bill Gates: “Asked what home entertainment would like in the future, Gates said that DVD technology would be ‘obsolete in 10 years at the latest....
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Tech: Yahoo! News — More firms keep an eye on outgoing e-mail: “Employees might be surprised their e-mail is monitored. But companies have that right because they own the e-mail accounts, lawyer...
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RealNetworks announces iPod compatibility
Tech: Yahoo! News — RealNetworks Says Its Music Files Can Play on Apple iPod: This means the Apple iPod could work with Real’s Rhapsody music download service, a service I subscribe to and enjoy using....
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Labor group accuses Microsoft of outsourcing Windows programming work
Tech: The Seattle Times reports: ” A Seattle labor group said it has new evidence that Microsoft is shifting high-level work to foreign contractors, including work on the next version of Windows.” The...
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Sports: Here’s an interesting NYT article on how Baltimore Ravens coach Brian Billick uses technology to coach his team. Billick sees himself as a teacher, and the technology is only a means, not an end.
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Movies: According to the New York Times, Forrest Gump coulldn’t have made his millions The New York Times > Technology >by investing in Apple. He probably would have lost money. That’s all I have...
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Bangalore chokes on its own infrastructure
Tech: Bangalore is falling apart. The region’s rapid growth has been fueled by US outsourcing of technical and IT positions. But the regional government has allowed traffic to choke the area’s...
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Tech: The NYT discusses how school teachers are using blogs in their classrooms. Students seem enthusiastic, but they don’t blog when the class is over.
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Tech: Teachers discuss various problems with computer classrooms. Students surf the web, check e-mail, and don’t pay attention unless instructors have a strong teaching plan and worthwhile activities....
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Tech: The New York Times explains why VoIP wiretapping requires companies to pass the extra costs along to customers. VoIP taps also involve packet sniffing and increased latency for all Internet...
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US authorities have been arresting spammers and Internet scammers over the last few weeks. I hope it helps.
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Internet bullying at work and school
Tech: Kids are becoming more adept with computers, but sometimes they turn into bullies. When I was a child, you had to insult someone to their face. Children who have grown up with technology may be...
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Baiters teach scammers a few lessons
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=38 http://www.wired.com/news/technology/internet/0,71387–0.html “In Nigeria, we are always amazed that anyone...
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Isolated Americans are trying to connect
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=39 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060805/ap_on_re_us/lonely_nation “People are increasingly busy,” said Margaret...
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Arizona woman gets 70 speeding tickets in 5 months
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=42 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060811/us_nm/speeding_dc “I don’t want to get off on a rant here…“ Dennis Miller,...
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Dell facing slew of Chinese lawsuits over CPU switcheroo
This article first appeared on my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=48 URL: Dell facing slew of Chinese lawsuits over CPU switcheroo To some consumers, it may seem like a minor...
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Do business schools prepare future CIOs well?
From CIO Insight: John Parkinson asks an important question — how well can business schools prepare their students to take leadership positions in information technology and innovation? Graduate...
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The virtuous cycle
This article appeared in my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=206 http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/feb2006/tc20060208_760555.htm?chan=rss_topStories_ssi_5 Peter...
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Yahoo teams with US newspapers on web services, ads and news content
From the New York Times and Yahoo: Yahoo has announced a partnership to share news and advertising content with 176 US newspapers. Several newspaper publishers are included, including Belo, Cox,...
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WiFi phones offer free calls at a price
Today’s New York Times features an article on WiFi telephones. These are mobile devices that can place telephone calls over an 802.11b connection by using VoIP (Voice over Internet Protocol). While...
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Skype will charge for calls within Canada and the US
This article first appeared in my old blog at http://www.bloglines.com/blog/wsodeman?id=269 http://www.informationweek.com/industries/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=196603857...
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The risk of innovation
From the New York Times, G. Paschal Zachary presents a brief discussion of the risks of innovation. if consumers are motivated, they may accept tecnological changes more readily. Professor Zachary uses...
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The modular mobile phone
BusinessWeek reports on modu, an Israeli company that has developed a modular mobile phone around the size of an iPod Nano. The Associated Press reports the phone will be launched on 1 October 2008 in...
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Deliver a great presentation
From BusinessWeek, here’s an article with 10 tips for delivering effective presentations. this felt like a timely article, as students are starting to deliver presentations in their courses around this...
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Blu-ray beats HD DVD
A few weeks ago, my face-to-face IS 7010 students talked about the high-definition DVD format war. Apple, Sony, Disney and Fox supported Blu-ray. Warner’s defection from the HD DVD camp last month was...
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Delhi catches monorail fever — is Honolulu next?
I followed a link on BoingBoing to this Times of India article: Delhi is getting a 45-kilometer monorail system. The technology panel will announce their selection for Honolulu’s proposed fixed...
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Customer lock-in
One strategy that telecommunications companies have adopted is bundling, or selling a combination of services at a reduced price. The goal is customer lock-in, a situation in which the buyer is more or...
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Blogging can kill you
From tomorrow’s New York Times comes a sobering examination of the dominant blogging business model. “I haven’t died yet,” said Michael Arrington, the founder and co-editor of TechCrunch, a popular...
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Kapolei’s aluminum can manufacturing plant helps local economy and environment
This morning’s Honolulu Star-Bulletin has a great feature article on the Ball aluminum can plant in Kapolei. Manufacturing beverage cans takes more technological capability than most consumers would...
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Flipping the camcorder market
Business Week discusses the design process behind the Flip video camera, which has become an unexpected hit. Engineers started with the most basic design they could imagine, and added little else....
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Water, water everywhere
Segway inventor Dean Kamen has his own take on water purification, the Slingshot. His machine weighs 45 kg and can produce 1000 liters of clean water a day from really dirty water. The machine is a...
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