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Monday, May 19, 2008 3:16 PM/EST
Microsoft looks toward the cloud"In five years, 50 percent of our Exchange mailboxes will be Exchange Online," said [Microsoft exec Chris] Capossela, who expects a portion of Exchange Online customers to come from customers switching from International Business Machines' Lotus Domino system. The...
Monday, May 19, 2008 10:47 AM/EST
Broadband as a public works projectMunicipal broadband: rural electrification for the the internet age? "Some 60 towns and small cities, including Bristol, Va., Barnsville, Minn., and Sallisaw, Okla., have built state-of-the-art fiber networks, capable of speeds many times faster than most existing connections from...
Friday, May 16, 2008 1:54 PM/EST
Border insecurity: Your laptop, pleaseLast month a US court ruled that border agents can search your laptop, or any other electronic device, when you're entering the country. They can take your computer and download its entire contents, or keep it for several days. Customs...
Thursday, May 15, 2008 4:16 PM/EST
Carr rebuts Shirky on the cognitive surplusNick Carr gives Clay Shirky's cognitive surplus thesis (video version here) a critical reading; Shirky (and many others) respond in Carr's comments. Carr and Shirky are both right, of course. Previously: Shirky questions Carr's open-source analysis....
Thursday, May 15, 2008 3:15 PM/EST
Melding my inner nerd with my inner geekI'm always happy when I can sneak a little nerdiness into my geeky job, so I was happy to write this: That's the brilliance of books like William Gibson's Neuromancer and films like Blade Runner: They don't predict a...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 1:35 PM/EST
Rebate PhishingUPDATE: The links are now broken and Firefox is identifying the sites as possible forgeries. That's a good thing, but you can count on the phishers to cast another line. I wouldn't bother blogging this here...except for this. So:...
Wednesday, May 14, 2008 10:38 AM/EST
Social Nets in the Enterprise:Choosing a VendorMark Andreesen discusses social networking tools, including the one he's selling. My son's AP English class used a site built on Ning to talk about A Farewell to Arms. It worked well, and I could see a project team...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:49 PM/EST
CIO Summit: The MovieAshley Daley has a highlight reel from the CIO Summit. Reader Tom Lodahl comments beneath a post from the event: "Ed: these notes only make me wish I had been at the CIO Summit myself. We need some way...
Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:23 PM/EST
Big deal: HP buys EDSWhat's the HP acquisition of EDS about, and what does it mean for CIOs? Nick Carr says, "[HP CEO Mark] Hurd doesn't have his head in the clouds. His concerns are altogether earthly." That is, it's not about building...
Monday, May 12, 2008 4:35 PM/EST
CIO Summit: The RecapIt's tough to summarize the 2008 CIO Summit, because the program was diverse and the conversations in the hallways, fairways, and social venues went in a lot of directions. But I'll throw out a few things that struck me...
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