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Friday, October 23, 2009

McCain Gets Mavericky on Net Neutrality

mccainThey don’t call Sen. John McCain a maverick for nothing. Just hours after Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski officially unveiled Net neutrality rules, the Arizona Republican introduced a bill that would prohibit the Commission from enacting them.

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Friday, October 9, 2009

Qualcomm Calls for Traffic Shaping

Add another voice to the cacophony around net neutrality: Qualcomm’s. Speaking at the CTIA wireless industry conference in San Diego Thursday, Qualcomm CEO Paul Jacobs warned of a looming crisis in wireless capacity and said it must be met with some form of traffic shaping.

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Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Pink Slips at Big Blue?

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IBM: The “I” Stands for “India” [UPDATED]

When IBM CEO Sam Palmisano advised the Obama transition team that the $30 billion in information-technology stimulus handouts Big Blue is angling for could create more than 900,000 new jobs, he didn’t say they’d be created in India. Yet, apparently that’s the case. IBM is reportedly planning to sack “a large number” of employees in its Global Business Services division, shifting their duties overseas to workers in India.

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Thursday, March 5, 2009

Obama’s CIO Pick Brings New Meaning to Term “Federal Googlement”

vivekkundrajpgVivek Kundra, chief technology officer for the District of Columbia, made headlines last year when he switched the District’s 38,000 employees from Microsoft Office to Google’s Web-based office suite. He may soon do the same to the White House as well, now that he’s been tapped as the nation’s first chief information officer.

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Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Palm Pre: The Waiting is the Hardest Part

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Monday, March 2, 2009

A Grim Year for PC Sales

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Saturday, January 31, 2009

Weekend Update, 1.31.09

Rumor has it there are big games going on this weekend–at least one of which involves football players. The rest involve the usual players, though they might appear in different positions–and on different teams–from week to week. These games, most likely, will continue through Monday and beyond. Scores will be kept on an ongoing basis.

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Wednesday, January 28, 2009

House: You Will Go Digital on Feb. 17 and You Will Like It

Looks like the transition to digital TV will happen on Feb. 17 whether you like it or not. The U.S. House of Representatives today defeated a bill that would have delayed the nation’s switch to all-digital television by four months.

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Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Macworld ’09: iWork ’09, iWork.com

iWork 09

Number two on Phil Schiller’s list of three announcements: iWork ’09. The next iteration of Keynote, Apple’s presentation application, offers some new object transition features: object zoom, a swing transition (Schiller demos it with a Bush-to-Obama slide that gets a laugh from the audience). There are also some new text transitions and chart animations. Finally, Apple’s offering a Keynote Remote application. It’s an iPhone app, of course.

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QOTD: Change We Don’t Need DD Shorty

Not true, the President-elect uses an iPod.”

An Obama spokesman makes quick work of the Zunegate scandal

Saturday, November 15, 2008

Weekend Update 11/14/08

Safe to say that the mood of last week, with its anticipation of change, is a distant memory. A different kind of anticipation permeated the tech and online media industries, one more reminiscent of April 2001. There was news all around of layoffs, pending layoffs, bankruptcies and stock dives.

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Saturday, October 4, 2008

Weekend Update, 10/03/08

The week ending Oct. 3, 2008 was a momentous one, and not solely because of ongoing McCain-Obama high jinks like Tina Fey’s encore as Sarah Palin on “Saturday Night Live” or the one and only Web site where you can decide the race in a Kung-Fu Election.

  • First and foremost, this week’s big slide on Wall Street hit tech stocks with a vengeance, too, disproving Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s assertion a little more than a week ago: “My guess is that the drama is New York and not here.” Ouch. But don’t say BoomTown didn’t warn you.
  • Ted Ullyot, Facebook’s new general counsel, has “strong ties to the Republican Party.” Including a stint in former U.S. Attorney General Alberto Gonzales’s office, where, as chief of staff, he handled the government’s response to the the leak of CIA operative Valerie Plame’s indentity. “Ted’s arrival demonstrates we’re a little more grown up.” No word on whether or not you need to change your status immediately.”

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