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- Discussion threads 2009-01-10
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- Discussion threads 2008-10-17
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- Case studies 2008-06-18
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- Blog posts 2008-03-25
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- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Bias and Kanter's Intel CSI analysis
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- Blog posts 2007-09-09
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- Exploits, security tools disappear as German anti-hacker law takes effectWell, if you could prove that......hacking is another form of bearing arms, you might get their attention. Then again, I think the NRA General Council would rather be out target-shooting, duck hunting or selling guns anyways.NRA should be all over this...After...
- Discussion threads 2007-08-13
- iPhonomics and the post-PC era
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- Discussion threads 2007-06-06
- Google Gmail: Hot, hip or third place player?
- Hitwise is aptly named: It creates Internet hits, courtesy of its “Hitwise Intelligence Analyst Weblogs”! The blog of LeeAnn Prescott, Research Director at Hitwise, solicits prospective clients to use its: “competitive insights to maximize online marketing programs.” Prescott’s latest “competitive insights” posted at her blog concern Gmail, asserting:Users...
- Blog posts 2007-05-13
- Gmail users are young, hip, richer
- Google Gmail is a magnet for the young, rich and hip, according to Hitwise. Hitwise analyst LeeAnn Prescott writes in a post that Gmail users are a different breed from the Hotmail and Yahoo Mail folks. Hotmail and Yahoo Mail users...
- Blog posts 2007-05-11
- Google's YouTube, Viacom: Better off divorced!
- The Google-YouTube-Viacom $1 billion copyright infringement tussle is sounding more and more like the prelude to a divorce settlement!I dissect Google in-house counsel Michael Kwun’s “he-said, she-said” legal “defense” preview in “YouTube: Why Google is running scared” AND provide my claim by claim counter argument to him for why his...
- Blog posts 2007-04-09
- Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bit
- Choosing between Vista x86 32 bit or x64 64 bitThe benefit will come."For home users, there's no real benefit of x64. Period."It will come. Software is always getting bigger as hardware advances, and we'll hit that 4 GB barrier sooner than you think. Already with Vista 1 GB is becoming...
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- A Vista primer for the consumer
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- Discussion threads 2007-02-28
- Wikipedia now a top site, thanks to Google
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- Blog posts 2007-02-22
- 768 cores ought to be enough for anybody
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- Discussion threads 2007-02-14
- Pentium 4, we hardly knew ye
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- Discussion threads 2007-02-02
- Intel fights back with high-end Xeon
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- Discussion threads 2006-08-29
- Judge postpones Google subpoena hearing
- Judge postpones Google subpoena hearingThe Justice Department should give up ...................Again I say the Justice Department should give up their witch hunt for the Bush Administration right wing causes ....................... You can't legislate morality for the whole country no matter how hard you try ................. Protecting children is a good...
- Discussion threads 2006-02-03
- Image broadcasting: FilmLoop
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- Blog posts 2006-01-09
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