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High-Tech Companies and Formula One Racing

As a guest of AMD, I went to Indianapolis to watch the top Ferrari team once again whomp the other nine teams in what remains one of the most expensive sports in the world. This racing team has been winning for so long and is so dominant in this sport that I often wonder why anyone watches these rac...

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The Insane World of Home Electronics: Home Automation

I'm a home automation nut. When I moved into my home a friend and I spent a week and $2,000 replacing all of the wall switches and many of the plugs with remote switches. I can now turn on and off my lights and sprinklers from my bed. (The latter is a handy anti-barking tool: Wet dogs bark less.) I...

Microsoft, Apple and the HP Gambit

The two major initiatives in the consumer market this year have to do with digital media, and they are from Microsoft and Apple. Microsoft's is the broad Media Center Edition that encompasses the home and provides your music on a variety of products, while Apple's is more targeted at just PCs (both...

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Baby Apples II: The Curse of Xerox

Last week I wrote about three companies that had either followed an Apple-like strategy (Gateway), utilized ex-Apple employees (OQO), or executed on a founding Apple principle (AMD/Microsoft). This week we'll examine three more companies that owe a lot of what they are to Apple, as part of my not-so...

Baby Apples: How the Apple Legacy Shapes New Products

There are many "what if" stories surrounding Apple, and one of them is this: What if, when Microsoft asked Apple to license its OS, Apple had done so, becoming the core technology in Windows instead of a closed platform. If that had happened, it is widely believed, Apple would be larger than Dell no...

Technology in Education

When I first started college I bought a calculator. It was from Radio Shack, and it was hand-held, did basic math functions, had an LED display and cost, if you adjust for inflation, about what a laptop computer costs today. There are pre-kindergarten children today using technology that is vastly ...

Evolving the PC: Media Center Redefines the Platform

The personal computer market got a much needed shot in the arm last week when Microsoft launched the latest version of its media center offering, Windows XP Media Center Edition 2005. We are rolling into the 4th quarter, which is critical to the PC industry, and the market is in the doldrums. But ...

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Fighting for Leadership in the PC World

The Fall Processor Forum was held last week in the Silicon Valley. This show has become the counter to Intel's Developer Forum, and it probably should now be called "The Everything but Intel Microprocessor Forum." It kind of feels like the rebuttal in a presidential debate. Intel, as the incumbent...

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No Oxymoron: Attractive Bargain Notebook Computers

We are now moving into the countdown for Christmas, and it is time to start looking at some of the more interesting products you probably won't see at your local Best Buy. For an awfully long time, the affordable notebook products have been, well, butt ugly. You might have bought one anyway, but it ...

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Car Entertainment Tech To Make Your Neighbors Jealous

A little over a decade ago the market for aftermarket radios and gear for cars was relatively robust. At that time most car companies used standard-sized radios, and if you wanted to upgrade it was a relatively simple task. That isn't the case anymore. Radios are increasingly designed-in to cars and...

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How To Justify New PC Hardware or Get Your CIO Fired

The Institute of Internal Auditors Research Foundation has issued a report providing strong guidance on how to assess exposure for personal technology, with a heavy focus on personal computers. The report is titled "PC Management Best Practices: A Study of the Total Cost of Ownership, Risk, Security...

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Avoiding Another Recession in Tech

We just had a back-to-school flop. There was no apparent marketing of technology products, particularly PCs. And, surprise, we now have inventory problems and companies are warning that Christmas might not materialize as a major buying event either. Given how fragile the technology recovery is -- or...

INDUSTRY ANALYSIS

HP Gives Consumer Electronics a Wake Up Call

The consumer electronics industry has been in the doldrums for some time and it wasn't until personal computer-based technology started to creep in that we began to see, quite literally, what we had been missing. This isn't to say that the PC industry had it right, either. Both industries have a ver...

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How To Deploy 20,000 PCs and Get a Promotion

I had a chance to chat with the recently promoted director of IT from Cummins awhile back on a large deployment of Windows XP machines. She saved her company around US$10 million, which resulted in promotions for her and her team. I thought it would be interesting to explore this because it represen...

OPINION

The Back to School Personal Computer

I come from a time when getting ready for school meant buying a couple of binders, some pencils and some new clothes you wouldn't be caught dead in. Transportation was a one-speed bicycle (no I didn't walk 10 miles in the snow, that was my grandfather), and high tech was a circular slide rule. My fi...

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Ethics and Industry Analysts

One of the biggest questions a person will deal with in his or her life, regardless of the career path, is ethics. We make trade-offs when we "borrow" a stapler from work, take a sick day to go fishing or play golf, and take credit for something that was done by someone else. In the wake of the Enro...

OPINION

Apple and Sun: Learning from Each Other

A couple of things happened last month that got me thinking about Apple and Sun and their failed merger attempt years ago. Sun held its lab tour event at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, California, and Apple became outraged at Real Networks for making its Real Music services compatible...

OPINION

E-Voting: The Future of Democracy

I've been watching the e-voting concerns increase as the related technology proliferates across the country and have come to the conclusion that we are once again seeing the government act first and think second. There is nothing inherently more unsecure with regard to electronically taking votes th...

OPINION

Major Marketing Blunders in Tech

As we move into market recovery, marketing budgets once again are being funded, and I thought it would be good to look at the mistakes made by technology companies in the past. While this is a painful trip down memory lane for many, my hope is that this will keep the firms from making the same mista...

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Internet Explorer, Monoculture and Tunnel Vision

I've been watching as a number of security expert's call for the companies to replace Internet Explorer (IE) and the follow-up pieces that state, with the implication that the companies must be stupid, that they aren't following that advice. I think this reflects more on how far removed many of thes...

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