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What you need from your e-mail system (Test-drivin

30 Jun 2010

Reliable delivery of mail (dare to dream)
Reliable delivery of mail on mobile devices (Blackberry and
iPhone)
Shared calendaring with administrator abilities (i.e. admin access)
Backup and recovery
Reliable SPAM prevention
Sync across multiple computers and devices

I first started outsourcing e-mail to managed providers in 2003 when I worked for a CEO who demanded MS Exchange and we only had [...]

Understanding the financial market meltdown

28 Jun 2010

Definitely worth a read.
Despite reading the WSJ and N.Y. Times every day I still don’t completely understand what happened in the financial sector meltdown. Neither does Freakonomics author Steven D. Levitt. Fortunately he has smart friends Doug Diamond and Anil Kashyap from the Chicago School of Business who explain much of the mess in this [...]

Did Photobucket’s investors break the rules

23 Jun 2010

The firm’s investors weren’t notified and didn’t reap any of the benefits of Photobucket’s acquisition, and it didn’t help that Insight itself has been reported erroneously as one of Photobucket’s investors on occasion.
The Wall Street Journal, coincidentally also owned by News Corp., ran with the tip. The publication explained that an early investment in Photobucket [...]

Intel’s Maloney on WiMax, notebook challenges

22 Jun 2010

If broadband doesn’t happen…industry growth will eventually slow down. If it does happen, growth will continue and new services will come along. It’s an old story. Back in the ’80s, we spent a decade trying to get Ethernet established. (As a result) we got client-server computing. We did the same thing with Wi-Fi, 1999 through [...]

Homeland Security’s ‘virtual’ border fence ends up

18 Jun 2010

Additionally, radars were thrown off, camera range was limited, and the ability to classify items under surveillance was limited, Stana said. He said the prototype “did not meet expectations,” but that it was hard to hold the contractors accountable because any expectations in place were “loosely worded.”

The CBP has awarded Boeing, the main contractor [...]

Improve Vista’s performance a little or a lot

16 Jun 2010

Send Aero packing
One of the biggest knocks against Vista is that if you do away with the transparencies, sliding menus, and other features of the Aero interface, the operating system looks just like earlier versions of Windows. I like the Aero effects as much as the next guy–if the next guy’s blind.

Winnow your roster of [...]

CNET News Daily Podcast Today’s top headlines

14 Jun 2010

Google sells search marketing group
Listen now:
‘GTA IV’ making its way onto PCs this fall
Electric bike offers green urban commuting option
Free Wi-Fi for U.K. MySpace users, kind of
Download today’s podcast
Today’s stories:
Time Warner: Hiding AOL woes under Joker makeup
Microsoft releases SQL Server 2008
Join us for a quick rundown of today’s headlines. Some [...]

Google reveals scope of Web-crawling task

14 Jun 2010

(Credit:
Paul Ford)

Google likes to talk about how users have choice and competition just one click away, and that’s a fair point. But the blog post also makes it even clearer just how high barriers to entry are in the search market. That’s one of the reasons Yahoo’s BOSS (build your own search service) [...]

Memorable quotes from D6

14 Jun 2010

“Hollywood is a community that’s so inbred, it’s a wonder the children have any teeth.”–Barry Diller, chairman and CEO, IAC

“I didn’t leave business school to go bankrupt.”–Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on his first days at Microsoft
You would have loved Windows 1.0, Walt. You would have LOVED it.–Steve Ballmer
Following is a small sample:

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“AOL is [...]

MyAnalytics puts Google Analytics in your pocket

14 Jun 2010

While convenient, it is worth noting that myAnalytics can get bogged down if you intend on using it for more than eight different sites. Also, the current version only shows you basic numbers and a small chart, unlike Google Analytics, which lets you dig deeper into each component of your site. Version 1.1, which is [...]