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Lotusphere: Hey, Maybe IBM is a Software Company

1/29/2007

I didn't make it this year to IBM's Lotusphere conference in Orlando. The freakishly frosty winter Mother Nature and her Niño have visited upon us here in the Golden State has made that lapse in my conference schedule shiveringly disappointing. However, I did catch up with Alan Lepofsky, senior manager of

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Sun to Use Intel Chips: An Alliance by Any Other Name

1/23/2007

I've seen so many announcements of once unimaginable corporate hookups in my time on the tech beat—Steve Jobs onstage at Macworld Boston in 1997 announcing a rapprochement with Microsoft before a massive projection of a remotely linked Bill Gates; Sun'sScott McNealy and Microsoft's Steve Ballmer burying the hatchet and exchanging bon

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Cool Coder Creates Eclipse App for the Arctic

1/19/2007

Josh Reed recently spent three months in Antarcticaimplementing one of the worst-named, but coolest applications to come across my desk in a month of Sundays—literally. It's a graphical editing tool called the Paleontological Stratigraphic Interval Construction and Analysis Tool (PSICAT). He developed it for a group of international scientists working

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CES Wrap-up

1/15/2007

I still get a surprising amount of guff from colleagues who also cover enterprise IT for attending the annual CES gizmofest. First, let me say with affection and respect to those colleagues: bite me. Second, at the risk of repeating myself, these are not toys. For anyone with the ability to

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CES Day Two: iPhone Launch Creates a Deafening Buzz; Chambers Makes the Consumer-Enterprise Connection

1/10/2007

It is no small irony that the biggest buzz on Tuesday at the world's biggest consumer electronics show was generated by a device unveiled at another event about 500 miles away. Apple Computer's long-rumored and much-anticipated iPhone, finally launched at the Macworld Conference and Expo in San Francisco, all but eclipsed

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CES Day One: My Computer Dies; Zander Makes a Colorful Entrance

1/08/2007

After a hearty breakfast of minibar M&Ms and Diet Coke, I bolted from my hotel on Monday, ready to sink my teeth into the leathery hide of the CES

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CES, The Pre-Show: Letter to an Angry Attendee

1/07/2007

Dear Red-Faced Guy Bellowing at the Unflappable Usher Outside the Bill Gates CES Pre-Show Keynote: I’m with you, dude. It must have been miserable to have to stand in that line for two hours, only to be told you needed a ''voucher'' to get in. I’ve been there; I’ve got the

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Catching Up During the Holidays

1/01/2007

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It's a Literal Virtual Threefer

12/11/2006

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Kapow Launches First Mashup-builder Community Web Site

12/04/2006

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