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Innovation: Why IT Does Matter |
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10:18 am EDT, Sep 3, 2003 |
] In no other area is it more important to have a sense of
] what you don't know than it is in IT management. The most
] dangerous advice to CEOs has come from people who either
] had no idea of what they did not know, or from those who
] pretended to know what they didn't. Couple not knowing
] that you don't know with fuzzy logic, and you have the
] makings of Nicholas Carr's article. The response to the article that caused so much hullabaloo. Innovation: Why IT Does Matter |
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10:00 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
] Most documents are the product of continual
] evolution. An essay may undergo dozens of revisions;
] source code for a computer program may undergo
] thousands. And as online collaboration becomes
] increasingly common, we see more and more
] ever-evolving group-authored texts. This site is a
] preliminary report on a simple visual technique, history
] flow, that provides a clear view of complex
] records of contributions and collaboration. IBM | History Flow |
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10:00 am EDT, Aug 29, 2003 |
Anthropologist Christopher Kelty on programmers, networks and information technology Kelty has studied the political economy of information; Free Software; cultural aspects of intellectual property law; reputation, trust and exchange in communities of software programmers; and the history of medicine in America. Kelty teaches classes in science and technology studies, the mechanization of thought processes, the history of memory systems, ... Not all people involved with "hacking" are self-identified hackers. ... Entrepreneurs, visionaries, activists and lawyers are engaged in some of the same social worlds but may not call themselves hackers. In the end, the goal is to investigate the nature of social relations and shared attitudes toward the worlds we live in ... to find what ties people together in a given social world. ... information is not necessarily something that circulates on the Internet. It is something that can be understood socially as existing in a particular time and place through repeated interactions between people. I also talk about the differences between communication networks and social networks and try to give the students a way of thinking about how one might have both a communication network and a social network at the same time. ... areas like this are quite hard for students to get their head around ... I like to focus on banal, boring issues like standards, protocols, and IPR because I delight in showing how supposedly arcane technical problems actually turn out to be political. ... IP rights hand a kind of police power over to private bodies. ... The economic justification for the existence of IP is different from the actual uses to which people put it. Scientists and engineers like to think that the technical and scientific issues can be separated out from the social, sort of fuzzy issues. My claim is that they're heavily tied together. A Whole New Worldview |
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NTT verifies diamond semiconductor operation at 81 GHz |
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11:35 am EDT, Aug 27, 2003 |
] Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corp. (NTT) has developed
] a diamond semiconductor device that operates at 81 GHz
] frequency, more than twice the speed of earlier devices.
] The advance promises to make amplification in the
] millimeter-wave band from 30 to 300 GHz possible for the
] first time, NTT claimed. diamonds are becoming a geeks best friend NTT verifies diamond semiconductor operation at 81 GHz |
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Phone rules apply to VoIP |
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5:58 pm EDT, Aug 23, 2003 |
] The state has ordered Vonage to get the proper telephone
] company business licenses and to immediately pay fees to
] the state's Department of Administration to support 911
] services, according to a representative for the Minnesota
] PUC. It starts... Phone rules apply to VoIP |
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Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site |
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11:47 pm EDT, Aug 21, 2003 |
According to a post on the Netcraft Web site, Microsoft changed its DNS settings on Friday so that requests for www.microsoft.com no longer resolve to machines on Microsoft's own network, but instead are handled by the Akamai caching system, which runs Linux. Microsoft using a Linux service is ironic, given that Microsoft has identified Linux as its biggest competitor. In a conference call with analysts last month, company CFO John Connors ranked Linux as the #2 risk faced by the company. The #1 risk was the general economic environment, Connors said. Nearly one in five small and mid-sized businesses are using Linux on the desktop. Heh, first the problems with switching from FreeBSD to Windows NT at hotmail.com, now having to eat crow and use Linux as a front end with the Blaster worm. I really hope that IT Directors figure out how much crap they've been fed by the marketing machine. Oh, wait, never mind. Peter principle. Microsoft Is Using Linux To Protect Its Own Web Site |
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The rise and fall of telecom, networking |
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9:17 am EDT, Aug 19, 2003 |
] In the two years since the noisy collapse of the telecom
] and networking industries, little to nothing has been
] heard from the 10 giant Silicon Valley telecom and
] networking start-ups that had been funded with hundreds
] of millions of dollars during the Internet bubble. In case you were wondering about all those vendors you used to have. The rise and fall of telecom, networking |
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10:42 am EDT, Aug 13, 2003 |
"Scientists running a pioneering experiment with "living robots" which think for themselves said they were amazed to find one escaping from the centre where it "lives"." I am Not a Number!!! Well, maybe Number 5... Robot on the run |
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Some ATMs down temporarily; BellSouth network fixed |
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10:14 am EDT, Aug 12, 2003 |
] Problems with a data service network at BellSouth
] yesterday affected ATMs and services at several
] Nashville-area banks and other businesses Some ATMs down temporarily; BellSouth network fixed |
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