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Dell plans $3 billion in cuts
April Fool’s Day is a bad day to announce a major strategy shift. Case in point: Dell announced today that the company will slash US$3 billion in costs over the next 3 years, according to PC World via...
View ArticleThe all-seeing advertising cookie
According to the New York Times, UK company Phorm has developed the long-feared ultimate ad-serving cookie. The term “cookie” is a nickname for persistent client-side web browser data. Cookies solve...
View ArticleIDG shifts from print to digital
IDG, the publisher of InfoWorld, ComputerWorld, MacWorld and other technology magazines has been shifting away from paper to online editions. This New York Times article mentions that the transition...
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Software and services — free or paid?
There are plenty of great free software applications and services available on the Web. In some cases, payment removes advertising and enables more features. Some require a subscription or a one-time...
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GPS and mobile phones
As the rumors swirl about a new iPhone model, there’s speculation that the phone will include a GPS chipset. The original iPhone simulated GPS though some Google technology, as described in this...
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LinkedIn’s valuation reaches US$1 billion
LinkedIn, which has become the leading social network for professionals, tripled its size last month. Europe, North America and India are the main sources for new members, and the site is adding 5...
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Scrabble vs Scrabulous
Electronic Arts is publishing an authorized version of Scrabble for US and Canadian users of Facebook. It will compete head-to-head against the popular Indian knockoff Scrabulous, which has become a...
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A torrent of textbooks
As we approach the start of the academic year, the rising cost of almost everything has created a surge of interest in electronic books, in legal and unlicensed versions. As we’ve discussed in earlier...
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Seattle Post-Intelligencer may go web-only
Interesting news, but Seattle would still have a newspaper left if the P-I stopped publishing a dead tree edition. If Hearst shutters the Houston or San Francisco Chronicle, that’s a different story....
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LinkExtend for Firefox
I’m surprised at how many of my students are using Firefox this semester. For the first time, there are more Firefox users than Internet Explorer users in my classes. I’m not sure how many of these...
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