Applications

Thu, June 10, 2010 - Any company with a computer in the office needs to adopt a social media policy. It is just common sense, and, frankly, a smart edict to deploy and follow.

Fri, June 04, 2010 - Concerns related to Google and privacy superseded concerns related to Facebook and privacy this week. And thousands of Hewlett-Packard employees aren't so much feeling the economic uptick, with news of forthcoming pink slips. In other news, we started to look ahead to next week -- and not just because the FIFA World Cup starts next Friday.

Wed, May 19, 2010 - The iPad itself is nothing but a support system for its software. Years ago, a company -- I think it was Exidy -- tried to sell software as just a plastic bag full of electrons but they encountered considerable consumer resistance. Ever since then, no company has been so bold as to try to sell apps without some sort of computer out there for it to run on.

Fri, April 23, 2010 - The travel industry wasn't the only one affected by the volcano that erupted in Iceland. Mobile-phone vendors and suppliers adjusted shipping methods to get handsets from Asia to Europe. Some McAfee corporate clients most likely cursed the company after a security update crashed the computers of hundreds of thousands of users. If you're a financial and technology wonk, then read on for highlights on this week's earnings reports from major IT vendors. Facebook's efforts to make the Web more social may result in some lost user privacy. But perhaps the site should bolster its security first. A hacker claims to have the log-in information to more than 1 million accounts, a security research company said.

Thu, April 01, 2010 - I've just seen a TV piece about The Great Pacific Garbage Patch. Like the Rolling Stones, it seems to be (a) on a permanent world tour of North America and Asia, and (b) composed of members who are indestructible by any known means.

Thu, April 01, 2010 - For most people, computer code is abstract, an endless invisible stream of binary code running on hardware. Although programmers would disagree, computer code would hardly be considered art on its own.

Wed, March 24, 2010 - The year is 1975. Gerald Ford is in the White House, South Vietnam falls, Muhammad Ali defeats Joe Frazier in the "Thrilla in Manila" world championship boxing match, the late-night comedy show NBC's Saturday Night (later called Saturday Night Live) debuts, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest sweeps the Oscars, and Captain & Tennille's "Love Will Keep Us Together" and Glenn Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" top the music charts.

Mon, February 22, 2010 - Apple, Google and Microsoft are locked in a three-way struggle for industry dominance, competing to varying degrees on hardware, computer and cell phone operating systems, applications, entertainment, Internet search and more.

Fri, February 19, 2010 - The week opened with the busy Mobile World Congress in Barcelona and ended with the leak of part of a document related to secret negotiations to craft an anticounterfeiting trade agreement. In between, Microsoft and Yahoo got the go-ahead on their search deal, Google got the OK to enter the energy business and a massive botnet was revealed. There was enough unsavory news to lead us to end the week contemplating bobsledding and our dream home office, because sometimes we all just need a little break.

Mon, February 15, 2010 - Few exhibitors at Macworld Expo put their products' reputation on the line as much as MacSpeech did in its booth last week.