TechTreasures by Ron Miller
In the final days of a failing model, old media made one last futile attempt to save its fading way of life by trying to expand copyright law to exclude fair use and linking.
Just this morning, my DaniWeb colleague, Sharon Fisher wrote a post called This Blog Post Could Be Illegal. Seems... (Read More)
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How come I can't let go?
I'm between two worlds
~Tom Petty, Between Two Worlds
As I watched vendors navigate the changing software world last week at Enterprise 2.0 in Boston, it struck me that the old companies are trying desperately to hold onto to the markets they have dominated for so long. I... (Read More)
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On June 15th, less than two weeks ago, the Apple Insider blog reported that Apple sales continued slipping in May. Mac sales were down, perhaps not as much as expected but still down, and more surprising, the previously recession-proof iPod sales were falling. Could it be that the economy was... (Read More)
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Speaking about consumer search last week, Steve Ballmer said he now regrets that Microsoft quote "didn't start earlier" unquote. But it seems to me that Microsoft has been all in for a long time and they just haven't been very successful at consumer search. It wasn't so much they gave in, as... (Read More)
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One of the big rules of online advertising as I understand it is that you count success to a great extent based on how many people click through to your site. It's really the basis of how people get paid by Google for Google AdSense. If you get click-throughs you get paid and advertisers pay Google... (Read More)
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I've seen a lot of love for Microsoft's newly branded search engine, Bing lately and frankly I just don't get it. Bing landed a couple of weeks ago with a huge ad budget (as I wrote in Microsoft Ad Wars Turn to Google) and a big splash, but I've used it and I don't see anything new here, but a... (Read More)
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Sherri McLeish from Forrester reports that 80 percent of enterprise customers still use Microsoft Office. While this is down significantly from the 95 percent reported in this 2006 BusinessWeek article, it still makes me wonder why so many companies would continue to use Microsoft Office given the... (Read More)
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Apple kicked off its annual World Wide Developer's Conference on Monday, and it proved something very important; it could generate plenty of excitement without Steve Jobs on stage.
I know that I along with many others watch with anticipation as live bloggers on the scene gave us the blow by blow... (Read More)
Featured 24 Days Ago
As usual Apple put on quite a show at the WWDC 09 Keynote on Monday, but what struck me was the undercurrent of derision for its exclusive carrier AT&T. Tucked in among the big announcements of faster, cheaper Mac Books, $29 Snow Leopard upgrades, the long rumored $99 iPhone and of course the all... (Read More)
Featured 26 Days Ago
Ah, Microsoft, that crazy company from Redmond, WA is at again. This time they want to rename the Netbook unilaterally to the...drum roll please..."low cost small notebook PC."
As first reported in the Digitimes last week, Microsoft decided on their own that the name was not appropriate and they... (Read More)
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All About Ron Miller
I've been writing about technology since 1988. I divide my time between technical writing and technology journalism.
I am Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine and Contributing Writer at InsideCRM. I am also the editor for the Fierce Content Management newsletter. I have written for a variety of other publications including Streaming Media Magazine, CIO.com, eWeek, CMP, BusinessWeek Small Biz, PC Magazine Online and many others.
I won an Apex Award for Publications Excellence in Feature Writing in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
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I am Contributing Editor at EContent Magazine and Contributing Writer at InsideCRM. I am also the editor for the Fierce Content Management newsletter. I have written for a variety of other publications including Streaming Media Magazine, CIO.com, eWeek, CMP, BusinessWeek Small Biz, PC Magazine Online and many others.
I won an Apex Award for Publications Excellence in Feature Writing in 2006, 2007 and 2008.
You can subscribe to my blog with Feedburner by following this link: My feedburner subscription link
