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Oh boy, just when we thought we were out of the woods, high oil prices are pulling us back in again.
Oil prices skyrocketed by $7 a barrel today to $135 a barrel, gathering even more momentum after Thursday's big bump-up, and that, unfortunately, is the good news. A new report from a key Morgan...
Read More | Jun 6th, 2008
RIMM and its ubiquitous Blackberry is back in the financial news this week, after Goldman Sachs raised its target price on the Research in Motion to $163 from $148.
Why not? Cell phones, especially multi-functional ones like the Blackberry, are the bumper crop of this year's tech toy marketplace....
Read More | Jun 3rd, 2008
Today's edition of TechWeb poses an interesting question.
With digital movie rentals coming on strong, is Netflix in a good position to grab a big slice of market share? The mail-a-movie giant hasn't impressed Wall Street with its efforts so far, although it does have a box-top digital set that...
Read More | Jun 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: Jun 4th, 2008
Tom Wolfe once wrote that “you can’t go home again.”
In the computer world, at least, Wolfe has been proven wrong. Prodigal son Steve Jobs was shown the door at Apple and returned to strike gold with the PowerMaC, the iPod, and the iPhone.
Now it’s Michael Dell’s turn to rule the roost...
Read More | May 30th, 2008
I know that, technically speaking, airline stocks aren't technology stocks (although I can't think of a more amazing technology that one which enables a 10-ton tube of metal to become airborne in New York and drop you safely in Chicago two hours later) but hear me out.
This could be a good play...
Read More | May 28th, 2008
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Techwriter10 in a Nutshell
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... (Read Blog)
Wild men who caught and sang the sun in flight,
And learn, too late, they grieved it on its way,
Do not go gentle into that good night.
~Dylan Thomas.
Every once in a while you come across a blog post from a writer that makes you sit up and say, “Damn, I wish I had written that.” That...
Read More | Jun 5th, 2008 | Comments: 3 | Last Comment: Jun 6th, 2008
All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don't. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
~Robert Kennedy
Bobby Kennedy undoubtedly wasn’t thinking about global warming when he made this statement all...
Read More | Jun 2nd, 2008 | Comments: 8 | Last Comment: Jun 4th, 2008
When Bill Gates gave a speech last winter and hinted that the need for a keyboard was going to be diminishing, the writer in me scoffed, but I should learn to take Bill’s little hints a bit more seriously because the next version of Windows (aka Windows 7) is going to feature the same...
Read More | May 29th, 2008 | Comments: 2 | Last Comment: May 30th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 48 | Views: 53,802 | Last Entry: 3 Days Ago | Overall Rating:
It's unsurprising that a report in the UK says that there are gross variations in the speed picked up by broadband customers in different areas of the UK. I have no doubt this is the same in the US and elsewhere. The major population centres get the faster broadband, if you hadn't guessed as...
Read More | Jun 3rd, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 48 | Views: 27,998 | Last Entry: 1 Day Ago | Overall Rating:
khess in a Nutshell
I am a techie, a Linux evangelist, and an activist of sorts. I am also a DaniWeb Staff Writer/Blogger, a Linux Feature Writer and Columnist.
You can see my work in Systems Management News (www.sysmannews.com) or in Linux Magazine (www.linux-mag.com). Hit my website at www.kenhess.com to find out... (Read Blog)
Linux not only wants to dominate the Data Center and your Desktop but now it wants your unused CPU power as well. Nightlife is a grid-based computing effort that is Fedora Linux-specific.
Designed for scientific and medical research, the Nightlife project starter, Bryan Che explains the project's...
Read More | May 29th, 2008
Blog Stats: Entries: 46 | Views: 38,798 | Last Entry: 2 Days Ago | Overall Rating:
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