2008 June 01

It’s very strange how coverage of certain things can vary so widely, when the objective of journalism is to deliver the facts first, and possibly comment on them after.
I have, after a long while of abstinence, started receiving PCWorld magazine again. The reasons for stopping the old subscription I had range from the apparent value [...]

I had just finished reading a piece about Apple, and this popped into my head. I am surprised I never gave it a thought before.
Microsoft is always downplaying Apple, yet at one time an infusion of cash from Microsoft kept Apple alive. Since the market share is so small, why does Microsoft, admitted enemy [...]

says the blurb on MSN this morning. Hard to believe for anyone reading this, I know.
The digital divide is apparently alive and well.
About 20 percent of all U.S. heads of household have never sent an e-mail, and about 20 million households, or 18 percent, are without Internet access, according to a study [...]

While it would be a cruel, but true, joke that this is a case of the pot calling the kettle black, it is sad that millions of our tax dollars are being spent to finance the report of the changeover that we funded, by the government that used false pretenses to get the change to [...]

In a piece on itwire, an article asks the question “Security: Insource, Outsource, or Use the Force?”. Although a joke, it is humor that points to a serious problem coming.
IDC predicts that 1800 exabytes of data will be created during 2018, and that compliance issues will mean 85 percent of it will have to be [...]

I feel totally uninformed. Nowhere on the US news have I seen anything about this satellite system. Perhaps I should take what is presented in James Bond movies more seriously - there was talk about this in ‘Goldeneye’ - who knew it was real?
The launch of the third and final satellite in the UK’s next-generation [...]

When I first saw an article about this on CNN (website), I couldn’t help but think it was something from a book I’d read long ago by Gerard K. O’Neil. It was called ‘The High Frontier’ and outlined the hows and especially the whys of doing things in space to benefit those still located on [...]