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It’s official, but I said it long ago. (Perhaps I am somewhat like Nostradamus.) It will take on more weight now that the industry big shots are speaking out – cloud computing is a bad name. It always was.
The Information Week article speaks out on the bad name, and other things-
Sure, Hewlett-Packard CEO Mark Hurd [...]

It is truly amazing when you find that someone who has been on the wrong side of every court case they bring to the fore, finally gets one right. I suppose you could say it’s all in the odds, but the attorney general of New York has been on a tear, being on the wrong [...]

Just a short one this time, but a very important principle that i’ve noted over 20 years of dealing with Microsoft and Apple.
Right now, there is an article on Ars Technica, that explains the problem some are having with the Snow Leopard upgrade. While problems are something that Apple certainly has, the method of dealing [...]

After many years, man-hours of programming and operation, and watts of electricity used, the House of Representatives has decommissioned the last of the mainframe computers that kept track of things for the 400+ Representatives and their work.
Slashdot has the story -
“The US House of Representatives has taken its last mainframe offline, signaling the end of [...]

Not much lasts for very long in computing, as it is quickly improved upon, and then the original designs are forgotten quickly. One thing that has lasted, and, is in no way ready to be retired is the COBOL language.
Pioneered by, among others, Admiral Grace Hopper of the U.S. Navy, COBOL is in use on [...]

For those who thought IBM had forsaken the personal computing market for the big iron, the sale of the PC division to Lenovo was apparently just another deal.
First, we saw that the company is putting renewed effort into the open source offering of Symphony, and putting money-where-mouth-is by having its employees use it in daily [...]

Sure, I know that title makes little sense, but that conveys the strange tale of the AsusTek company, one that was just recognized as building the very best consumer motherboards, and a maker of various other computer parts, both for the retail, and the OEM, spaces.
And that is the problem. Asus could be much larger [...]

The landscape of the PC realm is pretty stagnant right now, with very little happening that is not incremental in nature. Many things are happening, but it’s all small noises, with nothing that is revolutionary in nature. The fire has gone out of the PC industry, and it’s not because everyone has moved on. The [...]

The last two days has been filled with so much armchair prognostication that you might think it was time to put in the order for your own personal crystal ball.
Everyone who has access to the internet, it seems, has put forth an opinion on the possible outcomes of the Google admission of its pursuit of [...]

That’s the title of a cute little story from ComputerWorld, written by Dan Tynan. In his little epic, he explains how, living in New York or California for most of his life he came to believe the standing line that most of the nation’s sin was located squarely within those states.
He continues to tell of [...]

Do you know how the kids play a game where someone is ‘it’ and everyone else tries to bring them down, and after getting them on the ground, everyone piles on like some mad football play after a fumble?
That is apparently how it will be for Intel for a while. The judgement against them will [...]

Larry Dignan seems to be unusually on top of this story, as he gives more insight to the Oracle buyout of Sun.
Stating that Oracle might have valued the hardware division at zero makes many wonder how all that Sun hardware will continue on. Will it be a third party picking up the pieces, or will [...]

Paul Murphy (as every article of his says, a pseudonym – ZDNet author) put up an outstanding article concerning the company known as Sun, an why its health should matter to users of other products.
Though I could write about some of the points, such as the competition factor, with Sun helping out AMD, in its [...]

After reading an extremely informative article this morning, on the IT Pro website, I decided to take a gander at the Go Open Office website, which, as mentioned in the article, is run independently of the main Sun site for OpenOffice. The Go version is apparently not losing the steam that the main version, funded [...]

I missed this on Betanews yesterday.  The article tells of IBM and some other partners, notably AMD, making the jump to 28 nanometer production ahead of Intel.
This could be huge for both IBM and AMD, but for AMD it could truly vindicate that company’s claims that its design of its Phenom line of chips is [...]