Monday - January 5, 2009
Well, this is CES week, and I am eagerly waiting to fly to Las Vegas, participate in the Tiger Build Your Own PC race, and spend the following three weeks relearning how to walk. This year should be interesting because I'm getting weekly notices that the hotels are lowering room rates, and one of the vendors is letting me use one of its pre-paid rooms for free. This suggests a show like the last Comdex, where I'll actually have a great time but folks will wonder whether it is the last CES. This week I'll talk about what I expect to see.
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Monday - January 5, 2009
Despite the daily onslaught of grim economic news, the need for skilled information technology staff remains stable, according to the Robert Half Technology IT Hiring Index and Skills Report, released earlier this month. Twelve percent of chief information officers polled in the survey said they planned to expand their IT departments in the first quarter of 2009.
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Friday - January 2, 2009
I'm writing this on Tuesday evening Pacific Time, Dec. 30, 2008. It will be published early Friday morning, Jan. 2. So right now I can't tell you if I was able to keep my first New Year's resolution: to use the extra "leap second" we all got just before midnight New Year's Eve in a wise, productive and clever fashion.
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Tuesday - December 30, 2008
President-elect Barack Obama's pledge to name the nation's first chief technology officer has triggered a flood of wishes, hopes and demands from tech enthusiasts who'd like the job to have the same stature and reach as, say, the White House national security adviser.
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Monday - December 29, 2008
People don't like to change; particularly as we get older, we take comfort in the status quo and start avoiding things that are new and different. As we get older we gain more power and this generally places the most conservative people in positions of authority. Let's look at four companies this week and how they are likely to change in 2009/2010.
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Monday - December 22, 2008
This year was likely the last of an era where vendors could afford to shotgun out products and services and hope that buyers would take them. 2009 will be much harsher on practices like this, as funding will be very short and misses will be career limiting, severely for some. Looking back, there were a number of products we covered that stood out as being amazing, and one I can't picture living without at the moment.
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Monday - December 15, 2008
The new president-elect for the U.S. isn't even in office yet and he is already wrapped in scandal. Fortunately we can live with this one as it had to do with whether he carried a Zune or an iPod, but given some were calling this -- and I'm not kidding -- "Zunegate," I thought the event was interesting.
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Sunday - December 14, 2008
Each holiday, our gift lists include relatives, co-workers, party hosts, the occasional probation officer, and first and second-tier acquaintances. To manage all these people, normal folks without a cadre of elves to do the shopping have to break it down between mandatory vs. optional, personal vs. easy.
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Saturday - December 13, 2008
Each holiday, our gift lists include relatives, co-workers, party hosts, the occasional probation officer, and first and second-tier acquaintances. To manage all these people, normal folks without a cadre of elves to do the shopping have to break it down between mandatory vs. optional, personal vs. easy.
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Friday - December 12, 2008
Here are just a handful of the big stories that CNN and other news organizations won't be able to fully cover over the next two to three years: An economic rebound spurred by renewed investments and new developments in technology. An Internet available to more people in more far-flung parts of the U.S. - for free. The digital revolution's continuing impact on movies and TV shows.
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