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Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca is a writer-editor for ZDNet, contributor to CNET and the editor of SmartPlanet, ZDNet's sister site about innovation. In 2013, his coverage will focus on enterprise startups. He is based in New York.
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
In response to my recent blog on how Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones drew fire for comments in his blog, a ZDNet reader offered his (or maybe her) interpretation of what I said with a comment entitled David, you really, REALLY, are missing the boat here.
Yahoo! has found that people have a lot of their personality invested in their Flickr IDs and don't want to give them up. Is there a better way?
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, here are some links and most importantly, how to help.How to helpRecovering from KatrinaSans Institute guidelines for hurricane preparationOnline scams emerge in Katrina's wakeMy post "Commercial open source, a misnomer?
Marc Fleury, CEO of JBoss, send me an e-mail regarding my post "Commercial open source, a misonomer?." JBoss develops open source enterprise middleware, and uses the GNU Lesser General Public License.
Microsoft Office program manager Brian Jones may have gotten more than he asked for when, in his blog, he attacked the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for moving to the OASIS-backed Open Document (OpenDoc) file format for productivity applications such as word processing and spreadsheets.
The telegraph.co.uk reports that French President Jacques Chirac wants to go to war with Yahoo, Google, MSN and other US-based search engines, defending his country against the threat of "Anglo-Saxon cultural imperialism.
In his most recent column, Michael Kanellos has come up with a five-step method for coming up with conspiracy theories . He cites emotion as the source of all conspiracy theories: "When you get down to it, the industry is centered around logic but ruled by emotion.
It's one thing to get a virus attached to an email, but what if your car got one -- and it decided to execute a funny little routine while you're cruising at 70 mph?
Katrina has taken a terrible toll in human life and devastated communities. In the aftermath of the disaster, recovery firms are helping getting business back online.
News.com's Marguerite Reardon has reported that Verizon Wireless is getting aggressive on mobile broadband by dropping the all-the-data-you-can-eat-per-month price on its high speed wireless broadband service from $80 per month to $60 per month.