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Larry Dignan and other IT industry experts, blogging at the intersection of business and technology, deliver daily news and analysis on vital enterprise trends.
Larry Dignan
Larry Dignan is Editor in Chief of ZDNet and SmartPlanet as well as Editorial Director of ZDNet's sister site TechRepublic.
Andrew Nusca
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
Rachel King is a staff writer for ZDNet based in San Francisco.
Latest Posts
Analysts surprised by EV-DO price drop? Doh
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.
Win FS beta 1 is born
For those of you anxious for Microsoft's next generation file system, Channel 9 has a one hour video on Win FS with lead developers via cinematographer/interviewer Robert Scoble. The Win FS team also has a blog.
Commercial open source, a misnomer?
I received an e-mail from Simon Romanski, director of information systems at Fulfillment America, asking about the nature of open source software and its intersection with commercialism. Open source software (the code) is free and open.
Have you done your pre-Fall digital housecleaning yet?
With summer almost over and things already picking up (I'm referring to Intel's Developer Forum taking place last week and Microsoft Professional Developer Conference coming up in two), I'm taking these last couple of week of summer to get ready for the Fall rush. Fall is always the busiest time of year for the technology business.
The golden opportunity that security vendors are ignoring
During a recent e-mail interview with Comcast spokesperson Jeanne Russo, I learned that the company is providing up to seven free copies each of McAfee's Viruscan, McAfee's Personal Firewall Plus, and McAfee's Privacy Service (for parental control and identity theft protection) to it's subscribers. The offer includes any updates as long as customers continue to subscribe to Comcast as their broadband Internet Service Provider.
Comcast's Magnificent Seven: A deal too good to pass up?
As the summer winds down and I'm trying to beat the Fall rush of, well everything that goes with Fall, I've been trying to get my digital house in order and one of the items of my ToDo list has been to sort through all the services that my ISP (Comcast) has brought on-line over the past couple of years. Everything from separate e-mail accounts for everybody in the house to photo sharing to video mail.
Tapping into Pandora's music genome
Over the weekend, I've been trying out a new music service that applies a double helical twist to Internet radio. Pandora, which goes live on Monday, lets you create radio stations, tuned to your musical tastes.
How GTalk plays into Google's identity strategy
Google can't build an integration point without an identity strategy and their identity strategy has to include synchronous messaging and presence--things they get in spades and on the cheap from a IM system built on XMPP.