Between the Lines
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
The deluge of peer-to-peer bits
BitTorrent has become the most popular peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing network in the world in terms of bytes transferred, and its share of...
IE vs. Firefox: the mindshare front
A few days ago marked three months since the Mozilla Foundation released its open source browser, Firefox 1.0.
SCO-IBM judge floats like butterfly, almost stings like bee
Had U.S. District Court Judge Dale Kimball swung just slightly to the left, SCO could very well have been lying on the canvas with IBM sauntering back to its corner.
Demystifying the grid
At GlobusWorld, David chatted with Wolfgang Gentzsch, one of the grid gurus, who breaks down the four types of applications that can run on grids and how they differ.
All software is beta. Get over it.
News.com's Paul Festa has a story that shines the spotlight on the extended beta periods that service offerings from companies like Google and Flickr are going through.
As the Canopy Turns
As someone who'd been involved in Utah's high tech industry for a dozen years, I watched the founding and growth of Ray Noorda's Canopy Group with some interest and excitement. Before there were many VCs in Utah, Canopy was there, funding start-ups.
PC users suffering from 'pseudo-A.D.D'
Slashdot: The New York Times has an article revealing a disturbing fact of workplace life: software applications software do an excellent job of distracting us. The endless bombardment of email notifications, pop-ups, and automatic updates, and not to mention those self-enforced distractions such as checking the weather forecast during a coffee break, is stripping away attention from work tasks.
Uh doh. Sprextel probably to go with CDMA.
If you are a Nextel subscriber like I've been for close to three years, then you were probably cursing everytime you left Nextel's coverage area. Nextel's phones, which are based on Motorola's iDen technology, aren't like those from any other US-based wireless carrier.