http://www.zdnet.com/blog/murphy/rss en-us The wikileaks don’t add up - not only couldn’t the leaks happen as described without gross negligence somewhere, but the contents seem remarkably one sided.

]]> A quick request for some reader help - testing google alerts and similar software.

]]> Money has momentum - and one consequence of the present TSA uproar is likely to be a revival in national ID card proposals as bureaucrats ignore a decade of data processing failures in making this work, to order up more of the same.

]]> When in doubt, bet on the future coming sooner rather than later - because it’s better to be ahead of the eight ball, than under it.

]]> Just last week American voters did the right thing - and pretty soon you may have a new job, or a better one. Great! but remember, change brings both opportunity and risk - so do the right thing: don’t just celebrate, study.

]]> Does the PC empower the user? I don’t think so - well, unless you wipe out Windows and install Linux or a BSD, then maybe.

]]> When Motorola and Boeing’s desktops were taken over by wintel bigots the stacks of abandoned Macs on the loading docks signaled the end of the company’s dominance in their fields - now iDevices threaten to reverse those losses, giving control back to the users.

]]> This year’s rather one sided polls in the American election suggest that vote cheating won’t affect many outcomes - but races in 2012 may be tighter and reducing the uncertainties this creates for the economy is both a technology and a leadership challenge.

]]> 134 students, 83 smart phones, 8 laptops - 3 of them macs. Sorry guys, but the PC just isn’t cool anymore. It’s back to the future: the 1980s in this case, this time with different bad guys and better answers.

]]> Look at the new crop of “smartphones” in the context of what happened with the PC - and you’ll predict a race to the bottom as claims for the things escalate and both price and actual functionality fall.

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