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Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols

Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols
Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols, aka sjvn, has been writing about technology and the business of technology since CP/M-80 was the cutting edge, PC operating system; 300bps was a fast Internet connection; WordStar was the state of the art word processor; and we liked it.

His work has been published in everything from highly technical publications (IEEE Computer, ACM NetWorker, Byte) to business publications (eWEEK, InformationWeek, ZDNet) to popular technology (Computer Shopper, PC Magazine, PC World) to the mainstream press (Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, BusinessWeek).

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  • Verizon backs off $2 bill payment charge

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 30, 2011, 2:40pm PST

    The Internet speaks and Verizon is forced to listen.

  • Go Daddy really and truly opposes SOPA now

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 30, 2011, 9:06am PST

    This time Go Daddy really does get off the Stop Online Piracy Act bandwagon. No! Really!

  • Wi-Fi Protected Setup is Busted

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 28, 2011, 1:31pm PST

    You know that easy to setup Wi-Fi access point or router of yours? It turns out that the easy to setup part is also easy to hack: Really easy to hack.

  • 2011’s Five Most Important Networking Stories

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 27, 2011, 2:02pm PST

    Networking and the Internet are shifting under our feet and so is our world.

  • Go Daddy’s SOPA Entanglement

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 25, 2011, 1:44pm PST

    Go Daddy, the prominent Internet domain registry, is still supporting the Stop Online Piracy Act… sort of, kind of

  • Firefox hits the jackpot with almost billion dollar Google deal

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 22, 2011, 1:04pm PST

    We counted Mozilla out of the running too early. With $300-million a year in revenue from Google, Firefox is going to stay a major Web browser player. The big loser? Microsoft.

  • 2011’s Top Ten Pirated TV Shows

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 20, 2011, 10:39am PST

    When everyone illegally downloads TV, movies, and music, isn’t it time for a different business model?

  • Review: Chrome, the Sweet 16 Web Browser?

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 19, 2011, 11:21am PST

    Chrome’s a little slower, but still faster than the rest and it’s still the browser to beat.

  • Internet BitTorrent Spies

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 12, 2011, 12:16pm PST

    Think no one knows what you’ve downloaded off the Internet with BitTorrent? Think again.

  • Opera 11.6: Better but not good enough (Review)

    By Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols | December 7, 2011, 1:20pm PST

    This perpetual also-ran Web browser keeps getting better, but it still lags behind the major Web browsers: Chrome, Firefox, and Internet Explorer.

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