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New Datacenter Realities: IBM Enables Customers to Run More Energy-Efficient Datacenters
When people talk about efficient datacenters, they're not usually talking about energy efficiency. Check out this white paper to learn how products from IBM can help you reduce energy waste in...
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Tech pros: We WANT Uncle Sam to help defend cyberspace
Yes, many of you agree with the White House--that defending cyberspace is primarily a job for private enterprise. But almost as many of you believe that government should play an aggressive role,...
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Why we should hail IBM's ode to open source
In an unprecedented display of openness, IBM bared the soul of its first PC through a plastic-covered technical reference manual. But this relic not only made way for the birth of an entire...
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The Osborne: a huggable, luggable
The Osborne looked like a portable Singer sewing machine. It weighed 24 pounds, had two disk drives and a little five-inch, 52-character display, but Anchordesk's Patrick Houston loved it.
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Car computers: Unsafe at any speed!
Like drinking and driving, computing and cruising don't mix.
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A new national army: MS, GE, GM?
U.S. security coordinator Richard Clarke says a new kind of civil defense -- led by corporations -- is needed to protect the nation's infrastructure and information systems.
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Tackling the Net's biggest issue
In the national life, policy controversies are common. They are as regular and routine to American democracy as breathing itself. But the number of great debates, especially in the post Cold War...
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Who stands astride the 'new' AOL?
In announcing their merger, AOL and Time Warner also cited their combined executive 'bench strength.' Here's why.
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Gateway's Weitzen: Low-profile, fast track
He's young, he's rich and he's the highest profile PC exec nobody's ever heard of. No longer.
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Why is Macromedia's CEO unhappy?
He's righted his company and set the stage for a prosperous future. But that's not the way Rob Burgess likes it.
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MSN surprises with $2 fee hike
Against expectations, Microsoft rises rates for Net access. President Steve Ballmer argues MSN's pricing is 'aggressive' -- but analysts are skeptical.
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PC makers -- Who's hot and who's not
IDC uses its annual outlook conference to name the manufacturers that are on fire -- and on ice.
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Disney: Naughton not our employee
Company distances itself from fallen exec, saying he asserted no control over content or operations of its biggest online destinations.
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Infoseek exec nabbed in sex scandal
Executive VP Patrick Naughton arrested for allegedly using chat and e-mail to solicit undercover agent posing as a 13-year-old girl.
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How eToys gets mommy to buy
The VP of merchandising explains the ways the online toy retailer makes products appear as alluring as along a real aisle.
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Review: 'Coercion' points the finger
Douglas Rushkoff's new book has the Net's 'cult of consumption' in its crosshairs.
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What makes Rushkoff run (and write)
Is the new media thinker informed by a particular worldview? Put it this way: It predates the Net by 5,000 years.
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Inside the belly of the technobeast
New media thinker Douglas Rushkoff takes aim at technocapitalism.
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Jurassic lark: Dell IDs world's oldest PC
And these aren't just fossil remains. It found the system still at work -- for a patent attorney in Winnetka, Ill.
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Analysis: MS plays politics with IM
The company’s move to open its instant messaging protocol represents Microsoft at its Machiavellian best.
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Peacemakers take on MS-AOL
Meet the two technologists charged with creating the protocol -- and peace pact -- that could end the MS-AOL impasse.
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