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How Google and Microsoft can stop .sucks
Google and Microsoft can do the world a favor by stopping the upcoming .sucks top-level domain damn near dead in its tracks. How? Simply by not indexing anything with a .sucks domain extension on…
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No, really, the PC is not dying (and why I still need one)
I understand it fits Wired‘s worldview, but that doesn’t make it true. I am talking about its latest entry in the “PC is dead” sweepstakes, in which the imminent death of something — what,…
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Mobile will decide Marissa Mayer’s fate at Yahoo
If Yahoo! Inc. were still a high-profile company, CEO Marissa Mayer would not have lasted this long. It’s almost like falling up, the way Mayer survives as Yahoo becomes less and less relevant. Nothing…
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What Office 2016 for Mac says about Nadella’s “new” Microsoft
Microsoft is out with a free preview of Office 2016 for Mac, software that clearly demonstrates the changes that have taken place in Redmond as the company moves to a cloud first, mobile first…
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CDC data predicts death of landline home phones
A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds wired residential telephones have disappeared from nearly half of American homes. By next year, a majority of homes will likely be landline…
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Six things I know in advance about the FCC’s Net Neutrality vote
On Thursday, the FCC is scheduled to vote — probably over the objection of its two Republican members — on Chairman Tom Wheeler’s plan to regulate the Internet as a common carrier in order…
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I was wrong: Microsoft is still killing Dropbox
This is the first time I’ve ever followed up a “looks like I was wrong” column with one saying “or maybe I was wrong about that.” Just the other day, I called back my position that…
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End Apple’s iPhone bait-and-switch, kill 16GB iPhone
For those on tight budgets, standing at the counter trying to decide “which iPhone” is a tough decision. Apple is a past master at overcharging for memory, so the difference between today’s entry-level 16GB…
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Surprised me: Microsoft won’t kill Dropbox
This is not how things were supposed to work out. Several years ago, I theorized that once Microsoft, Apple and others got their acts together, the spaces inhabited by Dropbox, Box and the other…
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Bezos wrong, FAA right on drones
By tiptoeing into drone approval, the Federal Aviation Administration is doing precisely what it is supposed to do: Provide for safe air travel and the safe use of airspace. The FAA does not exist…