David Coursey, Author at SiliconANGLE

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Hooray for the 8-inch floppy disks that protect America

By David Coursey May 8, 2014

The moral of this story is that old technology isn’t necessarily bad technology. And it is a commentary on not replacing something while it is still working just fine. At SiliconANGLE, we are strongly…

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Will the Cloud save Apple?

By David Coursey May 7, 2014

Can the Cloud save Apple? At first, it seems a silly question. How can a company at the top of tech pyramid need saving? And what does the cloud have to do with it?…

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If Microsoft continues developing Nokia’s Android phones, that’s fine by me

By David Coursey May 2, 2014

We are now a week into Microsoft’s ownership of Nokia’s handset business and, contrary to some media reports that the pairing “changes everything,” not much seems to have changed. It will be years, not…

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Note to Box’s Aaron Levie: You’re screwed!

By David Coursey May 1, 2014

Box.com CEO Aaron Levie has just written the most (unintentionally) funny thing I’ve read recently. He’s responding to Microsoft’s announcement that it is raising the storage quota on OneDrive for Business from 25GB to…

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80% percent of businesses should dump Microsoft Office? Not hardly

By David Coursey Apr 30, 2014

Businesses using Microsoft Office could save money by switching to something else, says a company that (surprise!) helps businesses dump Microsoft’s apps suite and move to Google’s. My reaction: Extremely cautious. Application analytics company…

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The FCC, OpenSSL and the worst month in Internet history

By David Coursey Apr 24, 2014

I had understood that appointing the former head of the cable television industry and wireless lobbies as chairman of the FCC was not a good thing. I did not, however, understand how bad it…

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Heartbleed is a Walletbleed, too

By David Coursey Apr 24, 2014

How much has Heartbleed cost us? CloudFlare has posted a blog talking about the costs — laughably small in my view — of revoking and reissuing security certificates. This will be expensive, extrapolating into…

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Aereo case threatens TV, not the cloud

By David Coursey Apr 23, 2014

USA Today gets it wrong when it claims the future of cloud computing hangs in the balance as the U.S. Supreme Court considers a case brought against start-up Aereo by the major television networks.…

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Playing the Heartbleed blame game

By David Coursey Apr 16, 2014

Someone would have to be pretty dense not to blame open-source for the global catastrophe that is the Heartbleed bug. But that hasn’t stopped InfoWorld from trying. “Stop laying the blame for Heartbleed on…

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Is Heartbleed the sum of our open source fears?

By David Coursey Apr 14, 2014

Whatever trust a sane person could have in the Internet was lost last week, thanks to idealism and cheapness. The awfulness that is Heartbleed would have been difficult to imagine, except it is now…

David Coursey

Hooray for the 8-inch floppy disks that protect America

If Microsoft continues developing Nokia’s Android phones, that’s fine by me

Note to Box’s Aaron Levie: You’re screwed!

The FCC, OpenSSL and the worst month in Internet history

Heartbleed is a Walletbleed, too

Aereo case threatens TV, not the cloud

Playing the Heartbleed blame game

Is Heartbleed the sum of our open source fears?

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