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Tom Foremski

Tom Foremski is a former Financial Times journalist. He has been covering Silicon Valley since his arrival from London in 1984. In May 2004 he became the first journalist to leave a major newspaper to make a living as a journalist blogger, publishing Silicon Valley Watcher - reporting on the business and culture of innovation.

Tom’s understanding of diverse technologies and his access to global business leaders, make him one of the most prominent media influencers in the technology world.

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Subsidies and the Net: How Much is Enough?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

Google is the world’s single largest user of Internet bandwidth. But it doesn’t have to pay for most of the bandwidth it consumes, in the form of its spiderbots copying web pages, and YouTube video streams. A study in December 2008 estimated …

The Inside Scoop: Newspapers Hate Attribution

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

The New York Times published this on its ‘Corrections‘ section: …a Times reporter appears to have improperly appropriated wording and passages published by other news organizations. The reporter, Zachery Kouwe, reused language from The Wall Street Journal, Reuters and other sources without …

iPad, iHad: Apple and Its Propensity to Delete

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

David Ridsdale pointed me to this excellent article by Frederic Filloux: The iParanoid Scenario. He writes about French privacy laws that enable judges to rule that a news magazine, or any other type of publication, has to be with withdrawn because it …

Google Buzz Might Naturally Repel Self-Promoters

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

I’m still trying to figure out the best way to use Google Buzz. But, already, I’ve had to ‘unfollow’ people such as Robert Scoble and Louis Gray because they are way too ‘noisy’ they crowd out everyone else in my stream. I …

MySpace is Not Yet Dead

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

Om Malik over on GigaOm seems to confuse office politics at MySpace with the demise of the social network. Rupert Murdoch’s $580 million MySpace purchase has outlived not only its utility, but has also finally hit its expiration date. That last step …

We Need New Computing Architecture

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

Irving Wladawsky-Berger is a former chief strategist at IBM and he has also worked as GM of IBM’s supercomputer group. In this post: Extreme Scale Computing he explains the challenges that supercomputers face in reaching the next stage: 1,000 times more powerful …

Will About.com Be On The Chopping Block?

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

Niki Scevak, over on Bronte Media has a knack for delving into financial numbers and coming up with a new angle on familiar stories. Here, he takes a look at the New York Times Company’s recent financial quarter, which was generally considered …

It Takes Two Men to Replace SAP CEO Léo Apotheker

NEWS By TOM FOREMSKI17 YEARS AGO

SAP, the world’s largest business software company, said Léo Apotheker has been replaced as CEO. The SAP Executive Board, in agreement with the SAP Supervisory Board, has appointed two Co-CEOs: Bill McDermott, head of field organization and Jim Hagemann Snabe, head of …

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