Opinion: Abolish The FCC
Once upon a time, when I was a student of economics and foreign policy, we had to learn about government five-year plans to accomplish this or that. "The central government is marshaling the productive…
Customer Service: The Cost of “You’re Doing It Wrong.”
By Len Grace
It is estimated that poor customer service has cost the Cable/Satellite Industry over $12 billion in lost revenues over the past year, ahead of the financial services industry with more than $10 billion in…
The Hits Keep on Rolling in Online Video for the Year of Data
Media agencies and brands are hungry for data – they want better data that they can use to target their potential customers. That’s why I took a detailed look in this week’s New Media…
5 Tips To Avoid Violating NDAs
I really dislike non-disclosure agreements, but NDAs are a fact of life in the IT industry. Even folks like me that actively avoid NDAs sometimes have to sign the paperwork to gain access to…
Is This a Cloud Revolution?
One of the things that need re-engineering in the deployment of cloud computing is that I find that often times the thought of how it fits into an organization seems to be incongruent with…
Surprise! App Store Piracy, Like Piracy in General, Isn’t a Big Deal.
I spotted a surprising article today over at Gizmodo. It was surprising not for the fact that it deemed talked about piracy in general, but the attitude it treated piracy. The story focused around…
Opsource Updates Cloud Offering, Continues Enterprise & Channel Push
By Nate D'Amico
Today cloud and infrastructure service provider Opsource continues to evolve their cloud offering with the introduction of a handful of new features that should help greatly fuel future enterprise adoption. All of these updates…
How Do You Determine Data Center Power Rates?
Am making a spreadsheet comparing different products and looking at longer term costs, maintenance, power, cooling, and such. I felt that rather than scrubbing the DOE sites and trying to get power costs by…
Why is Austin More “Exclusive” than Washington DC?
[Editor’s Note: Those of us that are going to SxSWi this year are congregating over at the SxSWi Group on SiliconANGLE. Feel free to drop in and let us know what you’re looking forward…
Windows Phone 7 Series Won’t Work on Existing Devices?
How sad. This is just Windows Vista all over again. In efforts to make us buy new hardware, Windows Phone 7 will not work on devices slower than 1ghz and with more than 3…