The on again off again potential collaboration between Microsoft and Yahoo seems to be on again. Of course, the merger of giant internet companies is nothing new to the vast world of cyberspace business. And ever since Google pretty much took over the world in regards to online activity, both these two huge companies have been playing footsie about merging, buying each other out or working together in some fashion
If you used Surveymonkey to create a poll and asked people what social networks like Facebook and Twitter are for, you would get a lot of answers. Probably the most popular answers would be for fun, to share pictures and to keep up with friends and family
There is something perverse about an attacker who would fool us into downloading a very destructive package of malware and viruses by using our desire to make our passwords more secure as a way to make us less secure.
It has been observed that many times a former president of the United States does more good after he leaves office than during his term
The ability to simply speak to a machine and have it respond flawlessly has been the stuff of science fiction for a long time. Just consider the wonderful relationship between HAL and the human astronauts in the movie 2001 A Space Odyssey
The justification and pay offs for business and for employees for promoting more telecommuting are well known. That is why it is so surprising that employers seem to be dragging their feet on offering work at home programs for their employees so that they can sponsor a strong telecommuting program for their staff. But a recent study that was sponsored by Microsoft using an online survey reflects that the percentage of companies offering this option is far below the level of interest in employees to participate in such a program
It was just a matter of time. It seems anytime a technology company demonstrates tremendous success, the government gets their nose out of joint about it. Last December it was Intel’s turn to see the FTC file a lawsuit against them for anticompetitive practices. Now an FTC investigation is nothing to sneeze at. And to say that Intel does not dominate the computer processor chip market would be silly. In fact, if you ask just about anyone on the street to name a company that makes computer chips, the only company they will be able to name will probably be Intel.
As a rule, the less government sticks their nose into how business works, the better things go. In some cases, government intervention is necessary such as to break up a company that is hurting the markets or to make working conditions humane in the workplace. But our economy thrives on as little intervention [...]
The Federal Communications Commission or the FCC is a part of the federal government. Its right there as the first word in their title – “Federal”. The government does a lot of things, some we like and others we don’t like so much. But overall, we pretty much have a system in place where the taxes that are collected by the government pay for their programs. It isn’t a perfect system, but it is our system for the moment.
This is an entirely new kind of technology for anyone to offer and it will take some skilled marketing and deployment experts to make it a success. If the service is too expensive for customers, they will not see the value. But the costs of hardware, internet access and support will have to be absorbed somehow. If the advertising revenue alone can do that, Google TV may explode onto the cultural landscape like nothing ever before. But there are a lot of questions to be answered before that can happen. But with this kind of potent partnership and the visionary leadership of Google, we can be assured that the Google TV revolution is coming and it will not something to be ignored
