ThinkPad Futures
In 1992 I was fortunate to have an assignment in IBM’s personal systems group. I had been CFO in the computer integrated manufacturing unit of IBM just prior to that and was quite happy with what I was doing. However, a friend of mine, who was #2 guy in the personal systems group at the […]
WiFi Update No. 10 (The WanderPort)
WiFi is making the Internet “always on” and extending it to more people and more devices at more locations. But what about in the middle of the desert? Or in a disaster recovery situation, or large-scale events and on-location film productions where there may be no electrical and network infrastructure? Enter the WanderPod. From the […]
Library of Congress in Fifteen Minutes
CNet posted a story by Michael Kanellos called "Blazing a New Data Speed Record" (11/30/2004). The net of it (no pun intended) is that a team of researchers from the California Institute of Technology, CERN, Fermilab, England’s University of Manchester, and elsewhere won this year’s Supercomputing Bandwidth Challenge by successfully achieving a sustained data transfer […]
The GIO
Innovation is one of those words that is a bit hard to internalize. Merriam-Webster says innovation is the introduction of something new or a new idea, method, or device. That would be a narrow definition — perhaps even obsolete. Innovation is much more than invention or introducing new technology. Some would say that innovation is […]
Two Percent – Chapter 5
The Census Bureau of the Department of Commerce has announced that their estimate of U.S. retail e-commerce sales for the third quarter of 2004 was $17.6 billion, an increase of 4.7 percent from the second quarter of 2004 and 21.5 percent from the third quarter of 2003. E-commerce sales in the third quarter accounted for […]
