Kindle 2

The “e-book” — replacing the paper book with something electronic — is not a new idea. Project Gutenberg started in 1971 and now has a collection of more than 25,000 books which have been digitized. Digital books can be read on a PC and there are various software offerings that can enable you to read […]

Vertical

The first issue of PC Magazine back in the summer of 1981 was a thrill to read and it was sad news this week that Ziff Davis Media has decided to cease publishing the magazine. “The viability for us to continue to publish in print just isn’t there anymore,” Jason Young, chief executive of Ziff […]

NASA 50th

There are more than a billion Internet users in the world and tens of billions of web pages. Things were quite different in 1994 when I first showed the world wide web to the senior management team of IBM. Most of the web sites at that time were government or education related and my favorite […]

Mediazone

The 4:45 AM departure from home last Sunday was not a barrel of fun but the flight to San Francisco was uneventful and was followed by a visit with Mediazone in Palo Alto where they were having a management conference. Mediazone is an extremely interesting company that I was not previously familiar with. They are […]

How To Remove AOL Advertising – Part 2

A number of readers have sent me feedback about the AOL advertising trailer in their email. One person was extremely happy and had been trying to get rid of the ads for a very long time. His response to the blog post was "Bless you!". Not sure if deserves a blessing but a number of […]