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Dystopia In The Lovely Walled Gardens

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 31, 2011. With each passing day, our experience of computing and communicating gets more restricted.  We hardly notice as the walls go up around what we can do on the Internet.  Some people never knew we had any freedoms in this domain to begin with.  Others shrug and [...]

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Shadow Market Keeps Computer Components Flowing

by Roger Kay on April 16, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post initially appeared on Forbes.com March 28, 2011. Minutes after the earthquake and tsunami hit the coast of Japan March 11, Tony Prophet, chief of supply chain operations at Hewlett-Packard (HP), was up and out of bed to see what could be done.  It was 3:30 a.m. California time and Prophet hopped on the [...]

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Apple Follows Sun Tzu, Knocks Off Competing Generals

by Peter Kastner on April 1, 2011 in Mobile Technology

Sun Tzu, the maybe historical Chinese general, is a favorite for tech motivational speakers, with a war-making philosophy that can be summarized as “avoid direct military conflict when other means suffice”. Real or imaginary, Sun Tzu would be proud of what Apple has done to its competitors. I’ve had to copy my envelope-back to a [...]

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Gaming the Q1-2011 PC Numbers

by Peter Kastner on March 30, 2011 in Personal Computing

With the end of the first quarter of 2011 at hand, this analyst sits with a cup of coffee and some thoughts on how the PC industry did in Q1. The short answer is: mediocre. The reasons are atypical and not apt to be repeated. As a caveat, let me deny any knowledge of anybody’s [...]

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This Ain’t Yer Grandpaw’s nVidia

by Roger Kay on March 27, 2011 in Personal Computing

This post first appeared on Forbes.com March 14, 2011. Jen-Hsun Huang held forth in his usual manner last week before an audience of industry analysts at nVidia headquarters in Santa Clara, CA. He was a bit chagrined because the day before he had given the same lecture to a group of financial analysts, and the [...]

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