• The Economy of Free

    June 29, 2009

    Malcom Gladwell reviews Free: “The Future of a Radical Price” by Chris Anderson.

  • New Linksys Wireless Router Runs Linux

    June 23, 2009

    Linksys WRT160NL runs Linux. From the product description: Enjoy fast wireless connectivity for your home or home office. The Linux-based Wireless-N Broadband Router with Storage Link is designed to deliver plenty of speed and coverage, so multiple users can go online, transfer large files, print, and stream stored media – all at once, all without [...]

  • Goodbye Film

    June 22, 2009

    First we said good-bye to Polaroid, now it’s Kodachrome. What’s a film sentimentalist to do? After 74 years of making the color film used by many of photography’s greats, Kodak announced Monday that it’s ending Kodachrome’s production. Kodak winds last rolls of Kodachrome

  • iPhone 3GS weekend sales numbers

    June 22, 2009

    More than 1 million iPhone 3G S smartphones have sold in the three days since the new model hit the stores Friday, Apple announced Monday. In addition, 6 million people have downloaded the new iPhone OS 3.0 update in the five days since its release. Jobs: Over 1 million new iPhones sold That is an [...]

  • Network Convergence

    June 18, 2009

    The price of 10GbE plummets over the last year, perhaps prompting uptake of iSCSI and FCoE. Falling Ethernet costs, improved reliability and high availability, and the rise of new protocols like FCoE will change the current data center — and will change everything, I believe, from home computers to large businesses to HPC. Technology may [...]