An old joke, but makes you think hard about the “wonders” of technology and why “con”sultants are a much loathed bunch, especially in IT. A cowboy was herding his herd in a remote pasture when suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced out of a dust cloud towards him. The driver, a young man in a Brioni… Read More »
Crushed at having missed this year’s World Cow Chip Throwing Championship? Arrived in Las Vegas too late to show your hand in the 31st Annual World Series of Poker? It is amazing how many things are happening in the world around us every day. Welcome to What’s Going On, where you can be prepared by… Read More »
First, there was Google Earth, a three-dimensional, satellite-based mapping service that allows you to view any area of the Earth in detail. Then came Google Moon, which shows locations of all six Apollo moon landings. Yesterday, Google expanded its galactic reach by launching Google Mars, on the occasion of the 151st birth anniversary of Percival… Read More »
Whichever way you call it – Origami, Ultra Mobile PC or Lifestyle PC, it’s hard not to get sucked into too much of the hype generated from CeBIT. Like the Tablet PC and Pocket PC that came before it, Origami uses the pen as its main mode of input, although some prototypes are slates with… Read More »
Tech blogs are fizzing with rage at the fine print in Microsoft’s new Windows licensing policy. The software behemoth recently made a change to its license agreement saying that a new motherboard is equal to a new computer, hence a new Windows OEM license must be purchased if a motherboard is changed or upgraded. Here… Read More »
In the February 20, 2006 issue of FORTUNE, Jonathan Baron, a 61-year-old psychology professor at the University of Pennslyvania said, “We have a natural tendency to dismiss our sins of omission. We take harms of action to be worse than harms of inaction.” (page 80)So is lying worse than withholding the truth? And is killing… Read More »