In “Inside the Great Firewall of China” (FORTUNE, March 20, 2006), the cover story mentioned on page 32: The sharpest barbs have been hurled at Google. The company, famous for its “Don’t be evil” motto, announced earlier this year that it has deployed a separate, politically correct site for users in China, which blocks access… Read More: Great Firewall of China? »
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: The cowboy and the yuppie »
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: Bizarre bazaar »
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: Google reaching for the stars »
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: Origami: Death of the Tablet PC as we know it? »
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: Upgraded motherboard = new computer, says Microsoft »