Influencers
- Spencer Ante: The Return Of The Tech IPO; Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000 (BusinessWeek, Jan. 8)
When the stock market reached the height of irrational exuberance in 2000, the bubble was filled largely with the hopes of technology startups going public. That year, 170 high-tech companies sold nearly $19 billion of stock to investors in initial public offerings.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_02/b4016044.htm?chan=tc&campaign_id=rss_tech
- Richard Waters: Electronics groups sued over Bluetooth (FT, Jan. 3)
A research foundation backed by the state of Washington has sued three of the world’s biggest consumer electronics makers over claims that they have infringed a series of patents surrounding the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c48366ba-9ace-11db-bbd2-0000779e2340.html
- Richard Waters: YouTube software threat to Google plans (FT, Dec. 30)
YouTube’s failure to complete a key piece of anti-piracy software as promised could represent a serious obstacle to efforts by Google, its new owner, to forge closer relations with the media and entertainment industry.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d216ae02-97a1-11db-a680-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
- Richard Waters: The hunt for the next web winner (FT, Dec. 29)
This will go down as the year the second internet mania was born. It was the year when Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube, the site for amateur videos, less than 12 months after YouTube was launched; when MySpace attracted more page views in the US than Yahoo; when Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, became one of the 10 most-visited websites; and when Time magazine made “You” (in praise of those who use websites like these for self-expression) its “Person of the Year”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aeb4e688-96aa-11db-8ba1-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=ceecf842-3b01-11da-a2fe-00000e2511c8.html
- Richard Waters: Stock options backdating haunts Apple (FT, Dec. 29)
Try as it may, Apple Computer seems unable to put its stock options backdating scandal to rest. While the company has already cleared all of its current executives of blame and Steve Jobs, the chief executive, has apologised for the lapses, the matter continues to shed an unflattering light on internal practices at one of the world’s most successful technology and consumer electronics companies.
https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Stock+options+backdating+haunts+Apple&location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/87d36762-96ad-11db-8ba1-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=61e21220-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
- Yuki Noguchi: Friends at Hand And In Your Face (Wash Post, Dec. 29)
Taking one's social life and translating it for the phone has become one of the most hyped business concepts in recent months. Such services take advantage of the fact that most phones can track a user's location, as well as document events through cameras, video and text.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801244.html
- John Gapper: Ignore the storm warnings (FT, Dec. 27)
The cliché of 2006, in business and financial markets, was “the perfect storm”. Hardly any disruption occurred without somebody comparing it to the 1991 clash of weather systems off the north-east of the US that caused a fierce tempest.
https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ignore+the+storm+warnings+&location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/e6d1c3da-950e-11db-a911-0000779e2340.html
- Steven Levy: Gaming: Embedded In Azeroth (Newsweek, Dec. 25)
To get an inside look at World of Warcraft—a "massively multiplayer online role-playing game" with 7 million addicted players—Levy became an embedded journalist. The idea was to tag along with one of the elite "guilds" of experienced players who engage in well-choreographed raids.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16243410/site/newsweek/
- Rob Pegoraro: Innovators Were the Big Winners in 2006 (Wash Post, Dec. 31)
To succeed, computing and electronics firms need to reinvent themselves regularly, not just their products. Doing business in the same old way only invites competitors to leap ahead.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000084.html
- John Markoff: Copyright Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms (NYT, Jan. 3)
Online distribution of movies has arrived, at places like Apple Computer’s iTunes Store. Intertainer filed a broad lawsuit asserting that Apple, Google and Napster are infringing on a 2005 patent that covers the commercial distribution of audio and video over the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03patent.html?adxnnl=1&ref=business&adxnnlx=1167834859-vKfftzAN/Gk2thTWeY0IqA
- John Markoff: Studios' DVDs Face a Crack In Security (NYT, Jan. 1)
An anonymous computer programmer may have skewed the competition over standards for high-definition DVD discs by possibly defeating a scheme that both sides use to protect digital content.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/technology/01hack.html
- John Markoff: Apple Panel On Options Backs Chief (NYT, Dec. 30)
Apple Computer said that a special committee of its board had found that its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, was not responsible for improper dating of stock options at the company. To account for the backdating, Apple restated its financial reporting back to 2002 and took an $84 million charge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/business/30apple.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1167488248-X3pqgmzvirIpy7ZhbFh5fg
- John Markoff: Security Experts Say Risky Flaws Exist in New Microsoft System (NYT, Dec. 25)
Microsoft is facing early crisis of confidence in quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in system that was released to corporate customers in late November.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technology/25vista.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1167022800&en=67d067ceedf719aa&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
- Kevin Maney: Mass collaboration could change way companies operate; Outside labor gets easier with tech (USA Today, Dec. 27)
The "company," as we've known it for almost a century, is about to go the way of vinyl albums, floppy disks and perked coffee. It is about to get wikified. Or starfished. Or cracked open like a beehive hit with a baseball bat.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2006-12-26-wikinomics_x.htm
- John Dvorak: Top Ten Stories and Trends of 2006; It was an odd year, but these items did manage to stand out (PC Mag, Jan. 2)
2006 was one of the oddest years in computerdom memory. What exactly happened? Let's look at the top stories and trends to see if any themes emerge that will help us figure out what's going to happen next.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2078268,00.asp
- John Dvorak: Hate Deep Linking? Lock the Door, Dummy! Let's not place blame where it doesn't belong (PC Mag, Dec. 27)
Here comes the deep-link bugaboo once again. Run, kids, run! You have to wonder exactly how dumb the executives at Google, Yahoo!, and even Microsoft are when a case waltzes through a court in Texas that not only directly affects their respective businesses but has the potential to bankrupt at least two of these companies.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2077559,00.asp
- David Pogue: Fewer Excuses For Not Doing A PC Backup (NYT, Jan. 4)
If there’s one New Year’s resolution even more likely to fail than “I vow to lose weight,” it’s “I vow to start backing up my computer.” After all, setting up and remembering to use a backup system is a huge hassle.
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/ZNYT01/701040351&cachetime=5
- David Pogue: Try to Play Nice, Wicked Wide Web (NYT, Dec. 31)
In 2006, the big Internet news was “Web 2.0” — that is, participatory Web sites, like YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia, Digg and Flickr, which relied on material supplied by the audience itself. these explosively popular sites, the Web is not so much a publication as a global conversation.
http://www.promocharger.com/9601/try-to-play-nice-wicked-wide-web-new-york-times.php
- David Pogue: Brilliant Ideas That Found A Welcome (NYT, Dec. 28)
It may take a village to raise a child, but that’s a trivial task compared with the act of bringing a new electronic gadget to market. Marketers determine what the masses want, product managers guide the design, engineers bring the thing to life — it’s a lot of cooks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/technology/28pogue.html?ex=1324962000&en=ad8fb3faef4a8985&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- David Pogue: Cellphones That Track The Kids (NYT, Dec. 21)
Let's face it: we're in love with the idea of secret location trackers. In "The Da Vinci Code," the bad guys slap a location-tracking button onto Tom Hanks's clothing. In "The Matrix," a location-tracking scorpion robot crawls into Keanu Reeves's abdomen.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/21/technology/web.1221kids.php
- Jon Van: Computer-TV connection pits hobbyists against pros (Chicago Tribune, Jan. 3)
Major players are choosing different sides. AT&T Inc. in November launched Homezone, which enables customers to move photos and music from their computers to TV/stereo systems, as well as converge high-speed Internet content with satellite TV.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0701030062jan03,0,2818898.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: AT&T bends, wins deal OK; FCC approves BellSouth buyout after giant agrees to maintain `net neutrality' for 2 years (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 30)
A compromise proposed by AT&T Inc. to win federal approval of its $85 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. signals how much the impending takeover of Congress by Democrats has shifted telecom's regulatory landscape.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0612300084dec30,1,3507724.story?coll=chi-politics-topheadlines
- Jon Van: In a wireless world, quality to count more; As WiMax ramps up, mobile networks face service challenges (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 29)
Cell phone popularity is phenomenal, with nearly 230 million now operating in the U.S.--far more than the 125 million households estimated to have wired lines. Still, for most people reliable communications without dropped calls or fading signals means getting a wired connection.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0612290139dec29,0,389474.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: Brain cells in sync to gain full attention (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 25)
Researchers at Northwestern University have become mindreaders in an effort to determine what happens in our brains when we concentrate our full attention on something.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0612250077dec25,0,6030164.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: FCC backs phone giants; Decision makes it easier for AT&T, Verizon to challenge cable TV for video business (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21)
Federal regulators moved to ease phone company entrance into the video business, an action that some industry watchers say could increase cable television competition and ultimately lower rates for some consumers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-061220battle,0,6455817.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Eric Auchard: Facial recognition makes finding Web photos easier (Reuters, Dec. 19)
Swedish start-up Polar Rose AB aims to make it easy to find photos of familiar faces online. Polar Rose said it plans to offer free software to make photos searchable on both personal computers and across the Web by analyzing the contents of pictures with pattern recognition technology to locate specific faces within them.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-19T102052Z_01_N19231410_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-RECOGNITION.XML
- Spencer Ante: The Return Of The Tech IPO; Silicon Valley pundits are predicting 2007 will be the biggest year since 2000 (BusinessWeek, Jan. 8)
When the stock market reached the height of irrational exuberance in 2000, the bubble was filled largely with the hopes of technology startups going public. That year, 170 high-tech companies sold nearly $19 billion of stock to investors in initial public offerings.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/07_02/b4016044.htm?chan=tc&campaign_id=rss_tech
- Richard Waters: Electronics groups sued over Bluetooth (FT, Jan. 3)
A research foundation backed by the state of Washington has sued three of the world’s biggest consumer electronics makers over claims that they have infringed a series of patents surrounding the Bluetooth short-range wireless technology.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/c48366ba-9ace-11db-bbd2-0000779e2340.html
- Richard Waters: YouTube software threat to Google plans (FT, Dec. 30)
YouTube’s failure to complete a key piece of anti-piracy software as promised could represent a serious obstacle to efforts by Google, its new owner, to forge closer relations with the media and entertainment industry.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/d216ae02-97a1-11db-a680-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=6700d4e4-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
- Richard Waters: The hunt for the next web winner (FT, Dec. 29)
This will go down as the year the second internet mania was born. It was the year when Google paid $1.65bn for YouTube, the site for amateur videos, less than 12 months after YouTube was launched; when MySpace attracted more page views in the US than Yahoo; when Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia written by volunteers, became one of the 10 most-visited websites; and when Time magazine made “You” (in praise of those who use websites like these for self-expression) its “Person of the Year”.
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/aeb4e688-96aa-11db-8ba1-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=ceecf842-3b01-11da-a2fe-00000e2511c8.html
- Richard Waters: Stock options backdating haunts Apple (FT, Dec. 29)
Try as it may, Apple Computer seems unable to put its stock options backdating scandal to rest. While the company has already cleared all of its current executives of blame and Steve Jobs, the chief executive, has apologised for the lapses, the matter continues to shed an unflattering light on internal practices at one of the world’s most successful technology and consumer electronics companies.
https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Stock+options+backdating+haunts+Apple&location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/87d36762-96ad-11db-8ba1-0000779e2340,_i_rssPage=61e21220-6714-11da-a650-0000779e2340.html
- Yuki Noguchi: Friends at Hand And In Your Face (Wash Post, Dec. 29)
Taking one's social life and translating it for the phone has become one of the most hyped business concepts in recent months. Such services take advantage of the fact that most phones can track a user's location, as well as document events through cameras, video and text.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/28/AR2006122801244.html
- John Gapper: Ignore the storm warnings (FT, Dec. 27)
The cliché of 2006, in business and financial markets, was “the perfect storm”. Hardly any disruption occurred without somebody comparing it to the 1991 clash of weather systems off the north-east of the US that caused a fierce tempest.
https://registration.ft.com/registration/barrier?referer=http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=Ignore+the+storm+warnings+&location=http%3A//www.ft.com/cms/s/e6d1c3da-950e-11db-a911-0000779e2340.html
- Steven Levy: Gaming: Embedded In Azeroth (Newsweek, Dec. 25)
To get an inside look at World of Warcraft—a "massively multiplayer online role-playing game" with 7 million addicted players—Levy became an embedded journalist. The idea was to tag along with one of the elite "guilds" of experienced players who engage in well-choreographed raids.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16243410/site/newsweek/
- Rob Pegoraro: Innovators Were the Big Winners in 2006 (Wash Post, Dec. 31)
To succeed, computing and electronics firms need to reinvent themselves regularly, not just their products. Doing business in the same old way only invites competitors to leap ahead.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/12/30/AR2006123000084.html
- John Markoff: Copyright Lawsuit Names Leading Technology Firms (NYT, Jan. 3)
Online distribution of movies has arrived, at places like Apple Computer’s iTunes Store. Intertainer filed a broad lawsuit asserting that Apple, Google and Napster are infringing on a 2005 patent that covers the commercial distribution of audio and video over the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/technology/03patent.html?adxnnl=1&ref=business&adxnnlx=1167834859-vKfftzAN/Gk2thTWeY0IqA
- John Markoff: Studios' DVDs Face a Crack In Security (NYT, Jan. 1)
An anonymous computer programmer may have skewed the competition over standards for high-definition DVD discs by possibly defeating a scheme that both sides use to protect digital content.
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/technology/01hack.html
- John Markoff: Apple Panel On Options Backs Chief (NYT, Dec. 30)
Apple Computer said that a special committee of its board had found that its chief executive, Steven P. Jobs, was not responsible for improper dating of stock options at the company. To account for the backdating, Apple restated its financial reporting back to 2002 and took an $84 million charge.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/business/30apple.html?_r=1&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1167488248-X3pqgmzvirIpy7ZhbFh5fg
- John Markoff: Security Experts Say Risky Flaws Exist in New Microsoft System (NYT, Dec. 25)
Microsoft is facing early crisis of confidence in quality of its Windows Vista operating system as computer security researchers and hackers have begun to find potentially serious flaws in system that was released to corporate customers in late November.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/technology/25vista.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1167022800&en=67d067ceedf719aa&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin
- Kevin Maney: Mass collaboration could change way companies operate; Outside labor gets easier with tech (USA Today, Dec. 27)
The "company," as we've known it for almost a century, is about to go the way of vinyl albums, floppy disks and perked coffee. It is about to get wikified. Or starfished. Or cracked open like a beehive hit with a baseball bat.
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/columnist/kevinmaney/2006-12-26-wikinomics_x.htm
- John Dvorak: Top Ten Stories and Trends of 2006; It was an odd year, but these items did manage to stand out (PC Mag, Jan. 2)
2006 was one of the oddest years in computerdom memory. What exactly happened? Let's look at the top stories and trends to see if any themes emerge that will help us figure out what's going to happen next.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2078268,00.asp
- John Dvorak: Hate Deep Linking? Lock the Door, Dummy! Let's not place blame where it doesn't belong (PC Mag, Dec. 27)
Here comes the deep-link bugaboo once again. Run, kids, run! You have to wonder exactly how dumb the executives at Google, Yahoo!, and even Microsoft are when a case waltzes through a court in Texas that not only directly affects their respective businesses but has the potential to bankrupt at least two of these companies.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2077559,00.asp
- David Pogue: Fewer Excuses For Not Doing A PC Backup (NYT, Jan. 4)
If there’s one New Year’s resolution even more likely to fail than “I vow to lose weight,” it’s “I vow to start backing up my computer.” After all, setting up and remembering to use a backup system is a huge hassle.
http://www.timesdaily.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070104/ZNYT01/701040351&cachetime=5
- David Pogue: Try to Play Nice, Wicked Wide Web (NYT, Dec. 31)
In 2006, the big Internet news was “Web 2.0” — that is, participatory Web sites, like YouTube, MySpace, Wikipedia, Digg and Flickr, which relied on material supplied by the audience itself. these explosively popular sites, the Web is not so much a publication as a global conversation.
http://www.promocharger.com/9601/try-to-play-nice-wicked-wide-web-new-york-times.php
- David Pogue: Brilliant Ideas That Found A Welcome (NYT, Dec. 28)
It may take a village to raise a child, but that’s a trivial task compared with the act of bringing a new electronic gadget to market. Marketers determine what the masses want, product managers guide the design, engineers bring the thing to life — it’s a lot of cooks.
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/28/technology/28pogue.html?ex=1324962000&en=ad8fb3faef4a8985&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss
- David Pogue: Cellphones That Track The Kids (NYT, Dec. 21)
Let's face it: we're in love with the idea of secret location trackers. In "The Da Vinci Code," the bad guys slap a location-tracking button onto Tom Hanks's clothing. In "The Matrix," a location-tracking scorpion robot crawls into Keanu Reeves's abdomen.
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/21/technology/web.1221kids.php
- Jon Van: Computer-TV connection pits hobbyists against pros (Chicago Tribune, Jan. 3)
Major players are choosing different sides. AT&T Inc. in November launched Homezone, which enables customers to move photos and music from their computers to TV/stereo systems, as well as converge high-speed Internet content with satellite TV.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0701030062jan03,0,2818898.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: AT&T bends, wins deal OK; FCC approves BellSouth buyout after giant agrees to maintain `net neutrality' for 2 years (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 30)
A compromise proposed by AT&T Inc. to win federal approval of its $85 billion acquisition of BellSouth Corp. signals how much the impending takeover of Congress by Democrats has shifted telecom's regulatory landscape.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/politics/chi-0612300084dec30,1,3507724.story?coll=chi-politics-topheadlines
- Jon Van: In a wireless world, quality to count more; As WiMax ramps up, mobile networks face service challenges (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 29)
Cell phone popularity is phenomenal, with nearly 230 million now operating in the U.S.--far more than the 125 million households estimated to have wired lines. Still, for most people reliable communications without dropped calls or fading signals means getting a wired connection.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0612290139dec29,0,389474.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: Brain cells in sync to gain full attention (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 25)
Researchers at Northwestern University have become mindreaders in an effort to determine what happens in our brains when we concentrate our full attention on something.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-0612250077dec25,0,6030164.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Jon Van: FCC backs phone giants; Decision makes it easier for AT&T, Verizon to challenge cable TV for video business (Chicago Tribune, Dec. 21)
Federal regulators moved to ease phone company entrance into the video business, an action that some industry watchers say could increase cable television competition and ultimately lower rates for some consumers.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-061220battle,0,6455817.story?coll=chi-business-hed
- Eric Auchard: Facial recognition makes finding Web photos easier (Reuters, Dec. 19)
Swedish start-up Polar Rose AB aims to make it easy to find photos of familiar faces online. Polar Rose said it plans to offer free software to make photos searchable on both personal computers and across the Web by analyzing the contents of pictures with pattern recognition technology to locate specific faces within them.
http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/articlenews.aspx?type=internetNews&storyID=2006-12-19T102052Z_01_N19231410_RTRIDST_0_OUKIN-UK-INTERNET-RECOGNITION.XML
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