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Microsoft's Misunderstood 'Avoid-Ghetto' Tech January 30, 2012 
Earlier this month, Microsoft applied for a patent related to a technology that would highlight areas of high crime and route people around them. Folks seemed to get upset because areas like this tend to struggling due to a lack of revenue, and this would route people who might otherwise shop there to other safer and likely more lucrative areas. While true, I think it comes down to choice.
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Content Intent, Part 1 January 27, 2012 
As far as exclusive interviews go, you could do a lot worse than getting Herman Cain, and a lot worse than getting him on Nov. 28. That was, after all, the day that a woman unleashed accusations of a 13-year affair with Cain, the third racy allegation levied against Cain in a matter of weeks. And those charges were but part of the Cain saga. There was also the Nov. 15 Libya gaffe...
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Sites Rage Against the SOPA Machine January 17, 2012 
Sites like Wikipedia and Google have vowed to take new steps in opposing SOPA, the Stop Online Piracy Act, as the debate over the controversial proposed legislation continues. SOPA seeks to give new powers to law enforcement and copyright holders to fight the illicit exchange of copyrighted content online.
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Snapseed for Mac OS X Makes Your Photos Pop January 16, 2012 
The app that won Apple's coveted iPad App of the Year award, Snapseed by Nik Software, has made it to the Mac App Store and therefore, Mac OS X. Not only is this cool for photography-loving Mac users, it's cool because it brings some awesome filter and editing effects to the masses.
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EPIC to FTC: Did You See What Google Did There? January 12, 2012 
The Electronic Privacy Information Center has written to the Federal Trade Commission to look into new features in Google's search engine. The FTC is already looking into whether Google is breaching antitrust regulations by overly favoring its own products in Google searches. In December, Google signed a consent order with the FTC to settle the Commission's investigation of Google Buzz, a social network it rolled out in 2010.
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Mint With Cinnamon: A New Sweet Spot for Desktop Linux? January 12, 2012 
Well CES is nearing its conclusion for another year, winding down an event that may well have brought Linux more mainstream attention than any other in the show's four-decades-long history. Ubuntu had its share of the limelight, but it's another Linux distro entirely that's captured many bloggers' attention. Linux Mint, that is -- and its tantalizing new desktop environment, Cinnamon.
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Action Movie FX: Have Fun Blowing Up the Neighborhood January 09, 2012 
A free and unassuming little video effects app tapped into my practical joker personality this holiday season, and I just have to share it: Action Movie FX by Bad Robot Interactive. What does it do? It lets you film a short scene and then apply big-action Hollywood movie special effects to it.
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Apple's Juicy 2012 Hardware Harvest December 22, 2011 
While 2011 was a year full of momentous moments for Apple, 2012 has the potential to outshine them all, especially in hardware. It will be the first full year in which Apple must steer its gigantic ship without Steve Jobs, and the pressure to surprise and delight will be intense.
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Carrier IQ and the US' Escalating Privacy Risk Level December 14, 2011 
Not many news stories are as astonishing as the recent revelation by a 25-year-old researcher about the Carrier IQ software that is installed on most modern Android, BlackBerry and Nokia phones. Carrier IQ software collects massive data from these devices, then "correlates and aggregates the data for near real-time system monitoring and business intelligence."
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Top 5 Linux Predictions for 2012 December 13, 2011 
Linux continues to grow both its reach and credibility among enterprise IT users and customers, bringing competition, price and time-to-market pressure and options to key markets such as cloud computing and mobile software. Looking at the coming year for Linux, these are the key areas to watch: cloud computing, Platform as a Service, Android, the automobile industry -- and not the desktop.
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Gift Ideas for the Apple Addict December 08, 2011 
Most people I know have a hard time finding the right gifts for a lot of the people in their lives, and I'm no exception: I'm picky, and often enough in weird, demanding ways. For instance, while I like some shades of blue, others irritate me. As for Mac and Apple fans, they tend to be demanding, too.
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Open Source and the Open Road, Part 2 December 06, 2011 
The connected car is on the verge of going where no vehicle has ever gone before. Presently, many cars enable drivers to pair their mobile music and phone devices with their vehicles' sound systems. But cars with telemetry that will connect to cloud-based navigation and entertainment services could soon be common.
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Linux Mint Is a Refreshing Palate Cleanser November 23, 2011 
The Linux community and Linux users are at odds over the transition from GNOME 2 to GNOME 3 as the backbone desktop environment for the OS. Ubuntu's developers muddied the situation with its newcomer Unity desktop alternative. Given the situation, Linux Mint may offer the best solution if you need time to adjust to the radical changes in the GNOME 3 desktop.
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Open Source and the Open Road, Part 1 November 22, 2011 
A new wave of really cool devices will soon do more than simply integrate your mobile gadgets with your automobile. Pairing your smartphone with your car's sound system and on-board navigation platform is already old hat. Car makers are now looking at how to expand that concept to enhance the notion of your car being treated as one big mobile device.
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An iPad Lover Plays With Fire, Part 1 November 22, 2011 
I'm a happy owner of an iPad 2, but I bought a Kindle Fire anyway. It seems like a silly purchase, on the surface -- after all, what can a Kindle Fire do that an iPad can't? Hmm. Not much of anything, really, except run Android apps and play nicely with Amazon.com's growing world of content.
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Tight Couplings, Loose Couplings and the Knowable Unknown November 02, 2011 
A couple of years ago I read The Black Swan and was so taken by the subject matter that I wrote a column about it. The book had to do with the kinds of unknown issues that can strike even well-understood processes. Now, Leo Sadovy, a vice president at SAS, has taken the concept further in a blog just posted Tuesday.
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The Enthralling 'Steve Jobs' - Brilliance, Weirdness, Warts and All November 01, 2011 
If you are on the fence about whether to buy and read Steve Jobs by Walter Isaacson, I have an answer for you: Do it. However, I should warn you, the book isn't for the faint of heart. It's 656 pages in the hardcover edition, which translates to a couple thousand on your iPhone if you buy it as an e-book.
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What Open Source Can Learn From Steve Jobs, Part 2 November 01, 2011 
The blind hatred of Free Software Foundation President Richard Stallman toward proprietary programs is such that he has given speeches in which he advocated for software piracy. Stallman wrote this the day after Steve Jobs died: "As Chicago Mayor Harold Washington said of the corrupt former Mayor Daley, 'I'm not glad he's dead, but I'm glad he's gone.'"
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What Open Source Can Learn From Steve Jobs, Part 1 October 25, 2011 
The passing of Steve Jobs earlier this month triggered reactions that spanned the gamut -- from expressions of appreciation and sober reflection to some tasteless extremes of zealotry from a subset of the open source community. We can learn a lot from Steve Jobs, even if we ultimately have different goals.
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The False Economies of the Info Security World October 19, 2011 
Organizations love false economies. It may not be an entirely conscious act on their part, but it's certainly the truth: Hang around any organization long enough, and you'll find at least one instance where it tries to save on doing A but winds up spending more on doing B in the process.
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