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Where is the next-generation STB that we’ve been hearing about for at least the past three years? The über STB with HD, TiVo, networking, storage and more — the one that will be the center of home entertainment?

I was recently leading a session for the Panorama Capital CIO Council, a group of about 25 Fortune 500 CIOs with which we meet twice a year, when the topic of securing enterprise data arose. The CIOs were not, however, talking about data security that can be solved by using products like firewalls, spam filters, [...]

This week I read a fascinating article by Joe Weinman that was published in Business Communications Review. In it, he proposes an innovative concept that could initiate a paradigm shift in Internet search, fixing what may be its biggest problem: too many results, many of which are of limited relevance.
He argues that the [...]

I was talking to some colleagues earlier this month about Intel’s (INTC) plan to have an 80-core processor ready for the market within five years.
I’ve written about commodity computing in this space before, but this latest Intel announcement made me realize that we’re on the verge of a fundamental architectural change in the enterprise data [...]

Google (GOOG) should buy Adobe (ADBE), but not for the reasons you might think. Google would acquire some great software in Acrobat, Photoshop and their desktop run-time environment (now called Adobe Integrated Runtime, or AIR). But while these are good software assets that could be integrated nicely into Google Docs, Picasa and other desktop applications, [...]

Get ready for a fracturing of the Internet domain name space and the global Internet looking far less homogenous and more like the ancient town of Babel. And a lot of it has to do with International Domain Names in Applications or IDNA.