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Style and Etiquette

A constant source of speculation is trying to figure out why netbooks are catching on so fast.  Sure the price is a big factor and is what catches the attention first but as … Read More »

Rackspace Buys Two Startups to Beat Amazon's Cloud

Hosting company, turned cloud computing operator Rackspace Hosting said today it will buy startups Slicehost and Jungle Disk to boost its Mosso cloud offerings, and step up its competition with Amazon’s Web Services. Read More »

 
 

We have seen the big buzz over the first Android phone, the T-Mobile G1.  We heard the stories about the difficulty getting a pre-shipment order in to T-Mobile.  The only thing we could assume was that Google, HTC and T-Mobile were making as many G1s … Read More »

We told you earlier that MSI was going to announce the appearance of the Wind U100 in a "major retailer" and today they did so.  We got the PR from MSI that announces the Wind will be appearing shortly in Best Buy stores throughout … Read More »

Understanding Online Photo Rights

To find out more about photo rights on the Web, I turned to a lawyer, Deena B. Burgess, Esq., Managing Partner with the Law Offices of Deena Burgess, and gave her a few scenarios to comment on. Here is what she had to say. Read More »

Got a Sony VAIO TZ? This might butter your biscuit… or at least melt it. Sony issued a notice today regarding some potential overheating problems for the following notebook lines: VGN-TZ100 … Read More »

Big Growth In US 3G

comScore says that the United States has caught up with Western Europe in the adoption of 3G with 28.4 percent of American mobile subscribers having 3G devices versus 28.3% in the largest countries in Europe. That works out to about 64.2 million devices – up 80% … Read More »

I’m working in the coffee shop this morning after an early stop for fasting blood work.  I waited in line for my turn to order at the register and something … Read More »

So I’m nearing 60-days of living in a web browser. Yup, for 97% of my time over the last two months, I’ve been using Firefox on my Samsung Q1 Ultra … Read More »

Oh boy, here we go again: Read More »

Security Update 2008-05 : DNS Flaw Finally Fixed

Apple released Security Update 2008-05 which contains fixes for: an Open Scripting Architecture (CVE-2008-2830) privilege elevation issue [10.4/10.5 Workstation & Server] a filename handling issue in CarbonCore (CVE-2008-2320) which may lead to an application Denial of Service (DoS) or arbitrary code execution [10.4/10.5 Workstation & … Read More »

I was rudely awakened at 4 am this morning by blazing flashes of lightning and peals of thunder.  Hurricane Dolly has missed us here in Houston but yesterday blasted us all day with rain, rain and more rain.  The rain has slowed overnight but the storms … Read More »

More Must Reads

Hahlo (www.hahlo.com) is the best app for the iPhone that is not even an app.  It’s a great Twitter app that runs in the browser and beats the pants off Twitterific.  Just go … Read More »

Weeks and weeks ago in a video I shot I offered up 3 super prize packages for 3 lucky winners.   The prizes were donated by Microsoft and each package includes a subscription to … Read More »

While we’re not all plugged into The Matrix just yet (or maybe we are and just don’t know it?), we’re starting to see a trend towards something I mentioned earlier … Read More »

To those of you in the US Kevin and I want to wish you a very happy holiday!  Enjoy your day off and spend it with friends and family doing things that really matter.  Be safe and have a wonderful day! Read More »

Arne Hess of the::unwired is one busy boy with his hands on four of the hottest new Windows Mobile phones.  He is conducting an evaluation and comparison of the HTC Touch Diamond, HTC Touch Pro, Sony Xperia X1 and the Samsung Omnia and it is cool … Read More »

Not everyone is going to have the chance to deliver their presentation in front of millions with a 50 foot screen behind them. As web workers, we’ve all suffered through those webinars where you have half an eye on the boring, dry PowerPoint in the WebEx … Read More »

I saved the best HP news for last, actually I had to get some sleep.  :)  HP today is announcing the rebirth of the VooDoo line and the most exciting result of that is … Read More »

We’ve written before about the importance of personal branding for the web worker. But there’s one piece of that brand that’s been growing in importance, yet is often ignored: your avatar. In blog comments, on Twitter, on Facebook, on Skype, in instant messenger … Read More »

Google continues to rev up its plans for Android, spending liberally on developers, but the other mobile Linux platform effort, LiMo, isn’t keeping quiet and is aggressively adding bulk to what is an unenviable line-up. Today, the foundation got eight new members, most notably carriers … Read More »

The winners of the 2008 Webby Awards were announced today (read Liz Miller’s previous take on the nominees), with the Onion News Network, Hometown Baghdad, My Damn Channel, The New York Times, PBS and Revision3 taking home multiple awards. The Onion took home … Read More »

The beta of Skype 3.8 for Windows lasted for about a month because the newest version dropped the beta tag yesterday. Most changes are under the … Read More »

A recent story on news.com identifies the need for awareness by employees of what is acceptable in a public facing personal blog. On the Patent Troll Tracker blog (now hidden from public view), the author just recently … Read More »

Sounds like madness to me: missing out on the craziness we here call March Madness. It’s the end-all, be-all national college basketball tournament and if you’ve got a Chumby, … Read More »

Shortly after posting a recent article about Google Documents, I was emailed by a director in the Google Documents team requesting more information on how I use the service.  Additionally, a post about Google Gears spurned a blog comment/email discussion … Read More »

Although I’m initially impressed with the performance of the new Q1 Ultra Premium, it’s not all a “happy, happy, joy, joy” situation. There’s a few aspects about the device right out … Read More »

Yahoo’s Jeremy Zawodny recently blogged about a proto-trend he’s seeing in the workplace: meetings that advertise and enforce a “no laptop” rule. The idea behind this is that if people don’t really find a meeting important enough to pay attention to, they shouldn’t be there, … Read More »

Just a quick bit of housekeeping here. Not a week goes by of late where either James or I (or both of us) are asked about starting up some jkOnTheRun forums. Truth be told, I think there are already some great platform-based forums out there. Read More »

By Pete Johnson, HP.com Chief Architect One side effect of spending 10+ years as a teleworker and having most of my interaction with people over the phone is that, on the rare occasion when I do get a chance to meet people face to face, I find … Read More »

Google recently announced a new feature: forms. By combining spreadsheets with bulk e-mail, the new function (which was revealed on the Google Docs blog) lets a spreadsheet author send out a mail with fields for recipients to fill in. As they do, the … Read More »

Lucy Kellaway is a columnist for the Financial Times and the workplace commentator for BBC Radio’s daily Business Brief, where she serially kvetches about poor business jargon and why you should never use it. Tonight I caught her hilarious take on … Read More »

By Pete Johnson, HP.com Chief Architect You don’t have to be in the work force too long before someone ultimately insults you in some way. Maybe it isn’t even intentional, but that doesn’t take the sting out of it. The most basic, knee jerk human … Read More »

Today Yahoo! Buzz unveils its Top Trends in Search for 2007 with the top ten news stories, top ten troubled celebrities, and the top ten in tech. But beyond those categories, Yahoo’s lists reminded me that web search is not simply about finding … Read More »

Semantic web believers including Tim Berners-Lee and Nova Spivack like to say that the social graph is part of their semantic world: the Giant Global Graph (GGG) as coined by Tim Berners-Lee. But the Giant Global Graph itself is like Dustin Hoffman’s autistic savant character … Read More »

Ben Worthen, Biz Tech blogger for the Wall Street Journal, got a nasty comment by email recently: We received this email the other day in response to our post about Google’s mobile-phone operating system: “You are a moron…Hopefully you have not (and will not) procreate. It … Read More »

As email is the prevalent form of communication for many web workers, it’s gotten a lot of attention: how to handle your email, how to empty your inbox, email etiquette, and more. But perhaps not enough time is spent learning about how to communicate with … Read More »

BNET has a great article on managing employees in remote locations that includes tips for building trust. Trust is key to the effective functioning of any team, whether distributed geographically or not. Fortunately, you don’t have to meet face to face to create and maintain … Read More »

CNET’s Caroline McCarthy welcomes the naked generation: It’s no longer noteworthy to point out that there are hordes of Web users who are putting their lives online, from revealing “personality surveys” posted in pink Comic Sans MS on glittery MySpace profiles, to Flickr play-by-plays of the … Read More »

Email. It’s the tool that web workers love and hate. We couldn’t work without it (could we?), but we spend an awful lot of our waking moments reading, organizing, answering, and despairing of ever managing to deal with it all. Here at WWD we’ve written about … Read More »

Making a minor splash in my newsreader yesterday was “A Bill of Rights for Users of the Social Web,” jointly composed by some folks who are pretty prominent in the growing roster of social applications that we all use and work with on a daily … Read More »

Many a web worker gets things done in a home office, and if you spend a lot of time in one, this post is for you. I’m going to run through an inventory of ultra-cool items you can get for the ultimate home office—for under $2,500. … Read More »

Depending on which social networks you’re already on, you might have seen this email a few times over the weekend: “So-and-so has invited you as a friend on Quechup… the social networking platform sweeping the globe.” I got half a dozen of them, and I’m not … Read More »

Editor’s Note: Trevor is the editor of “Red Canary”:http://www.redcanary.ca/, a great online magazine/community just like Found|READ, but which is focused on “fast-growth Canadian companies,” rather than startups. Trevor’s July 2006 Red Canary post on “hiring tips for startups” is obviously very relevant to Found|READers, and … Read More »

The funniest thing on YouTube right now isn’t the latest installment from Smosh, but the meta-ironic actions of a certain litigious content megalopoly in issuing takedown notices for content it doesn’t even have a clear claim to own. Christopher Knight produced some humorously … Read More »

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