Here’s my writing portfolio (“clips,” in journalism lingo) — my bylined articles, sponsored/custom content and PR projects, humor and some other writing, with (where possible) links. (Currently, this page doesn’t include my fiction, tech manuals, Internet book, or many of my older articles.)
To (hopefully) make it easy for you to find what you’re looking for, I’ve selected a short (under a dozen) bunch of samples, along with sorting my articles in various ways:
- Selected Writing Samples — a curated sub-dozen portfolio sampler
- Sorted by Type, e.g., case histories, blog posts, feature articles, interviews & profiles, product reviews/roundups, show/event coverage, etc.
- Sorted by By Topic/Technology, e.g., 3D printing, bio-it, cloud, “green,” security, software development, etc.
- Sorted by By Publication/Site, e.g., Boston Globe, Byte.com, ComputerWorld, Earth911, IEEE Spectrum, TechTarget, etc.
- Sorted Chronologically, Newest-To-Oldest
- Custom, Sponsored, PR/Marketing, Etc.
- Humor
(Sadly but unsurprisingly, many of the older sites/pubs have re-organized, breaking my original links and/or not keeping my (and my colleagues’) articles up, or are simply gone. I’m (slowly) working on re-finding these articles and/or posting those I’d done web saves of. Meanwhile, if there are other samples or types of samples you’d like to see, contact me. And if you’ve got/found anything I’ve missed, please let me know — thanks!)
Selected Writing Samples
Here’s some selected samples to help give you a sense of what I do — a mix of bylined journalism and custom/sponsored content, features, interviews, case histories, tech and science fiction event reports, etc. (If you don’t see what you’re looking for either here or in Sorted By Topic or Sorted by Type, contact me.)
- Feature article: How Much You Spend On a 3D Printer Depends on What You Want It to Do (GrabCAD.com, July 14, 2020)
- Career Profile: When User Experience Means Life or Death : Information architect Merryl Gross designs UX that averts calamities (IEEE Spectrum.com, October 21, 2020; IEEE Spectrum November 2020 issue)
- Feature article: How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020)
- Interview: MIT’s Professor David Hardt Offers His Perspective On Industry 4.0 (GrabCAD.com, May 4, 2020)
- Feature article, 4 Things You Should Know For A Career In Data Analytics (Stitch, November 19, 2019)
- Feature article, Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners — Why/How/Where tips (Earth911.com, October 7, 2020)
- 10 Tips for Pitching to Investors (GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2019)
- Tech multi-vendor product event coverage, Digital Experience NYC Summer 2019 (TechRevu.com, June 27, 2019)
- Case history: Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publications’ MyTechDecisions.com, July 31, 2014)
- Humor: Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! (File770.com, March 23, 2020)
Articles and PR Projects, Sorted By Type
Here’s some of the by-lined articles, and (non-by-lined) PR projects I’ve done, sorted by type:
Blogs:
I’ve been doing some blogging on my own, along with some paid bylined (my-name) blogging, and some “ghost-blogging” (PR/marketing for client companies — my name only on the check).
My Blog
Trying Technology (www.TryingTechnology.com) is my tech blog. Like the name suggests, about the technologies (business and consumer hardware, software, sites, services, etc.) I’m trying, and how trying technologies can be.
Other Blogs And Blog Posts With My Name on them:
Blog posts — including feature length articles — with my byline have appeared on sites including Business Trends Quarterly (2x/week, while the gig lasted), Functionize, Future,
GrabCAD, InformationWeek SMB, Internet Evolution, and Talend.
“Ghost-Blogging”
Companies I’ve done ghost/PR/marketing blog posts for include Zetta.
Career & Management Advice:
- 4 Things You Should Know For A Career In Data Analytics (Stitch, November 19, 2019) (feature article)
- 3 Professional Reasons For Computer Professionals To Attend Science Fiction Conventions (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, May 05, 2011) (feature)
- “Finding Talent For Your IT Department- New Economic Realities Mean New Hiring Priorities, Say Experts” — tips to help you make the best decision when hiring IT staff, especially for companies with 250 to 1,000 employees where the IT development and/or support group may be smaller than desirable even in the best of time (March, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 12)
- Certifications: Worth It or Not? — “Are certifications like MCSE, CNA, CCIE or A+ worth it — from the perspective of network managers and other IT management in hiring and retaining qualified network staff?” (March 4, 2002)
- Tech savvy alone won’t get you to the top — Project management key to upwards motion (May 26, 1997)
- Recruiter outtakes – The Importance of Project Management and Project Lifecycle Skills (May 26, 1997)
- Speak up and advance your career — Use the trade show podium to gain industry visibility and open up new opportunities. (Network World, March 31, 1997)
- Understand the business before you say anything at a trade show (March 31, 1997)
- Bone up on those business skills Whether you want to move up or simply preserve your position as a network manager, you’re going to need business skills. (Network World, March 17, 1997)
Case Histories:
(This includes articles that have one or more case histories in them.)
- Immersive Telepresence Technology Lets Rutgers Law Campuses Cyber-Combine Classrooms (EHP’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, June 25, 2015) (case history)
- Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, July 31, 2014) (case study)
- Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Goes Big, Tall And Wide With Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 14, 2014) (case history)
- Digital Signage Transforms Historic Building Into State-of-the-Art Finance Lab (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, September 09, 2013) (case history)
- Kineto Wireless Lowers Monthly Server Backup Costs 50%, Avoids Spending $17K in New Tape Equipment (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Petroquip Lowers Server Backup Costs by 80% (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Courtyard by Marriott’s GoBoard Helps Guests Decided What to Do, Where to Go (EHPubs Hospitality Tech Decisions, June 04, 2013)
- Case study: Architectural Firm Prellwitz Chilinski Associates Reduces NetApp Filer Offsite Backup Costs By Half (Zetta, April 5, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case history: Westinghouse Lighting Reduces Backup Costs, Adds Disaster Recovery Functionality, and Protects Data from Hurricane Sandy (Zetta, March 20, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- How West Virginia University Uses Digital Signage For Campus Safety (EHPublishing, March 20, 2013)
- NetApp Offsite Backup with Zetta DataProtect by Cook Inlet Tribal Council (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case Study: Group Photographers Association — Local Storage Disaster Kick-Starts Cloud Backup Initiative (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Mizon Rounds Out MSP IT Offerings With Backup by Zetta – Reliable “no heartburn” backups help keep Mizon customers happy
- TEECOM – Technology for Architects to Bring Buildings to Life (Zetta, September 03, 2012) (PR) (case study)
- How Microsoft Uses Digital Signage for Internal Promotion and Communication (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 24, 2013) (case history)
- Reselling Online Backup: A Podcast About “No Heartburn” Backup (Zetta blog post, January 23, 2013) (case history) (text article accompanying podcast)
- Digital Signage Helps UCF (University of Central Florida) Promote Student Use of Technology EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions, August 30, 2012) (case history)
- Online Server Backup Performance and Value: The Merced College Story (Zetta, August 22, 2012) (case history)(PR)
- Bassmaster hooks new fishing site with Drupal and Acquia Managed Cloud (Acquia, May 2012) (PR) (case study)
- Purdue University’s Digital Signage Enterprise (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012) (case study)
- Digital Signage Lessons Learned (by Purdue IT) (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012)
- 3 Digital Signage Tips from Purdue University (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- Digital Signage Tips from Jason Swinford, Founder of Eat at Recess (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Today’s Mountaineers Use Digital Signage to Relay Information (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, December 19, 2011) Case history, how West Virginia University is using digital signage for emergency alerts and everyday info
- Blink Reaction partners with Acquia to create exceptional Drupal websites (Acquia, September 2011)(PR)(case study) (Note: this was a rewrite/merge of two existing versions)
- ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud (Acquia, August 2011)(PR)(case study)
- Ready For Anything: Rugged Notebooks Get Down To Business Wherever And Whenever — Beyond “business-rugged,” today’s semi-rugged and fully-rugged notebook computers are ready to tough it out. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 01, 2008) (feature article)(case studies)
- Case Study: How One Company Broke Down Silos and Improved Application Integration — Qualcomm’s move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (CIO.com, September 15, 2008) (case study)
- “REIT Counts on CDW for Hardware, Software and Network Cabling Services” (CDW, January 2004) — Case study on how Lillibridge Healthcare Real Estate Trust works through CDW for third-party network cabling services (here, Black Box).
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article, includes case history)
- Notebooks Rule — Notebook PC Convenience And Productivity Are Key Drivers To Expanding Use (CDW Solutions catalog, August 6, 2008) (feature article, includes several case histories)
- Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article, includes case history)
- Clinton Schools Save Money, Simplify Computer Admin With Wyse-Based Thin Client Solution (CDW-G Advantage, January 2005)
- Palo Verde College Preps For Present, Future IT With Virtual Storage and Servers plus Wireless and other Technologies (CDW-G Advantage, January 2005)
- Intel Centrino-Powered Tablet PCs Drive Learning Full Sail (expansion of existing CDW case history) — Profile of new media trade school in Florida (CDW, December 2004)
- WebGUI Drives Atomic Learning’s Training Center (January 2004) — Case history done for PlainBlack.
- Efeckta Technologies Squeezes More Value Into Bio-informatics Data (In “Articles” — sorry, you’ll need JavaScript turned on to get the link) (March 29, 2002)
- Microsoft case histories – Eight case histories on .NET and .NET Compact Framework customers, including Sunkist Growers, AMS Services, B2B sites, beverage distributors, and others
plus dozens of case histories done over the years that aren’t online, for companies including BBN (when I was PR manager), Data General, Gandalf, and others — I’ll be scanning and posting them in the coming months.
Columns:
Over the past several decades, I have written columns for everything from Internet magazines to PR directories, folk music magazines and Thursday,the long-gone MIT student newspaper. (Please don’t hesitate to contact me to offer me another regular column to write!)
Here’s a list of current and past column titles, which in turn link to as many of the actual the columns I’ve been able to find online, or had available. (I’ve included direct links to one or two samples here, though.) (This list from is from my Columns page.)
- VoiceOvers, VON magazine, September 2003 March 2005, e.g. VoIP isn’t Sci-Fi, it’s worse (VON Magazine, May/June 2004)
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 14 (SFRevu.com, December 2002) — Holiday recommendations: Graphic Novels Make Great Gifts. My final column (but not appearance) for SFRevu. (I’m shifting to uncolumnated reviews of graphic novels, for loose/wide definition thereof.)
- Putting The Internet To Work, in Communications News magazine, for nearly two years
- PR Tips and Techniques — in the (defunct) Computer Media Directory
- Signing Off, in the short-lived (didn’t last beyond six issues, sigh) UK-based Corporate Online magazine
- The USA Today (once again, not my title), in the UK-based Internet Magazine
- The Internet Curmudgeon in Internet World magazine (which I was also the founding editor-in-chief of, 1993- 1994) (I’m referring to the original Internet World magazine, which was a more-or-less monthly; the (weekly) magazine current known as Internet World is “the magazine formerly known as Web Week.” Go figure.
- Net.Dern in NetGuide magazine (folded in Summer 1997 into Windows magazine)
- The Internet Page and Internet Boot in Network Computing magazine
- For the Management Strategies in Network World, several semi-regular (every month or so, for medium values of so) contributions (i.e., it wasn’t “my” column) for a while, anyway
- The Internet Advisor (initially titled “Casting the Net” when I became the new Internet columnist for them), in PC/Portables magazine, from early 1997 through the magazine’s final issue in mid-1998. (Note, the magazine’s web site went away when the magazine did.)
plus, like I said, assorted general-commentary and folk music reviewing columns in no-longer-extent publications like Thursday and a NightFall, a Boston-based entertainment scene pub (as opposed to the pub scene).
Editorials & OpEds:
- Great Responsibility Doesn’t Always Come With Great (Computer) Power Editorial Blog: As Spider-Man, Peter Parker learned that great power comes with great responsibility… but not all computer owners exercise it (Systems Management Pipeline, June 30, 2004)
- IE, Robot – Editorial Blog: Would Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics protect our networks? (Systems Management Pipeline, June 29, 2004)
- What Causes Uptime? — Editorial Blog: Given how many known downtime causes we know, can IT prioritize preventative and ameliorative plans? (July 20, 2004)
- Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Patron Saints for Systems Management? Editorial Blog: These time and motion study pioneers embodied IT admin best practices (June 21, 2004)
- As part of running charge of Byte.com from 1999-2001, I got to write editorials. Daniel bids farewell to Byte.com was my final one (although they didn’t run it); the last one they ran was Daniel’s final Byte.com product round-up (October 29, 2001). Here’s the full list of my Byte.com editorials. (You’ll need an account to see more than the first page, though.)
Emerging Technologies:
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Fuel Cells For Mobile Users Are Coming, Sort Of — Don’t expect micro methanol-based fuel cells soon, but other chemistries and technological approaches are on the way, or even here already. (CMP Desktop Pipeline, May 2, 2006; also picked up by InformationWeek, SmallBusinessPipeline, and Network Computing)
- Emerging Wireless Technologies to Watch: A closer look at four major wireless technologies: 802.11n, Wireless Switches, WiMAX and UMA (NetComm catalog, December 2004)
- Emerging Technologies, Part I — A look at some of the technologies in or emerging from the labs: 3G Wireless Phone Services, 10 GB Ethernet, MRAM and FRAM, and Fibre Channel (CDW NetComm catalog, February 2004)
- Analyzing Analysts: Evaluating the accuracy of expert forecasts isn’t easy (Information Security magazine, December, 2002) (Note: This started out as a long article but turned into a short one)
Feature Articles:
As in, “longer than 500 words, more topical and time-general than a news article, not a specific product review, or an opinion.” These aren’t all the articles I’ve written that are “features,” more as a representative sample.
- 3 Technologies CPA Firms Must Leverage in 2023 (Cloud hosting; digital transformation; robot process automation) (ICPAS Insight, Spring 2023)
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company (Datamation, February 8, 2019)
- Emerging server technologies: 6 hot trends to watch (TechBeacon.com, August 02, 2016) (feature)
- Introducing Mob programming: The best team technique you’ve (probably) never heard of (ITWorld.com, June 25, 2015) (feature article)
- How to Wrangle Your Digital Pictures on the Cheap — Free and low-cost tools for organizing large batches of images (IEEE Spectrum, January 27, 2015) (feature)
- How To Crowdfund Your Hardware Startup (IEEE Spectrum, December 20, 2014) (feature)
- Direct Tire now diagnoses your car’s troubles via video (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, November 18, 2014)
- Does your ancient computer belong in a museum? (Dell TechPageOne, September 27 2014) (feature article)
- Choosing Remote-Collaboration Software: Hardware development requires more than general-purpose tools (IEEE Spectrum, September 22, 2014)
- MIT celebrates 50 years of Project MAC, Multics, and other computer foundations (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 27, 2014)
- In the Facebook era, will printed yearbooks survive? (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 23, 2014)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- Digital Den creator pushes for a new Boston-area computer museum (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 24, 2014) (feature article)
- How a velociraptors vs. cockroaches showdown raised $105,881 on Kickstarter — How role-playing-game writer Kevin Kulp made the crowdfunding campaign for his TimeWatch book succeed (Boston Globe’s BetaBoston.com, March 12, 2014) (feature)
- How to Connect a PC or Tablet Via 4G Wireless (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, February 12, 2014)
- Swiss Army smartphone: 9 tools your phone can replace (ITWorld.com, February 10, 2014)
- Project Management Lessons from an Amateur Magician (Intuit’s QuickBase blog, February 10, 2014)
- 9 museums that want your legacy tech (ComputerWorld, October 3, 2013) (Slashdotted!)
- I’ll take mine to go: 12 apps to carry with you at all times (On a USB stick) (ITWorld.com, August 01, 2013) (feature article)
- Designing for mobile: Responsive design vs. mobilized sites vs. mobile app (ITWorld.com, May 30, 2013) (feature article)
- Profile: Kenny Greenberg — This neon wizard combines art and engineering (IEEE Spectrum, May 24, 2013)
- Comic Books Go Digital — Can Your Paper Version Do This? (IEEE Spectrum, February 2013) (feature)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- Does Your Beloved Tech Artifact Belong in a Museum? What museums do and don’t want (IEEE Spectrum, July 2012) (feature)
- Yard sales – A good place for tech bargains (The Mozy Blog, May 10th, 2012)
- 10 commandments of Windows security (CSO Online, April 23, 2012) (feature)
- How to Choose a Cloud Backup Service HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, December 22, 2011) (feature)
- What Role Will Windows 8 Play in Enterprise Tablet Adoption? (TabletPCReview.com, November 11, 2011) (feature article)
- What today’s software developers need to know (ITWorld.com, September 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Six energy-efficient data center practices: How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways (ITWorld.com, August 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Lost programming skills: What today’s coders don’t know and why it matters (ITWorld.com, August 5, 2011) (feature article)
- Telemedicine: Changing The Way Doctors See Patients (CDW HealthCare Catalog, pp. 28-29, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Decoding compliance certification icons: What UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, and those other certification ‘marks’ under your laptop mean (ITWorld.com, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war (ITWorld.com, May 26, 2011) (feature article)
- 3 Professional Reasons For Computer Professionals To Attend Science Fiction Conventions (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, May 05, 2011) (feature)
- Joomla or Drupal: Which CMS handles security best? (ITWorld.com, April 19, 2011) (feature article)
- Testing Apps For SmartPhones and Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store) (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, March 23, 2011) (feature)
- Joomla vs. Drupal: An open source CMS shootout (ITWorld.com, February 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Essential Joomla! extensions — Joomla! developers offer up their favorite extensions (Part II) (ITWorld.com, September 16, 2010) (feature)
- Joomla! jumpstart: 8 tips and best practices from Joomla! developers (ITWorld.com, September 8, 2010) (feature)
- Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still Difficult — challenges (and solutions) for creating native applications for multiple smartphone environments (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2010) (feature article) (appears as “Writing Small” in the print issue)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- Portal Power: Emerging accounting portal technologies streamline financial processes and boost productivity (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHT magazine, November 2009)
- Technology we won’t miss — No tears are shed for these technologies that have come (and often) gone (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- Tech that makes you smile – There are some things you just can’t help but love (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Cost-Conscious Technology — Affordable accounting software and SaaS offerings (ICPAS Insight, August 2009) (feature)
- Review: 5 USB turntables convert LPs to MP3s – Review of five USB turntables and associated software and gear, plus some tips (ComputerWorld, August 07, 2009) (review) (feature) This story was also run on other IDG sites including:
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- How Virtualization Improves Software Development (CIO.com, February 11, 2009) (feature article)
- What Science Fiction Writers Have Learned About Predicting The Future of Technology — Science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross look back at looking forward. (CIO.com, December 16, 2008) (feature article/interviews)This article was picked up by other IDG publications, including:
- ComputerWorld, as “Sci-Fi: What’s it really about? Four famous authors reflect on their hits, their misses and why they write science fiction (December 17, 2008)
- InfoWorld, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future — Science fiction isn’t (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren’t trying to predict it.” (December 16, 2008)
- and “mobilized” in mobile.cio.com, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future” (December 16, 2008)
- and in the New Zealand CIO.com site, as “The men and women who saw tomorrow” (December 18 2008)
- and posted again in CIO.com (December 16, 2008)plus blog notes in:
- Rob Sawyer’s blog (Rob even found the article and posted this up before I let him know the article was up)
- the “blink” section (on the left) of Locus Online (for non-science-fiction fans: Locus Magazine is covers “news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines.”)
- Ulmekirjanikud ja tulevikuennustamine (12/17/08)
- Small Is Big in Notebooks?but Not Too Small — Ultralight computers add back a few more ounces and a lot more usability (IEEE Spectrum magazine, December 01, 2008) (feature article)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- “SMB Software to Run Your Server & Your Business” — This article provides an overview of the key software that a small business needs or should consider for its servers, and related advice to ensure reliable, secure operation of this essential business support tool. (August 20, 2008) (white paper/feature article) (Here’s a copy in case you can’t get it from the CRN Libary.)(Note, this was a custom feature article, done for Diskeeper under my byline. Editors: Diskeeper owns the the rights to this version, feel free to ask them or me for permission to use this. I’ve got a longer version, and additional quotes and information, which I’m happy to sell.)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- Messaging In The Enterprise — SMEs Are Putting Text Messaging & IM To Work (Processor, June 20, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 25, Page(s) 11 in print issue) (feature article)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Monthly feature in VON magazine, June 2005 through January 2006.
- Keep Your Cool — If the cooling system in your data center racks and rooms isn’t adequate, your IT gear can melt down. Here are some ways you can reduce and remove excess heat (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006)
- Ten Things I Hate About Web Sites (InformIT, Apr 28, 2006)
- Buying a Non-Branded “White Box” PC — Tips on when, and how to, buy an unbranded “White Box” versus from a name-brand vendor (or building your own) (InformIT, May 7, 2004)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
- Disk Defragging for Maximum Performance Research shows that regular disk defragmentation is a good way to glean an extra ounce of prevention from your network maintenance routine. (CDW Solutions, September, 2005)
- Fax Servers: Serving Faxes More Than Ever! (InformIT, September 3, 2004) (feature article)
- How Computers Work (and why they crash) — How I.T. Works: Looking Inside the Box (CDW-G EdTech magazine, Summer 2005)
- Keep The Network Humming Right Along – Don’t Let These Mistakes Throw You Off Track — It’s no surprise that people often make mistakes in setting up and running networks. Here’s a handful to watch for. (October 15, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 42)
- “Finding Talent For Your IT Department- New Economic Realities Mean New Hiring Priorities, Say Experts” — tips to help you make the best decision when hiring IT staff, especially for companies with 250 to 1,000 employees where the IT development and/or support group may be smaller than desirable even in the best of time (March, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 12)
- Using 802.3af (Power Over Ethernet) as a SysAdmin Tool By using Power over Ethernet (802.3af) to provide power for devices such as WiFi Access Points, VoIP desktop phones, and webcams, companies can save on A/C wiring costs and UPS provisioning. (InformIT, April 2, 2004)
- Power & Data On The Move — With IEEE Standard Ratified, Power Over Ethernet Vendors, Products Advance , (Processor, December 12, 2003) — Power over Ethernet (PoE) gets in gear with IEEE ratification of 802.3af standard.
- Be Prepared — A Paranoid’s Guide to Computer Ownership (ComputerClick Magazine, October, 2002) — My summary of free, cheap and affordable — and easy — steps anybody can (and should!) do to protect their computer, and the data on it. E.g. virus scanners, UPSs, backups, and more. Nothing earthshattering here; this is meant as an accessible piece for the new computer owner/user.
- Helping Family And Friends Buy Their Computers, Part I and Helping Friends Buy Computers, Part II – The specs may be out of date, but the general advice should still be good. (August, September 1999)
- “Standards For Interior Gateway Routing Protocols – They’re Emerging But Still Under Debate And Development” (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 7, July 1990, page 2) (technology feature article)
Interviews & Profiles:
- Careers Profile: The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More — Brij Singh is modernizing farm and industrial vehicles (IEEE Spectrum: posted online August 22, 2023; print: September 2023, pp. 21-22)
- Careers Profile: From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal’s Journey – At Black Opal Ventures, she’s working to diversify venture capital (IEEE Spectrum, May 11, 2023)
- Careers Profile: This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology: Jonathan L. Zittrain is also involved in tech policy (IEEE Spectrum: web version: April 21, 2023; print edition, May 2023 pages 21-23)
- Careers Profile: Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis: The Purdue professor has been fighting cybersecurity threats for decades (IEEE Spectrum: web version, February 16, 2023)
- Careers Profile: Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic: He developed the first high-speed router 40 years ago (IEEE Spectrum: web version: October 21, 2022)
- Careers Profile: Melanie Olsen — Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters: Australia’s ReefWorks brings autonomous marine systems out of the lab (IEEE Spectrum, September 15, 2022)
- Careers Profile, Magdalene Maluta, ARC Ride Global — Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya: This engineer keeps hundreds of electric bikes, scooters, and rickshaws on the road (IEEE Spectrum, August 18, 2022) (web version)
- This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans: The lightweight solar-powered drone operates nonstop for months (IEEE Spectrum: online, July 15, 2022) — Careers profile on Julie Angus, Open Ocean Robotics
- This VC Is Betting Big on Flying Taxis and Scooters: Adam Grosser says the transportation sector is ripe for investment (IEEE Spectrum: online, June 14, 2022)
- Testing Products for Consumer Reports: Maria Rerecich checks that they work as claimed (IEEE Spectrum — online, May 13, 2022; page 19, June 2022 print issue)
- Careers: Yung-Hsiang Lu — How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research (IEEE Spectrum.com – online: April 15, 2022; print edition, May 2022, page 17)
- The Integrated Designer: Magaly Sandoval-Pichardo’s vast range of experience lets her make the smallest circuits (IEEE Spectrum, March 22, 2022 online; page 17 April 2022 print edition)
- Career Profile: Becoming a Leader at NASA: Marcellus Proctor oversees major space projects (IEEE Spectrum, October 19, 2021)
- Career Profile: Safety at Scale: GM’s Ankur Ganguli: Interdisciplinary experience is the key to her automotive career (IEEE Spectrum, August 24, 2021)
- Career Profile: From Spacecraft to Sensor Fusion Iverson Bell leveraged opportunities and risks to create a flexible skill set (IEEE Spectrum, July 2021)
- Career Profile: Engineer in Secret — Sandia’s Dennisa Thomas ensures systems work as intended (IEEE Spectrum, posted June 22,2021); and as Engineering Secrets (Spectrum magazine, July 2021, page 19)
- Career Profile: S.B. Divya: How This EE Combines Engineering With Writing Some of the Best Sci-Fi Around IEEE Spectrum, (online) May 21, 2021 (online); page 19, June 2021 issue; and via IEEE’s viewer
- Career Profile: Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better (IEEE Spectrum, April 28, 2021)
- Career Profile: Privacy Entrepreneur Adrian Gropper (IEEE Spectrum, posted March 26, 2021); also online via nxtbook.com; and hardcopy, IEEE Spectrum, April 2021 issue, page 17)
- Career Profile: Jeannette Plante: Saving NASA Missions Before They Go Wrong (IEEE Spectrum, March 2021, page 17)
- Career Profile: Carl Howe – Completely Changing Careers—and Still Coding (IEEE Spectrum, January 26, 2021)
- Career Profile: Simone Campanoni Creating Better Software Compilers For Faster Computing (IEEE Spectrum, January 2021 — page 15 in the print edition)
- Career Profile: When User Experience Means Life or Death?: Information architect Merryl Gross designs UX that averts calamities (IEEE Spectrum.com, October 21, 2020; IEEE Spectrum November 2020 issue)
- Exclusive Interview: Nick Dvas of Servers.com (Linux.com, September 29, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with Pivotal’s Roman Shaposhnik (Linux.com, September 25, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with IBM’s Anjul Bhambhri (Linux.com, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Start Prioritizing IT Security (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 24, 2015)
- “Innovate like a startup, deliver like an enterprise” — Interview with Paul Strong, VMware CTO (VMware’s The Bridge, March 30, 2015) (“custom content,” no byline)
- Bruce Schneier Talks Privacy, Politics, Books and More (Fortinet blog, March 31, 2015) (interview)
- MIT celebrates 50 years of Project MAC, Multics, and other computer foundations (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 27, 2014)
- Dan Bricklin, ‘father of the spreadsheet,’ now tackles mobile challenges at Alpha Software (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 06, 2014)
- Getting ‘Agile’ and ‘Lean’ not just for software developers (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 05, 2014)
- BYTE Interviews Jerry Pournelle (Byte.com, April 16, 2012 (interview) — A Skype audio interview with Jerry Pournelle, done at the February 2012 Boskone science fiction convention. (Jerry had to stay home, due to a virus, but we had a live audience). Here’s audio, plus transcription (done by me) of the podcast, posted in four parts, plus a short biography and bibliography. (Note, if the in-article links to the various parts aren’t working — as of October 2020 they weren’t, use these:
- Podcast Part 1: Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 2: Pournelle On ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 3: Pournelle On Ebooks (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 4: Pournelle On Using Multimedia To Sell Books (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Bibliography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider — Interview with NeoSpire’s director of security, Sean Bruton (InformationWeek SMB, September 1, 2010) (interview)
- Jason Busby on Educating Future Animators (InformIT.com, June 9, 2009) (interview)
- Improving Your Physical Infrastructure – Snake Tray Reduces The Cost & Time It Takes To Wrangle Cables & Manage Airflow (Processor magazine, May 22, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 15) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Storage Solutions For Resellers & OEMs – Condre Focuses On Savvy Storage Selling (Processor, February 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 6, Page(s) 23 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Cooling Where You Need It Most – Data Aire Provides Precision Air For IT Gear (Processor, December 19, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 51, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- What Science Fiction Writers Have Learned About Predicting The Future of Technology — Science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross look back at looking forward. (CIO.com, December 16, 2008) (feature article/interviews)This article was picked up by other IDG publications, including:
- ComputerWorld, as “Sci-Fi: What’s it really about? Four famous authors reflect on their hits, their misses and why they write science fiction (December 17, 2008)
- InfoWorld, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future — Science fiction isn’t (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren’t trying to predict it.” (December 16, 2008)
- and “mobilized” in mobile.cio.com, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future” (December 16, 2008)
- and in the New Zealand CIO.com site, as “The men and women who saw tomorrow” (December 18 2008)
- and posted again in CIO.com (December 16, 2008)plus blog notes in:
- Rob Sawyer’s blog (Rob even found the article and posted this up before I let him know the article was up)
- the “blink” section (on the left) of Locus Online (for non-science-fiction fans: Locus Magazine is covers “news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines.”)
- Ulmekirjanikud ja tulevikuennustamine (12/17/08)
- Three Questions: Recoup & Save On Backup Media – RecycleYourMedia.com Keeps Used Tape Safely In Circulation (Processor, November 7, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 45, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Support, Enhancements For Open-Source — Gizmox Visual WebGui Supercharges Web/Desktop Development (Processor, October 10, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 41) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: ElcomSoft Recovers Lost Passwords, Audits Security — Regain Access To Protected Data, Applications, Systems (Processor, August 29, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 35, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Going Virtual – Certeon Accelerates Wide-Area Application Access (Processor, August 8, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 32 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: CMS Products Protect Data On Desktops & Notebooks Professional-Class Solutions To Encrypt, Back Up, Restore & Recover (Processor, July 4, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 27; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Tri-Mag Provides Power, Filters & Chassis — Offering Flexibility For Regular Or Custom Orders (Processor Magazine, June 6, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 23 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- i-Tech Provides LCDs For All Occasions — Products Range From 1U Rackmounts To Digital Signage (Processor, April 25, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 17, Page 29) (vendor interview)
- Pulizzi Provides Powerful PDUs – Eaton Acquisition Powers Denser Enclosures, Monitors Both Power & Environment (Processor, April 4, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 14) (vendor interview)
- Barracuda Appliances Protect Your Network – Stopping Threats To Email, Web, IM & More (Processor, March 28, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 13, page 29) (vendor interview)
- Conserving IT Budgets With Refurbished Hardware – World Data Products Offers Full Life Cycle Support (Processor, March 7, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 10, page 31) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: i/o Data Centers Provides Digital-Grade Space – Outsourced Rack, Cage & Room/Suite Data Center Facilities That Stay Up (Processor, November 9, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 45)
- Wiring Loma Linda — Former city CIO James Hettrick reflects on the rollout (CDW StateTech, August 14, 2007)
- Three Questions: XRoads Networks Focuses On UBM — Unified Bandwidth Management For Network Resource Control (Processor, August 3, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 31 Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- “Building Servers The Way Customers Like Them” — “Three Questions” for Servers Direct (Processor, June 8, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 23 Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- Profile: Rich Teer, Solaris/Unix Hacker, Administrator, Consultant, and Author (OpenSolaris.org, May 15, 2005)
- Profile: Jörg Schilling (creator of CDrecord) (OpenSolaris.org, May 1, 2005)
- Negroponte Defends Merits of $100 Notebook Project (eWeek, March 10, 2005)
- Jerry Pournelle talks of Comdex Past Jerry’s memories of 20+ years of attending Comdex (The Inquirer.net, July 5, 2004)
- “PalmSource’s Nagel to Showcase Strategies for Secure Mobile Enterprises” (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
- “Making Most of Visit to Big Apple” (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
- Interview with Xerox executive Rob Stewart, Vice President of Worldwide Color Marketing, Xerox Office Group (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
- Open Source Household — Linux consultant Ruben Safir doesn’t just use Linux and OpenSource at work, it’s also what he, his wife, and their six kids use at home, for schoolwork and for fun. (March 15, 2002)
- Interop Community Recalls 15 Years of NetWorld+Interop
- Wanna buy a Linux desktop PC? Better try an independent OEM, (Monday, December 10, 2001) — Profile on Boston-based PCs For Everyone, one of the companies offering both Windows and Linux as pre-loaded boot OS options.
- Turner Consulting Group offers more affordable custom software using Open-Source apps (Wednesday November 28, 2001)
- Interview With Open Source Promulgator Eric Raymond (August 4, 1999)
- Interview with Ray Kurzweil, as author of “The Age of Spiritual Machines” (January 18, 1999)
- Easy rider: a restless computer consultant takes his business and office on the road – a profile of high-tech bicyclist and computer consultant Steve Roberts (October 1, 1992)
- Interview with Steve Kent on Internet Security (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 2, February 1990, page 2) (interview)
- “The ARPANET is Twenty: What We Have Learned and The Fun We Had,” including “Interview with Vint Cerf” and “Quotes from some of the players” (I had a lot of fun doing this whole article, to say the least!) (ConneXions, Volume 3, No. 10, October 1989, p2) (feature article) (interviews)
Marketing, Sales & PR:
- 7 Tips to Help You Master Media Interviews (GrabCAD.com, July 1, 2019)
- Tips for Online Writing about Complex Technology (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 17, 2014)
- Writing an Article from a Press Release: What to Look for and Ignore (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 4, 2014)
- Does PR 2.0 mean PR 1.0 is dead? — Not at all, according to at least one PR pro (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; Web 2.0)
- PR 2.0 continued — Think of it as an evolution in marketing (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; Web 2.0)
- Is Your Web Site Press Ready? (CDW BizTech magazine, June 2006) (sidebar to the main “Working the Web” article)
- Creating Opt-in Email Lists: Just Say Yes (February 20, 2004) — Why and how to create mailing lists as opt-in.
- Start the presses – creating an e-newsletter and an online marketing campaign – Technology Tutorial – Tutorial — An e-newsletter is one of the most powerful direct marketing tools for home-based businesses. (October 1, 1998)
- “The Well-tempered Press Release” (from the Computer Media Directory), which also includes a Mad Libs-style “fill-in-the- blanks” press release form you can use.
- “Don’t Try This At Work: No-No’s for PR” (from the Computer Media Directory)
- Great ways to turn prospects into sales – includes related article on follow-up tips (June 1, 1992)
- How to select the best marketing mix: pros, cons, and tips for telling people about your business (November 1, 1991)
- Make the most of trade shows — here’s how to shake the right hands and win clients while cruising the trade-show floor. (May 1, 1991)
- Press Here For The Internet (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 11, November 1990, page 24) (PR article)
News Stories:
I’ve done a lot of news stories over the years, in particular, for
- eWeek.com — mostly enterprise/mid-market printer, MFP and document management, during 2008-2009
- InformationWeek SMB, SMB-oriented product news, beginning in July 2010
- Processor magazine — product news
plus news stories in other places including IEEE Spectrum and MultiChannel News:
- Carrying on With Keeping ‘CALM’ — Providers: We’Re Ready To Comply With Loudness Law” (NBMedia’s MultiChannel News, December 3, 2012) (news) High-End Performance for Controlled Environments: Fortinet adds enterprise-class IPv6-ready appliance and a carry-grade security blade to its Firewall product lineup (QuinStreet EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, April 26, 2012) (news)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- New social networks invent product twists and focuses to stay in the game (DEMO.com, August 06, 2008) (news/feature article)
- Penryn Core Will Speed Notebooks, Stretch Battery Life — Intel’s New CPU Tech Brings Performance Benefits (eWeek Mid-Market, May 08, 2008) (news article)
- Jamcracker Expedites SAAS — XML-based Jamcracker Integration Toolkit reduces the time it takes to flip the “SAAS switch.” (eWeek Mid-Market, April 14, 2008) (news)
- SEH Print Server Serves Up Energy Savings (eWeek.com, April 11, 2008) (news)
- HP Intros $499 [and up] Mini-Notebook — New Linux-or-Windows sub-three-pound ultraportable 2133 Mini-Note PC good for executives, professionals or students (eWeek Mid-Market, April 8, 2008) (news)
- Canon Adds Equitrac Tracking to imageRUNNER Devices (eWeek, February 14, 2008) (news article)
- Scan and Print Software Simplified — Xerox SMARTdocument Travel Express workgroup software (eWeek, February 11, 2008) (news article)
- Thick Is In — New Océ TCS4XT thick-original large-format scanner) — (eWeek, February 08, 2008) (news article)
- Ricoh Builds Printer HotSpots on the Road — new color, monochrome HotSpot laser printers let users with Internet-enabled notebooks, cell phones, handheld users print directly, no drivers required. (eWeek, January 16, 2008) (news article)
- Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz (eWeek.com, December 14, 2007) (news article)
- Konica Minolta Latest Color Laser Printer Packs Features — new bizhub C353P printer (eWeek.com, December 13, 2007) (news article)
- Kyocera Hopes Cost Per-Page and Partners Drive Growth (eWeek, December 7, 2007) (news article)
- Print Market Tackles Sustainability, Environmental Concerns — InfoPrint, Lexmark lead initiatives (eWEEK.com, December 06, 2007) (news article)
- Can You Print Me Now? — Networked printers easier to share, says Lexmark (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Pick the Proper Printer — For small business, it’s a bottom-line impact (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Ricoh Adds Rights Management to ScanRouter (eWeek.com, November 28, 2007) (news article)
- HP Unveils Imaging, Print Solutions – New vertical solutions for identify document issuers, European brokerages (eWeek.com, November 16, 2007) (news article)
- Keep Up With Proofing — Advice from Kodak: Advances in technology are improving the methods for proofing pages and creating new uses. (eWeek.com, November 15, 2007 (news article)
- Dell Printers Citrix-Certified — Desktop and workgroup models are guaranteed to work with Presentation Server. (eWeek.com, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Technology Driving Ink Sales — Kodak Research Labs on high-end inkjet printers (eWeek, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Health Workers Addicted to Black and White Unlike most other verticals, medical SMBs prioritize speed and features (eWeek.com, November 8, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Reports InfoPrint as Subsidiary Is Succeeding (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Updates 3 imageRUNNER MFPs to Maintain No. 1 Market Spot (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Speed Problem Identification – Fluke Networks OptiView Portable Network Analyzer Adds Network Mapping & More (Processor, November 2, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 44) (news article)
- Kyocera Adds MFPs for SMBs or Workgroups (eWeek, October 26, 2007) (news article)
- Stand and Print Securely – Ricoh offers proximity-card login for secure printjob access (eWeek, October 24, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Speeds Up Scanning — New ScanFront systems (eWeek, October 19, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Demos ‘Intelligent Redaction’ (eWeek, October 17, 2007) (news article). Summary and link to eWeek.com story appeared in PCMag.com, October 17, 2007; and ExtremeTech, October 17, 2007),
- Ricoh a Kodak Reseller — Ricoh to resell Kodak NEXPRESS color presses. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared on eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 25, 2007) - Xerox Speeds, Simplifies Digital Printing Process — New FreeFlow features expedite personalized marketing, Web-to-book and other tasks. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Epson Unveils 4 New Products — Fastest Laser-quality ink-jet, other multi-function printers (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared as Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (ExtremeTech.com, September 25, 2007), Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (PCMag.com, September 25, 2007) and Epson Unveils 4 New Products (eWeek Channel Insider, September 25, 2007) - Xerox Debuts 4 High-Speed ‘Light Production’ Systems — To help companies bring more print jobs in-house (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Tool Assesses TCO of Print — new ProfitQuick Investment Planner modelling tool (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Adds VAR, OEM Partners In New Business Group — Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group goes after high-end printing/product markets (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Wants to Help Customers Gain Digital Print Savvy (eWeek, September 25, 2007)
- Solid-Ink Print Levels the Color, Black-And-White Price Barrier — Xerox promises color printing at a black-and-white price with solid-ink sticks. (eWeek, September 24, 2007) Also appeared in eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 24, 2007)
- Ricoh Middleware Links Documents to Sage Accounting (eWeek, September 19, 2007) (news story)
- Lexmark Touts Advantages of Wireless Printing — Lexmark introduces WiFi-enabled inkjet printers and all-in-one devices for under $300. (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek, September 6, 2007)
- Xerox Office Services 4.2 to Manage Print Inventory and TCO eWeek, August 9, 2007)
- Kodak Looks to Ease Project Collaboration Version 3.0 of Kodak’s Insite Creative Workflow System (eWeek, August 8, 2007)
- New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek, August 8, 2007) (news story)
also appeared as: New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek’s Channel Insider, 08-AUG-2007) and New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) - InfoPrint Adds 4 Workgroup Color Printers, MFPs (eWeek.com, July 27, 2007
- Ricoh Intros Wide-Format Printers for CAD, Technical Renderings (eWeek, July 27, 2007)
- Unitrends Adds Linux Hot Snapshotting To Appliance-Based Rapid Recovery — Rapid Recovery No Longer a Luxury (LinuxPlanet, April 27, 2006)
- FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic — Vonage complaint leads to “no port blocking” ruling (March 4, 2005)
- USB Flash Memory RAM Sticks Doing More In Less Space (CMP Small Business Pipeline, September 8, 2004) — An update on what Iomega, Lexar, M-Systems, SanDisk and other USB flash RAM drive vendors are doing in terms of capacity increases and price drops, as well as differentiating with security, software and other features.
- Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization — IBM’s recently-released rHype Hypervisor code, Intel’s “Vanderpool” technology, and other events are propelling system virtualization (eWeek, March 4, 2005)
- “Windows Refund Day” (January 25, 1999) (Also run on CNN.com)
Photos & “Slide Shows”:
While I’m primarily a writer, a growing number of my assignments have been “slide shows” — a series of photos with titles and captions — and I’ve also (with helpful advice from TechRevu editor Ernest Lilley) learned to organize event/project photos.
- An SFnal Weekend in Toronto: A Slide-Show Report: Even without a con, Toronto can still be SFnal (File770.com, May 6, 2023)
- Boskone 56: Fun, Plus Adding Foothills To My Mount To-Be-Read (File770.com, February 24, 2019) – Con report and pictures from Boskone56
- Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company (Datamation, February 8, 2019)
- Arisia 2013, Photos and a short report (SFRevu.com, January 18, 2013) (Arisia is one of the Boston-area’s annual science fiction conventions)
- Event report: Arisia 2012 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January 16, 2012)
- Event report, Arisia 2011 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2011)
- A look at Arisia 2010 — slide show of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2010)
- Photo Report From Pepcom Holiday Spectacular — Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers — Pepcom evening multi-vendor press event, New York City, September 18, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (show report)
- Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 — Web 2.0 Expo, Javits Center, New York City, September 16-19, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (“slide show” show report)
- 15 Business Diamonds in the Consumer Electronics Rough — Here’s 15 of the nifty business-worthy products I spotted at ZD’s September 2007 Digital Life Expo in New York City, and the associated ShowStoppers multi-vendor evening press event (and Pepcom’s “Holiday Spectacular” a week earlier) (eWeek, October 5, 2007) (new product write-ups/photos)
Product Reviews, Roundups & News:
This includes brief summaries, new-product announcements/news, and reviews, tests and related write-ups, from ComputerWorld, eWeek.com, TechRevu.com, and other places.
- Pocketable productivity: 5 folding keyboards for your smartphone (ComputerWorld, April 10, 2015) (review/roundup)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- Top Classroom Note-Taking Apps for the iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, August 26, 2013)
- Eight Free eReader Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, May 19, 2013)
- WinZip System Utilities Suite Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, March 13, 2013)
- Review, Lenovo U310 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (TechReview, February 6, 2013)
- Nine Handy Airline Travel Apps for iPhone & iPad (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com site, December 23, 2012)
- Review: Dropbox for iPhone: Multimedia Storage in the Cloud (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, August 29, 2012)
- Ten Cool Trip Planning Apps for the iPad TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, August 16, 2012)
- How Do You Get Photos Onto an Apple iPad? — Affordable SD card accessories (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 25, 2012) (review)
- Join.Me Review: Free & Easy Screen Sharing from PCs to iPads (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 15, 2012) (review)
- BAM! POW! What are the Best iPad Comic Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, April 13, 2012)
- Apple iBooks 2 Review: Easy Reading on Your iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, March 26, 2012)
- Four iPhone Privacy Apps for Protecting Your Content from Prying Eyes (TechTarget’s Brighthand Staff March 23, 2012) (review)
- CloudOn Review: The Best Way of Getting MS Office on an Apple iPad? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, February 17, 2012) (iPad app review)
- Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra (ComputerWorld, February 1, 2012) (review)Also posted to PC Advisor
- Square Credit Card Reader Review: Remarkably Easy (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, January 28, 2012) (iOS app review)
- How to Choose an iPad Keyboard, And Which is the Best, Part 1 and Part 2 (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2011) – a look at several Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad
- Low-Priced iPhone Accessories Are Great as Holiday Gifts, or Any Time (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Download Lowdown: 10 Must-Have App Types for Your iPhone (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Yes, It Really Can Take Being Dropped, Frozen, and Heated (IEEE Spectrum, November 2011) (review of Panasonic fully-rugged Toughbook — putting it through home versions of ruggedness testing — fun!)
- Dragon Remote Microphone App for iOS Review: Using Your iPhone for PC Speech Recognition (TechTarget Brighthand, November 24, 2011) (review)
- TK-421 iPhone Case With Flip-Out Keyboard from ThinkGeek Review (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, September 4, 2011) (iPhone accessory review)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 User Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com site, August 31, 2011) (product review)
- Boingo Wi-Finder for iPhone Review: Finding Hotspots Everywhere(TechTarget Brighthand.com, August 6, 2011)
- Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display from ThinkGeek.com (Brighthand.com, July 30, 2011) (review)
- MotionX-GPS Review: Full-Featured Navigation for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 17, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (product review)
- Dragon Search for iPhone Review (TechTarget Brighthand.com, April 8, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Canon Selphy CP800 portable photo printer (Computer Shopper, March 2011) (product review)
- Lenovo All-In-One IdeaCentre B305 Packs Performance Power And Multimedia Pleasure Into Pleasing Package (TechRevu.com, March 15, 2011) (review)
- Dragon Dictation for iPhone Review (February 3, 2011) (software review)
- Laptop Review: Dell Vostro V130 — The Glamorous Life (Hardware Central, February 7, 2011) (review)
- Lenovo ThinkPad x100e – An Affordable Notebook That Means Business (TechRevu.com, December 8, 2010) (review)
- Sylvania Netbook Sylvania Netbook: Not The Netbook You Were Looking For (TechRevu.com, November 7, 2010) (review)
- Netbook Review: Toshiba Mini NB305 — One Hand Tied Behind Its Back (Internet.com Hardware Central, October 28, 2010) (review)
- Review: HP Mini 5102 Netbook (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2010)
- Notebook Review: Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T — Acer’s All-Around Performer (Internet.com Hardware Central, August 16, 2010) (review)
- HP Unveils Mini Tower Desktop PC (HP Pro 3130) (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)And this related blog post, HP And The SMB Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, August 2, 2010)
- HP ProBook 4720s Notebook Packs Full Keyboard, 17-Inch Display (InformationWeek SMB, June 28, 2010) (product review)
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Hits Portability Price Performance Trifecta (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 11, 2010) (review) (blog post)
- Video Training For Windows 7: A Comparative Review (IT Expert Voice, May 03, 2010) (review of video training products)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 gives you hands-off computing (ComputerWorld.com, March 25, 2010) (software review)
- Lite-On eTAU208 USB External Optical Drive (TechRevu.com, February 16, 2010) (hardware review)
- A Notebook That Can Maybe Take a Beating — I test GammaTech’s “fully rugged” MT10 Durabook tablet, although not as comprehensively as I wanted to (IEEE Spectrum, November 2009) (review)
- Review: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Netbook — It weighs 3 pounds, but the 12.1″ display makes this the first netbook I can be seriously productive with. (TechRevu, November 23, 2009) (product review)
- Review: 5 USB turntables convert LPs to MP3s – Review of five USB turntables and associated software and gear, plus some tips (ComputerWorld, August 07, 2009) (review) (feature) This story was also run on other IDG sites including:
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Make Your Tax Prep Less Taxing: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008 (TechRevu, February 25, 2009) (product write-up, updated review info to come)
- Reports from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (January 5-11, 2009, in Las Vegas):
- CES Show Report: The Coolest Picks at CES 2009 — My short list and photo slide show (thanks to PictoBrowser of the best/most interesting things I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (TechRevu.com, January 19, 2009, show report)
- CES 2009: FINAL REPORT OF WHAT I SAW — My topic-sorted bullet list of what I saw at CES 2009 that looked interesting. (TechRevu.com, January 15, 2009) (show report)
- CES Pre-Show Kickoff Event: “CES Unveiled” , including Daniel and Ernest’s Preshow CES Podcast — stuff seen at CES’ CES Unveiled 60+ vendor press event (TechRevu.com, January 6, 2009)
- CES 2009: Off To Another Consumer Electronics Show! — a brief pre-show report on what’s to come (TechRevu.com, January 4, 2009)
- Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy — The KillAWatt EZ, Watts up? and Brultech ECM1220 let consumers, homeowners, and IT/energy professionals measure how much energy a device (or its power brick) is using (ComputerWorld, August 26, 2008) (review)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (product review)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- CardScan Grabs Business Cards — Review of CardScan Executive mobile USB-powered business card scanner (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008) (product review)
- APC, mFuel External Notebook Batteries Keep Humming (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008 (product review) (Also see my ‘mini-slide-show’ of photos of the APC UPB90 and the mFuel, which ran in eWeek in October 2007.)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- APC, mFuel External Batteries Prolong Notebook Computing — brief captioned slide-show on external batteries for notebooks (eWeek, October 21, 2007) (product review)
- 15 Business Diamonds in the Consumer Electronics Rough — Here’s 15 of the nifty business-worthy products I spotted at ZD’s September 2007 Digital Life Expo in New York City, and the associated ShowStoppers multi-vendor evening press event (and Pepcom’s “Holiday Spectacular” a week earlier) (eWeek, October 5, 2007) (new product write-ups/photos)
- Olympus Evolt E510 10MP Digital SLR Camera — Nice sub-$1,000 DSLR with CCD Shift Image Stabilization and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses (TechRevu.com, October 1, 2007)
- Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket? – Review: Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (eWeek, September 7, 2007)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007)
- Review: Olympus SP-550UZ 7.1MP Digital Camera with Dual-Image Stabilized 18x Optical Zoom (TechReview, July 2007)
- Data Deposit Box Stores Data Safely Off-Site Review: Online storage service Data Deposit Box patches the gaps in your data storage by taking data safely off-site. (eWeek.com, July 5, 2007)
- Review: Fujifilm Finepix S700 7MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (TechRevu.com, June 2007)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
- Post-Digital Life Expo 2006 product reviews/write-ups, in eWeek New Products blog and/or eWeek Product Reviews:I did nearly a dozen and a half short write-ups — including quick hands-on trials where possible (not in-depth testing), of a bunch of products I saw at the October 2006 Digital Life Expo at New York City’s Javits Center (and/or at the associated evening multi-vendor events by Pepcom and ShowStoppers. Four of these appeared first during November, on eWeek, and included some pictures and/or screen shots. In mid-December 2006, eWeek started up a New Products blog, and all the write-ups are there (including blog versions of the four that had already been posted):
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VOIP Easy (eWeek.com, November 14, 2006)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef – A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:07 PM/EST)
- MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online – Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS – Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings 0 Patented control lets you click through the casing (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:59 PM/EST )
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- CyberDefender Launches Free Early Detection Center Suite – Everything-But-Firewall PC Protection, Still In Beta (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:49 PM/EST)
- Diagnose Why Your Car’s “Check Engine” Light Is On – A Useful Device — If It Works (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:47 PM/EST)
- Become Strives To Improve On-Line Shopping – Also Finds Pre/Post-Purchase Research Info (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:45 PM/EST)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
- MonsterPower’s Outlets To Go Provide Portable Plugins — MonsterPower’s new 4- and 6-Outlet Outlets2Go give travellers enough places to plug in (mini-review) (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2006)
- Clean Up Your Desktop” – Cut Cable Clutter With The Belkin Flip 2-Port KVM (Processor, May 5, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 18; Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Hardware Review: MicroSolutions Model 155015 80GB USB2.0 Backpack External Hard Drive (May 2003) — For reliable backups of data and of system images, external hard drives like MicroSolutions’ 80 GB USB 2.0 Backpack offer a compelling alternative — or, better, complement — to CD/DVD burners.
- NEC MobilePro 790/780 Jupiter Class Handheld PCs Score w/DPD (January 2003) — I’ve been using this two-pound hand-held PC, and/or its predecessor, for two+ years now, with good reason: it’s one of the perfect writer/journalist-on-the-go machines, thanks to a great keyboard, instant-on, and all-day power. Sure, it runs Windows CE, but that’s not a big negative (except for lack of drivers…).
Show/Event Coverage, Including Pre-Show Dailies:
- Boskone 2021 Pre-Con Report (File770.com, February 5, 2021)
- Arisia 2021: A Brief Dern’s- and Web’s-Eye View (File770.com, January 27, 2021)
- Boskone 2020 Report (File770.com, February 19, 2020)
- Arisia 2020 – Con Report & Pix (File770.com, Friday, January 17 – Monday, January 20, 2020)
- ReaderCon 30 Photos (File770.com, July 14, 2019) — 20 pictures and a brief bit of text from this year’s ReaderCon convention
- Digital Experience NYC Summer 2019 (TechRevu.com, June 27, 2019)
- Top Tech Picks from CES 2019 (GrabCAD.com, April 24th, 2019) — Some nifty products for professionals and consumers
- 7 Technologies that Caught Our Eye at CES 2019 GrabCAD.com blog, March 29th, 2019) — 3D printing, and things for hardware start-ups
- Boskone 56: Fun, Plus Adding Foothills To My Mount To-Be-Read (File770.com, February 24, 2019) – Con report and pictures from Boskone56
- Products Seen at Pepcom Holiday Spectacular 2018 NYC (TechRevu.com, October 2, 2018)
- SPTechCon Boston 2018 (TechRevu.com, September 6, 2019)
- A Rundown of Some of the Cool New Products Unveiled at CES (GrabCAD.com, January 16, 2018)
- WorldCon 2017 in Helskini: Worldcon 75 Photo Gallery by Daniel Dern (File770.com, August 12, 2017) — two dozen photos of and around the World Science Fiction Convention
- Dern@CES2017 – Tech gadgets and gizmos galore!
- DERN@CES2017: (Show Me The) Biggish Tablets, USB-C Gear, Mirrorless Cameras, Mobile Power, And More Please! — Based on pre-show PR info, some of the tech I’m looking forward to see and learn about. (TechRevu.com, December 13, 2016)
- DERN@CES2017: Some Things I Liked, Or You Might, and Some (TechRevu.com, January 23, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 2 of 3: Storage, Desktop/Notebook, Headphones, Cables, Even a UMPC (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 3 of 3: From Media & Entertainment to Power, Home, Sundries & A Dangdest Thing (TechRevu.com, January 25 2017)
- At Xively Xperience, Advice on Building IoT Connected Product Businesses (Internet of Things Journal, October 4, 2015)
- Report From Readercon 25 (science fiction convention report) (SFRevu.com, July 15, 2014)
- Digital Den creator pushes for a new Boston-area computer museum (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 24, 2014) (feature article)
- How and why can mobile companies succeed? Xconomy event speakers tell all (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 21, 2014) (event report)
- Arisia 2013, Photos and a short report (SFRevu.com, January 18, 2013) (Arisia is one of the Boston-area’s annual science fiction conventions)
- CES 2013: The Dern Report from CEA — Ten interesting products. (TechRevu, January 13, 2013) (also posted to CES 2013: The Dern Report (TechMonkeyMag.com, January 13, 2013)
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2012: A Stroll Through The Exhibit Hall (show floor report & slide show) (December 03, 2012)
- BYTE Interviews Jerry Pournelle (Byte.com, April 16, 2012 (interview) — A Skype audio interview with Jerry Pournelle, done at the February 2012 Boskone science fiction convention. (Jerry had to stay home, due to a virus, but we had a live audience). Here’s audio, plus transcription (done by me) of the podcast, posted in four parts, plus a short biography and bibliography. (Note, if the in-article links to the various parts aren’t working — as of October 2020 they weren’t, use these:
- Podcast Part 1: Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 2: Pournelle On ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 3: Pournelle On Ebooks (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 4: Pournelle On Using Multimedia To Sell Books (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Bibliography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Event report: Boskone 49 — Feb. 17-19 – Westin Waterfront, Boston, MA (SFRevu.com, February 2012)
- Event report: Arisia 2012 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January 16, 2012)
- Event report: Pepcom NYC Holiday Spectacular An evening of new and upcoming tech toys\\\\\\products (September 15, 2011)
- Report from Boston ComicCon, April 30-May 1, 2011 (SFRevu.com, June 6, 2011) (event report)
- Event report, Arisia 2011 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2011)
- CES 2011 coverage — I didn’t make it to the show this year, but still managed to file several stories:
- CES 2011: Business Tools Amidst Consumer Stuff New Notebooks, Headsets, Software And More! (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: Electronics For Consumers — From Bag/Seat Combos To Living Room Videoconferencing, CES 2011 Has It All (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: More Stuff For Businesses And Consumers (TechRevu.com, January 12, 2011) (event coverage)
- HP Refreshes Thin Client Devices (InformationWeek SMB, January 04, 2011) (news)
- Gilbane Conference Boston: Web Management for the Enterprise (TechRevu, December 3, 2010) (event report)
- Event report from CEALine Show and the Pepcom “Digital Experience” multi-vendor press event, New York City, June 23, 2010:
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 1
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 2 InformationWeek SMB, July 01, 2010)
- 2010 VMware Virtualization Forum — Products and vendors at this June 3, 2010 Boston event (TechRevu.com, June 03, 2010) (event report)
- A look at Arisia 2010 — slide show of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2010)
- Dern’s CES 2010 Reports: Coverage from and of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Tuesday, January 4, 2010 (including events before the show floor opened) through Sunday, January 10, 2010. (I was there Wednesday, January 06 through Friday, January 8.)
- Tablet PCs, 3D TVs Wow The Crowds At CES 2010 (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES 2010 Report: eBooks, Notebooks, Accessories Abound (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Day 3: Affordable Audio, Picture, Video Tools Offer New Creative Outlets (Sears ManageMyLife, January 08, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Wrap-up: From iPhone to Automobile, There’s At Least One New Product You’ll Want (Sears ManageMyLife, January 12, 2010) (show coverage)
- Dern@CES 2010: What I Saw, What I’d Like To Buy Or Try (TechRevu, January 14, 2010) (show coverage)
- Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon — August 6th – 10th, 2009 (SFRevu.com, posted August 6, 2009) (event coverage)
- Reports from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (January 5-11, 2009, in Las Vegas):
- CES Show Report: The Coolest Picks at CES 2009 — My short list and photo slide show (thanks to PictoBrowser of the best/most interesting things I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (TechRevu.com, January 19, 2009, show report)
- CES 2009: FINAL REPORT OF WHAT I SAW — My topic-sorted bullet list of what I saw at CES 2009 that looked interesting. (TechRevu.com, January 15, 2009) (show report)
- CES Pre-Show Kickoff Event: “CES Unveiled” , including Daniel and Ernest’s Preshow CES Podcast — stuff seen at CES’ CES Unveiled 60+ vendor press event (TechRevu.com, January 6, 2009)
- CES 2009: Off To Another Consumer Electronics Show! — a brief pre-show report on what’s to come (TechRevu.com, January 4, 2009)
- Event Report: Pepcom Wine/Dine/Demo NYC November 2008 From Asus and HP to ClickFree and PlantSense, a evening’s look at showed recent, new and upcoming consumer/prosumer/business tech products (TechRevu.com, December 02, 2008)
- Photo Report From Pepcom Holiday Spectacular — Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers — Pepcom evening multi-vendor press event, New York City, September 18, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (show report)
- Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 — Web 2.0 Expo, Javits Center, New York City, September 16-19, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (“slide show” show report)
- Show Report: Enterprise 2.0 Conference — Are Businesses Ready For Social Technology? – a quick view from the show floor, Boston, June 9-12, 2008 (TechRevu.com, June 12, 2008) (show report)
- Wi-Fi Predators Attack Hot Spots Businesses Don`t Know They Have — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 31, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com, Businesses Leave Wi-Fi Hot Spots Unprotected - Users Still Worst Enemy to Endpoint Security — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 28, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com) - AIIM/OnDemand 2008 Report — Slide Show: The Top SMB-Focused Printing Tech from AIIM (eWeek MidMarket, March 8, 2008)
- My reports from/of the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show:
- Dern’s Picks For CES 2008 — The products I’d give awards to, if I had awards to give, and some of the others I found the most interesting/intriguing. (TechRevu.com, January 30, 2008)
- What Daniel Saw at CES 2008 — My partial summary of what I saw at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, sorted by product category, with some comments. (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2008)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #1 – Consume Electronics! In Vegas! (Posted to my Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #2: Sunday – Storage Visions, Marty Winston’s Cherry Picks (Posted to my Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #3: A Few Words (Well, Paragraphs) AboutThe Multi-Vendor Press/Analyst-Only Events (Posted to my Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #4: (Some of) The Products I Saw At CES 2008 (Posted to my Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- Boskone 44 convention report — Brief report of the Boskone 44 science fiction convention held February 2007 in Boston, with Guest of Honor David Gerrold (SFRevu.com, posted March 2007)
- SigGraph 2006 in Boston — Summary review of the exhibits and a few show floor pictures (TechRevu.com, August 4, 2006)
- Progress Is The Product At TechEd — Report from the TechEd 2006 Show Floor (CMP Desktop Pipeline, June 15, 2006)
- Digital Life Conference: A Report — Podcast report of Digital Life show in New York City, October 2005 (Dr. Dobbs, MP3 audio, 4:47 mins)
- If it’s Tuesday, this must be CeBIT — An overview of the CeBIT 2005 show in Hannover, Germany with some local color, sights and sounds, and an odd picture from the show floor. (TechRevu, March 23, 2005)
- Storage, Input, Other End-User Gadgets Make CeBIT Noise — Products for the desk, mobile, SOHO and home end-user were in abundance at CeBIT 2005 (March 17, 2005)
- LinuxWorld expo wrapup (Friday February 18, 2005)
- Pepcom “Holiday Spectacular” Event Offers Early View of New Digital Cameras, MP3 Players and More – Report on new consumer/”prosumer” digital media products shown at Pepcom holiday press event in NYC (O’Reilly Digital Media, September 30, 2004)
- Networld+Interop Las Vegas: Behind the Scenes — David Coursey’s evening event at this year’s Networld+Interop had a (deliberately) small, but interesting, roomful of vendors and products to look at. (Byte.com, June 2004)
- Boskone 41 Con Report: A Modest But Enjoyable Event — Boskone, 2004 (SFRevu.com, posted March 2004) (event coverage)
- My CES 2004 Show Report and Pix (January 19, 2004) — I saw a bunch of interesting stuff at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas; here’s some of it. (Sorry, you’ll need a Byte.com account to access this.)
- “Show In A Nutshell” Preview At Media/Analyst Briefing (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
- Enterprise Wireless Forum Offers Why’s and How-To’s of Enterprise WLAN, Mobile Deployment (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
- 802.11, Tablet PCs In Spotlight At 2 CeBIT America Sessions — Chris De Herrera talks about his WiFi and Tablet PC session in the CeBIT America 2003 Enterprise Wireless Forum (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 18, 2003)
- Clear-Eyed Appraisal of Linux In The Enterprise At CeBIT America 2003 (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 19, 2003)
- “PalmSource’s Nagel to Showcase Strategies for Secure Mobile Enterprises”
- “Making Most of Visit to Big Apple”
- Interview with Xerox executive Rob Stewart, Vice President of Worldwide Color Marketing, Xerox Office Group
- IT spending: A look at the year ahead — Buy or wait? Is it time to upgrade those desktops, notebooks, and servers? (Comdex Fall 2003 Show Daily)
- National Semiconductor CEO Brian Halla claims to have formula for semicon industry recovery date in the Comdex 2002 Fall Show Preview (November 2002)
- Science Fiction Authors Tap into Technology Prediction-Making Preview of super-session with Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle (November 2000)
- Interop Community Recalls 15 Years of NetWorld+Interop
- Do COMDEX Right! Listen to the Pros Advice and tips on surviving Comdex/Fall productively, from past attendees (Fall 2000)
- “INTEROP 92 Spring Proves a Capital Idea” — Interop in Washington, D.C. (ConneXions, Volume 6, No. 7, July 1992, page 15) (show report)
- “‘Dear Cliff’: A Report from INTEROP 91 Fall” (ConneXions, Volume 5, No. 12, December 1991, page 9) (show report)
- Commercial IP providers establish CIX gateway (ConneXions, Volume 5, No. 7, July 1991, page 20) (news)
- INTEROP 90 Wrap-Up (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 11, November 1990, page 13) (show report)
- INTEROP 89 Report (ConneXions, Volume 3, No. 11, November 1989, page 10) (show report)
Tech How-To’s:
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Multiple Monitors: One Way To Get More Display Space (InformIT, February 24, 2006)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
- Buying a Non-Branded “White Box” PC — Tips on when, and how to, buy an unbranded “White Box” versus from a name-brand vendor (or building your own) (InformIT, May 7, 2004)
- Be Prepared — A Paranoid’s Guide to Computer Ownership (ComputerClick Magazine, October, 2002) — My summary of free, cheap and affordable — and easy — steps anybody can (and should!) do to protect their computer, and the data on it. E.g. virus scanners, UPSs, backups, and more. Nothing earthshattering here; this is meant as an accessible piece for the new computer owner/user.
My By-lined Articles and PR Projects, Sorted By Topic/Technology
Here’s some of the by-lined articles, and PR projects, I’ve done, sorted by topic/technology:
3D Printing, Industry 4.0, Additive Manufacturing:
- Learning Options For Aspiring Additive Manufacturing Professionals and Students (GrabCAD.com, December 1, 2021)
- The Top 7 Schools with Additive Manufacturing Labs (GrabCAD.com, May 3, 2021
- Why Smart Factories Need 3D Printers to be Connected (GrabCAD.com, April 22, 2021)
- APIs and SDKs: Integrating 3D Printing Into Your Manufacturing Software Ecosystem (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2021)
- How Much Does 3D Printer Material Cost? (GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2020)
- How Much You Spend On a 3D Printer Depends on What You Want It to Do (GrabCAD.com, July 14, 2020)
- How 3D Printing Empowers Artists (GrabCAD.com, May 19, 2020)
- MIT’s Professor David Hardt Offers His Perspective On Industry 4.0 (GrabCAD.com, May 4, 2020)
- Software Every Engineer Needs to Know (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2020)
- NASA’s 3D Printing Space Initiatives (GrabCAD.com, January 23, 2020)
- 3D Printers Could Be Coming to a Library Near You (GrabCAD.com, December 11, 2019)
- GrabCAD Gets Enlisted for Biodegradable Plastics Initiative (GrabCAD.com blog, November 20th, 2019)
- zGlue: Giving Chip Creators More Flexibility and Speed-to-Market (GrabCAD.com, October 23, 2019)
- Fictiv: The Rapid Prototyping Solution Startups Love (GrabCAD.com blog, August 19, 2019)
- How The GrabCAD Community Helps NASA Solve Tough Problems (GrabCAD.com blog, August 7, 2019)
- Contract Medical Device Manufacturers Are on the Rise to Keep Costs Low (GrabCAD.com, May 8, 2019)
- 7 Technologies that Caught Our Eye at CES 2019 GrabCAD.com blog, March 29th, 2019) — 3D printing, and things for hardware start-ups
- Digital Badges Will Help People Looking to Work in Manufacturing Acquire New Skills (GrabCAD blog, January 9, 2019)
- What Skills Are Required for “New-Collar Jobs” in Manufacturing? (GrabCAD blog, December 26th, 2018)
- For Hardware Entrepreneurs and Startups, What Opportunities and Benefits Do “Smart Manufacturing” and “Industry 4.0” Offer? (GrabCAD.com, October 24, 2018)
- Choosing a Chinese Manufacturer for Your New Hardware Product (GrabCAD, June 25, 2018)
- Do Prototyping Right for Funding, Manufacturing Success: Interview with Arrow Electronics’ Keaton Anderson (GrabCAD, May 17, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: It Pays To Increase Your Manufacturing Vocabulary (GrabCAD blog, January 30, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: Make Sure You Learn to Speak ‘Manufacturese’ (GrabCAD blog, December 11, 2017)
- Understanding, and Succeeding, at Hardware Crowdfunding (GrabCAD blog, August 30, 2017)
- Hardware compliance certifications: a two-parter:
- Designing a New Hardware Product? You Need to Know About Compliance Certifications! (GrabCAD blog, July 26, 2017)
- Determining Time and Cost of Getting Compliance Certifications for a New Hardware Product (GrabCAD Blog, August 8, 2017)
Accounting, Banking, Financial Services:
- 3 Technologies CPA Firms Must Leverage in 2023 (Cloud hosting; digital transformation; robot process automation) (ICPAS Insight, Spring 2023)
- Beware of “Malvertising” — Now Even Legit-Appearing Ads on Legit Sites May Be Unsafe (Fortinet blog, June 02, 2015)
- Still Running XP-Based Or Other Obsolete Point-Of-Sale? Move On ASAP! (Fortinet blog, May 8, 2015)
- What Cloud Computing Means to Accounting and Finance Professionals (HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, February 1, 2012) (feature) ( Try here if first link is dead)
- Square Credit Card Reader Review: Remarkably Easy (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, January 28, 2012) (iOS app review)
- “Record Keeping and Pricing,” 2013 Writer’s Market, pages 100-109
- Tax Software Primer: CPAs have choices…probably more than they thought they had (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, November/December 2010)
- Coupa Integrates Expense Management With SalesForce (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Wave Online Accounting Counts On Small Businesses (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Basware Intros SaaS Invoice Processing Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 20, 2010) (news)
- QuickBooks 2011 Now Available (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Intacct Partners With Clarizen, Adds Project Accounting Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Social Media Now: What can LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et al do for you? (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, August 2010)
- KineticD Adds Affordable Remote Access To Flexible Backup (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 11, 2010)
- Xcentric Lifts CPA IT Cloudwards (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 14, 2010)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Are You Being Served? — SaaS for CPA firms and their customers (ICPAS Insight magazine, February/March 2010)
- Portal Power: Emerging accounting portal technologies streamline financial processes and boost productivity (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHT magazine, November 2009)
- Cost-Conscious Technology — Affordable accounting software and SaaS offerings (ICPAS Insight, August 2009) (feature)
- Running Only on Open-Source Software — Profile of Smartleaf, a small financial services company running almost entirely on Open Source (MidMarket.eWeek.com, April 06, 2008) (news/interview)
- Ricoh Middleware Links Documents to Sage Accounting (eWeek, September 19, 2007) (news story)
- Sunkist Growers Creates New Fruit Accounting System with Visual Basic .NET, .NET Framework — Case Study (posted November 6, 2003)
Bio-IT, Medical, Telemedicine, & Health:
Bio-IT:
- Contract Medical Device Manufacturers Are on the Rise to Keep Costs Low (GrabCAD.com, May 8, 2019)
- Creating A Mobile Medical Tool? Start With a Smartphone or Tablet (GrabCAD blog, November 6, 2017)
- Partners HealthCare announces new platform to help companies survey patients (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, December 9, 2014)
- Who needs a Tricorder? Apps and add-ons put a doctor in your pocket (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 16, 2014)
- Swiss Army smartphone: 9 tools your phone can replace (ITWorld.com, February 10, 2014) (includes several medical/health apps and accessories)
- Best Apps For Meeting Health and Fitness Resolutions TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, January 05, 2013) (roundup review)
- Digital Signage Helps Joslin Diabetes Clinic Educate (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, July 19, 2012)
- Video Surveillance Camera Budget Savers (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Best Practices When Using Video Surveillance Cameras (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Top Video Surveillance Camera Trends from the Experts (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Digital Signage a Healthy Way to Get Attention (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Health Care Facility (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Telemedicine: Changing The Way Doctors See Patients (CDW HealthCare Catalog, pp. 28-29, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Efeckta Technologies Squeezes More Value Into Bio-informatics Data (In “Articles” — sorry, you’ll need JavaScript turned on to get the link) (March 29, 2002)
- Linux makes life better: Open Source at BioIT World — Report from IDC’s first Bio-IT show, in Boston (March 22, 2002)
Many of my articles on KVMs, Power (UPS, Mobile, Fuel Cells, Etc.), Cooling, and Data Centers. Power Over Ethernet (802.3af), Professional Services/Consulting, Security (Computer, Network), and VoIP, Video, 802.11, WiFI, Bluetooth, WiMAX, Wireless, Etc., and other technologies include health/medical-related mentions.
Articles with health/medical mini-case histories, user quotes, include:
- “Digital Signage” Shows How To Increase Sales, Customer Satisfaction — how hospitals and others are using digital signs (CDW Solutions, not yet printed)
- “Weather Or Not — Is Your IT Ready For Prolonged Power Outages? (CDW Netcomm catalog, September 2006)
- Power Play: Protect your essential IT gear from damaging power failures with the right UPS– includes user quotes from internal medical group and a benefits administration company (CDW BizTech magazine, March 2006)
- Wireless Switches Simplify WiFi Management — includes case quotes from a national rehab services provider (Netcomm catalog, April 2005)
- “REIT Counts on CDW for Hardware, Software and Network Cabling Services” (CDW, January 2004) — Case study on how Lillibridge Healthcare Real Estate Trust works through CDW for third-party network cabling services (here, Black Box).
- Planning, Power and Voice over IP — Planning and design tools For VoIP Over WiFi; Power over Ethernet for VoIP; Power backup plans (January/February 2004)
- “Trapeze Simplifies WLAN Management” (Processor, Vol. 25, Issue 44, October 31, 2003) — Trapeze’s Ringmaster software lightens the wireless LAN design, install and maintenance load for sysadmins.
Cameras & Photography:
- Sponsored Post: OPPO’s MariSilicon X Imaging NPU Amps Up Night Video for New Find X5 Smartphones (Anandtech.com (Sponsored Post), March 22, 2022
- How to Wrangle Your Digital Pictures on the Cheap — Free and low-cost tools for organizing large batches of images (IEEE Spectrum, January 27, 2015) (feature)
- Darkroom over digital: Film photography still popular at some local schools (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, June 17, 2014)
- In the Facebook era, will printed yearbooks survive? (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 23, 2014)
- How Do You Get Photos Onto an Apple iPad? — Affordable SD card accessories (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 25, 2012) (review)
- MacPhun FX Photo Studio Review: Cool Photo Sharing & Special Effects for iPhones (TechTarget Brighthand, January 2012) (review)
- Corel Slingshot for iOS Review: Share Photos From Your iPhone Through Facebook (TechTarget Brighthand.com, November 3, 2011)
- Add-On Accessories For Your Digital Camera: Beyond Spare Batteries, The Right Stuff Means Better Pix (iPass Connect, May 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Olympus Evolt E510 10MP Digital SLR Camera — Nice sub-$1,000 DSLR with CCD Shift Image Stabilization and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses (TechRevu.com, October 1, 2007)
- Review: Olympus SP-550UZ 7.1MP Digital Camera with Dual-Image Stabilized 18x Optical Zoom (TechReview, July 2007)
- Review: Fujifilm Finepix S700 7MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (TechRevu.com, June 2007)
Certifications, Regulatory:
- Hardware compliance certifications: a two-parter:
- Designing a New Hardware Product? You Need to Know About Compliance Certifications! (GrabCAD blog, July 26, 2017)
- Determining Time and Cost of Getting Compliance Certifications for a New Hardware Product (GrabCAD Blog, August 8, 2017)
- “Solving the Certification Puzzle: The Certifications You Need to Compete in Global Markets (Microsoft, July 2011) (32-page booklet about regulatory certifications, e.g., UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, Energy Star, Ruggedizing. The booklet was printed and distributed by Microsoft, and also posted to a Microsoft internal site. The project was done by Triangle Publishing Services, Inc.. I was the lead writer.)
- Decoding compliance certification icons: What UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, and those other certification ‘marks’ under your laptop mean (ITWorld.com, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Tech In-Depth: Energy Star Certification For Enterprise Storage (Processor, July 16, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 15, Page(s) 33 in print issue)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- Certifications: Worth It or Not? — “Are certifications like MCSE, CNA, CCIE or A+ worth it — from the perspective of network managers and other IT management in hiring and retaining qualified network staff?” (March 4, 2002)
Channel, VAR, ISVs, etc.:
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
Chips:
- Penryn Core Will Speed Notebooks, Stretch Battery Life — Intel’s New CPU Tech Brings Performance Benefits (eWeek Mid-Market, May 08, 2008) (news article)
- iAMT – A Giant Step Forward — With Intel’s Active Management Technology, IT staffers will be able to remotely monitor and manage networked computers in any state?even when they’re off or broken. (NetComm catalog, January 2005)
- The Future Is Bright: 64-bit computing with AMD’s Opteron — CDW NetComm catalog, April 2004, pages 69-73
- Emerging Technologies, Part II — 64-bit computing, iSCSi, Open Source and web services , CDW NetComm catalog, March 2004, pages 52-55.
- Emerging Technologies, Part I — A look at some of the technologies in or emerging from the labs: 3G Wireless Phone Services, 10 GB Ethernet, MRAM and FRAM, and Fibre Channel (CDW NetComm catalog, February 2004)
Cloud, Software as a Service (SaaS),SOA:
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
- Five ‘Must-Do’s’ For Your Company’s Future Success From VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger (Forbes.com, September 24, 2015) (PR, for VMware) (strong rewrite based on VMware piece) (part of a series, http://www.forbes.com/sites/vmware/
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with Pivotal’s Roman Shaposhnik (Linux.com, September 25, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Disaster Recovery: How to Bounce Back from a Security Breach (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- How SMBs Can Put The Cloud To Work (September 15, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Project Calico: Open Source, High-Scale Network Fabric For The Cloud (Linux.com, September 2, 2015) (sponsored article)
- OpenStack Was Key To Building Servers.Com (Linux.com, September 1, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Update From VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps Group: Offering Open Source Tools, Collaboration and More (Linux.com, August 20, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Microservices 101: What To Know, What To Do (Linux.com, August 11 August 2015) (sponsored content)
- Online Data Archiving: Save Time and Cost By Letting Your Data Retire (Zetta blog post, July 13, 2012) (PR)
- Affordable Disaster Recovery: Compliance in the Cloud (Zetta blog post, June 18, 2012) (PR)
- The Key To SMB Offsite Backup Isn’t Backup, It’s Recovery (Zetta blog post, June 05, 2012) (PR)
- How Offsite Backup Can Give Your Users a Day-To-Day Productivity Boost (Zetta blog post, May 31, 2012) (PR)
- What Cloud Computing Means to Accounting and Finance Professionals (HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, February 1, 2012) (feature) ( Try here if first link is dead)
- How to Choose a Cloud Backup Service HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, December 22, 2011) (feature)
- Winter Emergency Data Backup & Recovery Readiness (Zetta, November 01, 2011) (PR) (blog post)
- Comparing Desktop VMs In The Cloud (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 13, 2011)
- Geminare Offers Real-Time Cloud Failover (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 10, 2011)
- ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud (Acquia, August 2011)(PR)(case study)
- Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs (ReadWriteWeb, July 15, 2011) (feature)
- Metalogix Introduces SharePoint Migration Manager (InformationWeek SMB, December 15, 2010) (news)
- SMBs See Opportunity In The Cloud — says Microsoft-sponsored survey. (InformationWeek SMB, December 10, 2010) (news)
- Zoho CRM Integrates With QuickBooks, Telephony (InformationWeek SMB, December 8, 2010) (news)
- Uptime Software Introduces Cloud Monitoring (InformationWeek SMB, November 30, 2010) (news)
- Coupa Integrates Expense Management With SalesForce (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- OS33 Cloud Provisioning Targets MSPs, Resellers (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Visage Updates SaaS Mobility Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 2, 2010) (news)
- Implix Launches Conferencing Services In Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, November 1, 2010) (news)
- HyperOffice Adds Cloud Collaboration Tools For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, October 29, 2010) (news)
- Really Simple Systems Rolls Free CRM (InformationWeek SMB, October 28, 2010) (news)
- Caringo Object Storage Software Puts SMBs On Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, October 26, 2010) (news)
- Basware Intros SaaS Invoice Processing Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 20, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Introduces Office 365 Cloud Apps (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, October 18, 2010) (blog post)
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Ctera Extends Hybrid Cloud Storage Offering (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- Dell, CommVault Add Cloud Power To Backup Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, September 15, 2010) (blog post)
- Cloud Sherpas SherpaTools Simplifies Administering Google Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (blog post)
- Central Desktop Adds Cloud Collaboration To Microsoft Office (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (news story)
- i365 Extends Cloud Server Disaster Recovery (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- Virtuon Offers Cloud Based Virtual Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, July 26, 2010) (news)
- Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (news)and this related blog post: Recovering Servers In The Cloud Affordable For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Backupify Intros Business Backup For Google Apps Data (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Zmanda Adds Features To Cloud-Based Backup For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, June 24, 2010)
- Xcentric Lifts CPA IT Cloudwards (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 14, 2010)
- Cloud Computing Will Reinvigorate WAN Expertise (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 12, 2010) (event report)
- Portal Power: Emerging accounting portal technologies streamline financial processes and boost productivity (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHT magazine, November 2009)
- Integrating SaaS — Web and local logic can be a snap (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Managing by magic – Adding SaaS to your app development, deployment mix (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Managing IT Business Services As a Service – Service-Now.com (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- SaaS Offers Timely Solutions: SaaS, PaaS Good Match For Today’s Economy (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Does SaaS have Critical Mass yet? (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Case Study: How One Company Broke Down Silos and Improved Application Integration — Qualcomm’s move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (CIO.com, September 15, 2008) (case study)
- Jamcracker Expedites SAAS — XML-based Jamcracker Integration Toolkit reduces the time it takes to flip the “SAAS switch.” (eWeek Mid-Market, April 14, 2008) (news)
Comic Books & Graphic Novels:
- Finding A More Complete (Little) Nemo — Upcoming Bargain Book Alert, Plus A Few Snakes-Hands And Rabbit-Holes (File770.com, July 13, 2022)
- Reading Daily Comic Strips Online (File770.com, March 23, 2022)
- DC Universe Pre-Order Offer (File770.com, July 19, 2018)
- Project Management Lessons from the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER movie (Intuit’s Quickbase blog, April 28, 2014)
- Comic Books Go Digital — Can Your Paper Version Do This? (IEEE Spectrum, February 2013) (feature)
- BAM! POW! What are the Best iPad Comic Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, April 13, 2012)
- “Graphic Novel” revew: SUPREME: THE RETURN, and SUPREME: THE STORY OF THE YEAR, Alan Moore’s comic books (here, collected in two trade paperback volumes, a.k.a. “graphic novels”) about Supreme. In these tales of this Superman-like character, Moore again shows he’s the master of superhero comic genres (and cliches), including Mad pastiches, cosmic plots, big trouble, humorous bits, and self-aware, self-referential characters. (August 2003)
- The Life Eaters by David Brin and Scott Hampton (SFRevu.com, November 2003) (Graphic novel review)
- “Graphic Novel” review Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon Volume I — Raymond created space-opera adventurer Flash Gordon in these Sunday funny pages stripes; this is planned as the first of three, collecting these long out-of-print strips, here the first two year’s worth. (August 2003)
- Also see my Daniel’s Comic Book Column, which I did for SFRevu for about a year.
Computer Accessories:
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings 0 Patented control lets you click through the casing (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:59 PM/EST )
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
- USB Flash Memory RAM Sticks Doing More In Less Space (CMP Small Business Pipeline, September 8, 2004) — An update on what Iomega, Lexar, M-Systems, SanDisk and other USB flash RAM drive vendors are doing in terms of capacity increases and price drops, as well as differentiating with security, software and other features.
- “Keeping Current: Acessories, Cabling and Power,” in CDW’s PremierPartner Reference Guide, 2004, pages 91-94.
- Mac Makes Music Listening A Pleasure (CDW/MacWareHouse, December 2003) — Tips and products to make the musical most of your Mac desktop or notebook computer.
“Consumers” & End Users:
- How To Back Up Your Social/Cloud Data: FaceBook, Twitter, Gmail, and more (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, July 3, 2014)
- I’ll take mine to go: 12 apps to carry with you at all times (On a USB stick) (ITWorld.com, August 01, 2013) (feature article)
- Best Apps For Meeting Health and Fitness Resolutions TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, January 05, 2013) (roundup review)
- Nine Handy Airline Travel Apps for iPhone & iPad (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com site, December 23, 2012)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- UPS update: What’s new, what to remember (The Mozy Blog, July 1, 2012)
- Reminder, basic quick fixes for troubled gear (The Mozy Blog, June 28, 2012)
- Making your important info available to you online (The Mozy Blog, June 27, 2012)
- Obsolete tech accessories to keep one of: A short list (The Mozy Blog, June 21, 2012)
- Apple iBooks 2 Review: Easy Reading on Your iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, March 26, 2012)
- Calculating the True Cost of a Tablet (Internet Evolution, November 2, 2011)
- What are the Essential Apple iPad Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 28, 2011)
- A Multi-Account Approach for E-Business Users (Internet Evolution, October 26, 2011)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 User Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com site, August 31, 2011) (product review)
- Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display from ThinkGeek.com (Brighthand.com, July 30, 2011) (review)
- The Daily Tip: Your New iPhone: Things To Know, Get and Do (ITWorld.com, October 19, 2010)
- My Wish List For Online Backup, Computing Solutions (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Nuance Launches Dragon Dictate For Mac 2.0 (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Uninterruptible Power Supply: Using and caring for your desktop UPS — Proper set up, periodic battery replacements are key to making sure your desktop UPS will work when you need it. (ITWorld.com, August 26, 2010)
- Choosing a desktop Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) — The Daily Tip: Local power quality and what gear you’ve got drive the desktop UPS decision (ITWorld.com, August 24, 2010)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: 6 useful Windows 7 tools Apps so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already (ITWorld.com, July 6, 2010)
- Dern’s CES 2010 Reports: Coverage from and of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Tuesday, January 4, 2010 (including events before the show floor opened) through Sunday, January 10, 2010. (I was there Wednesday, January 06 through Friday, January 8.)
- Tablet PCs, 3D TVs Wow The Crowds At CES 2010 (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES 2010 Report: eBooks, Notebooks, Accessories Abound (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Day 3: Affordable Audio, Picture, Video Tools Offer New Creative Outlets (Sears ManageMyLife, January 08, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Wrap-up: From iPhone to Automobile, There’s At Least One New Product You’ll Want (Sears ManageMyLife, January 12, 2010) (show coverage)
- Dern@CES 2010: What I Saw, What I’d Like To Buy Or Try (TechRevu, January 14, 2010) (show coverage)
- Dern@CES 2010: What I Saw, What I’d Like To Buy Or Try (TechRevu, January 14, 2010) (show coverage)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Review: 5 USB turntables convert LPs to MP3s – Review of five USB turntables and associated software and gear, plus some tips (ComputerWorld, August 07, 2009) (review) (feature) This story was also run on other IDG sites including:
- Portable Power Packs for Your Mobile Devices — “A pint of power for when there’s no outlet around” (iPass Connect, August 2009) (short feature article)
- Add-On Accessories For Your Digital Camera: Beyond Spare Batteries, The Right Stuff Means Better Pix (iPass Connect, May 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- Forget Notebooks, Go For Netbooks (iPass Connect, May 01, 2009) (short feature article)
- Top Business Travel Gear Sites: From Travel Duds To Tech Gear, These Sites Can Help You Find What You Need (iPass Connect, April 22, 2009)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Make Your Tax Prep Less Taxing: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008 (TechRevu, February 25, 2009) (product write-up, updated review info to come)
- Holiday Gifts: Toshiba Qosmio G55 series – A Laptop On Steroids The Cell-based Quad-Core model does nifty video processing (IEEE Spectrum, November 2008)
- Photo Report From Pepcom Holiday Spectacular — Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers — Pepcom evening multi-vendor press event, New York City, September 18, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (show report)
- Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy — The KillAWatt EZ, Watts up? and Brultech ECM1220 let consumers, homeowners, and IT/energy professionals measure how much energy a device (or its power brick) is using (ComputerWorld, August 26, 2008) (review)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- HP Intros $499 [and up] Mini-Notebook — New Linux-or-Windows sub-three-pound ultraportable 2133 Mini-Note PC good for executives, professionals or students (eWeek Mid-Market, April 8, 2008) (news)
- CardScan Grabs Business Cards — Review of CardScan Executive mobile USB-powered business card scanner (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008) (product review)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- Dern’s Picks For CES 2008 — The products I’d give awards to, if I had awards to give, and some of the others I found the most interesting/intriguing. (TechRevu.com, January 30, 2008)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- What Daniel Saw at CES 2008 — My partial summary of what I saw at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, sorted by product category, with some comments. (See my Dern @ CES 2008 reports in my Trying Technology blog for more products and commentary.) (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2008)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Review: Fujifilm Finepix S700 7MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (TechRevu.com, June 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef – A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:07 PM/EST)
- MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online – Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings 0 Patented control lets you click through the casing (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:59 PM/EST )
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- CyberDefender Launches Free Early Detection Center Suite – Everything-But-Firewall PC Protection, Still In Beta (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:49 PM/EST)
- Diagnose Why Your Car’s “Check Engine” Light Is On – A Useful Device — If It Works (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:47 PM/EST)
- Become Strives To Improve On-Line Shopping – Also Finds Pre/Post-Purchase Research Info (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:45 PM/EST)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
Digital Signage, Wayfinding, & Video Walls:
- Immersive Telepresence Technology Lets Rutgers Law Campuses Cyber-Combine Classrooms (EHP’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, June 25, 2015) (case history)
- Deep Dive: Mastering Mass Notification Strategies in Higher Education (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, March 5, 2015) (Note, access requires registering — feel free to ping me for a copy of this article.)
- Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, July 31, 2014) (case study)
- Making Phone Calls Using Tablets And Other Mobile Devices And Apps (EH Publishing HealthCareTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2014)
- Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Goes Big, Tall And Wide With Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 14, 2014) (case history)
- Using 4K Video with Digital Signage (EH Publishing WorshipTechDecisions.com, April 10, 2014) (feature)
- Adding Twitter to Your College or University Campus Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, Sept 30, 2013)also posted as: Adding Twitter to Your Healthcare Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s CampusSafetyMagazine.com, January 8, 2014)
- Digital Signage Transforms Historic Building Into State-of-the-Art Finance Lab (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, September 09, 2013) (case history)
- Courtyard by Marriott’s GoBoard Helps Guests Decided What to Do, Where to Go (EHPubs Hospitality Tech Decisions, June 04, 2013) Understanding the Costs of Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, May 13, 2013)
- Understanding the Costs of Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, May 13, 2013)
- Digital Signage Meets Social Networking (Verizon Solution Labs, March 20, 2013)
- Including Streaming Media in Digital Signage Content (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions site, March 1, 2013) Providing Internet Connectivity for Events (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, February 27, 2013)
- How Microsoft Uses Digital Signage for Internal Promotion and Communication (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 24, 2013) (case history)
- How to Manage Digital Signage’s Internal Cost: Microsoft and West Virginia University discuss how they pay for digital signage internally (EHPublishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 11, 2013)
- Video Walls: Providing the Big Picture Gets Easier, More Affordable (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, November 5, 2012)
- Mobile Interaction with Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, October 15, 2012)
- Creating Content For Digital Signage (EHPubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, September 14, 2012)
- Digital Signage Helps UCF (University of Central Florida) Promote Student Use of Technology EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions, August 30, 2012) (case history)
- Power Over HDBaseT: What Is It, Why Use It? (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2012)
- Digital Signage Helps Joslin Diabetes Clinic Educate (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, July 19, 2012)
- What’s Involved in Deploying Interactive Digital Wayfinding (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions.com, July 12, 2012)
- Wayfinding: Digital Signage Can Show You the Right Path (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions, June 01, 2012) (reprinted in EH Publishing’s Campus Safety Magazine, December 9, 2013)
- Content Management Software for Your Company’s Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 20, 2012)
- Save Money on Your Digital Signage Roll-out (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Simple Best Practices for Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Experts Share Top Digital Signage Trends (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Using IP / Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Company (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2012)
- Video Surveillance Camera Budget Savers (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Best Practices When Using Video Surveillance Cameras (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Video Surveillance Camera Budget Savers (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Best Practices When Using Video Surveillance Cameras (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Top Video Surveillance Camera Trends from the Experts (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Company (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Health Care Facility (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Purdue University’s Digital Signage Enterprise (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012) (case study)
- Digital Signage Lessons Learned (by Purdue IT) (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012)
- New products “slide show” roundups for Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2012, Las Vegas, March 6-9, 2012: (I did captions and URL-wrangling)
- Digital Signage a Healthy Way to Get Attention (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Commercial Displays (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Software (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Digital Signage Media Players (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- 3 Digital Signage Tips from Purdue University (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- Selecting Displays for Your New Digital Signage (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Digital Signage Quotables: Jason Swinford, Founder of Eat at Recess (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Guidelines for Sizing Digital Signage Displays (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Quotables: Digital Signage Budget Savers (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Trends in Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 16, 2012)
- Quotables: Best Practices for Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Pain Points Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Tough Issues Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Digital Signs Can Provide Weather, Emergency Warnings (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, December 29, 2011
- Today’s Mountaineers Use Digital Signage to Relay Information (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, December 19, 2011) Case history, how West Virginia University is using digital signage for emergency alerts and everyday info
- HP Designs Digital Signage Players For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Three Questions: i-Tech Provides LCDs For All Occasions — Products Range From 1U Rackmounts To Digital Signage (Processor, April 25, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 17, Page 29) (vendor interview)
Entrepreneurial & Start-Ups
- Interview with Carol Pinchefsky About Her New Book, Turn Your Fandom Into Cash (File770.com, March 02, 2022)
- 7 Tips to Help You Master Media Interviews (GrabCAD.com, July 1, 2019)
- Quick Tips on Presenting Your New Product (and Company) at Pitch Events (GrabCAD.com, September 25, 2018)
- Choosing a Chinese Manufacturer for Your New Hardware Product (GrabCAD, June 25, 2018)
- Do Prototyping Right for Funding, Manufacturing Success: Interview with Arrow Electronics’ Keaton Anderson (GrabCAD, May 17, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: It Pays To Increase Your Manufacturing Vocabulary (GrabCAD blog, January 30, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: Make Sure You Learn to Speak ‘Manufacturese’ (GrabCAD blog, December 11, 2017)
- Understanding, and Succeeding, at Hardware Crowdfunding (GrabCAD blog, August 30, 2017)
- Hardware compliance certifications: a two-parter:
- Designing a New Hardware Product? You Need to Know About Compliance Certifications! (GrabCAD blog, July 26, 2017)
- Determining Time and Cost of Getting Compliance Certifications for a New Hardware Product (GrabCAD Blog, August 8, 2017)
Government & Education:
- Immersive Telepresence Technology Lets Rutgers Law Campuses Cyber-Combine Classrooms (EHP’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, June 25, 2015) (case history)
- Deep Dive: Mastering Mass Notification Strategies in Higher Education (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, March 5, 2015) (Note, access requires registering — feel free to ping me for a copy of this article.)
- Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, July 31, 2014) (case study)
- Adding Twitter to Your College or University Campus Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, Sept 30, 2013)also posted as: Adding Twitter to Your Healthcare Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s CampusSafetyMagazine.com, January 8, 2014)
- Digital Signage Transforms Historic Building Into State-of-the-Art Finance Lab (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, September 09, 2013) (case history)
- How West Virginia University Uses Digital Signage For Campus Safety (EHPublishing, March 20, 2013)
- Digital Signage Helps UCF (University of Central Florida) Promote Student Use of Technology EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions, August 30, 2012) (case history)
- Today’s Mountaineers Use Digital Signage to Relay Information (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, December 19, 2011) Case history, how West Virginia University is using digital signage for emergency alerts and everyday info
- Jason Busby on Educating Future Animators (InformIT.com, June 9, 2009) (interview)
- Wiring Loma Linda — Former city CIO James Hettrick reflects on the rollout (CDW StateTech, August 14, 2007)
- Getting The Best Deal — Savvy Negotiating Can Stretch IT Budgets (CDW StateTech Magazine, July/August 2006)
- Spend Wisely – Getting the Most IT From Taxpayer Dollars, by Catherine Maras O’Leary, CIO, Cook County, Ill (I was the project ghostwriter) (CDW StateTech Magazine, July /August 2006)
- Laser Multi-Function Printers: Ready For Prime Time — Government/education market version of my October 2005 CDW Solutions article (CDW-G Solutions, November 2005)
- Tunnel Vision: SSL VPNs Simplify Secure Mobile Access (CDW Fed Tech magazine, August 2005)
- Clinton Schools Save Money, Simplify Computer Admin With Wyse-Based Thin Client Solution (CDW-G Advantage, January 2005)
- Palo Verde College Preps For Present, Future IT With Virtual Storage and Servers plus Wireless and other Technologies (CDW-G Advantage, January 2005)
- Intel Centrino-Powered Tablet PCs Drive Learning Full Sail (expansion of existing CDW case history) — Profile of new media trade school in Florida (CDW, December 2004)
- Achieve Balance: Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Agency’s IT Budget (CDW G Solutions catalogs, “Federal” and “State and Local Government” versions, September 2003) (Sorry, not online yet.)
“Green,” Environmental, Recycling, Etc.:
- Tips for Recycling Computers, Phones and Other E-waste Successfully (Earth911.com, June 17, 2021)
- Recycling Mystery: Black-Colored Plastic (Earth911.com, January 7, 2021)
- How To Donate Container Deposit Refunds to Worthy Causes (Earth911.com, November 11, 2020)
- Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners — Why/How/Where tips (Earth911.com, October 7, 2020)
- Ride-Hailing Is Eco-Unfriendly – What Can You Do Instead? (Earth911.com, March 23, 2020)
- GrabCAD Gets Enlisted for Biodegradable Plastics Initiative (GrabCAD.com blog, November 20th, 2019)
- In Space, Nobody Picks Up Your Trash: NASA Recycling in Space Award Winners (Earth911.com, May 3, 2019)
- “The Sherlock Holmes Method for Raising Your Recycling Savvy” (Earth911.com, October 5, 2018)
- Considering a CSA? How To Pick One That Works for You (Earth911.com, August 24, 2018)
- Enjoy Your Coffee With Less Waste (Earth911.com, August 6, 2018)
- Recycling Better: Adjusting to Changes in Recycling Rules” (Earth911.com, August 2, 2018)
- 5 Tips to Make Recycling a Part of Your Daily Routine (Earth911.com, June 18, 2018)
- Six energy-efficient data center practices: How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways (ITWorld.com, August 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Taking Care Of Aging IT Products – DMD Systems Recovery Buys Used Equipment For Recycle Or Resale (Processor, July 17, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 19, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Save Money With Recycled Media – Storage Media Brokers Buys, Recertifies & Resells Tape Media (Processor, March 27, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 11; Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Recoup & Save On Backup Media – RecycleYourMedia.com Keeps Used Tape Safely In Circulation (Processor, November 7, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 45, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- SEH Print Server Serves Up Energy Savings (eWeek.com, April 11, 2008) (news)
- Vendors Stream to Greener Printing — Samsung, HP up the green levels of printer manufacture, use and end-of-life (eWeek, March 14, 2008) (news story)
- Conserving IT Budgets With Refurbished Hardware – World Data Products Offers Full Life Cycle Support (Processor, March 7, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 10, page 31) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: For Pre-owned Network Gear, Try DNI — The Secondary Market Can Offer First-Rate Prices (Processor, January 18, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 3) (vendor interview)
- Fault-Tolerant Storage Includes High-Efficiency Cache Mirroring, “Green” Non-Battery Backup — ftScalable Storage array subsystem from Stratus (Processor, June 29, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 26
- Recycling – Six Degrees of “Out” — guest commentary in my town’s weekly newspaper (Newton TAB, Wed Apr 25, 2007) (and reposted on the Newton Tab’s Environment section (produced by the Green Decade Coalition/Newton)
- Exploring the Secondary Market – The Market for Second-Hand VoIP Equipment is Still in First Gear” (June 2005)
Hardware:
- Emerging server technologies: 6 hot trends to watch (TechBeacon.com, August 02, 2016) (feature)
- Cost Effective Clustering with ScaleMP (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 6, 2011)
- New Rules For Refreshing Server Hardware HP’s InputCreatesOutputcom, August 24, 2011)
- Lenovo All-In-One IdeaCentre B305 Packs Performance Power And Multimedia Pleasure Into Pleasing Package (TechRevu.com, March 15, 2011) (review)
- HP Refreshes Thin Clients The t5500 series runs Windows Embedded Standard 2009 and supports centralized (InformationWeek SMB, January 4, 2011) (news)
- Stratus Adds Hyper-V Support To Fault Tolerant Servers (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- Marathon Unveils Low Cost Server Fault Tolerance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Blade Servers Offer Lower Cost, Reduced Complexity, Says HP (InformationWeek SMB, October 4, 2010) (news)
- HP Unveils Mini Tower Desktop PC (HP Pro 3130) (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- World’s Coolest Personal Computer (Hardcore Computer’s liquid-cooled Reactor) (IEEE Spectrum, August 2009)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (product review)
- Penryn Core Will Speed Notebooks, Stretch Battery Life — Intel’s New CPU Tech Brings Performance Benefits (eWeek Mid-Market, May 08, 2008) (news article)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008) (product review)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007) (product review)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
- How Computers Work (and why they crash) — How I.T. Works: Looking Inside the Box (CDW-G EdTech magazine, Summer 2005)
- Forever Young — To take advantage of PC innovation and keep pace with the competition, companies have operated on a three-year tech-refresh cycle. (NOTE: I didn’t do this from scratch, I did rewriting plus additional text.) (CDW Solutions, May 2005)
- iAMT – A Giant Step Forward — With Intel’s Active Management Technology, IT staffers will be able to remotely monitor and manage networked computers in any state?even when they’re off or broken. (NetComm catalog, January 2005)
Home Office, Work From Home, Telecommuting, Etc.
- Increasing Your Desktop Monitor Space: Ways and Whys (GrabCAD, March 27, 2018)
Internet Of Things:
- Open Source Milagro Project Aims to Fix Web Security for Cloud, Mobile, IoT (Linux.com, April 29, 2016) (sponsored article)
- An Enlighted Perspective on the IoT Landscape (Englighted.com, October 22, 2015) (PR)
- At Xively Xperience, Advice on Building IoT Connected Product Businesses (Internet of Things Journal, October 4, 2015)
IT/Management Advice:
- Managing IT Access Privileges — Not As Solved As Management Thinks (Linux.com, July 14, 2015)(sponsored content)
- Marathon Unveils Low Cost Server Fault Tolerance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Blade Servers Offer Lower Cost, Reduced Complexity, Says HP (InformationWeek SMB, October 4, 2010) (news)
- 3 Questions: Manage & Track Software Goals & Quality – Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management Offerings Help IT With Testing & Change Management (Processor, July 2, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 14, Page(s) 35 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
- How to Stretch Your Security Dollar: Unexpected ways to get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments (ITWorld.com, October 22, 2009) (Slashdotted!
- Putting your BI to work – What’s in your data warehouse? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, BI)
- Governance should be the decider – Should IT drive business or vice versa? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk and Compliance)
- Applications Considered as a Matrix of Varying Priorities (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- If You Can’t Buy Less, Bargain Better (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Strategic Sourcing)
- “SMB Software to Run Your Server & Your Business” — This article provides an overview of the key software that a small business needs or should consider for its servers, and related advice to ensure reliable, secure operation of this essential business support tool. (August 20, 2008) (white paper/feature article) (Here’s a copy in case you can’t get it from the CRN Libary.)(Note, this was a custom feature article, done for Diskeeper under my byline. Editors: Diskeeper owns the the rights to this version, feel free to ask them or me for permission to use this. I’ve got a longer version, and additional quotes and information, which I’m happy to sell.)
- Running Only on Open-Source Software — Profile of Smartleaf, a small financial services company running almost entirely on Open Source (MidMarket.eWeek.com, April 06, 2008)
- Eight Reasons NOT to Use Linux in the Enterprise (CIO.com, July 31, 2007)
- Getting The Best Deal — Savvy Negotiating Can Stretch IT Budgets (CDW StateTech Magazine, July/August 2006)
- Spend Wisely – IT From Taxpayer Dollars, by Catherine Maras O’Leary, CIO, Cook County, Ill (I was the project ghostwriter) (CDW StateTech Magazine, July /August 2006)
- Forever Young — To take advantage of PC innovation and keep pace with the competition, companies have operated on a three-year tech-refresh cycle. (NOTE: I didn’t do this from scratch, I did rewriting plus additional text.) (CDW Solutions, May 2005)
- Doing More With Less — CDW’s Professional Services (rewrite and expansion based on their initial draft) – CDW Technology Services, pp 62-63, Spring 2005
- Achieve Balance: Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Agency’s IT Budget (CDW G Solutions catalogs, “Federal” and “State and Local Government” versions, September 2003) (Sorry, not online yet.)
- “Finding Talent For Your IT Department- New Economic Realities Mean New Hiring Priorities, Say Experts” — tips to help you make the best decision when hiring IT staff, especially for companies with 250 to 1,000 employees where the IT development and/or support group may be smaller than desirable even in the best of time (March, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 12)
KVMs & Remote Access:
- Remote Desktop Access: Keeping You Connected to Your Information (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 03, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- How To Use an Apple iPad to Remote Control a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, July 22, 2014)
- Roundup: KVM Switches and Remote-Access Apps (IEEE Spectrum, September 27, 2013)
- Cutting The Cord — Ip KVM Switches Allow Remote Hardware Access From Any Location (CDW Solutions catalog, September 3, 2008) (feature article)
- Remote Network Hardware Management — Tips for managing remote equipment from your desk — KVM and serial console over IP give IT more reach (CDW Netcomm catalog, March 2007)
- “KVM over IP: Administering Over The Network–Take Control From Anywhere” (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2006)
- Clean Up Your Desktop” – Cut Cable Clutter With The Belkin Flip 2-Port KVM (Processor, May 5, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 18; Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
Linux & Open Source:
- Network functions virtualization: What it is, and why you need it (TechBeacon.com, June 16, 2016) (feature)
- Testimonials: Benefits of Working With The Linux Foundation: 3 Reasons IBM Participates in Linux Foundation Projects
- (Linux.com, June 15, 2016)
- Telecom Companies Collaborate Through OPNFV to Address Unique Business Challenges (Linux.com, May 28, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit 2016 Keynotes:
- Bring Networking Projects Under A Common Umbrella, Urges Cisco’s Dave Ward (Linux.com, June 1, 2016)
- How Newegg is Winning the Battle Against Patent Trolls (Linux.com, May 25, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit keynote from Docker’s Scott Johnson: “3 Reasons Docker and Containerization Lit Up Application Development” (Linux.com, May 18, 2016)
- Open Source Milagro Project Aims to Fix Web Security for Cloud, Mobile, IoT (Linux.com, April 29, 2016) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with Pivotal’s Roman Shaposhnik (Linux.com, September 25, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with IBM’s Anjul Bhambhri (Linux.com, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- OpenStack Was Key To Building Servers.Com (Linux.com, September 1, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Microservices 101: What To Know, What To Do (Linux.com, August 11 August 2015) (sponsored content)
- As Public Cloud OS Instances Grow, So Do Security Admin Challenges (Linux.com, July 28, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Open Source Software: What Are the Downsides? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 17, 2015)
- Managing IT Access Privileges — Not As Solved As Management Thinks (Linux.com, July 14, 2015)(sponsored content)
- Are Containers the Answer to Your Virtualization Problem? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 07, 2015)
- GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric Becomes Apache Ignite (Linux.Com, April 9, 2015)
- Featured Product: Simple Storage Software — Open-E’s DSS V6 Delivers Enterprise-Class (Processor, May 7, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 10, Page(s) 30 in print issue) (vendor/product profile)
- Three Questions: Support, Enhancements For Open-Source — Gizmox Visual WebGui Supercharges Web/Desktop Development (Processor, October 10, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 41) (vendor interview)
- Running Only on Open-Source Software — Profile of Smartleaf, a small financial services company running almost entirely on Open Source (MidMarket.eWeek.com, April 06, 2008)
- Eight Reasons NOT to Use Linux in the Enterprise (CIO.com, July 31, 2007)
- Three “Infosheets” on how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be used as an infrastructure application server, intended as “Did you know…” pre-sales pieces, e.g. to identify specific uses for Red Hat:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a file server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a print server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a web server
(Red Hat, July 2006 — I’ll include URL once I determine that they’re posted, and where.)
- Unitrends Adds Linux Hot Snapshotting To Appliance-Based Rapid Recovery — Rapid Recovery No Longer a Luxury (LinuxPlanet, April 27, 2006)
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? (Kennedy Information’s May 2006 Global IT Services Report monthly newsletter. Note: My name is on the masthead as a contributor, but not on the individual articles, and most of the content is only accessible to subscribers.)
- “Role of Open Source Growing” — Growing role of Open Source software and methodologies at Accenture, CapGemini, CSC, EDS, and HP (Kennedy Information’s June 2006 Global IT Services Report monthly newsletter. Note: My name is on the masthead as a contributor, but not on the individuaL articles, and most of the content is only accessible to subscribers.)
- “Open Source as Consulting Opportunity” — Does Open Source Software create new consulting opportunities, and if so, what kind? Quotes from Wild Open Source, CapGemini Booz Allen Hamilton. (Kennedy Information’s May 2006 Global IT Services Report monthly newsletter. Note: My name is on the masthead as a contributor, but not on the individuaL articles, and most of the content is only accessible to subscribers.)
- Profile: Rich Teer, Solaris/Unix Hacker, Administrator, Consultant, and Author (OpenSolaris.org, May 15, 2005)
- Profile: Jörg Schilling (creator of CDrecord) (OpenSolaris.org, May 1, 2005)
- LinuxWorld expo wrapup (Friday February 18, 2005)
- WebGUI Drives Atomic Learning’s Training Center (January 2004) — Case history done for PlainBlack.
- Paying developers to get features faster (NewsForge, December 18, 2003) — For some Open Source and other programs, customers can fund the features they want.
- Brunswick’s Business Integration Engine thrives as Open Source project — Marine/recreational manufacturer turns internal Java project into OpenSource business (September 17, 2003)
- Clear-Eyed Appraisal of Linux In The Enterprise At CeBIT America 2003 (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 19, 2003)
- Windows refund initiatives slow, but may be picking up again (October 07, 2002) — If you couldn’t get the desktop or notebook you wanted without a bundled copy of Windows, you might be able to get a refund, or resell it, but don’t count on it. Here’s the update on those initiatives.
- Guardian Digital succeeding with Open Source security products (October 01, 2002) — One on-going question for the Open Source community remains, can companies make a business go of Open Source-based products and services?
- Open Source Household — Linux consultant Ruben Safir doesn’t just use Linux and OpenSource at work, it’s also what he, his wife, and their six kids use at home, for schoolwork and for fun. (March 15, 2002)
- Realtor group houses all kinds of Open Source projects — The National Association of Realtors’ Center for Realtor Technology is using the Open Source model for a variety of Java, XML and other projects (March 14, 2002)
- Bluesocket uses embedded Linux to speed development for wireless gateways, in NewsForge.com (January 7, 2002)
- Santa slays costs with Open Source, Linux (December 24, 2001)
- Internet World has (some) Linux: An aisle-stroller’s sampling of vendors (Monday December 17, 2001)?– There weren’t Linux vendors per se at the Internet World/Fall 2001 show in New York City… but there were vendors making use of Linux in serious corporate/enterprise products.
- Wanna buy a Linux desktop PC? Better try an independent OEM, (Monday, December 10, 2001) — Profile on Boston-based PCs For Everyone, one of the companies offering both Windows and Linux as pre-loaded boot OS options.
- Turner Consulting Group offers more affordable custom software using Open-Source apps (Wednesday November 28, 2001)
- Industrial strength Linux — Three Linux users speak about its benefits (November 30, 1998)
- “Windows Refund Day” (January 25, 1999) (Also run on CNN.com)
Mobile Computing & Teleworking:
- Companies Now Adopting Business Mobility Strategies Across Every Industry (VMware’s The Bridge, June 16, 2015)
- Make sure your employees use public WiFi safely (VMware’s The Bridge, June 15, 2015)
- Pocketable productivity: 5 folding keyboards for your smartphone (ComputerWorld, April 10, 2015) (review/roundup)
- How To Use an Apple iPad to Remote Control a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, July 22, 2014)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- How and why can mobile companies succeed? Xconomy event speakers tell all (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 21, 2014) (event report)
- How to Connect a PC or Tablet Via 4G Wireless (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, February 12, 2014)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- Top Classroom Note-Taking Apps for the iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, August 26, 2013)
- I’ll take mine to go: 12 apps to carry with you at all times (On a USB stick) (ITWorld.com, August 01, 2013) (feature article)
- Review, Lenovo U310 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (TechReview, February 6, 2013)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- What Role Will Windows 8 Play in Enterprise Tablet Adoption? (TabletPCReview.com, November 11, 2011) (feature article)
- Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 12, 2011)
- iPad as a Notebook Alternative:
- Part 1 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 3, 2011)
- Part 2 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 4, 2011)
- TK-421 iPhone Case With Flip-Out Keyboard from ThinkGeek Review (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, September 4, 2011) (iPhone accessory review)
- Boingo Wi-Finder for iPhone Review: Finding Hotspots Everywhere(TechTarget Brighthand.com, August 6, 2011)
- MotionX-GPS Review: Full-Featured Navigation for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 17, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (product review)
- Sylvania Netbook Sylvania Netbook: Not The Netbook You Were Looking For (TechRevu.com, November 7, 2010) (review)
- The Daily Tip: Your New iPhone: Things To Know, Get and Do (ITWorld.com, October 19, 2010)
- Mobile broadband: Prepaid and other no-contract option (ITWorld.com, October 18, 2010)
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Rhomobile Adds More Features To Smartphone Development Platform (InformationWeek SMB, September 17, 2010) (blog post)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband versus dongles or tethering: Which is best? — 4 ways to get online when there’s no WiFi in range (ITWorld.com, August 31, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband: Software-defined radio makes carrier-switching easy (ITWorld.com, August 30, 2010)
- Laptop Batteries Can Run For Three Years (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- SonicWALL Intros Affordable, Simpler Remote Access For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Travel essentials: Useful small tech to pack — Stay connected, powered, and charged wherever you may roam. (ITWorld.com, July 30, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- OTRS Announces iPhone, iPad Help Desk App (InformationWeek SMB, July 6, 2010) (news story)
- Panasonic Updates Fully-rugged Convertible Tablet PC (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 3, 2010)
- Panasonic Simplifies Notebook WWAN Provisioning, Switching With Gobi2000 (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 28, 2010)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Hits Portability Price Performance Trifecta (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 11, 2010) (review) (blog post)
- Lite-On eTAU208 USB External Optical Drive (TechRevu.com, February 16, 2010) (hardware review)
- Review: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Netbook — It weighs 3 pounds, but the 12.1″ display makes this the first netbook I can be seriously productive with. (TechRevu, November 23, 2009) (product review)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Instant On — Why can’t your computer wake up as quickly as your BlackBerry? — “Alternate (non-Windows) Boot Environments” like Phoenix HyperSpace, DeviceVM SplashTop, Xandros Presto, versus Windows Hibernate (IEEE Spectrum, p.28 and online, September 2009)
- Portable Power Packs for Your Mobile Devices — “A pint of power for when there’s no outlet around” (iPass Connect, August 2009) (short feature article)
- Portable Computers Under $1000 and 1 Kilogram (IEEE Spectrum, June 2009)
- Top Business Travel Gear Sites: From Travel Duds To Tech Gear, These Sites Can Help You Find What You Need (iPass Connect, April 22, 2009)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Small Is Big in Notebooks?but Not Too Small — Ultralight computers add back a few more ounces and a lot more usability (IEEE Spectrum magazine, December 01, 2008) (feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, November 24, 2008) (short feature article)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- Holiday Gifts: Toshiba Qosmio G55 series – A Laptop On Steroids The Cell-based Quad-Core model does nifty video processing (IEEE Spectrum, November 2008)
- Ready For Anything: Rugged Notebooks Get Down To Business Wherever And Whenever — Beyond “business-rugged,” today’s semi-rugged and fully-rugged notebook computers are ready to tough it out. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 01, 2008) (feature article)(case studies)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- Notebooks Rule — Notebook PC Convenience And Productivity Are Key Drivers To Expanding Use (CDW Solutions catalog, August 6, 2008) (feature article)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- CMS Products Protect Data On Desktops & Notebooks Professional-Class Solutions To Encrypt, Back Up, Restore & Recover (Processor, July 4, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 27; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (product review)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- HP Intros $499 [and up] Mini-Notebook — New Linux-or-Windows sub-three-pound ultraportable 2133 Mini-Note PC good for executives, professionals or students (eWeek Mid-Market, April 8, 2008) (news)
- CardScan Grabs Business Cards — Review of CardScan Executive mobile USB-powered business card scanner (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008) (product review)
- APC, mFuel External Notebook Batteries Keep Humming (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008 (product review) (Also see my ‘mini-slide-show’ of photos of the APC UPB90 and the mFuel, which ran in eWeek in October 2007.)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article)
- APC, mFuel External Batteries Prolong Notebook Computing — brief captioned slide-show on external batteries for notebooks (eWeek, October 21, 2007) (product review)
- Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket? – Review: Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (eWeek, September 7, 2007)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
- Securing Teleworkers — Growing security concerns make it more important than ever that IT provide secure access for users working remotely. (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, p 33-35)
- Somebody Call Security – Implement a reliable strategy to protect your mobile devices and the data they carry (CDW Netcomm catalog, August 2006)
- MonsterPower’s Outlets To Go Provide Portable Plugins — MonsterPower’s new 4- and 6-Outlet Outlets2Go give travellers enough places to plug in (mini-review) (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2006)
- Secure “Mobile Data At Rest” — Before It Leaves the Office — Avoid Those “Oh, ****!” Moments When You Lose A Device Or Disk (IT Business Net, July 5, 2006)
- Notebook Security ‘In the Wild’ — Securing data, network activity, and physical systems of your company’s notebooks when out-of-office (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006, pp 74-77)
- Out-of-the-Box ROI: Data at Hand Flash drives make gigabytes of data available at your fingertips on the cheap (CDW BizTech Magazine, November 2005)
- Road Warriors: Don’t Look Now — Given the dropping price of videoconferencing, it might be time to consider using the technology in your office. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Storage, Input, Other End-User Gadgets Make CeBIT Noise — Products for the desk, mobile, SOHO and home end-user were in abundance at CeBIT 2005 (March 17, 2005)
- Negroponte Defends Merits of $100 Notebook Project (eWeek, March 10, 2005)
- USB Flash Memory RAM Sticks Doing More In Less Space (CMP Small Business Pipeline, September 8, 2004) — An update on what Iomega, Lexar, M-Systems, SanDisk and other USB flash RAM drive vendors are doing in terms of capacity increases and price drops, as well as differentiating with security, software and other features.
- “Power ads for Techno-Travelers: With Great Power Responsibility Comes Several Pounds of Accessories” (InformIT.com, December 5, 2003) — An overview of AC/car/air power accessories for notebooks, PDAs and cell phones, and AA NiMH battery chargers (for digital cameras, etc.)
- Hardware Review: MicroSolutions Model 155015 80GB USB2.0 Backpack External Hard Drive (May 2003) — For reliable backups of data and of system images, external hard drives like MicroSolutions’ 80 GB USB 2.0 Backpack offer a compelling alternative — or, better, complement — to CD/DVD burners.
- NEC MobilePro 790/780 Jupiter Class Handheld PCs Score w/DPD (January 2003) — I’ve been using this two-pound hand-held PC, and/or its predecessor, for two+ years now, with good reason: it’s one of the perfect writer/journalist-on-the-go machines, thanks to a great keyboard, instant-on, and all-day power. Sure, it runs Windows CE, but that’s not a big negative (except for lack of drivers…).
- 802.11, Tablet PCs In Spotlight At 2 CeBIT America Sessions — Chris De Herrera talks about his WiFi and Tablet PC session in the CeBIT America 2003 Enterprise Wireless Forum (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 18, 2003)
- “PalmSource’s Nagel to Showcase Strategies for Secure Mobile Enterprises” (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
Museums (Computer/tech & other):
- Does your ancient computer belong in a museum? (Dell TechPageOne, September 27 2014) (feature article)
- Digital Den creator pushes for a new Boston-area computer museum (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 24, 2014) (feature article)
- 9 museums that want your legacy tech (ComputerWorld, October 3, 2013) (Slashdotted!)
- Does Your Beloved Tech Artifact Belong in a Museum? What museums do and don’t want (IEEE Spectrum, July 2012) (feature)
Networks & Networking:
- Network functions virtualization: What it is, and why you need it (TechBeacon.com, June 16, 2016) (feature)
- Telecom Companies Collaborate Through OPNFV to Address Unique Business Challenges (Linux.com, May 28, 2016)
- Bring Networking Projects Under A Common Umbrella, Urges Cisco’s Dave Ward (Linux.com, June 1, 2016)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- “Wi-FI Offload — Is Your Gateway Ready?” — testing aspects of load-shifting traffic from carrier wireless spectrum to Wi-FI (which connects to fiber) (Spirent, May 2012) (PR)(white paper)
- High-End Performance for Controlled Environments: Fortinet adds enterprise-class IPv6-ready appliance and a carry-grade security blade to its Firewall product lineup (QuinStreet EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, April 26, 2012) (news)
- Don’t Worry, IPv6 Won’t Break Your Existing IPsec VPN, Part 1 and Part 2 (VPNhaus, October 25 and 27, 2011) (Note: VPNHaus.com is sponsored by NCP Engineering; I quote one of their guys, and they got the final edit, but there’s no product mentions)
- Meraki Introduces Cloud Managed 802.11n Access Points (InformationWeek SMB, November 11, 2010) (news)
- Cisco Expands SMB Offerings (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (news)
- Cloud Computing Will Reinvigorate WAN Expertise (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 12, 2010) (event report)
- Improving Your Physical Infrastructure – Snake Tray Reduces The Cost & Time It Takes To Wrangle Cables & Manage Airflow (Processor magazine, May 22, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 15) (vendor interview)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- Arch Convergence Switches Handle Core Converged Traffic – Avaya Cajun Line Lives On As Acadia Family (Processor, December 5, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 49, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Going Virtual – Certeon Accelerates Wide-Area Application Access (Processor, August 8, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 32 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Speed Problem Identification – Fluke Networks OptiView Portable Network Analyzer Adds Network Mapping & More (Processor, November 2, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 44) (news article)
- Designing Your Network for the Future — Here are the new products and technologies to consider as you refresh, upgrade and expand. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Your 10 Biggest Network Security Worries — Learn what threats and vulnerabilities today’s small business IT professionals need to defend against, along with tips on how to fight them. (NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Switch to Speed and Simplicity — Small- to medium-sized businesses are turning to wireless switches, along with lower-cost “thin” or “right-sized” access points, to deploy and manage pervasive wireless service quickly, securely, and cost-effectively. (CDW NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Secure Switches for Today’s Applications — Handling Traffic for Media-Rich, Data-Intensive Applications (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, pp. 16-19)
- Smart Switches If your network needs performance and security that your current unmanaged switches can’t provide, take a look at today’s Web-enabled smart switches. (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- Make Room for WiMAX: Broadband Wireless Access Comes of Age — The WiMAX standard for broadband metro wireless, what it is, what it will mean, and what’s involved. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- SSL VPNs — The simple, secure remote-access option for travelers, teleworkers, customers and others (NetComm Catalog, February 2005)
- Fax Servers: Serving Faxes More Than Ever! (InformIT, September 3, 2004) (feature article)
- Organize, Secure and Optimize Your LAN Segments with Layer 3 Switching — With the increasing availability of affordable solutions, it’s a good time for small- to medium-sized businesses to make the switch to the next level. (CDW Solutions, September 2004)
Notebooks, Netbooks, Ultralights, Subnotebooks, UMPCs, PDAs, etc.
- Review, Lenovo U310 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (TechReview, February 6, 2013)
- Yes, It Really Can Take Being Dropped, Frozen, and Heated (IEEE Spectrum, November 2011) (review of Panasonic fully-rugged Toughbook — putting it through home versions of ruggedness testing — fun!)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 User Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com site, August 31, 2011) (product review)
- Laptop Review: Dell Vostro V130 — The Glamorous Life (Hardware Central, February 7, 2011) (review)
- Lenovo ThinkPad x100e – An Affordable Notebook That Means Business (TechRevu.com, December 8, 2010) (review)
- Sylvania Netbook Sylvania Netbook: Not The Netbook You Were Looking For (TechRevu.com, November 7, 2010) (review)
- Netbook Review: Toshiba Mini NB305 — One Hand Tied Behind Its Back (Internet.com Hardware Central, October 28, 2010) (review)
- Review: HP Mini 5102 Netbook (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2010)
- Notebook Review: Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T — Acer’s All-Around Performer (Internet.com Hardware Central, August 16, 2010) (review)
- Laptop Batteries Can Run For Three Years (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- HP ProBook 4720s Notebook Packs Full Keyboard, 17-Inch Display (InformationWeek SMB, June 28, 2010) (product review)
- Panasonic Updates Fully-rugged Convertible Tablet PC (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 3, 2010)
- Panasonic Simplifies Notebook WWAN Provisioning, Switching With Gobi2000 (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 28, 2010)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Hits Portability Price Performance Trifecta (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 11, 2010) (review) (blog post)
- A Notebook That Can Maybe Take a Beating — I test GammaTech’s “fully rugged” MT10 Durabook tablet, although not as comprehensively as I wanted to (IEEE Spectrum, November 2009) (review)
- Review: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Netbook — It weighs 3 pounds, but the 12.1″ display makes this the first netbook I can be seriously productive with. (TechRevu, November 23, 2009) (product review)
- Instant On — Why can’t your computer wake up as quickly as your BlackBerry? — “Alternate (non-Windows) Boot Environments” like Phoenix HyperSpace, DeviceVM SplashTop, Xandros Presto, versus Windows Hibernate (IEEE Spectrum, p.28 and online)
- Portable Computers Under $1000 and 1 Kilogram (IEEE Spectrum, June 2009)
- Forget Notebooks, Go For Netbooks (iPass Connect, May 01, 2009) (short feature article)
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- Small Is Big in Notebooks?but Not Too Small — Ultralight computers add back a few more ounces and a lot more usability (IEEE Spectrum magazine, December 01, 2008) (feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, November 24, 2008) (short feature article)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- Holiday Gifts: Toshiba Qosmio G55 series – A Laptop On Steroids The Cell-based Quad-Core model does nifty video processing (IEEE Spectrum, November 2008)
- Ready For Anything: Rugged Notebooks Get Down To Business Wherever And Whenever — Beyond “business-rugged,” today’s semi-rugged and fully-rugged notebook computers are ready to tough it out. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 01, 2008) (feature article)(case studies)
- Notebooks Rule — Notebook PC Convenience And Productivity Are Key Drivers To Expanding Use (CDW Solutions catalog, August 6, 2008) (feature article)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (product review)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- HP Intros $499 [and up] Mini-Notebook — New Linux-or-Windows sub-three-pound ultraportable 2133 Mini-Note PC good for executives, professionals or students (eWeek Mid-Market, April 8, 2008) (news)
- APC, mFuel External Notebook Batteries Keep Humming (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008 (product review) (Also see my ‘mini-slide-show’ of photos of the APC UPB90 and the mFuel, which ran in eWeek in October 2007.)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007)
Network/System Management/Administration:
- As Public Cloud OS Instances Grow, So Do Security Admin Challenges (Linux.com, July 28, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Comparing Desktop VMs In The Cloud (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 13, 2011)
- Tablets Become IT Admin New Mobility Tool (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 11, 2011)
- Uptime Software Introduces Cloud Monitoring (InformationWeek SMB, November 30, 2010) (news)
- VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, October 18, 2010) (blog post)
- LogMeIn Lets IT Remotely Manage Multiple PCs In Batches (InformationWeek SMB, October 15, 2010) (blog post)
- Zendesk, LogMeIn Rescue Combine Remote Connectivity, Support (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (news)
- e-DMZ Announces Free Remote Access Security Tool (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- i365 Extends Cloud Server Disaster Recovery (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Future Systems Releases Casper 6.0 Tech Edition (InformationWeek SMB, August 06, 2010)
- SonicWALL Intros Affordable, Simpler Remote Access For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- CoreTrace Bouncer Improves Application Whitelisting (InformationWeek SMB, July 28, 2010) (news)
- Windows 7 migration: 8 things that are bound to happen (ITWorld.com, July 26, 2010)
- Kaseya Helps SMB VARs Automate IT Processes and Tasks (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 14, 2010)
- ActiveBatch Automates Job Scheduling On Multiple Machines (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 2, 2010) (system admin, IT management)
- Asset Lifecycle Management: Scalable Helps SMEs Track & Manage Their Hardware & Software Assets (Processor, February 12, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 4; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Take The Hassle Out Of Repetitive Tasks — ScriptLogic Helps SMEs Simplify, Speed Up & Improve Windows Management Processes (Processor, December 18, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 30; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
- Put Your Systems On Autopilot – Kaseya’s IT Automation Software Improves IT Staff Effectiveness & Systems Performance (Processor, October 23, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 26; Pge(s) 45 in print issue)
- How to Stretch Your Security Dollar: Unexpected ways to get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments (ITWorld.com, October 22, 2009) (Slashdotted!
- Cutting The Cord — Ip KVM Switches Allow Remote Hardware Access From Any Location (CDW Solutions catalog, September 3, 2008) (feature article)
- Clustering and Mirroring — Processes offer failover and replication capabilities proving critical to business-continuity and disaster-recovery strategies (CDW NetComm catalog, June 18, 2008) (feature article)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- At Your Service — Learn more about software tools that help you administer and manage your servers. (CDW Netcomm catalog, winter/spring 2007) (Microsoft MOM, virtualization and more)
- Remote Network Hardware Management — Tips for managing remote equipment from your desk — KVM and serial console over IP give IT more reach (CDW Netcomm catalog, March 2007)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- “KVM over IP: Administering Over The Network–Take Control From Anywhere” (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2006)
- Disk Defragging for Maximum Performance Research shows that regular disk defragmentation is a good way to glean an extra ounce of prevention from your network maintenance routine. (CDW Solutions, September, 2005)
- Keep The Network Humming Right Along – Don’t Let These Mistakes Throw You Off Track — It’s no surprise that people often make mistakes in setting up and running networks. Here’s a handful to watch for. (October 15, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 42)
- Power over Ethernet Reduces Cabling Costs And Improves Administration (CMP Systems Management Pipeline, August 26, 2004)
- Novell ZENworks 6.5 Adds Linux, Patch Management (June 30, 2004)
Data Centers, Power (UPS/Surge, Mobile, Energy Fuel Cells, Etc.), Energy, Cooling, Data Centers, & Physical Infrastructure:
- USB Power Delivery Will Power Not Just Smartphones But Also Notebooks, Displays and More (EHPublishing’s Health Tech Care Decisions, December 07, 2012)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- Power Over HDBaseT: What Is It, Why Use It? (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2012)
- UPS update: What’s new, what to remember (The Mozy Blog, July 1, 2012)
- Six energy-efficient data center practices: How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways (ITWorld.com, August 22, 2011) (feature article)
- The Daily Tip: Uninterruptible Power Supply: Using and caring for your desktop UPS — Proper set up, periodic battery replacements are key to making sure your desktop UPS will work when you need it. (ITWorld.com, August 26, 2010)
- Choosing a desktop Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) — The Daily Tip: Local power quality and what gear you’ve got drive the desktop UPS decision (ITWorld.com, August 24, 2010)
- Laptop Batteries Can Run For Three Years (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Tech In-Depth: Energy Star Certification For Enterprise Storage (Processor, July 16, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 15, Page(s) 33 in print issue)
- Wind power control systems go to (temperature) extremes – High-temperature uninterruptible power supply helps Danish control system designers handle Mongolian temperatures up to 55 ° C (Control Engineering, February 1, 2010) (PR) (feature article) (rewrite/edit based on initial vendor write-up)
- World’s Coolest Personal Computer (Hardcore Computer’s liquid-cooled Reactor) (IEEE Spectrum, August 2009)
- Portable Power Packs for Your Mobile Devices — “A pint of power for when there’s no outlet around” (iPass Connect, August 2009) (short feature article)
- “Briefs” for APC magazines and literature. During 2008, I wrote nine “brief” — one-sheet marketing pieces for APC, mostly about APC’s Online TradeOff Calculator tools, which have been used in APC’s Currents magazine and/or other materials:
- Design and Deployment Characteristics of an Efficient Enterprise Data Center — New approach gets IT and Facilities working together (APC Currents, Business Edition, August 2009, page 20) (~700-word “brief”)
- Simplify Thermal Containment Solutions with Interactive online Selector — APC TradeOff Tools: InRow Containment Selector (APC Currents, Business Edition, June 2009, page 16) (~700-word “brief”)
- “How Much Could You Save Using Online TradeOff Tools?” — Data Center Efficiency Calculator (APC Currents, Business Edition, April 2009, page 8) (~700-word “brief”)
- Is Your Data Center Too Cold? — Colder Isn’t Always Better” (APC Currents, Business Edition, February 2009, page 22) (~700-word “brief”)
- APC TradeOff Tools Quantify Impact of Data Center Planning Decisions (APC Currents, Business Edition, February 2009, pages 6-7) (~700-word “brief”)
- “Managed Services Keep Your Foot In The Door” (APC Availability Advisor, February 2009) (~700-word “brief”)
- Data Center Index Efficiency Calculators tools: How much could you save using [APC’s] Online TradeOff Tools? (not yet run)
- TradeOff Tools Quantify Impact of Data Center Planning Decisions (not yet run)
- Three Questions: Keeping Out Dirt, Heat, Noise & More — Simplex Isolation Systems Provides Products For Data Center Environmental Control (Processor, June 5, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 16, Page(s) 39 in print issue)
- Improving Your Physical Infrastructure – Snake Tray Reduces The Cost & Time It Takes To Wrangle Cables & Manage Airflow (Processor magazine, May 22, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 15) (vendor interview)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Three Questions: Cooling Where You Need It Most – Data Aire Provides Precision Air For IT Gear (Processor, December 19, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 51, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- MAID and other energy-saving storage technologies for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 25, 2008) (short feature article)
- Cutting The Cord — Ip KVM Switches Allow Remote Hardware Access From Any Location (CDW Solutions catalog, September 3, 2008) (feature article)
- Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy — The KillAWatt EZ, Watts up? and Brultech ECM1220 let consumers, homeowners, and IT/energy professionals measure how much energy a device (or its power brick) is using (ComputerWorld, August 26, 2008) (review)
- Clustering and Mirroring — Processes offer failover and replication capabilities proving critical to business-continuity and disaster-recovery strategies (CDW NetComm catalog, June 18, 2008) (feature article)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article)
- Tri-Mag Provides Power, Filters & Chassis — Offering Flexibility For Regular Or Custom Orders (Processor Magazine, June 6, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 23 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Cool Air To Go — Atlas Provides Portable Air Conditioning For Sale Or Rent (Processor magazine, May 30, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 22; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Upsite Helps Data Centers Keep Maximum Cool — Products & Education Optimize Existing Air Conditioning (Processor magazine, May 16, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 20; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Pulizzi Provides Powerful PDUs – Eaton Acquisition Powers Denser Enclosures, Monitors Both Power & Environment (Processor, April 4, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 14) (vendor interview)
- APC, mFuel External Notebook Batteries Keep Humming (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008 (product review) (Also see my ‘mini-slide-show’ of photos of the APC UPB90 and the mFuel, which ran in eWeek in October 2007.)
- 3 Questions: Amerex Fights IT Fires — Clean Agent Fire Suppression Won’t Hurt IT Gear, Data, Or Staff (Processor, February 1, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 5) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: i/o Data Centers Provides Digital-Grade Space – Outsourced Rack, Cage & Room/Suite Data Center Facilities That Stay Up (Processor, November 9, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 45)
- APC, mFuel External Batteries Prolong Notebook Computing — brief captioned slide-show on external batteries for notebooks (eWeek, October 21, 2007) (product review)
- “Cool Under Pressure” — Power, cooling and ILM help IT control storage costs (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2007)
- Power Play — With IT-oriented power protection solutions, careful planning keeps your data center humming cost-effectively. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- At Your Service — Learn more about software tools that help you administer and manage your servers. (CDW Netcomm catalog, winter/spring 2007) (Microsoft MOM, virtualization and more)
- Remote Network Hardware Management — Tips for managing remote equipment from your desk — KVM and serial console over IP give IT more reach (CDW Netcomm catalog, March 2007)
- More Devices, Fewer Circuits — 208V, 60A Vertical PDUs From Aphel Help Reduce Rackmount Power Management Costs (Processor magazine, August 25, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 34)
- “Weather Or Not — Is Your IT Ready For Prolonged Power Outages? (CDW Netcomm catalog, September 2006)
- MonsterPower’s Outlets To Go Provide Portable Plugins — MonsterPower’s new 4- and 6-Outlet Outlets2Go give travellers enough places to plug in (mini-review) (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2006)
- Keep Your Cool — If the cooling system in your data center racks and rooms isn’t adequate, your IT gear can melt down. Here are some ways you can reduce and remove excess heat (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006)
- Fuel Cells For Mobile Users Are Coming, Sort Of — Don’t expect micro methanol-based fuel cells soon, but other chemistries and technological approaches are on the way, or even here already. (CMP Desktop Pipeline, May 2, 2006; also picked up by InformationWeek, SmallBusinessPipeline, and Network Computing)
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? (Answer: Yes, ranging from education and assessment through implementation) Quotes from BearingPoint, Broadleaf Services, Egenera, IBM, Transitional Data Services, Virtual Iron (May 2006)
- Power Play: Protect your essential IT gear from damaging power failures with the right UPS (CDW BizTech magazine, March 2006)
- Power Failure Insurance Standby, line-interactive and online dual-conversion UPSs can play a role in keeping equipment up when the power goes down. (CDW Solutions, September 2005)
- Power Protection: Don’t Let Those Volts Cause Jolts — A look at the non-UPS power protection products that can help protect your networks and computers. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- Power over Ethernet Reduces Cabling Costs And Improves Administration (CMP Systems Management Pipeline, August 26, 2004)
- “Power Doodads for Techno-Travelers: With Great Power Responsibility Comes Several Pounds of Accessories” (InformIT.com, December 5, 2003) — An overview of AC/car/air power accessories for notebooks, PDAs and cell phones, and AA NiMH battery chargers (for digital cameras, etc.)
- Keeping your computer safe for business – surge suppressors and backup power supplies protect data and equipment (July 1, 1991)
Power Over Ethernet (& HDMI, USB, etc.):
- USB Power Delivery Will Power Not Just Smartphones But Also Notebooks, Displays and More (EHPublishing’s Health Tech Care Decisions, December 07, 2012)
- Power Over HDBaseT: What Is It, Why Use It? (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2012)
- Power Over Ethernet: What Is It, What’s New? (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, May 11, 2012)
- PoE Simplifies Powering, Placing Access Points Was: Power Over Ethernet Simplifies Powering, Placing Webcams, APs (InformationWeek SMB, August 13, 2010) (blog post)
- Panduit PoE Midspan Exhibits Versatility — Compact Units Add Power In 8-Port Increments (Processor, January 19, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 3 Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Power over Ethernet: CDW offers solutions to enhance efficiency and increase performance (CDW Solutions, October 2004)
- Power over Ethernet Reduces Cabling Costs And Improves Administration (CMP Systems Management Pipeline, August 26, 2004)
- Using 802.3af (Power Over Ethernet) as a SysAdmin Tool By using Power over Ethernet (802.3af) to provide power for devices such as WiFi Access Points, VoIP desktop phones, and webcams, companies can save on A/C wiring costs and UPS provisioning. (InformIT, April 2, 2004)
Printers, Printing, Document Management:
- Why Color Printing is Getting Cheaper (InputCreatesOutput.com, an HP site), May 20, 2011)
- Review: Canon Selphy CP800 portable photo printer (Computer Shopper, March 2011) (product review)
- Dell Updates Laser, Multifunction Printers For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Informative Graphics Updates Document Redaction, Collaboration (InformationWeek SMB, October 27, 2010) (news)
- HP Updates Printer Line — Web, cloud and mobile-enabled printing capabilities headline a refresh of HP’s printer, scanner and MFP offerings. (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Is Your Copier A Security Threat? (InformationWeek SMB, August 12, 2010) (blog post)
- Xerox Advises Securing Data in Printer Hard Drives (InformationWeek SMB, August 09, 2010) (news)
- Vendors Stream to Greener Printing — Samsung, HP up the green levels of printer manufacture, use and end-of-life (eWeek, March 14, 2008) (news story)
- Faster Canon Printers Offer More Features for Less Money — Four new Canon imageCLASS black-and-white laser MFPs for small and home offices (eWeek MidMarket, March 14, 2008) (news story) (and this shorter version, Faster Canon Multifunction Printers Help Cut Costs (eWeek, March 14, 2008)
- Kodak Aims Digital Media Products at Midmarket — Kodak announcements at AIIM 2008 show (eWeek, March 12, 2008) (news story), and this shorter version, (eWeek MidMarket, March 13, 2008)
- AIIM/OnDemand 2008 Report — Slide Show: The Top SMB-Focused Printing Tech from AIIM (eWeek MidMarket, March 8, 2008)
- Lexmark Proving Its Chops in Health Care – MFPs and apps for medical offices (eWeek, February 29, 2008) (news story)
- eCopy Scans Directly To Business Applications (eWeek, February 15, 2008) (news article)
- Canon Adds Equitrac Tracking to imageRUNNER Devices (eWeek, February 14, 2008) (news article)
- Ricoh Builds Printer HotSpots on the Road — new color, monochrome HotSpot laser printers let users with Internet-enabled notebooks, cell phones, handheld users print directly, no drivers required. (eWeek, January 16, 2008) (news article)
- Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz (eWeek.com, December 14, 2007) (news article)
- Konica Minolta Latest Color Laser Printer Packs Features — new bizhub C353P printer (eWeek.com, December 13, 2007) (news article)
- Kyocera Hopes Cost Per-Page and Partners Drive Growth (eWeek, December 7, 2007) (news article)
- Print Market Tackles Sustainability, Environmental Concerns — InfoPrint, Lexmark lead initiatives (eWEEK.com, December 06, 2007) (news article)
- Can You Print Me Now? — Networked printers easier to share, says Lexmark (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Pick the Proper Printer — For small business, it’s a bottom-line impact (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Ricoh Adds Rights Management to ScanRouter (eWeek.com, November 28, 2007) (news article)
- HP Unveils Imaging, Print Solutions – New vertical solutions for identify document issuers, European brokerages (eWeek.com, November 16, 2007) (news article)
- Keep Up With Proofing — Advice from Kodak: Advances in technology are improving the methods for proofing pages and creating new uses. (eWeek.com, November 15, 2007 (news article)
- Dell Printers Citrix-Certified — Desktop and workgroup models are guaranteed to work with Presentation Server. (eWeek.com, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Technology Driving Ink Sales — Kodak Research Labs on high-end inkjet printers (eWeek, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Health Workers Addicted to Black and White Unlike most other verticals, medical SMBs prioritize speed and features (eWeek.com, November 8, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Reports InfoPrint as Subsidiary Is Succeeding (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Updates 3 imageRUNNER MFPs to Maintain No. 1 Market Spot (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Kyocera Adds MFPs for SMBs or Workgroups (eWeek, October 26, 2007) (news article)
- Stand and Print Securely – Ricoh offers proximity-card login for secure printjob access (eWeek, October 24, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Speeds Up Scanning — New ScanFront systems (eWeek, October 19, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Wants to Help Customers Gain Digital Print Savvy (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh a Kodak Reseller — Ricoh to resell Kodak NEXPRESS color presses. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared on eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 25, 2007) - Xerox Speeds, Simplifies Digital Printing Process — New FreeFlow features expedite personalized marketing, Web-to-book and other tasks. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Epson Unveils 4 New Products — Fastest Laser-quality ink-jet, other multi-function printers (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared as Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (ExtremeTech.com, September 25, 2007), Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (PCMag.com, September 25, 2007) and Epson Unveils 4 New Products (eWeek Channel Insider, September 25, 2007) - Xerox Debuts 4 High-Speed ‘Light Production’ Systems — To help companies bring more print jobs in-house (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Tool Assesses TCO of Print — new ProfitQuick Investment Planner modelling tool (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Adds VAR, OEM Partners In New Business Group — Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group goes after high-end printing/product markets (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Solid-Ink Print Levels the Color, Black-And-White Price Barrier — Xerox promises color printing at a black-and-white price with solid-ink sticks. (eWeek, September 24, 2007) Also appeared in eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 24, 2007)
- Xerox Office Services 4.2 to Manage Print Inventory and TCO eWeek, August 9, 2007)
- Kodak Looks to Ease Project Collaboration Version 3.0 of Kodak’s Insite Creative Workflow System (eWeek, August 8, 2007)
- New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek, August 8, 2007) (news story)
also appeared as: New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek’s Channel Insider, 08-AUG-2007) and New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) - InfoPrint Adds 4 Workgroup Color Printers, MFPs (eWeek.com, July 27, 2007
- Ricoh Intros Wide-Format Printers for CAD, Technical Renderings (eWeek, July 27, 2007)
- Bring Printing Back In-House — Affordable color laser printers are making it possible for marketing departments to offer in-house color and save signficant time and money on short-run color jobs. (CDW Solutions catalog , November 2006)
- “Infosheet” on how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be used as an infrastructure application server for print serving, intended as “Did you know…” pre-sales pieces, e.g. to identify specific uses for Red Hat: (Red Hat, July 2006 — I’ll include URL once I determine that they’re posted, and where.)
- Multifunction Printers for Multitasking Staffs Lower prices, enhanced functionality and productivity features make today’s multifunction printers more value-filled than ever. (CDW Solutions, February 2006)
- Laser Multi-Function Printers: Ready For Prime Time (CDW Solutions, October 2005)
- Interview with Xerox executive Rob Stewart, Vice President of Worldwide Color Marketing, Xerox Office Group (CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily)
Professional Services/Consulting:
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? ( Kennedy Information’s May 2006 Global IT Services Report monthly newsletter. Note: My name is on the masthead as a contributor, but not on the individual articles, and most of the content is only accessible to subscribers.)
- “The Changing Role of IT Architects,” — As IT applications change from “silos” to more complex architectures, often crossing organizational boundaries, how is the role of IT architects changing, especially for consultants. (Kennedy Information’s March 2006 Global IT Services Report monthly newsletter.)
- Doing More With Less — CDW’s Professional Services (rewrite and expansion based on their initial draft) – CDW Technology Services, pp 62-63, Spring 2005
- In Transition? Use CDW’s New Location Services Planning to set up a new office or move to a new location? (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2005)
Science Fiction (Authors, About, Etc.):
Every so often I get the fun of interviewing and/or quoting science fiction writers, talking about science fiction books, or doing other sf-related stuff within the context of my technology, trade and business writing, or simply writing about science fiction books, movies, events, etc. nam(Many of these are event reports from/about science fiction conventions; many of these appeared on the File770.com science fiction fan new site or SFRevu.com.)
- Daniel Dern Review: Conan – Blood of the Serpent (File770.com, May 2, 2023)
- Interview with Carol Pinchefsky About Her New Book, Turn Your Fandom Into Cash (File770.com, March 02, 2022)
- The Tapas Bar At The End Of The Expanse: Non-Spoilery Remarks After Finishing Book 9: Leviathan’s Fall (File770.com, January 7, 2021)
- Whose Foundation Is This Anyway? (File770.com, September 21, 2021)
- Wait, Wait, A Few Dern Moments: Notable Digital Freebies (File770.com, August 03, 2021)
- S.B. Divya: How This EE Combines Engineering With Writing Some of the Best Sci-Fi Around IEEE Spectrum, (online) May 21, 2021 (online); page 19, June 2021 issue; and via IEEE’s viewer
- Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! (File770.com, March 23, 2020)
- Book Review: Barbara Krasnoff’s The History of Soul 2065 (File770.com, January 27, 2020)
- In Space, Nobody Picks Up Your Trash: NASA Recycling in Space Award Winners (Earth911.com, May 3, 2019)
- Tiamat’s Wrath – A Non-Spoiler Recommendation for Newest Expanse Novel (File770.com, April 5, 2019)
- Spectrum’s Summer Science-Fiction Reading List: 19 classic and recent tales, starring engineers as the heroes (IEEE Spectrum.org, August 16, 2013)
- BYTE Interviews Jerry Pournelle (Byte.com, April 16, 2012 (interview) — A Skype audio interview with Jerry Pournelle, done at the February 2012 Boskone science fiction convention. (Jerry had to stay home, due to a virus, but we had a live audience). Here’s audio, plus transcription (done by me) of the podcast, posted in four parts, plus a short biography and bibliography. (Note, if the in-article links to the various parts aren’t working — as of October 2020 they weren’t, use these:
- Podcast Part 1: Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 2: Pournelle On ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 3: Pournelle On Ebooks (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 4: Pournelle On Using Multimedia To Sell Books (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Bibliography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- 3 Professional Reasons For Computer Professionals To Attend Science Fiction Conventions (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, May 05, 2011) (feature)
- Science Fiction Books For the Computer Fan (iPass Connect, May 26, 2009) (short feature article)
- What Science Fiction Writers Have Learned About Predicting The Future of Technology — Science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross look back at looking forward. (CIO.com, December 16, 2008) (feature article/interviews)This article was picked up by other IDG publications, including:
- ComputerWorld, as “Sci-Fi: What’s it really about? Four famous authors reflect on their hits, their misses and why they write science fiction (December 17, 2008)
- InfoWorld, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future — Science fiction isn’t (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren’t trying to predict it.” (December 16, 2008)
- and “mobilized” in mobile.cio.com, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future” (December 16, 2008)
- and in the New Zealand CIO.com site, as “The men and women who saw tomorrow” (December 18 2008)
- and posted again in CIO.com (December 16, 2008)plus blog notes in:
- Rob Sawyer’s blog (Rob even found the article and posted this up before I let him know the article was up)
- the “blink” section (on the left) of Locus Online (for non-science-fiction fans: Locus Magazine is covers “news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines.”)
- Ulmekirjanikud ja tulevikuennustamine (12/17/08)
- Science Fiction Authors Tap into Technology Prediction-Making Preview of super-session with Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle (November 2000)
Security (Computer, Network, Data Center):
- Careers Profile: Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis: The Purdue professor has been fighting cybersecurity threats for decades (IEEE Spectrum: web version, February 16, 2023)
- To reduce security vulnerabilities in downstream facilities, try unikernels (Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, July 2019) (ghosted PR project)
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- Cryptojacking: The growing malware menace (SCMedia, July 2019)
- How to Protect Your Enterprise From DDoS Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 16, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Why Many Companies Aren’t Securing OS Permissions Adequately (Linux.com, August 26, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Is Your Email In Danger of Being Hacked? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 13, 2015) (sponsored content)
- As Public Cloud OS Instances Grow, So Do Security Admin Challenges (Linux.com, July 28, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Start Prioritizing IT Security (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 24, 2015)
- How to Respond to Next-Gen Phishing and Malware Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 20, 2015)
- Managing IT Access Privileges — Not As Solved As Management Thinks (Linux.com, July 14, 2015)(sponsored content)
- 3 Tech Security Threats Facing Businesses Today (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 06, 2015)
- Make sure your employees use public WiFi safely (VMware’s The Bridge, June 15, 2015)
- Facebook Adding PGP Encryption Option For Email (Fortinet blog, June 09, 2015)
- Beware of “Malvertising” — Now Even Legit-Appearing Ads on Legit Sites May Be Unsafe (Fortinet blog, June 02, 2015)
- Still Running XP-Based Or Other Obsolete Point-Of-Sale? Move On ASAP! (Fortinet blog, May 8, 2015)
- Bruce Schneier Talks Privacy, Politics, Books and More (Fortinet blog, March 31, 2015) (interview)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- 10 commandments of Windows security (CSO Online, April 23, 2012) (feature)
- Joomla or Drupal: Which CMS handles security best? (ITWorld.com, April 19, 2011) (feature article)
- Dell Introduces File Level Encryption (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- SonicWall Refreshes Anti Spam Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- Is Your Copier A Security Threat? (InformationWeek SMB, August 12, 2010) (blog post)
- e-DMZ Announces Free Remote Access Security Tool (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Xerox Advises Securing Data in Printer Hard Drives (InformationWeek SMB, August 09, 2010) (news)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- Qualys Offers Free Browser Plug-In Checker (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Dell KACE Offers Free Secured Browser Bundle (InformationWeek SMB, July 19, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: Secure Browsing Good If Done Well And Easily (InformationWeek SMB, July 20, 2010) (blog post)
- Lighten The Security Load: ETSec Helps SMEs Protect Their LANs Through Products, Managed Services & Expertise (Processor, January 14, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 2; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- WAN Security Solved – ClearPath Networks Makes It Easy & Affordable (Processor, January 1, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 1; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Securing email and other data in transit — Making it easy to (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, security & privacy)
- Security leads to compliance, not vice versa – Don’t just watch (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Security and Privacy)
- Minding the Volcano (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk & Compliance)
- Changing Passwords at the Speed of Business (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
- To Ensure Security, don’t make insecurity an option — Secure-by-default products simplify security (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Business Intelligence)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: People Who Need Policies and Procedures (BTQuarterly.com, November 14, 2008) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: ElcomSoft Recovers Lost Passwords, Audits Security — Regain Access To Protected Data, Applications, Systems (Processor, August 29, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 35, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Wi-Fi Predators Attack Hot Spots Businesses Don`t Know They Have — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 31, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com, Businesses Leave Wi-Fi Hot Spots Unprotected - Users Still Worst Enemy to Endpoint Security — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 28, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com) - Barracuda Appliances Protect Your Network – Stopping Threats To Email, Web, IM & More (Processor, March 28, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 13, page 29) (vendor interview)
- Scram Spam! — E-Mail Security — E-mail-based threats are becoming more and more sophisticated. Learn how to protect servers beyond traditional firewall and antivirus solutions (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2007)
- DynaComm PointGuard: Integrated Endpoint Security – Protect Your Windows Endpoints, Ports & Mobile Media (Processor, August 31, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 35)
- Taking Inventory — Benefits of IT software, hardware asset management (in K-12 schools and school districts) (T.H.E. Journal, June 2007)
- Erase Files Remotely & Securely — CyberScrub’s Compliance Suite Manages Erasure Over The Network (Processor, May 11, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 19)
- Keeping Remote Users Safe Makes Sense (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- Your 10 Biggest Network Security Worries — Learn what threats and vulnerabilities today’s small business IT professionals need to defend against, along with tips on how to fight them. (NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Switch to Speed and Simplicity — Small- to medium-sized businesses are turning to wireless switches, along with lower-cost “thin” or “right-sized” access points, to deploy and manage pervasive wireless service quickly, securely, and cost-effectively. (CDW NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Securing Teleworkers — Growing security concerns make it more important than ever that IT provide secure access for users working remotely. (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, p 33-35)
- Identify, Prioritize & Report Security Risks – McAfee Enhances Its Management Portfolio — McAfee adds/integrates Foundstone, Preventsys (Processor, September 15, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 37 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Somebody Call Security – Implement a reliable strategy to protect your mobile devices and the data they carry (CDW Netcomm catalog, August 2006)
- Secure “Mobile Data At Rest” ? Before It Leaves the Office — Avoid Those “Oh, ****!” Moments When You Lose A Device Or Disk (IT Business Net, July 5, 2006)
- Securing Your Desktop Computers Today — and Tomorrow (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- Notebook Security ‘In the Wild’ — Securing data, network activity, and physical systems of your company’s notebooks when out-of-office (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006, pp 74-77)
- “Keeping A Close Watch” — Theft, fire, overheating or water damage are as much realities as viruses, spyware and network intrusions. IP video cameras, along with locks and other devices help ensure physical security for your site and its equipment. (CDW Netcomm, December 2005, p 30-33)
- Gateway-Level Security Stopping network nuisances at the gateway level — before potential threats enter the network — greatly reduces the cost and effort of fighting them. (NetComm catalog, October 2005)
- Tunnel Vision: SSL VPNs Simplify Secure Mobile Access (CDW Fed Tech magazine, August 2005)
- SSL VPNs — The simple, secure remote-access option for travelers, teleworkers, customers and others (NetComm Catalog, February 2005)
- Getting the Bigger Picture: IP video monitoring applications provide enhanced benefits for your physical security and networking needs (NetComm catalog, January 2005)
- Be Prepared — A Paranoid’s Guide to Computer Ownership (ComputerClick Magazine, October, 2002) — My summary of free, cheap and affordable — and easy — steps anybody can (and should!) do to protect their computer, and the data on it. E.g. virus scanners, UPSs, backups, and more. Nothing earthshattering here; this is meant as an accessible piece for the new computer owner/user.
- Fortify Your Defense – Network Intrusion and Prevention Systems (NIDS, NIPS) help secure your networks and computers. CDW NetComm catalog, March 2004, pages 66-69.
- “Privacy Concerns” (IEEE Security & Privacy magazine March/April 2003, p. 11-13) — A look at the PATRIOT ACT and other privacy-relating legislation to be aware of in the year to come.
- Interview with Steve Kent on Internet Security (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 2, February 1990, page 2) (interview)
- The Trusted Mail System (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 2, February 1990) (technology news)
Small Office/Home Office (SOHO):
- Make Your Tax Prep Less Taxing: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008 (TechRevu, February 25, 2009) (product write-up, updated review info to come)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VOIP Easy (eWeek.com, November 14, 2006)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS – Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
SmartPhones & Tablets:
- Make sure your employees use public WiFi safely (VMware’s The Bridge, June 15, 2015)
- Pocketable productivity: 5 folding keyboards for your smartphone (ComputerWorld, April 10, 2015) (review/roundup)
- How To Use an Apple iPad to Remote Control a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, July 22, 2014)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- Who needs a Tricorder? Apps and add-ons put a doctor in your pocket (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 16, 2014)
- Making Phone Calls Using Tablets And Other Mobile Devices And Apps (EH Publishing HealthCareTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2014)
- How to Connect a PC or Tablet Via 4G Wireless (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, February 12, 2014)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- Top Classroom Note-Taking Apps for the iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, August 26, 2013)
- Put Your Smartphone or Tablet Camera to Good Business Use: Cameras in today’s mobile devices do much more than take pictures. (Verizon Solution Labs, July 3, 2013)
- Succeeding with Mobile Payments (Verizon Solution Labs, July, 2013)
- Eight Free eReader Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, May 19, 2013)
- Best Apps For Meeting Health and Fitness Resolutions TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, January 05, 2013) (roundup review)
- Nine Handy Airline Travel Apps for iPhone & iPad (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com site, December 23, 2012)
- Going on Vacation: iPad or Laptop? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2012)
- Review: Dropbox for iPhone: Multimedia Storage in the Cloud (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, August 29, 2012)
- Ten Cool Trip Planning Apps for the iPad TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, August 16, 2012)
- 15 Code Editors For the iPad – For Free or Very Cheap (Smartbear Software Quality Matters, July 27, 2012)
- Using Your iPhone for Summertime Reading (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, July 24, 2012)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- How Do You Get Photos Onto an Apple iPad? — Affordable SD card accessories (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 25, 2012) (review)
- Join.Me Review: Free & Easy Screen Sharing from PCs to iPads (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 15, 2012) (review)
- BAM! POW! What are the Best iPad Comic Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, April 13, 2012)
- Apple iBooks 2 Review: Easy Reading on Your iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, March 26, 2012)
- Four iPhone Privacy Apps for Protecting Your Content from Prying Eyes (TechTarget’s Brighthand Staff March 23, 2012) (review)
- CloudOn Review: The Best Way of Getting MS Office on an Apple iPad? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, February 17, 2012) (iPad app review)
- MacPhun FX Photo Studio Review: Cool Photo Sharing & Special Effects for iPhones (TechTarget Brighthand, January 2012) (review)
- Square Credit Card Reader Review: Remarkably Easy (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, January 28, 2012) (iOS app review)
- Low-Priced iPhone Accessories Are Great as Holiday Gifts, or Any Time (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- How to Choose an iPad Keyboard, And Which is the Best, Part 1 and Part 2 (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2011) – a look at several Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad
- Download Lowdown: 10 Must-Have App Types for Your iPhone (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Dragon Remote Microphone App for iOS Review: Using Your iPhone for PC Speech Recognition (TechTarget Brighthand, November 24, 2011) (review)
- What Role Will Windows 8 Play in Enterprise Tablet Adoption? (TabletPCReview.com, November 11, 2011) (feature article)
- Corel Slingshot for iOS Review: Share Photos From Your iPhone Through Facebook (TechTarget Brighthand.com, November 3, 2011)
- Calculating the True Cost of a Tablet (Internet Evolution, November 2, 2011)
- What are the Essential Apple iPad Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 28, 2011) (ten-or-so good apps to get to start with)
- Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 12, 2011)
- Tablets Become IT Admin New Mobility Tool (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 11, 2011)
- iPad as a Notebook Alternative:
- Part 1 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 3, 2011)
- Part 2 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 4, 2011)
- TK-421 iPhone Case With Flip-Out Keyboard from ThinkGeek Review (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, September 4, 2011) (iPhone accessory review)
- Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display from ThinkGeek.com (Brighthand.com, July 30, 2011) (review)
- MotionX-GPS Review: Full-Featured Navigation for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 17, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (product review)
- Dragon Search for iPhone Review (TechTarget Brighthand.com, April 8, 2011) (software review)
- Testing Apps For SmartPhones and Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store) (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, March 23, 2011) (feature)
- Dragon Dictation for iPhone Review (February 3, 2011) (software review)
- AT&T iPhone App Targets ‘Backup And Go’ (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Visage Updates SaaS Mobility Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 2, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Your New iPhone: Things To Know, Get and Do (ITWorld.com, October 19, 2010)
- Mobile broadband: Prepaid and other no-contract option (ITWorld.com, October 18, 2010)
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Rhomobile Adds More Features To Smartphone Development Platform (InformationWeek SMB, September 17, 2010) (blog post)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- OTRS Announces iPhone, iPad Help Desk App (InformationWeek SMB, July 6, 2010) (news story)
- Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still Difficult — challenges (and solutions) for creating native applications for multiple smartphone environments (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2010) (feature article) (appears as “Writing Small” in the print issue)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- CES Wrap-up: From iPhone to Automobile, There’s At Least One New Product You’ll Want (Sears ManageMyLife, January 12, 2010) (show coverage)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
Software:
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- Software Every Engineer Needs to Know (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2020)
- xMatters Incident Management Tool Adds Stackdriver Integration (ITProToday.com, April 7, 2019)
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
- These Are the Websites That Programmers Use All Day Long (GrabCAD.com, February 6th, 2018)
- Yes, Lean, Agile Methods Can Be Applied to Hardware Development Too (GrabCAD blog, September 18, 2017)
- What are the Essential Apple iPad Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 28, 2011)
- Marathon Unveils Low Cost Server Fault Tolerance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Essential Joomla! extensions — Joomla! developers offer up their favorite extensions (Part II) (ITWorld.com, September 16, 2010) (feature)
- Joomla! jumpstart: 8 tips and best practices from Joomla! developers (ITWorld.com, September 8, 2010) (feature)
- Aestiva Offers Array 4GL Database Free (InformationWeek SMB, July 8, 2010) (news story)
- 3 Questions: Manage & Track Software Goals & Quality – Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management Offerings Help IT With Testing & Change Management (Processor, July 2, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 14, Page(s) 35 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 gives you hands-off computing (ComputerWorld.com, March 25, 2010) (software review)
- Cost-Conscious Technology — Affordable accounting software and SaaS offerings (ICPAS Insight, August 2009) (feature)
- Three Questions: Support, Enhancements For Open-Source — Gizmox Visual WebGui Supercharges Web/Desktop Development (Processor, October 10, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 41) (vendor interview)
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
- Disk Defragging for Maximum Performance Research shows that regular disk defragmentation is a good way to glean an extra ounce of prevention from your network maintenance routine. (CDW Solutions, September, 2005)
- “Building Blocks for Microsoft .NET: The Case for Reusable Components” (Supplement to SD Times, May 1, 2003) — Fourteen of the fifteen software component vendor profiles in this supplement. My by-line’s on them, but since the vendors paid for them (by buying an ad), and got to see the final text, I consider this PR, or at least “advertorial”. That’s neither a complaint nor a criticism, mind you, just a statement.
- Managing Disk Partitions Over the Network with Ghost Corporate Edition (October 31, 2003) — Dumping and restoring disk partitions, particularly the main system one, may be easier if you can do it over the network — and to many systems at once. Here’s a look at how Symantec’s Ghost Corporate Edition makes this possible.
Software, Web Programming & Development:
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- What You Need to Know about Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain Development Kit (ITProToday, December 11, 2018) (news)
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
- These Are the Websites That Programmers Use All Day Long (GrabCAD.com, February 6th, 2018)
- The Pros (and Cons) of Consumption-First IT Testing (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 27, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Introducing Mob programming: The best team technique you’ve (probably) never heard of (ITWorld.com, June 25, 2015) (feature article)
- Dan Bricklin, ‘father of the spreadsheet,’ now tackles mobile challenges at Alpha Software (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 06, 2014)
- Getting ‘Agile’ and ‘Lean’ not just for software developers (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 05, 2014)
- Designing for mobile: Responsive design vs. mobilized sites vs. mobile app (ITWorld.com, May 30, 2013) (feature article)
- 15 Code Editors For the iPad – For Free or Very Cheap (Smartbear Software Quality Matters, July 27, 2012)
- What today’s software developers need to know (ITWorld.com, September 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Lost programming skills: What today’s coders don’t know and why it matters (ITWorld.com, August 5, 2011) (feature article)
- Essential Joomla! extensions — Joomla! developers offer up their favorite extensions (Part II) (ITWorld.com, September 16, 2010) (feature)
- Rhomobile Adds More Features To Smartphone Development Platform (InformationWeek SMB, September 17, 2010) (blog post)
- Joomla! jumpstart: 8 tips and best practices from Joomla! developers (ITWorld.com, September 8, 2010) (feature)
- Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still Difficult — challenges (and solutions) for creating native applications for multiple smartphone environments (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2010 issue) (feature article)
Space (including NASA):
- Career Profile: Becoming a Leader at NASA: Marcellus Proctor oversees major space projects (IEEE Spectrum, October 19, 2021)
- Career Profile: From Spacecraft to Sensor Fusion Iverson Bell leveraged opportunities and risks to create a flexible skill set (IEEE Spectrum, July 2021)
- Careers: Jeannette Plante: Saving NASA Missions Before They Go Wrong (IEEE Spectrum, February 24, 2021; also March 2021 issue, page 17)
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- NASA’s 3D Printing Space Initiatives (GrabCAD.com, January 23, 2020)
- How The GrabCAD Community Helps NASA Solve Tough Problems (GrabCAD.com blog, August 7, 2019)
- In Space, Nobody Picks Up Your Trash: NASA Recycling in Space Award Winners (Earth911.com, May 3, 2019)
- My Doubly SF-Adjacent Day: Astronaut and Torah, Bendis (File770.com, April 30, 2019) (posted belatedly, the events were November 8, 2018)
Storage (NAS, mobile, etc) & Backup:
- Disaster Recovery: How to Bounce Back from a Security Breach (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- How To Back Up Your Social/Cloud Data: FaceBook, Twitter, Gmail, and more (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, July 3, 2014)
- Kineto Wireless Lowers Monthly Server Backup Costs 50%, Avoids Spending $17K in New Tape Equipment (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Petroquip Lowers Server Backup Costs by 80% (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- MSP Backup: Time to Add Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery to Your Menu? (Zetta, July 09, 2013) (PR) (blog post)
- NetApp Backup: Amazon Web Services vs. Zetta DataProtect (Zetta blog post, April 2, 2013) (PR)
- Reselling Online Backup: A Podcast About “No Heartburn” Backup (Zetta blog post, January 23, 2013) (case history) (text article accompanying podcast)
- Getting a Disaster Recovery Solution From Your Backup (Zetta blog post, January 15, 2013) (PR)
- How an Enterprise Backup Solution Should Be Configured (Zetta blog post, January 9, 2013) (PR)
- Education Technology: A Hybrid Cloud Backup That Solves School Challenges (Zetta blog post, October 12, 2012) (PR)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Seeding Your Initial Backup (Zetta blog post, September 12, 2012) (PR)
- How to Acquire A Company, Technically: Protecting New Data With Online Backup (Zetta blog post, September 07, 2012) (PR)
- D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup – The Battle of Cost, Complexity, and Capabilities (Zetta blog post, September 4, 2012)
- Enterprise Cloud Backup – For SMBs? (Zetta blog post, August 30, 2012) (PR)
- Review: Dropbox for iPhone: Multimedia Storage in the Cloud (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, August 29, 2012)
- Understanding Snapshots: Server Backup With Granular Versioning (Zetta blog post, August 24, 2012) (PR)
- How Online Backup Benefits Companies Committed To Local Backup (Zetta blog post, July 17, 2012) (PR)
- Online Data Archiving: Save Time and Cost By Letting Your Data Retire (Zetta blog post, July 13, 2012) (PR)
- Protecting IT Assets From a Hurricane: A How To Guide (Zetta blog post, July 06, 2012) (PR)
- Affordable Disaster Recovery: Compliance in the Cloud (Zetta blog post, June 18, 2012) (PR)
- The Key To SMB Offsite Backup Isn’t Backup, It’s Recovery (Zetta blog post, June 05, 2012) (PR)
- How Offsite Backup Can Give Your Users a Day-To-Day Productivity Boost (Zetta blog post, May 31, 2012) (PR)
- How To Select a Backup Service: Start By Identifying What Files You Have (The Mozy Blog, May 16, 2012)
- Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra (ComputerWorld, February 1, 2012) (review)Also posted to PC Advisor
- Cloud Backup Costs Less For Full Data Disaster Protection (Zetta, January 19, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Cloud Backup: More Than Just Offsite and Online (Zetta, January 13, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Accessibility Questions (Zetta, January 11, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Security Concerns (Zetta, January 9, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Cloud Backup Performance Must Meet Your Business Needs (Zetta, January 06, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Is Cloud Backup Right for You? Four Key Factors… (Zetta, January 5, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- How to Choose a Cloud Backup Service HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, December 22, 2011) (feature)
- Winter Emergency Data Backup & Recovery Readiness (Zetta, November 01, 2011) (PR) (blog post)
- Are You Ready for Backup Bingo? (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 5, 2011)
- Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs (ReadWriteWeb, July 15, 2011) (feature)
- AT&T iPhone App Targets ‘Backup And Go’ (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Drobo S Storage Array Adds USB 3.0 Connectivity (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- Netgear Rolls Flexible Storage, Switches For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Caringo Object Storage Software Puts SMBs On Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, October 26, 2010) (news)
- Staples Announces Backup And Restore Services (InformationWeek SMB, October 13, 2010) (news)
- Data Robotics Announces DroboPro FS Storage Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- My Wish List For Online Backup, Computing Solutions (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Ctera Extends Hybrid Cloud Storage Offering (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- Backup My Info! Enhances Online Backup Capabilities (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- FalconStor Announces NSS SAN Accelerator For VMware View (InformationWeek SMB, August 31, 2010) (news)
- Infortrend Refreshes EonStor DS Storage Systems (InformationWeek SMB, August 25, 2010) (news)
- CMS Intros Bootable Backup Solutions For Servers (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (news)
- Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (news)and this related blog post: Recovering Servers In The Cloud Affordable For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Slashing Storage Costs For Historical Transactions (IT Expert Voice, July 22, 2010)
- Backupify Intros Business Backup For Google Apps Data (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Tech In-Depth: Energy Star Certification For Enterprise Storage (Processor, July 16, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 15, Page(s) 33 in print issue)
- Zmanda Adds Features To Cloud-Based Backup For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, June 24, 2010)
- 3 Questions: Solutions For A Virtual World: PHD Virtual Simplifies Backing Up & Restoring Virtual Machines (Processor, June 4, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 12, Page(s) 31 in print issue)
- KineticD Adds Affordable Remote Access To Flexible Backup (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 11, 2010)
- RainStor 4 Improves Compliance Storage Costs, Accessibility For Transactions (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 10, 2010
- Cisco Intros Affordable Network Storage Appliances For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 9, 2010)
- Featured Product: Simple Storage Software — Open-E’s DSS V6 Delivers Enterprise-Class (Processor, May 7, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 10, Page(s) 30 in print issue) (vendor/product profile)
- 3 Questions: Real-Time Storage Control – NTP Software Helps SMEs Watch & Manage Shared User Data (Processor, April 23, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 9, Page(s) 33 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- A Tapeless Backup Approach — Idealstor Simplifies & Speeds Backups With Ejectable Disks (Processor, December 4, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 29; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- DataPreserve Gives Small Companies Big-Company Backup — Reseller-Based Online Backup Offerings Combine Features With Affordability (Processor.com, October 9, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 25; Page(s) 28 in print issue)
- Blade storage for SMBs: The pros and cons (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage, April 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- Three Questions: Save Money With Recycled Media – Storage Media Brokers Buys, Recertifies & Resells Tape Media (Processor, March 27, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 11; Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Storage Solutions For Resellers & OEMs – Condre Focuses On Savvy Storage Selling (Processor, February 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 6, Page(s) 23 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, November 24, 2008) (short feature article)
- Three Questions: Recoup & Save On Backup Media – RecycleYourMedia.com Keeps Used Tape Safely In Circulation (Processor, November 7, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 45, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- MAID and other energy-saving storage technologies for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 25, 2008) (short feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: Seven steps for outsourcing data storage for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, August 11, 2008) (feature article)
- Clustering and Mirroring — Processes offer failover and replication capabilities proving critical to business-continuity and disaster-recovery strategies (CDW NetComm catalog, June 18, 2008) (feature article)
- CMS Products Protect Data On Desktops & Notebooks Professional-Class Solutions To Encrypt, Back Up, Restore & Recover (Processor, July 4, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 27; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
- Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket? – Review: Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (eWeek, September 7, 2007)
- Data Deposit Box Stores Data Safely Off-Site Review: Online storage service Data Deposit Box patches the gaps in your data storage by taking data safely off-site. (eWeek.com, July 5, 2007)
- Fault-Tolerant Storage Includes High-Efficiency Cache Mirroring, “Green” Non-Battery Backup — ftScalable Storage array subsystem from Stratus (Processor, June 29, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 26
- Better Management Of Your Data: Combining Data Sharing & Retention Makes For A Better Solution – Quantum StorNext 3.0 software (Processor magazine, May 4, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 18)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS – Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online – Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Blade-Based Rackmount Appliances — Overland ULTAMUS RAID Offers Storage For SANs (Processor, November 24, 2006; Vol.28 Issue 47; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Keep Older Data Readily Available – PowerFile A3 Built To Replace Tape — Optical jukebox provides low-power, cost-effective near-line storage alternative (Processor, October 13, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 41; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Somebody Call Security – Implement a reliable strategy to protect your mobile devices and the data they carry (CDW Netcomm catalog, August 2006)
- IdealStor Adds SATA Line To Ejectable-Drive, NAS Backup Products (Processor, June 9, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 23, Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Technology — D2D2T combines both disk and tape as backup media, for solutions that offer IT the best mix of speed, flexibility, convenience and cost-effectiveness. (CDW Solutions, January 2006)
- Supercharge Your NAS with iSCSI HP’s NAS products can reduce the cost and complexity of providing and managing storage, while simplifying your backup and archiving processes. (CDW NetComm catalog, August 2005)
- A New Spin for Faster Storage and Backup While tape continues to play a key role in data backup and archiving, disk-to-disk (D2D) can help reduce storage costs and improve backup/restore times (CDW NetComm catalog, August 2005)
- Wanted: Easy, Affordable E-mail Archiving — The Sony AIT Intradyn solution eases the strain and cost of e-mail retrieval and legislation compliance. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- Out-of-the-Box ROI: Data at Hand Flash drives make gigabytes of data available at your fingertips on the cheap (CDW BizTech Magazine, November 2005)
- Wanted: Easy, Affordable E-mail Archiving — The Sony AIT Intradyn solution eases the strain and cost of e-mail retrieval and legislation compliance. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- Navigating the Storage Maze — Whether it’s looking at the growth path for your current solution or your next one, there are several ways your business can leverage its NAS investment. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- “Outgrown your current storage, file server, backup solution? Maybe it’s TIME FOR A NAS?” — for CDW NetComm catalog
- Treating Storage as a Utility can Ease Management, Reduce Administrative Overhead — Storage virtualization, an overview/intro (April 4, 2002)
Testing & QA (hardware, software, products):
- Testing Products for Consumer Reports: Maria Rerecich checks that they work as claimed (IEEE Spectrum — online, May 13, 2022; page 19, June 2022 print issue)
- When User Experience Means Life or Death?: Information architect Merryl Gross designs UX that averts calamities (IEEE Spectrum.com, October 21, 2020; IEEE Spectrum November 2020 issue) (Career profile)
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- So you want to become a software QA professional? (Functionize.com, January 27, 2020)
- The Pros (and Cons) of Consumption-First IT Testing (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 27, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Yes, It Really Can Take Being Dropped, Frozen, and Heated (IEEE Spectrum, November 2011) (review of Panasonic fully-rugged Toughbook — putting it through home versions of ruggedness testing — fun!)
- Testing Apps For SmartPhones and Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store) (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, March 23, 2011) (feature)
- 3 Questions: Manage & Track Software Goals & Quality – Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management Offerings Help IT With Testing & Change Management (Processor, July 2, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 14, Page(s) 35 in print issue) (vendor interview)
Virtualization & Consolidation:
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
- Network functions virtualization: What it is, and why you need it (TechBeacon.com, June 16, 2016) (feature)
- Are Containers the Answer to Your Virtualization Problem? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 07, 2015)
- “Innovate like a startup, deliver like an enterprise” — Interview with Paul Strong, VMware CTO (VMware’s The Bridge, March 30, 2015) (“custom content,” no byline)
- ScaleMP Rolls Server Virtualization Software (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- NEC Adds Fault Tolerant Support For Microsoft Hyper-V (InformationWeek SMB, October 25, 2010) (news)
- VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, October 18, 2010) (blog post)
- Stratus Adds Hyper-V Support To Fault Tolerant Servers (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- Citrix Refreshes XenServer Virtualization Platform (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- How Hardware Is Helping Server, Desktop System Virtualization (IT Expert Voice, July 29, 2010)
- Lakeside Simplifies Planning For VMware View Desktop Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, August 18, 2010) (news)
- Virtuon Offers Cloud Based Virtual Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, July 26, 2010) (news)
- Paragon Go Virtual Simplifies P2V Cloning Windows Desktops (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- 3 Questions: Solutions For A Virtual World: PHD Virtual Simplifies Backing Up & Restoring Virtual Machines (Processor, June 4, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 12, Page(s) 31 in print issue)
- 2010 VMware Virtualization Forum — Products and vendors at this June 3, 2010 Boston event (TechRevu.com, June 03, 2010) (event report)
- Pano Logic Unveils 50 User Desktop Virtualization Kit (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 03, 2010) (virtualization)
- VM6 VMex Reduces Virtualization Cost, Complexity For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 24, 2010)
- ScaleMP vSMP Foundation Offers Virtualization That Aggregates (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 20, 2010)
- One From Many — ScaleMP Uses Aggregation, Not Partitioning, For High-Performance Computing Needs (Processor, August 28, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 22, Page(s) 39 in print issue)
- A shopping list of sundries: Virtualization Everywhere Means More Tools Everywhere (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, virtualization)
- Dude, Where’s My VM? — Does Virtualization Let IT Change Too Fast? (BTQ Quarterly, April 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- 3 Questions: Real Virtualization Expertise – Fairway Consulting Can Help Design, Implement, Manage & Even Host Virtualization Solutions (Processor, April 10, 2009; Vol.31 Issue 12, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Virtualization is Still in Development (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- How Virtualization Improves Software Development (CIO.com, February 11, 2009) (feature article)
- The Blinding Curve of Virtualization” (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- Server Portability/Recovery Solution Now Even More Flexible — PlateSpin Adds Block Mode To PowerConvert Workload Transfers (Processor, June 22, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 25)
- Supercharging Your Computer Room: Server virtualization delivers efficiency and flexibility (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006, p. 70)
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? (Answer: Yes, ranging from education and assessment through implementation) Quotes from BearingPoint, Broadleaf Services, Egenera, IBM, Transitional Data Services, Virtual Iron. Kennedy Information Global IT Services Report (May 2006)
- Savvy Server Consolidation Many companies are consolidating servers with blades and rack mounts to improve performance and staff efficiency –as well as their budgets. (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006)
- Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization — IBM’s recently-released rHype Hypervisor code, Intel’s “Vanderpool” technology, and other events are propelling system virtualization (eWeek, March 4, 2005)
- Supercharging Your Computer Room: Server virtualization delivers efficiency and flexibility (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006, p. 70)
- Will Server Virtualization Change Your Provisioning? — topical overview of how VMware, etc. may change IT (June 2004)
- Hardware Review: MicroSolutions Model 155015 80GB USB2.0 Backpack External Hard Drive (May 2003) — For reliable backups of data and of system images, external hard drives like MicroSolutions’ 80 GB USB 2.0 Backpack offer a compelling alternative — or, better, complement — to CD/DVD burners.
VoIP, Video, 802.11, WiFI, Bluetooth, WiMAX, Wireless, Etc.:
- Including Streaming Media in Digital Signage Content (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions site, March 1, 2013)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 12, 2011)
- Boingo Wi-Finder for iPhone Review: Finding Hotspots Everywhere(TechTarget Brighthand.com, August 6, 2011)
- Telemedicine: Changing The Way Doctors See Patients (CDW HealthCare Catalog, pp. 28-29, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (product review)
- Avaya Updates IP Office Communication Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, November 15, 2010) (news)
- Meraki Introduces Cloud Managed 802.11n Access Points (InformationWeek SMB, November 11, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband versus dongles or tethering: Which is best? — 4 ways to get online when there’s no WiFi in range (ITWorld.com, August 31, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband: Software-defined radio makes carrier-switching easy (ITWorld.com, August 30, 2010)
- Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (news)
- Tech In-Depth: Get Ready For IPv6 – The Next Version Means Transition Planning, Some Upgrades & Tweaks (Processor, July 30, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 16, Page(s) 21 in print issue)
- Panasonic Simplifies Notebook WWAN Provisioning, Switching With Gobi2000 (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 28, 2010)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Separate Thoughts About Unified Communications — What Might SaaS, Managed Services, Open Source, Google, and Skype Have In Common? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, unified communications)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Wiring Loma Linda — Former city CIO James Hettrick reflects on the rollout (CDW StateTech, August 14, 2007)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
- Bringing Wi-Fi Phones To The Enterprise — New Handsets Support 802.11a/b/g, PBX Features & Office Usage — SpectraLink NetPhone 8000 (Processor, February 9, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 6 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- AirTight Upgrades WLAN Service & Planning Tool — SpectraGuard Planner Plots Positions For APs, Sensors (Processor magazine, December 8, 2006 — Vol.28 Issue 49 Page(s) 19 in print issue)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VOIP Easy (eWeek.com, November 14, 2006)
- The Skype Phenomenon: The mania continues (VON Magazine, January 2006) (note, you’ll need JavaScript to see this)
- Speech Recognition And VoIP: Can You Tell What I’m Saying Now? (December 2005) (note, you’ll need JavaScript to see this)
- Now You See– and Hear It: IP Conferencing & Collaboration is on the rise (VON Magazine, October 2005)
- Speed Bumps on the Wireless Superhighway: Obstacles on the Road to WiMAX (Oct 21, 2005)
- Make Room for WiMAX: Broadband Wireless Access Comes of Age — The WiMAX standard for broadband metro wireless, what it is, what it will mean, and what’s involved. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- Road Warriors: Don’t Look Now — Given the dropping price of videoconferencing, it might be time to consider using the technology in your office. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Tech Watch: Move Over, Cell Phones Wi-Fi phones are limited now, but analysts expect the technology to grow in three to five years. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Exploring the Secondary Market – The Market for Second-Hand VoIP Equipment is Still in First Gear” (VON Magazine, June 2005)
- Fax Servers: Serving Faxes More Than Ever! (InformIT, September 3, 2004) (feature article)
- VoiceOvers, VON magazine, September 2003 March 2005, e.g. VoIP isn’t Sci-Fi, it’s worse (VON Magazine, May/June 2004)
- Wireless Switches Simplify WiFi Management (Netcomm catalog, April 2005)
- Emerging Wireless Technologies to Watch: A closer look at four major wireless technologies: 802.11n, Wireless Switches, WiMAX and UMA (NetComm catalog, December 2004)
- Internet telephony is older than you think (June 30, 1997)
Web 2.0, Social Networking, Virtual Worlds, Collaboration, Etc.:
- Digital Signage Meets Social Networking (Verizon Solution Labs, March 20, 2013)
- Bassmaster hooks new fishing site with Drupal and Acquia Managed Cloud (Acquia, May 2012) (PR) (case study)
- Blink Reaction partners with Acquia to create exceptional Drupal websites (Acquia, September 2011)(PR)(case study) (Note: this was a rewrite/merge of two existing versions)
- ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud (Acquia, August 2011)(PR)(case study)
- Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs (ReadWriteWeb, July 15, 2011) (feature)
- Joomla or Drupal: Which CMS handles security best? (ITWorld.com, April 19, 2011) (feature article)
- Joomla vs. Drupal: An open source CMS shootout (ITWorld.com, February 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Gilbane Conference Boston: Web Management for the Enterprise (TechRevu, December 3, 2010) (event report)
- MainCloud Intros Content Sharing Service (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- WooEB Launches Content Platform For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 3, 2010) (news)
- Zoho Integrates Business Apps With Gmail (InformationWeek SMB, September 30, 2010) (news)
- Social Media Now: What can LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et al do for you? (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, August 2010)
- Backupify Intros Business Backup For Google Apps Data (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Does PR 2.0 mean PR 1.0 is dead? — Not at all, according to at least one PR pro (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; Web 2.0)
- Social Marketing by the Book: Marketing and Selling in a 2.0 World (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- Enterprising Web 2.0: Accept and Accommodate Popular Tools, Or Else (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 — Web 2.0 Expo, Javits Center, New York City, September 16-19, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (“slide show” show report)
- New social networks invent product twists and focuses to stay in the game (DEMO.com, August 06, 2008) (news/feature article)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- Messaging In The Enterprise — SMEs Are Putting Text Messaging & IM To Work (Processor, June 20, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 25, Page(s) 11 in print issue) (feature article)
- Show Report: Enterprise 2.0 Conference — Are Businesses Ready For Social Technology? – a quick view from the show floor, Boston, June 9-12, 2008 (TechRevu.com, June 12, 2008) (show report)
Windows (IT, admin and end-user), and other Microsoft stories/topics:
- 10 commandments of Windows security (CSO Online, April 23, 2012) (feature)
- CloudOn Review: The Best Way of Getting MS Office on an Apple iPad? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, February 17, 2012) (iPad app review)
- Comparing Desktop VMs In The Cloud (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 13, 2011)
- Cost Effective Clustering with ScaleMP (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 6, 2011)
- Metalogix Introduces SharePoint Migration Manager (InformationWeek SMB, December 15, 2010) (news)
- SMBs See Opportunity In The Cloud — says Microsoft-sponsored survey. (InformationWeek SMB, December 10, 2010) (news)
- NEC Adds Fault Tolerant Support For Microsoft Hyper-V (InformationWeek SMB, October 25, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Introduces Office 365 Cloud Apps (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Releases Small Business Server 7 Preview (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Central Desktop Adds Cloud Collaboration To Microsoft Office (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (news story)
- Paragon Go Virtual Simplifies P2V Cloning Windows Desktops — Free tool for in-place upgrades to Windows 7 (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Windows 7 migration: 8 things that are bound to happen (ITWorld.com, July 26, 2010)
- LapLink Simplifies Windows 7 Upgrade — PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant lets XP, Vista PCs move to Windows 7 without reinstalling apps, settings and data. (InformationWeek SMB, July 16, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: LapLink, PCmover, MoveNow, The Rest Of The Story (InformationWeek SMB blog, July 16, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: 6 (more) useful Windows 7 tools: Utilities so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already. (ITWorld.com, July 12, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: 6 useful Windows 7 tools Apps so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already (ITWorld.com, July 6, 2010)
- Free Windows 7 training videos (and more) — You might learn enough by watching (ITworld.com, June 16, 2010)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- With Great Power Comes More Error Messages: Windows 7 Lessons Learned From Science Fiction, Comics, and the Movies (ITExpertVoice.com, December 24, 2009) (humor)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations (as Windows 7 looms) (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
Writers & Writing
Business, tech, and other advice for journalists, PR/marketing, fictioneers, and others in the “writing game.”
- Managing PR Pitches and Releases: File or Delete? (Skyword’s Content Standard, April 11, 2014)
- Tips for Online Writing about Complex Technology (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 17, 2014)
- Writing an Article from a Press Release: What to Look for and Ignore (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 4, 2014)
- “Record Keeping and Pricing,” 2013 Writer’s Market, pages 100-109
Articles, Sorted By Publication/Site
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And other publications and sites I’ve also written for include: the Boston Herald, Business Trends Quarterly (blogging) Byte.com, CeBIT America 2003 Show Previews/Dailies, CIO.com, CMP Pipelines, Comdex and Interop Show Previews/Dailies, Computer Click Magazine, Computer Shopper, INTEROP’s ConneXions newsletter, CrossNodes.Com, CSO Online Datamation Dell TechPageOne DEMO.com, DigitalLanding, DrDobbs, eWeek, ExtremeTech, Federal Computing Week, Fortinet (blog). Government Computer News, Home Office Computing, HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, HP World, InformationWeek, InformationWeek SMB (news/blogging), InfoWorld, Internet Evolution, InformIT, Information Security, The Inquirer, Internet.com Hardware Central, IoT (Internet Of Things) Journal, Intuit QuickBase, iPass Connect, IT Business Network IT Expert Voice, Kennedy Information, LinuxPlanet, LinuxWorld.com, Mass High Tech, The Mozy Blog, MultiChannel News Newton TAB, NetBioTek.com, Network World, Network Computing, NewsForge.com, O’Reilly Network, PCMag, ReadWriteWeb, Ricoh’s Work Intelligent.ly, SDTimes, Sears ManageMyLife, Sm@rt Partner, Sun Expert, Systems Management Pipeline, T.H.E. Journal, Verizon, VMware’s Radius; The Bridge, VON Magazine, VPNHaus, Web Week, and Weebly.
Boston Globe, BetaBoston, Globe.com:
- Partners HealthCare announces new platform to help companies survey patients (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, December 9, 2014)
- Direct Tire now diagnoses your car’s troubles via video (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, November 18, 2014)
- Meetup’s Chip In button will simplify event cost-sharing (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, November 5, 2014)
- Darkroom over digital: Film photography still popular at some local schools (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, June 17, 2014)
- MIT celebrates 50 years of Project MAC, Multics, and other computer foundations (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 27, 2014)
- In the Facebook era, will printed yearbooks survive? (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 23, 2014)
- Who needs a Tricorder? Apps and add-ons put a doctor in your pocket (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 16, 2014)
- Dan Bricklin, ‘father of the spreadsheet,’ now tackles mobile challenges at Alpha Software (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 06, 2014)
- Getting ‘Agile’ and ‘Lean’ not just for software developers (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 05, 2014)
- Digital Den creator pushes for a new Boston-area computer museum (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 24, 2014) (feature article)
- How and why can mobile companies succeed? Xconomy event speakers tell all (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 21, 2014) (event report)
- How a velociraptors vs. cockroaches showdown raised $105,881 on Kickstarter — How role-playing-game writer Kevin Kulp made the crowdfunding campaign for his TimeWatch book succeed (Boston Globe’s BetaBoston.com, March 12, 2014) (feature)
Business Trends Quarterly:
These are paid blog entries. BTQ assigns the general topics (two a week, from their focus areas), and then I take it from there. Here’s their main page for my blog postings, and here are the specific posts:
- Integrating SaaS — Web and local logic can be a snap (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Watching app packets go by — Deeper monitoring can help assure performance (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, application delivery)
- Business Intelligence makes a good manufacturing management tool — Keeping the production line online and in line (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, BI)
- IT governance — compliance can bring benefits — Not just another CYA requirement (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk & Compliance)
- Can BI yield quick ROI? — How much is saving money worth? (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, BI)
- Own infrastructures must be agile — Supporting varying user needs (BTQuarterly.com, July 2009) (blog entry, application infrastructure)
- Securing email and other data in transit — Making it easy to (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, security & privacy)
- IT governance in today’s economy — Keep track of how well your IT is doing (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; governance, risk & compliance)
- Does PR 2.0 mean PR 1.0 is dead? — Not at all, according to at least one PR pro (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; Web 2.0)
- PR 2.0 continued — Think of it as an evolution in marketing (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry; Web 2.0)
- Putting your BI to work – What’s in your data warehouse? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, BI) (mentioning Blish’s City Fathers)
- Governance should be the decider – Should IT drive business or vice versa? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk and Compliance)
- Appliance-izing applications — A good job for an expert (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Managing by magic – Adding SaaS to your app development, deployment mix (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Security leads to compliance, not vice versa – Don’t just watch (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Security and Privacy)
- A shopping list of sundries: Virtualization Everywhere Means More Tools Everywhere (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, virtualization)
- All your infrastructure belongs to us (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, application infrastructure)
- Plan Strategically For The Present — Strategic Sourcing In Today’s, Ahem, Challenging Economy (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, strategic sourcing)
- Separate Thoughts About Unified Communications — What Might SaaS, Managed Services, Open Source, Google, and Skype Have In Common? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, unified communications)
- Separate Thoughts About Unified Communications – What Might SaaS, Managed Services, Open Source, Google, and Skype Have In Common? (BTQ Quarterly, April 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Dude, Where’s My VM? — Does Virtualization Let IT Change Too Fast? (BTQ Quarterly, April 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- Applications Considered as a Matrix of Varying Priorities (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Managing IT Business Services As a Service – Service-Now.com (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Putting Your Data To Work (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Business Intelligence)
- Minding the Volcano (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk & Compliance)
- Changing Passwords at the Speed of Business (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
- For Scaling, Brains May Beat Brawn (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Application Infrastructure)
- Social Marketing by the Book: Marketing and Selling in a 2.0 World (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- Enterprising Web 2.0: Accept and Accommodate Popular Tools, Or Else (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- If You Can’t Buy Less, Bargain Better (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Strategic Sourcing)
- Virtualization is Still in Development (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- SaaS Offers Timely Solutions: SaaS, PaaS Good Match For Today’s Economy (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Thin Clients: Sounds Like Terminal Spirit (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, application delivery)
- To Ensure Security, don’t make insecurity an option — Secure-by-default products simplify security (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Security, Risk & Compliance)
- Are you a Good List or a Bad List? Duplicate, Duplicate, Boil and Grumble (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Business Intelligence)
- The Blinding Curve of Virtualization” (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- Does SaaS have Critical Mass yet? (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Infra Dig and The Ripple Effect: System solutions may have inequal opposite reaction (BTQuarterly.com, November 14, 2008) (blog entry, Application Infrastructure)
- Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: People Who Need Policies and Procedures (BTQuarterly.com, November 14, 2008) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
Byte.com:
In the early 1990s, I wrote two Internet-related articles for BYTE magazine — then still in its thick-issue print heydey. (Among other things, these articles led to my becoming the first editor-in-chief of Internet World magazine, and helped pave the way for my INTERNET GUIDE FOR NEW USERS book.
From May 1999 through October 2001, I was Managing Editor and then Executive Editor of Byte.com, a web-only re-incarnation of BYTE magazine. As part of my job (along with herding Jerry Pournelle and the other writers), I wrote:
- feature articles
- From The Editor editorials.
(If you are just looking for one or two of my older Byte pieces, and can’t find them through other web searches, contact me.)
A year or so after I left, Byte.com went to a subscription basis, then to a some-free/some-free… and increasingly moribund. In 2011, BYTE.com was re-revised as a web site, and, happily, I’ve been able to do some articles for the new site.
- BYTE Interviews Jerry Pournelle (Byte.com, April 16, 2012 (interview) — A Skype audio interview with Jerry Pournelle, done at the February 2012 Boskone science fiction convention. (Jerry had to stay home, due to a virus, but we had a live audience). Here’s audio, plus transcription (done by me) of the podcast, posted in four parts, plus a short biography and bibliography. (Note, if the in-article links to the various parts aren’t working — as of October 2020 they weren’t, use these:
- Podcast Part 1: Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 2: Pournelle On ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 3: Pournelle On Ebooks (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 4: Pournelle On Using Multimedia To Sell Books (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Bibliography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Gadgets and Gizmos at C3Expo — Neat stuff seen at the end-of-June 2005 C3 Expo show in New York City, and/or at the evening PepCom and ShowStoppers multi-vendor press-and-analysts-only events. (Byte.com, July 11, 2005)
- CeBIT 2005 Report — Sights, products and doodads from the he CeBIT 2005 show in Hannover, Germany. (March 28, 2005) (You’ll need to register and be an “All Access member” to get to this page.)
- Networld+Interop Las Vegas: Behind the Scenes — David Coursey’s evening event at this year’s Networld+Interop had a (deliberately) small, but interesting, roomful of vendors and products to look at. (Byte.com, June 2004)
- My CES 2004 Show Report and Pix (January 19, 2004) — I saw a bunch of interesting stuff at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas; here’s some of it. (Sorry, you’ll need a Byte.com account to access this.)
- Report from TechXNY/PC Expo 2003 — Recent, new and upcoming products seen at this year’s PC Expo in NYC, including at the pre-show multi-vendor Digital/Mobile Focus evening event. (Posted September 22, 2003) (Sorry, you’ll need to get a Byte.com account to access this.)
- Daniel’s final Byte.com product round-up – My last article as Byte.com’s executive editor, looking at a handful of products (October 29, 2001)
- Report From NetWorld+Interop/Fall 2000) (October 19, 2000)
- Interview With Open Source Promulgator Eric Raymond (August 4, 1999)
- Helping Family And Friends Buy Their Computers, Part I and Helping Friends Buy Computers, Part II – The specs may be out of date, but the general advice should still be good. (Byte.com, August, September 1999) (BTW, MacCentral liked my article for its impartiality.)
- Orphaned Portable And Notebook Support
- Leveraging Your Tools (That you develop)
Selected “From The Editor” Editorials
As you should be able to tell, I had a lot of fun writing these…
- Technology TV Shows !Coming Soon – One of my favorite humorous editorials (September 26, 2001)
- Let’s Telnet Like It’s 1991 (September 7, 2001)
- What’s Your “Cold Dead Fingers” Pick? (August 29, 2001)
- “Good Enough” Is Good Enough (October 3, 2001)
- No Good Upgrade Goes Unpunished (August 22, 2001)
- My Annual Summer R&R Content List (“Super content lasts all summer long”) (August 17, 2001)
- Comics and Computers (July 13, 2001)
- It’s April, And ‘Total Chaos’ Is Coming (March 31, 2000)
CDW
(Note, CDW doesn’t give bylines in its catalogs, as a rule; but does in some of the magazine articles.)
- Telemedicine: Changing The Way Doctors See Patients (CDW HealthCare Catalog, pp. 28-29, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- Ready For Anything: Rugged Notebooks Get Down To Business Wherever And Whenever — Beyond “business-rugged,” today’s semi-rugged and fully-rugged notebook computers are ready to tough it out. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 01, 2008) (feature article)(case studies)
- Cutting The Cord — Ip KVM Switches Allow Remote Hardware Access From Any Location (CDW Solutions catalog, September 3, 2008) (feature article)
- Notebooks Rule — Notebook PC Convenience And Productivity Are Key Drivers To Expanding Use (CDW Solutions catalog, August 6, 2008) (feature article)
- Clustering and Mirroring — Processes offer failover and replication capabilities proving critical to business-continuity and disaster-recovery strategies (CDW NetComm catalog, June 18, 2008) (feature article)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article)
- Wiring Loma Linda — Former city CIO James Hettrick reflects on the rollout (CDW StateTech, August 14, 2007)
- Scram Spam! — E-Mail Security — E-mail-based threats are becoming more and more sophisticated. Learn how to protect servers beyond traditional firewall and antivirus solutions (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2007)
- “Cool Under Pressure” — Power, cooling and ILM help IT control storage costs (CDW Netcomm catalog, summer 2007)
- At Your Service — Learn more about software tools that help you administer and manage your servers. (CDW Netcomm catalog, winter/spring 2007) (Microsoft MOM, virtualization and more)
- Power Play — With IT-oriented power protection solutions, careful planning keeps your data center humming cost-effectively. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Remote Network Hardware Management — Tips for managing remote equipment from your desk — KVM and serial console over IP give IT more reach (CDW Netcomm catalog, March 2007)
- Designing Your Network for the Future — Here are the new products and technologies to consider as you refresh, upgrade and expand. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Keeping Remote Users Safe Makes Sense (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Bring Printing Back In-House — Affordable color laser printers are making it possible for marketing departments to offer in-house color and save signficant time and money on short-run color jobs. (CDW Solutions catalog , November 2006)
- Your 10 Biggest Network Security Worries — Learn what threats and vulnerabilities today’s small business IT professionals need to defend against, along with tips on how to fight them. (NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Switch to Speed and Simplicity — Small- to medium-sized businesses are turning to wireless switches, along with lower-cost “thin” or “right-sized” access points, to deploy and manage pervasive wireless service quickly, securely, and cost-effectively. (CDW NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Securing Teleworkers — Growing security concerns make it more important than ever that IT provide secure access for users working remotely. (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, p 33-35)
- Secure Switches for Today’s Applications — Handling Traffic for Media-Rich, Data-Intensive Applications (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, pp. 16-19)
- “Weather Or Not — Is Your IT Ready For Prolonged Power Outages? (CDW Netcomm catalog, September 2006)
- Somebody Call Security – Implement a reliable strategy to protect your mobile devices and the data they carry (CDW Netcomm catalog, August 2006)
- Is Your Web Site Press Ready? (CDW BizTech magazine, June 2006) (sidebar to the main “Working the Web” article)
- Supercharging Your Computer Room: Server virtualization delivers efficiency and flexibility (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006, p. 70)
- Keep Your Cool — If the cooling system in your data center racks and rooms isn’t adequate, your IT gear can melt down. Here are some ways you can reduce and remove excess heat (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006)
- Getting The Best Deal — Savvy Negotiating Can Stretch IT Budgets (CDW StateTech Magazine, July/August 2006)
- Spend Wisely – Getting the Most IT From Taxpayer Dollars, by Catherine Maras O’Leary, CIO, Cook County, Ill (I was the project ghostwriter) (CDW StateTech Magazine, July /August 2006)
- Securing Your Desktop Computers Today — and Tomorrow (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- Smart Switches If your network needs performance and security that your current unmanaged switches can’t provide, take a look at today’s Web-enabled smart switches. (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- Savvy Server Consolidation Many companies are consolidating servers with blades and rack mounts to improve performance and staff efficiency –as well as their budgets. (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006)
- Notebook Security ‘In the Wild’ — Securing data, network activity, and physical systems of your company’s notebooks when out-of-office (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006, pp 74-77)
- Power Play: Protect your essential IT gear from damaging power failures with the right UPS (CDW BizTech magazine, March 2006)
- Multifunction Printers for Multitasking Staffs Lower prices, enhanced functionality and productivity features make today’s multifunction printers more value-filled than ever. (CDW Solutions, February 2006)
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Technology — D2D2T combines both disk and tape as backup media, for solutions that offer IT the best mix of speed, flexibility, convenience and cost-effectiveness. (CDW Solutions, January 2006)
- E-Mail Security: IBM Express managed services help fill the envelope (CDW NetComm catalog, January 2006, pp. 26-29)
- “Keeping A Close Watch” — Theft, fire, overheating or water damage are as much realities as viruses, spyware and network intrusions. IP video cameras, along with locks and other devices help ensure physical security for your site and its equipment. (CDW Netcomm catalog, December 2005, p 30-33)
- Out-of-the-Box ROI: Data at Hand Flash drives make gigabytes of data available at your fingertips on the cheap (CDW BizTech Magazine, November 2005)
- Laser Multi-Function Printers: Ready For Prime Time — Government/education market version of my October 2005 CDW Solutions article (CDW-G Solutions, November 2005)
- Security Best Practices: Advice From IT Experts — Seeking Solutions That Fit Circumstances (CDW NetComm catalog, Nov 2005)
- Laser Multi-Function Printers: Ready For Prime Time (CDW Solutions catalog, October 2005)
- Start-to-Finish: System Refresh (I did some editing and added text to an existing mss.) In addition to system upgrades, an established three- to five-year refresh cycle will help improve overall system performance and lengthen the life of your hardware. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 2005)
- Power Failure Insurance Standby, line-interactive and online dual-conversion UPSs can play a role in keeping equipment up when the power goes down. (CDW Solutions catalog, September 2005)
- Disk Defragging for Maximum Performance Research shows that regular disk defragmentation is a good way to glean an extra ounce of prevention from your network maintenance routine. (CDW Solutions, September, 2005)
- Gateway-Level Security Stopping network nuisances at the gateway level — before potential threats enter the network — greatly reduces the cost and effort of fighting them. (CDW NetComm catalog, October 2005)
- Power Protection: Don’t Let Those Volts Cause Jolts — A look at the non-UPS power protection products that can help protect your networks and computers. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- Make Room for WiMAX: Broadband Wireless Access Comes of Age — The WiMAX standard for broadband metro wireless, what it is, what it will mean, and what’s involved. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- Road Warriors: Don’t Look Now — Given the dropping price of videoconferencing, it might be time to consider using the technology in your office. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Tech Watch: Move Over, Cell Phones Wi-Fi phones are limited now, but analysts expect the technology to grow in three to five years. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Tunnel Vision: SSL VPNs Simplify Secure Mobile Access (CDW Fed Tech magazine, August 2005)
- Supercharge Your NAS with iSCSI HP’s NAS products can reduce the cost and complexity of providing and managing storage, while simplifying your backup and archiving processes. (CDW NetComm catalog, August 2005)
- A New Spin for Faster Storage and Backup While tape continues to play a key role in data backup and archiving, disk-to-disk (D2D) can help reduce storage costs and improve backup/restore times (CDW NetComm catalog, August 2005)
- Wanted: Easy, Affordable E-mail Archiving — The Sony AIT Intradyn solution eases the strain and cost of e-mail retrieval and legislation compliance. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- Navigating the Storage Maze — Whether it’s looking at the growth path for your current solution or your next one, there are several ways your business can leverage its NAS investment. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- How Computers Work (and why they crash) — How I.T. Works: Looking Inside the Box (CDW-G EdTech magazine, Summer 2005)
- Forever Young — To take advantage of PC innovation and keep pace with the competition, companies have operated on a three-year tech-refresh cycle. (NOTE: I didn’t do this from scratch, I did rewriting plus additional text.) (CDW Solutions catalog, May 2005)
- Doing More With Less — CDW’s Professional Services (rewrite and expansion based on their initial draft) – CDW Technology Services, pp 62-63, Spring 2005
- New Devices Require New Solutions Nokia’s One Business Server is one solution IT departments can consider to ensure secure remote access for increasingly mobile employees (CDW NetComm catalog, June 2005)
- Giving Spyware the Boot (CDW Netcomm catalog, April 2005)
- Wireless Switches Simplify WiFi Management (CDW Netcomm catalog, April 2005)
- SSL VPNs — The simple, secure remote-access option for travelers, teleworkers, customers and others (NetComm catalog, February 2005)
- Getting the Bigger Picture: IP video monitoring applications provide enhanced benefits for your physical security and networking needs (CDW NetComm catalog, January 2005)
- iAMT – A Giant Step Forward — With Intel’s Active Management Technology, IT staffers will be able to remotely monitor and manage networked computers in any state?even when they’re off or broken. (CDW NetComm catalog, January 2005)
- Emerging Wireless Technologies to Watch: A closer look at four major wireless technologies: 802.11n, Wireless Switches, WiMAX and UMA (CDW NetComm catalog, December 2004)
- Power over Ethernet: CDW offers solutions to enhance efficiency and increase performance (CDW Solutions catalog, October 2004)
- Organize, Secure and Optimize Your LAN Segments with Layer 3 Switching — With the increasing availability of affordable solutions, it’s a good time for small- to medium-sized businesses to make the switch to the next level. (CDW Solutions catalog, September 2004)
- In Transition? Use CDW’s New Location Services Planning to set up a new office or move to a new location? (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2005)
- “Outgrown your current storage, file server, backup solution? Maybe it’s TIME FOR A NAS?” (CDW NetComm catalog)
- The Future Is Bright: 64-bit computing with AMD’s Opteron — (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2004, pages 69-73)
- Emerging Technologies, Part II — 64-bit computing, iSCSi, Open Source and web services (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2004, pages 52-55.)
- Fortify Your Defense – Network Intrusion and Prevention Systems (NIDS, NIPS) help secure your networks and computers. CDW NetComm catalog, March 2004, pages 66-69.
- Emerging Technologies, Part I — A look at some of the technologies in or emerging from the labs: 3G Wireless Phone Services, 10 GB Ethernet, MRAM and FRAM, and Fibre Channel (CDW NetComm catalog, February 2004)
- “REIT Counts on CDW for Hardware, Software and Network Cabling Services” (CDW, January 2004) — Case study on how Lillibridge Healthcare Real Estate Trust works through CDW for third-party network cabling services (here, Black Box).
- “Keeping Current: Acessories, Cabling and Power,” in CDW’s PremierPartner Reference Guide, 2004, pages 91-94.
- Mac Makes Music Listening A Pleasure (CDW/MacWareHouse, December 2003) — Tips and products to make the musical most of your Mac desktop or notebook computer.
- “Voice Over Wi-Fi” (CDW NetComm catalog, October 2003) – What it is, what it’s good for, who’s selling it, who’s using it.
- “WLAN Access Points and Authentication” (CDW NetComm catalog, July 2003) — Key things to do in setting up WLANs securely.
- Achieve Balance: Helping You Get the Most Out of Your Agency’s IT Budget (CDW G Solutions catalogs, “Federal” and “State and Local Government” versions, September 2003)
- “Aligning IT With Business Strategies” (CDW NetComm Solutions catalog)
- “Keep Current With A Fully Charged UPS — Enterprise-level software monitors battery charges and issues alerts” (CDW NetComm Solutions catalog, Feb/Mar 2003) (Not online yet)
CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily, inc. Preview Edition:
CeBIT America 2003 Show Daily (Preview and at-show edition): CeBIT is best known for their show in Hannover, Germany which makes even the Vegas Comdex show looks small and manageable. Their first first conference foray in the U.S. was in June 2003; I did ten pieces for the Show Daily (print and online editions):
- “Show In A Nutshell” Preview At Media/Analyst Briefing
- Enterprise Wireless Forum Offers Why’s and How-To’s of Enterprise WLAN, Mobile Deployment
- 802.11, Tablet PCs In Spotlight At 2 CeBIT America Sessions — Chris De Herrera talks about his WiFi and Tablet PC session in the CeBIT America 2003 Enterprise Wireless Forum (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 18, 2003)
- Enterprises Turning To Portals, Says Forrester’s Ramos — Analyst Laura Ramos talks about portals and her upcoming CeBIT America 2003 session. (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 18, 2003)
- Clear-Eyed Appraisal of Linux In The Enterprise At CeBIT America 2003 (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 19, 2003)
- Motorola Showcases Mobile Productivity Apps (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 19, 2003)
- Know Your Enemy: Honeypots and Other Hacker-Tracking Tools (CeBIT America News Preview Edition, June 19, 2003) plus several stories that didn’t get online:
- “PalmSource’s Nagel to Showcase Strategies for Secure Mobile Enterprises”
- “Making Most of Visit to Big Apple”
- Interview with Xerox executive Rob Stewart, Vice President of Worldwide Color Marketing, Xerox Office Group
CIO Magazine
- How Virtualization Improves Software Development (CIO.com, February 11, 2009) (feature article)
- What Science Fiction Writers Have Learned About Predicting The Future of Technology — Science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross look back at looking forward. (CIO.com, December 16, 2008) (feature article/interviews)This article was picked up by other IDG publications, including:
- ComputerWorld, as “Sci-Fi: What’s it really about? Four famous authors reflect on their hits, their misses and why they write science fiction (December 17, 2008)
- InfoWorld, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future — Science fiction isn’t (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren’t trying to predict it.” (December 16, 2008)
- and “mobilized” in mobile.cio.com, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future” (December 16, 2008)
- and in the New Zealand CIO.com site, as “The men and women who saw tomorrow” (December 18 2008)
- and posted again in CIO.com (December 16, 2008)plus blog notes in:
- Rob Sawyer’s blog (Rob even found the article and posted this up before I let him know the article was up)
- the “blink” section (on the left) of Locus Online (for non-science-fiction fans: Locus Magazine is covers “news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines.”)
- Ulmekirjanikud ja tulevikuennustamine (12/17/08)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- Case Study: How One Company Broke Down Silos and Improved Application Integration — Qualcomm’s move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (CIO.com, September 15, 2008) (case study)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- Shut Up and Drive: Congress Passes Nationwide Law to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving (CIO.com, April 01, 2008) (humor – see publication date)
- Eight Reasons NOT to Use Linux in the Enterprise (CIO.com, July 31, 2007)
- Protect Or Serve (CIO/WebMaster, April 1997)
CMP Pipelines:
As one of my free-lance gigs, I was Editor of CMP’s Systems Management Pipeline site from May 2004 (pre-launch) through the end of July 2004. (Most of the Pipeline editors, including myself, were/are freelancers doing it as a slightly-more-than-halftime gig.)
Being a Pipeline editor included writing news stories from press release, doing “blog” editorials, assigning some freelance pieces, doing the online content production/management, and sundry other tasks.
I won’t bother linking to the sundry news releases I really edited rather than wrote, but here’s some of the features, “blog” editorials and news stories I did.
This list also includes articles I wrote as a freelance writer for the Systems Management Pipeline and other Pipeline sites
Note, many these and other feature/news articles I did were also “hoovered” — picked up and re-used by CMP’s TechWeb News and by other CMP Pipeline sites including the Advanced IP Pipeline, Desktop Pipeline, Developer Pipeline, Enterprise Applications Pipeline, IT Utility Pipeline, Linux Pipeline, Mobile Pipeline, Networking Pipeline, Security Pipeline, Server Pipeline, Small Business Pipeline, Storage Pipeline, Web Services Pipeline, and also CMP’s CommWeb. (The Systems Management Pipeline similarly repurposed many from these Pipelines and other CMP TechWeb sites.)
- Progress Is The Product At TechEd — Report from the TechEd 2006 Show Floor (CMP Desktop Pipeline, June 15, 2006)
- Fuel Cells For Mobile Users Are Coming, Sort Of — Don’t expect micro methanol-based fuel cells soon, but other chemistries and technological approaches are on the way, or even here already. (CMP Desktop Pipeline, May 2, 2006; also picked up by InformationWeek, SmallBusinessPipeline, and Network Computing)
- USB Flash Memory RAM Sticks Doing More In Less Space (CMP Small Business Pipeline, September 8, 2004) — An update on what Iomega, Lexar, M-Systems, SanDisk and other USB flash RAM drive vendors are doing in terms of capacity increases and price drops, as well as differentiating with security, software and other features.
- Power over Ethernet Reduces Cabling Costs And Improves Administration (August 26, 2004)
- Will Server Virtualization Change Your Provisioning? — topical overview of how VMware, etc. may change IT (June 2004)
- IE, Robot – Editorial Blog: Would Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics protect our networks? (June 29, 2004)
- The State of IT of the State — Editorial Blog: A dot-Gov IT’s CEO’s lot is not always a easy one, compared to corporate IT (July 27, 2004)
- Zero G, IBM, InstallShield Spec Will Improve Enterprise Installs XML schema submitted to W3C for install, configure authoring standard (July 19, 2004)
- Zero G’s SolutionArchitect Will Better Enterprise Software Deployment — Easier, more flexible installs use proposed Solution Installation packaging standard (July 19, 2004)
- What Causes Uptime? — Editorial Blog: Given how many known downtime causes we know, can IT prioritize preventative and ameliorative plans? (July 20, 2004)
- Great Responsibility Doesn’t Always Come With Great (Computer) Power Editorial Blog: As Spider-Man, Peter Parker learned that great power comes with great responsibility… but not all computer owners exercise it (June 30, 2004)
- Novell ZENworks 6.5 Adds Linux, Patch Management (June 30, 2004)
- Configuresoft Patches Windows Via S-HTTP Security Update Manager 2.5 will work through firewalls more easily (June 29, 2004)
- VMware Adds Support for 64-Bit “Host” OSs — VMs can take advantage of 64-bit hardware (June 22, 2004)
- Frank and Lillian Gilbreth: Patron Saints for Systems Management? Editorial Blog: These time and motion study pioneers embodied IT admin best practices (June 21, 2004)
- UXComm’s AutonomIQ Promises Better Blade Management — See it in core of multi-vendor ATCA demo at SuperComm 2004 (June 18, 2004)
- Harry Newton’s Telecom Dictionary Turns 20 — New edition adds 400+ more terms, updates others (June 10, 2004)
- PhatNet Monitors, Analyzes LANs, WLANs, WANs Using Pocket PCs — New handheld traffic decoder aids network admins, WLAN debuggers (June 8, 2004
- What Matters Is IT Management — Editorial Blog: The “IT doesn’t matter” debate of the past year ignores, among other realities, the cost of not managing information technology. (June 1, 2004)
Comdex and Interop Show Previews, Dailies:
- IT spending: A look at the year ahead — Buy or wait? Is it time to upgrade those desktops, notebooks, and servers? (Comdex Fall 2003 Show Daily)
- National Semiconductor CEO Brian Halla claims to have formula for semicon industry recovery date in the Comdex 2002 Fall Show Preview (November 2002)
- Science Fiction Authors Tap into Technology Prediction-Making Preview of super-session with Greg Bear, Larry Niven, and Jerry Pournelle (November 2000)
- Interop Community Recalls 15 Years of NetWorld+Interop
- An Attendee’s Guide to Speaking to the Press
- Do COMDEX Right! Listen to the Pros Advice and tips on surviving Comdex/Fall productively, from past attendees (Fall 2000)
Computer Shopper:
- 19 of the 100 entries in Computer Shopper’s The Top 100 Tech Products of 2012 list, for Shopper’s
- Special Report: Top 100 Products of 2012: Best Overall Products & Technologies (Computer Shopper, February 20, 2013)(Computer Shopper made the selections, I wrote the summaries for these entries, based on the original reviews in Computer Shopper and PCMag.com):
- Best Budget Big-Screen Laptop Samsung Series 7 Chronos 17.3-Inch
- Best Midsize Laptop: Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 481TG-6814
- Best Business Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad T430s
- Best Budget Laptop: Acer Aspire V5-471-6569
- Best Mainstream Desktop: Dell XPS 8500
- Best Touch-Screen PC: Sony VAIO Tap 20
- Best Business Desktop: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny
- Best Cost-No-Object Desktop:
- Best Entertainment/TV-Centric PC: Sony VAIO L Series SVL24114FXB
- Best Color Laser/Laser-Class AIO Printer: Samsung CLX-6260FW Color Multifunction Printer
- Best Photo Printer: HP Photosmart 7510
- Best Budget E-Reader (Honorable Mention):
- Best E-Reader: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (Wi-Fi)
- Best Color Tablet for Reading” Amazon Kindle Fire HD (7-Inch, Wi-Fi)
- Best Tablet Accessory: Logitech K810 Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard
- Best Backup Drive (Desktop or Portable): Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
- Best External Hard Drive:
- Best External Portable Hard Drive: ADATA DashDrive Elite HE720
- Best “Phablet” (Large-Format Smartphone): Samsung Galaxy Note II
- Review: Canon Selphy CP800 portable photo printer (Computer Shopper, March 2011) (hardware review)
ComputerWorld:
- Pocketable productivity: 5 folding keyboards for your smartphone (ComputerWorld, April 10, 2015) (review/roundup)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- 9 museums that want your legacy tech (ComputerWorld, October 3, 2013) (Slashdotted!)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra (ComputerWorld, February 1, 2012) (review)Also posted to PC Advisor
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 gives you hands-off computing (ComputerWorld.com, March 25, 2010) (software review)
- Review: 5 USB turntables convert LPs to MP3s – Review of five USB turntables and associated software and gear, plus some tips (ComputerWorld, August 07, 2009) (review) (feature) This story was also run on other IDG sites including:
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy — Power plug meters can measure how much you’re spending — even when you think your devices are turned off. (ComputerWorld, August 26, 2008)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Interview with Ray Kurzweil, as author of “The Age of Spiritual Machines” (January 18, 1999)
- Industrial strength Linux — Three Linux users speak about its benefits (November 30, 1998)
- Just one more click… — Web addiction: myth or menace? (July 8, 1996)
- “…Not a computer was stirring, not even a mouse,” ComputerWorld, December 22, 1986 (the first of my humorous ‘Pops’ Kringle chronicles)
Computer Click Magazine
- Be Prepared — A Paranoid’s Guide to Computer Ownership (October, 2002) — My summary of free, cheap and affordable — and easy — steps anybody can (and should!) do to protect their computer, and the data on it. E.g. virus scanners, UPSs, backups, and more. Nothing earthshattering here; this is meant as an accessible piece for the new computer owner/user. Note, here’s another good article on the subject, with additional advice — written for VARs, but also good for end users: Twelve Steps to PC Hardening, by A. Lizard (pseudonym for a San Francisco based Internet consultant.)
- How To Pay For Things — Safely — On The Web (November 2002) — My first “Care & Feeding” column in this new magazine.
INTEROP’s ConneXions newsletter:
ConneXions was a monthly newsletter from the Interop Company (which did the INTEROP events), published from 1987-1996.
I was arguably one of the few “civilians” — people not part of any IETF working groups or committees, nor working for vendors involved in Internet-related projects — who wrote for ConneXions. The first piece I wrote for them, “The ARPAnet is Twenty” (listed at the bottom here), took advantage of my having been working at BBN for the previous near-six years, and helped pave the way for my Internet book.
All issues of ConneXions have been archived online, as PDFs, so I’ve put the links to the issue, rather than article name.
- “INTEROP 92 Spring Proves a Capital Idea” — Interop in Washington, D.C. (ConneXions, Volume 6, No. 7, July 1992, page 15) (show report)
- “‘Dear Cliff’: A Report from INTEROP 91 Fall” (ConneXions, Volume 5, No. 12, December 1991, page 9) (show report)
- Commercial IP providers establish CIX gateway (ConneXions, Volume 5, No. 7, July 1991, page 20) (news)
- RFC 1174 Summary (ConneXions, Volume 5, No. 1, January 1991, page 30)
- Press Here For The Internet (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 11, November 1990, page 24) (PR article)
- INTEROP 90 Wrap-Up (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 11, November 1990, page 13) (show report)
- “Standards For Interior Gateway Routing Protocols – They’re Emerging But Still Under Debate And Development” (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 7, July 1990, page 2) (technology feature article)
- Interview with Steve Kent on Internet Security (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 2, February 1990, page 2) (interview)
- The Trusted Mail System (ConneXions, Volume 4, No. 2, February 1990) (technology news)
- INTEROP 89 Report (ConneXions, Volume 3, No. 11, November 1989, page 10) (show report)
- “The ARPANET is Twenty: What We Have Learned and The Fun We Had,” including “Interview with Vint Cerf” and “Quotes from some of the players” (I had a lot of fun doing this whole article, to say the least!) (ConneXions, Volume 3, No. 10, October 1989, p2) (feature article) (interviews)
Content Standard:
(Skyword’s site for writers)
- Managing PR Pitches and Releases: File or Delete? (Skyword’s Content Standard, April 11, 2014)
- Tips for Online Writing about Complex Technology (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 17, 2014)
- Writing an Article from a Press Release: What to Look for and Ignore (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 4, 2014)
CrossNodes.Com:
- Certifications: Worth It or Not? — “Are certifications like MCSE, CNA, CCIE or A+ worth it — from the perspective of network managers and other IT management in hiring and retaining qualified network staff?” (March 4, 2002)
CSO Online
- 10 commandments of Windows security (CSO Online, April 23, 2012) (feature)
DEMO.com:
- New social networks invent product twists and focuses to stay in the game (DEMO.com, August 06, 2008) (news/feature article)
Datamation
- Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company (Datamation, February 8, 2019)
Dell TechPageOne:
- Does your ancient computer belong in a museum? (Dell TechPageOne, September 27 2014) (feature article)
DigitalLanding:
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007)
Dr. Dobb’s:
- Digital Life Conference: A Report — Podcast report of Digital Life show in New York City, October 2005 (Dr. Dobbs, MP3 audio, 4:47 mins)
eWeek:
Articles I’m doing for eWeek currently include product reviews & write-ups, and enterprise printer news stories (many of which have also been posted in eWeek’s ChannelInsider area), and I’ve written other news and feature articles for eWeek.
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (hardware review)
- CardScan Grabs Business Cards — Review of CardScan Executive mobile USB-powered business card scanner (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008) (product review)
- APC, mFuel External Batteries Prolong Notebook Computing — brief captioned slide-show on external batteries for notebooks (eWeek, October 21, 2007) (product review)
- 15 Business Diamonds in the Consumer Electronics Rough — Here’s 15 of the nifty business-worthy products I spotted at ZD’s September 2007 Digital Life Expo in New York City, and the associated ShowStoppers multi-vendor evening press event (and Pepcom’s “Holiday Spectacular” a week earlier) (eWeek, October 5, 2007) (new product write-ups/photos)
- Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket? – Review: Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (eWeek, September 7, 2007)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007)
- Data Deposit Box Stores Data Safely Off-Site Review: Online storage service Data Deposit Box patches the gaps in your data storage by taking data safely off-site. (eWeek.com, July 5, 2007)
- Post-Digital Life Expo 2006 product reviews/write-ups, in eWeek New Products blog and/or eWeek Product Reviews:I did nearly a dozen and a half short write-ups — including quick hands-on trials where possible (not in-depth testing), of a bunch of products I saw at the October 2006 Digital Life Expo at New York City’s Javits Center (and/or at the associated evening multi-vendor events by Pepcom and ShowStoppers. Four of these appeared first during November, on eWeek, and included some pictures and/or screen shots. In mid-December 2006, eWeek started up a New Products blog, and all the write-ups are there (including blog versions of the four that had already been posted):
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VOIP Easy (eWeek.com, November 14, 2006)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef – A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:07 PM/EST)
- MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online – Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS – Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings 0 Patented control lets you click through the casing (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:59 PM/EST )
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- CyberDefender Launches Free Early Detection Center Suite – Everything-But-Firewall PC Protection, Still In Beta (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:49 PM/EST)
- Diagnose Why Your Car’s “Check Engine” Light Is On – A Useful Device — If It Works (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:47 PM/EST)
- Become Strives To Improve On-Line Shopping – Also Finds Pre/Post-Purchase Research Info (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:45 PM/EST)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
Enterprise Printer News Stories:
- Jamcracker Expedites SAAS — XML-based Jamcracker Integration Toolkit reduces the time it takes to flip the “SAAS switch.” (eWeek Mid-Market, April 14, 2008) (news)
- SEH Print Server Serves Up Energy Savings (eWeek.com, April 11, 2008)
- Vendors Stream to Greener Printing — Samsung, HP up the green levels of printer manufacture, use and end-of-life (eWeek, March 14, 2008) (news story)
- Faster Canon Printers Offer More Features for Less Money — Four new Canon imageCLASS black-and-white laser MFPs for small and home offices (eWeek MidMarket, March 14, 2008) (news story) (and this shorter version, Faster Canon Multifunction Printers Help Cut Costs (eWeek, March 14, 2008)
- Kodak Aims Digital Media Products at Midmarket — Kodak announcements at AIIM 2008 show (eWeek, March 12, 2008) (news story), and this shorter version, (eWeek MidMarket, March 13, 2008)
- AIIM/OnDemand 2008 Report — Slide Show: The Top SMB-Focused Printing Tech from AIIM (eWeek MidMarket, March 8, 2008)
- Lexmark Proving Its Chops in Health Care – MFPs and apps for medical offices (eWeek, February 29, 2008) (news story)
- eCopy Scans Directly To Business Applications (eWeek, February 15, 2008) (news article)
- Canon Adds Equitrac Tracking to imageRUNNER Devices (eWeek, February 14, 2008) (news article)
- Scan and Print Software Simplified — Xerox SMARTdocument Travel Express workgroup software (eWeek, February 11, 2008) (news article)
- Thick Is In — New Océ TCS4XT thick-original large-format scanner) — (eWeek, February 08, 2008) (news article)
- Ricoh Builds Printer HotSpots on the Road — new color, monochrome HotSpot laser printers let users with Internet-enabled notebooks, cell phones, handheld users print directly, no drivers required. (eWeek, January 16, 2008) (news article)
- Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz (eWeek.com, December 14, 2007) (news article)
- Konica Minolta Latest Color Laser Printer Packs Features — new bizhub C353P printer (eWeek.com, December 13, 2007) (news article)
- Kyocera Hopes Cost Per-Page and Partners Drive Growth (eWeek, December 7, 2007) (news article)
- Print Market Tackles Sustainability, Environmental Concerns — InfoPrint, Lexmark lead initiatives (eWEEK.com, December 06, 2007) (news article)
- Can You Print Me Now? — Networked printers easier to share, says Lexmark (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Pick the Proper Printer — For small business, it’s a bottom-line impact (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Ricoh Adds Rights Management to ScanRouter (eWeek.com, November 28, 2007) (news article)
- HP Unveils Imaging, Print Solutions – New vertical solutions for identify document issuers, European brokerages (eWeek.com, November 16, 2007) (news article)
- Keep Up With Proofing — Advice from Kodak: Advances in technology are improving the methods for proofing pages and creating new uses. (eWeek.com, November 15, 2007 (news article)
- Dell Printers Citrix-Certified — Desktop and workgroup models are guaranteed to work with Presentation Server. (eWeek.com, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Technology Driving Ink Sales — Kodak Research Labs on high-end inkjet printers (eWeek, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Health Workers Addicted to Black and White Unlike most other verticals, medical SMBs prioritize speed and features (eWeek.com, November 8, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Reports InfoPrint as Subsidiary Is Succeeding (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Updates 3 imageRUNNER MFPs to Maintain No. 1 Market Spot (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Kyocera Adds MFPs for SMBs or Workgroups (eWeek, October 26, 2007) (news article)
- Stand and Print Securely – Ricoh offers proximity-card login for secure printjob access (eWeek, October 24, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Speeds Up Scanning — New ScanFront systems (eWeek, October 19, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Demos ‘Intelligent Redaction’ (eWeek, October 17, 2007) (news article). Summary and link to eWeek.com story appeared in PCMag.com, October 17, 2007; and ExtremeTech, October 17, 2007),
- Solid-Ink Print Levels the Color, Black-And-White Price Barrier — Xerox promises color printing at a black-and-white price with solid-ink sticks. (eWeek, September 24, 2007) appeared in eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 24, 2007)
- Ricoh Middleware Links Documents to Sage Accounting (eWeek, September 19, 2007) (news story)
- Lexmark Touts Advantages of Wireless Printing — Lexmark introduces WiFi-enabled inkjet printers and all-in-one devices for under $300. (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek, September 6, 2007)
- Xerox Office Services 4.2 to Manage Print Inventory and TCO eWeek, August 9, 2007)
- Kodak Looks to Ease Project Collaboration Version 3.0 of Kodak’s Insite Creative Workflow System (eWeek, August 8, 2007)
- New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek, August 8, 2007) (news story)
also appeared as: New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek’s Channel Insider, 08-AUG-2007) and New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) - InfoPrint Adds 4 Workgroup Color Printers, MFPs (eWeek.com, July 27, 2007
- Ricoh Intros Wide-Format Printers for CAD, Technical Renderings (eWeek, July 27, 2007)
Other News & Feature Articles:
- Photo Report From Pepcom Holiday Spectacular — Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers — Pepcom evening multi-vendor press event, New York City, September 18, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (show report)
- Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 — Web 2.0 Expo, Javits Center, New York City, September 16-19, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (“slide show” show report)
- Penryn Core Will Speed Notebooks, Stretch Battery Life — Intel’s New CPU Tech Brings Performance Benefits (eWeek Mid-Market, May 08, 2008) (news article)
- Running Only on Open-Source Software — Profile of Smartleaf, a small financial services company running almost entirely on Open Source (MidMarket.eWeek.com, April 06, 2008)
- Wi-Fi Predators Attack Hot Spots Businesses Don`t Know They Have — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 31, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com, Businesses Leave Wi-Fi Hot Spots Unprotected - Users Still Worst Enemy to Endpoint Security — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 28, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com) - Storage, Input, Other End-User Gadgets Make CeBIT Noise — Products for the desk, mobile, SOHO and home end-user were in abundance at CeBIT 2005 (March 17, 2005)
- Wi-Fi, VOIP, Mobility in the Air at CeBIT — Voice over IP, 802.11 Wi-Fi, mobile phones and devices, and combinations of the three have had a strong presence at CeBIT. (March 16, 2005)
- Negroponte Defends Merits of $100 Notebook Project (eWeek, March 10, 2005)
- CeBIT 2005: Double Comdex and Keep Walking (March 9, 2005)
- Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization — IBM’s recently-released rHype Hypervisor code, Intel’s “Vanderpool” technology, and other events are propelling system virtualization (March 4, 2005)
- FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic — Vonage complaint leads to “no port blocking” ruling (March 4, 2005)
ExtremeTech:
- Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (ExtremeTech.com, September 25, 2007) (news story) (originally appeared in eWeek.com)
- FCC Says Telco Must Allow VOIP Traffic (ExtremeTech, March, 2005) (news story) (Originally appeared in eWeek.com)
Home Office Computing
- Roundup: KVM Switches and Remote-Access Apps (IEEE Spectrum, September 27, 2013)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- Data Deposit Box Stores Data Safely Off-Site Review: Online storage service Data Deposit Box patches the gaps in your data storage by taking data safely off-site. (eWeek.com, July 5, 2007)
- Start the presses – creating an e-newsletter and an online marketing campaign – Technology Tutorial – Tutorial — An e-newsletter is one of the most powerful direct marketing tools for home-based businesses. (October 1, 1998)
- Under construction: information superhighway – The Internet will connect you with business colleagues around the world – for as little as $1 an hour – includes (August 1, 1993)
- Fax the word out fast; but don’t send unsolicited advertising material or you could get sued — Sending facsimile transmissions is a fast an inexpensive method of advertising a service or product. (May 1, 1993)
- The well-organized marketer: to become more productive, try these tech tips and tricks – Sales & Marketing tips (March 1, 1993)
- Great ways to turn prospects into sales – includes related article on follow-up tips (June 1, 1992)
- Easy rider: a restless computer consultant takes his business and office on the road – a profile of high-tech bicyclist and computer consultant Steve Roberts (October 1, 1992)
- How to select the best marketing mix: pros, cons, and tips for telling people about your business (November 1, 1991)
- The essential way to set your fees: a step-by-step guide to calculating what you must charge – marketing your services – An early version of my How to Set Prices for Your Services” article. (October 1, 1991)
- Keeping your computer safe for business – surge suppressors and backup power supplies protect data and equipment (July 1, 1991)
- Make the most of trade shows — here’s how to shake the right hands and win clients while cruising the trade-show floor. (May 1, 1991)
- 10 Dollars can put you in business – business cards October 1, 1990)
HP World:
- Treating Storage as a Utility can Ease Management, Reduce Administrative Overhead — Storage virtualization, an overview/intro (April 4, 2002)
IEEE:
- Careers Profile: The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More — Brij Singh is modernizing farm and industrial vehicles (IEEE Spectrum: posted online August 22, 2023; print: September 2023, pp. 21-22)
- Careers Profile: From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal’s Journey – At Black Opal Ventures, she’s working to diversify venture capital (IEEE Spectrum, May 11, 2023)
- Careers Profile: This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology: Jonathan L. Zittrain is also involved in tech policy (IEEE Spectrum: web version: April 21, 2023; print edition, May 2023 pages 21-23)
- Careers Profile: Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis: The Purdue professor has been fighting cybersecurity threats for decades (IEEE Spectrum: web version, February 16, 2023)
- Careers Profile: Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic: He developed the first high-speed router 40 years ago (IEEE Spectrum: web version: October 21, 2022)
- Careers Profile: Melanie Olsen — Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters: Australia’s ReefWorks brings autonomous marine systems out of the lab (IEEE Spectrum, September 15, 2022)
- Careers Profile, Magdalene Maluta, ARC Ride Global — Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya: This engineer keeps hundreds of electric bikes, scooters, and rickshaws on the road (IEEE Spectrum, August 18, 2022) (web version)
- This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans: The lightweight solar-powered drone operates nonstop for months (IEEE Spectrum: online, July 15, 2022) — Careers profile on Julie Angus, Open Ocean Robotics
- This VC Is Betting Big on Flying Taxis and Scooters: Adam Grosser says the transportation sector is ripe for investment (IEEE Spectrum: online, June 14, 2022)
- Testing Products for Consumer Reports: Maria Rerecich checks that they work as claimed (IEEE Spectrum — online, May 13, 2022; page 19, June 2022 print issue)
- Careers: Yung-Hsiang Lu — How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research (IEEE Spectrum.com – online: April 15, 2022; print edition, May 2022, page 17)
- The Integrated Designer: Magaly Sandoval-Pichardo’s vast range of experience lets her make the smallest circuits (IEEE Spectrum, March 22, 2022 online; page 17 April 2022 print edition)
- Career Profile: Becoming a Leader at NASA: Marcellus Proctor oversees major space projects (IEEE Spectrum, October 19, 2021)
- Career Profile: Safety at Scale: GM’s Ankur Ganguli: Interdisciplinary experience is the key to her automotive career (IEEE Spectrum, August 24, 2021)
- Career Profile: From Spacecraft to Sensor Fusion Iverson Bell leveraged opportunities and risks to create a flexible skill set (IEEE Spectrum, July 2021)
- Career Profile: Engineer in Secret — Sandia’s Dennisa Thomas ensures systems work as intended (IEEE Spectrum, posted June 22,2021); and as Engineering Secrets (Spectrum magazine, July 2021, page 19)
- Career Profile: S.B. Divya: How This EE Combines Engineering With Writing Some of the Best Sci-Fi Around IEEE Spectrum, (online) May 21, 2021 (online); page 19, June 2021 issue; and via IEEE’s viewer
- Career Profile: Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better (IEEE Spectrum, April 28, 2021)
- Career Profile: Privacy Entrepreneur Adrian Gropper (IEEE Spectrum, posted March 26, 2021); also online via nxtbook.com; and hardcopy, IEEE Spectrum, April 2021 issue, page 17)
- Career Profile: Jeannette Plante: Saving NASA Missions Before They Go Wrong (IEEE Spectrum, March 2021, page 17)
- Career Profile: Carl Howe – Completely Changing Careers—and Still Coding (IEEE Spectrum, January 26, 2021)
- Career Profile: Simone Campanoni Creating Better Software Compilers For Faster Computing (IEEE Spectrum, January 2021 — page 15 in the print edition)
- Career Profile: When User Experience Means Life or Death?: Information architect Merryl Gross designs UX that averts calamities (IEEE Spectrum.com, October 21, 2020; IEEE Spectrum November 2020 issue)
- How to Wrangle Your Digital Pictures on the Cheap — Free and low-cost tools for organizing large batches of images (IEEE Spectrum, January 27, 2015) (feature)
- How To Crowdfund Your Hardware Startup (IEEE Spectrum, December 20, 2014) (feature)
- Choosing Remote-Collaboration Software: Hardware development requires more than general-purpose tools (IEEE Spectrum, September 22, 2014)
- Roundup: KVM Switches and Remote-Access Apps (IEEE Spectrum, September 27, 2013)
- Spectrum’s Summer Science-Fiction Reading List: 19 classic and recent tales, starring engineers as the heroes (IEEE Spectrum.org, August 16, 2013)
- Profile: Kenny Greenberg — This neon wizard combines art and engineering (IEEE Spectrum, May 24, 2013)
- Comic Books Go Digital — Can Your Paper Version Do This? (IEEE Spectrum, February 2013) (feature)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- Does Your Beloved Tech Artifact Belong in a Museum? What museums do and don’t want (IEEE Spectrum, July 2012) (feature)
- Yes, It Really Can Take Being Dropped, Frozen, and Heated (IEEE Spectrum, November 2011) (review of Panasonic fully-rugged Toughbook — putting it through home versions of ruggedness testing — fun!)
- Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still Difficult — challenges (and solutions) for creating native applications for multiple smartphone environments (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2010) (feature article) (appears as “Writing Small” in the print issue)
- A Notebook That Can Maybe Take a Beating — I test GammaTech’s “fully rugged” MT10 Durabook tablet, although not as comprehensively as I wanted to (IEEE Spectrum, November 2009) (review)
- Instant On — Why can’t your computer wake up as quickly as your BlackBerry? — “Alternate (non-Windows) Boot Environments” like Phoenix HyperSpace, DeviceVM SplashTop, Xandros Presto, versus Windows Hibernate (IEEE Spectrum, p.28 and online, September 2009)
- World’s Coolest Personal Computer (Hardcore Computer’s liquid-cooled Reactor) (IEEE Spectrum, August 2009)
- Portable Computers Under $1000 and 1 Kilogram (IEEE Spectrum, June 2009)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Small Is Big in Notebooks?but Not Too Small — Ultralight computers add back a few more ounces and a lot more usability (IEEE Spectrum magazine, December 01, 2008) (feature article)
- Holiday Gifts: Toshiba Qosmio G55 series – A Laptop On Steroids The Cell-based Quad-Core model does nifty video processing (IEEE Spectrum, November 2008)
- “Privacy Concerns” (IEEE Security & Privacy magazine March/April 2003, p. 11-13) — A look at the PATRIOT ACT and other privacy-relating legislation to be aware of in the year to come.
Datamation
- Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company (Datamation, February 8, 2019)
(And I had a few articles in Datamation, wayyyy back when, including one just before it was bought by Cahners.)
Earth911
- Tips for Recycling Computers, Phones and Other E-waste Successfully (Earth911.com, June 17, 2021)
- Recycling Mystery: Black-Colored Plastic (Earth911.com, January 7, 2021)
- How To Donate Container Deposit Refunds to Worthy Causes (Earth911.com, November 11, 2020)
- Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners — Why/How/Where tips (Earth911.com, October 7, 2020)
- Ride-Hailing Is Eco-Unfriendly – What Can You Do Instead? (Earth911.com, March 23, 2020)
- In Space, Nobody Picks Up Your Trash: NASA Recycling in Space Award Winners (Earth911.com, May 3, 2019)
- Tips for Emptying Out a Loved One’s Home (Earth911.com, November 12, 2018)
- “The Sherlock Holmes Method for Raising Your Recycling Savvy” (Earth911.com, October 5, 2018)
- Considering a CSA? How To Pick One That Works for You (Earth911.com, August 24, 2018)
- Enjoy Your Coffee With Less Waste (Earth911.com, August 6, 2018)
- Recycling Better: Adjusting to Changes in Recycling Rules” (Earth911.com, August 2, 2018)
- 5 Tips to Make Recycling a Part of Your Daily Routine (Earth911.com, June 18, 2018)
EH Publishing
EH Publishing’s Tech Decisions Media division is a family of six vertical market-specific websites:
- CorporateTechDecisions.com — for Corporate (small, medium and large businesses)
- HospitalityTechDecisions.com — for Hospitality (hotels, bars, restaurants, etc.)
- HealthcareTechDecisions.com — for Healthcare
- HigherEdTechDecisions.com — Higher education
- K-12TechDecisions.com — for K-12
- WorshipTechDecisions.com — for houses of worship
I’ve done a mix of tech-topic case histories, and features, event-related news, and other pieces for EHP’s TechDecisions family of sites. (Note, a story may get posted to several of the TechDecisions sites, each with a site-specific URL. I’m not always including all these parallel appearances.)
Features, Event-Related News, etc.
- Deep Dive: Mastering Mass Notification Strategies in Higher Education (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, March 5, 2015) (Note, access requires registering — feel free to ping me for a copy of this article.)
- Making Phone Calls Using Tablets And Other Mobile Devices And Apps (EH Publishing HealthCareTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2014)
- Using 4K Video with Digital Signage (EH Publishing WorshipTechDecisions.com, April 10, 2014) (feature)
- Adding Twitter to Your College or University Campus Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, Sept 30, 2013)also posted as: Adding Twitter to Your Healthcare Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s CampusSafetyMagazine.com, January 8, 2014)
- Including Streaming Media in Digital Signage Content (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions site, March 1, 2013)
- For Digital Signage, the Open Pluggable Specification Simplifies Installation (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 25, 2013)
- Providing Internet Connectivity for Events (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, February 27, 2013)
- Video Walls: Providing the Big Picture Gets Easier, More Affordable (EHPublishing’s HealthCareTechDecisions.com, January 14, 2013)
- Top 25 Tech Toys on the TechDecisions Editors Wish List (EHPublishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, December 13, 2013) (my slide/list, along with those of other EHPub editors)
- USB Power Delivery Will Power Not Just Smartphones But Also Notebooks, Displays and More (EHPublishing’s Health Tech Care Decisions, December 07, 2012)
- Mobile Interaction with Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, October 15, 2012)
- Creating Content For Digital Signage (EHPubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, September 14, 2012)
- Video Walls: Providing the Big Picture Gets Easier, More Affordable (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, November 5, 2012)
- Creating Content For Digital Signage (EHPubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, September 14, 2012)
- Power Over HDBaseT: What Is It, Why Use It? (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2012)
- What’s Involved in Deploying Interactive Digital Wayfinding (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions.com, July 12, 2012)
- Wayfinding Digital Signage: Where the Maps Come From (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions.com, July 12, 2012)
- Wayfinding: Digital Signage Can Show You the Right Path (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions, June 01, 2012) (reprinted in EH Publishing’s Campus Safety Magazine, December 9, 2013)
- Power Over Ethernet: What Is It, What’s New? (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, May 11, 2012)
- Content Management Software for Your Company’s Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 20, 2012)
- Save Money on Your Digital Signage Roll-out (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Simple Best Practices for Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Using IP / Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Company (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2012)
- Video Surveillance Camera Budget Savers (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Best Practices When Using Video Surveillance Cameras (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Top Video Surveillance Camera Trends from the Experts (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Health Care Facility (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Digital Signage a Healthy Way to Get Attention (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- New products “slide show” roundups for Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2012, Las Vegas, March 6-9, 2012: (I did captions and URL-wrangling)
- DSE 2012: New Commercial Displays (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Software (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Digital Signage Media Players (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- Selecting Displays for Your New Digital Signage (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Digital Signage Quotables: Jason Swinford, Founder of Eat at Recess (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Guidelines for Sizing Digital Signage Displays (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Quotables: Digital Signage Budget Savers (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Trends in Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 16, 2012)
- Quotables: Best Practices for Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Pain Points Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Tough Issues Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Digital Signs Can Provide Weather, Emergency Warnings (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, December 29, 2011
- Immersive Telepresence Technology Lets Rutgers Law Campuses Cyber-Combine Classrooms (EHP’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, June 25, 2015) (case history)
- Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, July 31, 2014) (case study)
- Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Goes Big, Tall And Wide With Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 14, 2014) (case history)
- Digital Signage Transforms Historic Building Into State-of-the-Art Finance Lab (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, September 09, 2013) (case history)
- Courtyard by Marriott’s GoBoard Helps Guests Decided What to Do, Where to Go (EHPubs Hospitality Tech Decisions, June 04, 2013)
- How West Virginia University Uses Digital Signage For Campus Safety (EHPublishing, March 20, 2013)
- How Microsoft Uses Digital Signage for Internal Promotion and Communication (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 24, 2013) (case history)
- How to Manage Digital Signage’s Internal Cost: Microsoft and West Virginia University discuss how they pay for digital signage internally (EHPublishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 11, 2013)
- Digital Signage Helps UCF (University of Central Florida) Promote Student Use of Technology EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions, August 30, 2012) (case history)
- Digital Signage Helps Joslin Diabetes Clinic Educate (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, July 19, 2012)
- Purdue University’s Digital Signage Enterprise (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012) (case study)
- 3 Digital Signage Tips from Purdue University (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- Today’s Mountaineers Use Digital Signage to Relay Information (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, December 19, 2011) Case history, how West Virginia University is using digital signage for emergency alerts and everyday info
EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com:
(Note, EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com is part of QuinStreet.)
- High-End Performance for Controlled Environments: Fortinet adds enterprise-class IPv6-ready appliance and a carry-grade security blade to its Firewall product lineup (QuinStreet EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, April 26, 2012) (news)
File770:
File770.com “is the online version of Mike Glyer’s science fiction fan newzine, reporting on fanzines, sf clubs, conventions, fan funds and fanac.”
Aside from being one of the motley bunch of readers, commenters, and “scroll” title suggestors, I periodically write up something longer, like these:
- Catching Up On Reading Nina Kiriki Hoffman (File770.com, December 23, 2023)
- The Children Who Ate All Their Halloween Candy Too Soon (File770.com, October 31, 2023) (One of my Dern Grim Bedtime Tales (Few Of Which End Well))
- Help! Timmy Fell In The Gravity Well! (File770.com, October 22, 2023)
- Another Dern Not-Quite-A-Review: Lawrence Block’s “The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown” (File770.com, September 12, 2023)
- Reduced Budgets Impacting Upcoming TV/Video Seasons and Projects (File770.com, August 8, 2023) (humor)
- An SFnal Weekend in Toronto: A Slide-Show Report: Even without a con, Toronto can still be SFnal (File770.com, May 6, 2023)
- Daniel Dern Review: Conan – Blood of the Serpent (File770.com, May 2, 2023)
- Finding A More Complete (Little) Nemo — Upcoming Bargain Book Alert, Plus A Few Snakes-Hands And Rabbit-Holes (File770.com, July 13, 2022)
- Reading Daily Comic Strips Online (File770.com, March 23, 2022)
- Interview with Carol Pinchefsky About Her New Book, Turn Your Fandom Into Cash (File770.com, March 02, 2022)
- The Tapas Bar At The End Of The Expanse: Non-Spoilery Remarks After Finishing Book 9: Leviathan’s Fall (File770.com, January 7, 2021)
- Whose Foundation Is This Anyway? (File770.com, September 21, 2021)
- Wait, Wait, A Few Dern Moments: Notable Digital Freebies (F ile770.com, August 03, 2021)
- Boskone 2021 Pre-Con Report (File770.com, February 5, 2021)
- Arisia 2021: A Brief Dern’s- and Web’s-Eye View (File770.com, January 27, 2021)
- Hankera-Pankera: A Not-Quite-A-Review Of Heinlein’s Pursuit Of The(File770.com, October 7, 2020)
- File 770’s Dublin 2019 Coverage (done both as a Page and as a “Scroll” (post)) (File770.com, July 25, 2020) — Links to File770’s 30+ Convention Reports and 60+ other WorldCon/Hugo-related Scrolls and Items (“Items” are sub-sections in a Scroll)
- My Final Report From the Dublin 2019 WorldCon (File770.com, July 18, 2020) — Includes a short video of Spider Robinson, singing a Beatles song!
- A Star Wars Song Parodies Sampler: Because OGH Asked For It (File770.com, July 9, 2020)
- I Am Going To Mouse My Shot: Hamilton Flick Comes to Disney+ on July 3 (File770.com) (May 13, 2020)
- All In Color For A Zorkmid – (More) Free (Or Cheap) Digital Versions of Comic Books! (File770.com, April 10, 2020)
- A (Partial) Corona Song Parody Playlist (File770.com, April 3, 2020)
- Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! (File770.com, March 23, 2020)
- Boskone 2020 Report (File770.com, February 19, 2020)
- Book Review: Barbara Krasnoff’s The History of Soul 2065 (File770.com, January 27, 2020)
- Arisia 2020 – Con Report & Pix (File770.com, Friday, January 17 – Monday, January 20, 2020)
- Crisis of Infinite Cameos: DC’s 2019 TV Cross-Over Event (File770.com, December 4, 2019)
- Watchmen Series Discussion Post (Here There Be Spoilers) (File770.com, October 23, 2019)
- ReaderCon 30 Photos (File770.com, July 14, 2019) — 20 pictures and a brief bit of text from this year’s ReaderCon convention
- Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds (File770.com, July 12, 2019)
- My Doubly SF-Adjacent Day: Astronaut and Torah, Bendis (File770.com, April 30, 2019) (posted belatedly, the events were November 8, 2018)
- Dern’s Non-Spoiler Predictions/Suggestions For Avengers, Game of Thrones, Etc. (File770.com, April 26, 2019)
- Tiamat’s Wrath – A Non-Spoiler Recommendation for Newest Expanse Novel (File770.com, April 5, 2019)
- Boskone 56: Fun, Plus Adding Foothills To My Mount To-Be-Read (File770.com, February 24, 2019) – Con report and pictures from Boskone56
- DC Universe Pre-Order Offer (File770.com, July 19, 2018)
- Review, Etc of MIT’s HMS Pinafore: TNG from May 2018:
- “Speaking of Gilbert & Sullivan & Science Fiction…” (File770.com, May 11, 2018) My initial post, briefly reviewing it.
- MIT’s HMS Pinafore:TNG: Follow-up Notes and Links (File770.com, May 25, 2018)
- Another Rejection Letter Story, More Or Less, or, How Barry Malzberg Got His F&SF Special Issue (File770.com, January 11, 2018)
- Read Every Mountain: Books For Your Mount To-Be-Read (File770.com, January 8, 2018)
- Review: Philip Pullman’s La Belle Sauvage (File770.com, December 15, 2017)
- Justice League: Non-Spoiler Movie Review (File770.com, December 4, 2017)
- Hey Amazon, How About Doing These Lord of the Rings TV Shows? (File770.com, November 17, 2017)
- An Evening With (As In, They’re On Stage, I’m In The Audience) Stephen and Owen King, On Tour Promoting “Sleeping Beauties” (File770.com, September 29, 2017)
- WorldCon 2017 in Helskini: Worldcon 75 Photo Gallery by Daniel Dern (File770.com, August 12, 2017) — two dozen photos of and around the World Science Fiction Convention
- Daniel Dern’s Notes About Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2 (File770.com, May 14, 2017 (Note, spoiler-free.)
- Batman V Superman, A Brief Spoiler-free Review Summary (File770.com, March 25, 2016)
- In Case You Didn’t Watch The Flash Musical Episode? (File770.com, March 23, 2017)
- Batman V Superman, A Brief Spoiler-free Review Summary (File770.com, March 25, 2016)
- Arisia 2016 Photos (File770.com, January 18, 2016)
Fortinet (blog):
Fortinet’s blog includes bylined posts from non-Fortinet experts, journalists, etc. — including me.
- Facebook Adding PGP Encryption Option For Email (Fortinet blog, June 09, 2015)
- Beware of “Malvertising” — Now Even Legit-Appearing Ads on Legit Sites May Be Unsafe (Fortinet blog, June 02, 2015)
- Still Running XP-Based Or Other Obsolete Point-Of-Sale? Move On ASAP! (Fortinet blog, May 8, 2015)
- Bruce Schneier Talks Privacy, Politics, Books and More (Fortinet blog, March 31, 2015) (interview)
Functionize:
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- So you want to become a software QA professional? (Functionize.com, January 27, 2020)
Future:
(Ghostwritten/custom/sponsored articles)
- Sponsored Post: OPPO’s MariSilicon X Imaging NPU Amps Up Night Video for New Find X5 Smartphones (Anandtech.com (Sponsored Post), March 22, 2022
- Better together: IT pros and low-code programs (TechRadar.com, December 16, 2021) (Sponsored article)
- What kind of low-code apps should citizen developers build? (TechRadar, December 07, 2021) (Sponsored)
- How to turn civilians into citizen developers (TechRadar, December 07, 2021) (Sponsored)
- “How low-code helps people creatively meet their application needs” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
- “How citizen developers can solve the pro-code talent crisis” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
- “With the help if IT anyone can build low cost apps fast” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
GrabCAD (blog):
Blog posts for GrabCAD, a part of Stratasys Software, which provides 3D printing and additive manufacturing solutions. GrabCAD supports CAD for designers, engineers, and manufacturers, through its Workbench collaboration tool and its library of free CAD files.
- Learning Options For Aspiring Additive Manufacturing Professionals and Students
(GrabCAD.com, December 1, 2021) - The Top 7 Schools with Additive Manufacturing Labs (GrabCAD.com, May 3, 2021
- Why Smart Factories Need 3D Printers to be Connected (GrabCAD.com, April 22, 2021)
- APIs and SDKs: Integrating 3D Printing Into Your Manufacturing Software Ecosystem (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2021)
- How Much Does 3D Printer Material Cost? (GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2020)
- How Much You Spend On a 3D Printer Depends on What You Want It to Do (GrabCAD.com, July 14, 2020)
- How 3D Printing Empowers Artists (GrabCAD.com, May 19, 2020)
- MIT’s Professor David Hardt Offers His Perspective On Industry 4.0 (GrabCAD.com, May 4, 2020)
- Software Every Engineer Needs to Know (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2020)
- NASA’s 3D Printing Space Initiatives (GrabCAD.com, January 23, 2020)
- 3D Printers Could Be Coming to a Library Near You (GrabCAD.com, December 11, 2019)
- GrabCAD Gets Enlisted for Biodegradable Plastics Initiative (GrabCAD.com blog, November 20th, 2019)
- zGlue: Giving Chip Creators More Flexibility and Speed-to-Market (GrabCAD.com, October 23, 2019)
- 10 Tips for Pitching to Investors (GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2019)
- Fictiv: The Rapid Prototyping Solution Startups Love (GrabCAD.com blog, August 19, 2019)
- How The GrabCAD Community Helps NASA Solve Tough Problems (GrabCAD.com blog, August 7, 2019)
- 7 Tips to Help You Master Media Interviews (GrabCAD.com, July 1, 2019)
- Contract Medical Device Manufacturers Are on the Rise to Keep Costs Low (GrabCAD.com, May 8, 2019)
- Top Tech Picks from CES 2019 (GrabCAD.com, April 24th, 2019) — Some nifty products for professionals and consumers
- 7 Technologies that Caught Our Eye at CES 2019 GrabCAD.com blog, March 29th, 2019) — 3D printing, and things for hardware start-ups
- Digital Badges Will Help People Looking to Work in Manufacturing Acquire New Skills (GrabCAD blog, January 9, 2019)
- What Skills Are Required for “New-Collar Jobs” in Manufacturing? (GrabCAD blog, December 26th, 2018)
- For Hardware Entrepreneurs and Startups, What Opportunities and Benefits Do “Smart Manufacturing” and “Industry 4.0” Offer? (GrabCAD.com, October 24, 2018)
- Quick Tips on Presenting Your New Product (and Company) at Pitch Events (GrabCAD.com, September 25, 2018)
- Choosing a Chinese Manufacturer for Your New Hardware Product (GrabCAD, June 25, 2018)
- Do Prototyping Right for Funding, Manufacturing Success: Interview with Arrow Electronics’ Keaton Anderson (GrabCAD, May 17, 2018)
- Increasing Your Desktop Monitor Space: Ways and Whys (GrabCAD, March 27, 2018)
- These Are the Websites That Programmers Use All Day Long (GrabCAD.com, February 6th, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: It Pays To Increase Your Manufacturing Vocabulary (GrabCAD blog, January 30, 2018)
- A Rundown of Some of the Cool New Products Unveiled at CES (GrabCAD.com, January 16, 2018) a
- Hardware Creators: Make Sure You Learn to Speak ‘Manufacturese’ (GrabCAD blog, December 11, 2017)
- Creating A Mobile Medical Tool? Start With a Smartphone or Tablet (GrabCAD blog, November 6, 2017)
- Yes, Lean, Agile Methods Can Be Applied to Hardware Development Too (GrabCAD blog, September 18, 2017)
- Understanding, and Succeeding, at Hardware Crowdfunding (GrabCAD blog, August 30, 2017)
- Hardware compliance certifications: a two-parter:
- Designing a New Hardware Product? You Need to Know About Compliance Certifications! (GrabCAD blog, July 26, 2017)
- Determining Time and Cost of Getting Compliance Certifications for a New Hardware Product (GrabCAD Blog, August 8, 2017)
HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com:
(InputCreatesOutput.com is a custom news/feature site from HP.)
- What Cloud Computing Means to Accounting and Finance Professionals (HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, February 1, 2012) (feature) ( Try here if first link is dead)
- How to Choose a Cloud Backup Service HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, December 22, 2011) (feature)
- New Rules For Refreshing Server Hardware HP’s InputCreatesOutputcom, August 24, 2011)
- Why Color Printing is Getting Cheaper (InputCreatesOutput.com, an HP site), May 20, 2011)
Illinois CPA Society (ICPAS) Insight:
INSIGHT is the monthly magazine of the Illinois CPA Society; I’ve been writing technology feature articles for them.
- 3 Technologies CPA Firms Must Leverage in 2023 (Cloud hosting; digital transformation; robot process automation) (ICPAS Insight, Spring 2023)
- Tax Software Primer: CPAs have choices…probably more than they thought they had (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, November/December 2010)
- Social Media Now: What can LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et al do for you? (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, August 2010)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Are You Being Served? — SaaS for CPA firms and their customers (ICPAS Insight magazine, February/March 2010)
- Portal Power: Emerging accounting portal technologies streamline financial processes and boost productivity (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHT magazine, November 2009)
- Cost-Conscious Technology — Affordable accounting software and SaaS offerings (ICPAS Insight, August 2009) (feature)
InformationWeek:
These are news, reviews, features, humor and other articles for the general online and print publication; I’ve also been writing blog posts and news articles for InformationWeek SMB.
- Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider — Interview with NeoSpire’s director of security, Sean Bruton (InformationWeek SMB, September 1, 2010) (interview)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
InformationWeek SMB (SMB news & blogging):
From May 2010 through December 2010, one of my freelance gigs was writing a mix SMB-oriented news stories and blog posts for InformationWeek SMB — roughly one news story per day, for most of this time. My main beats were hardware/software, Open Source, and backup/storage, along with virtualization, cloud/SaaS, e-commerce, and the usual what-have-you.
Here’s InformationWeek SMB’s bio and article list for me.
InformationWeek SMB news stories
- HP Refreshes Thin Client Devices (InformationWeek SMB, January 04, 2011) (news)
- Metalogix Introduces SharePoint Migration Manager (InformationWeek SMB, December 15, 2010) (news)
- SMBs See Opportunity In The Cloud — says Microsoft-sponsored survey. (InformationWeek SMB, December 10, 2010) (news)
- IT Outages Cost Businesses Billions, according to survey by CA. (InformationWeek SMB, December 9, 2010) (news)
- Zoho CRM Integrates With QuickBooks, Telephony (InformationWeek SMB, December 8, 2010) (news)
- Bocada Announces Data Protection Management For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, December 07, 2010) (news)
- SlimWare Introduces Cloud-Based Software Driver Updates (InformationWeek SMB, December 07, 2010) (news)
- Uptime Software Introduces Cloud Monitoring (InformationWeek SMB, November 30, 2010) (news)
- Shoutlet Announces Facebook Storefront Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 24, 2010) (news)
- AT&T iPhone App Targets ‘Backup And Go’ (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Coupa Integrates Expense Management With SalesForce (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Dell Introduces File Level Encryption (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- Drobo S Storage Array Adds USB 3.0 Connectivity (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- Wave Online Accounting Counts On Small Businesses (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Dell Updates Laser, Multifunction Printers For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Avaya Updates IP Office Communication Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, November 15, 2010) (news)
- Meraki Introduces Cloud Managed 802.11n Access Points (InformationWeek SMB, November 11, 2010) (news)
- MainCloud Intros Content Sharing Service (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- ScaleMP Rolls Server Virtualization Software (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- OS33 Cloud Provisioning Targets MSPs, Resellers (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- HP Designs Digital Signage Players For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Netgear Rolls Flexible Storage, Switches For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- WooEB Launches Content Platform For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 3, 2010) (news)
- Visage Updates SaaS Mobility Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 2, 2010) (news)
- Implix Launches Conferencing Services In Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, November 1, 2010) (news)
- VeriSign Offers $1 Promo For Its Trust Seals (InformationWeek SMB, November 1, 2010) (news)
- HyperOffice Adds Cloud Collaboration Tools For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, October 29, 2010) (news)
- Really Simple Systems Rolls Free CRM (InformationWeek SMB, October 28, 2010) (news)
- Informative Graphics Updates Document Redaction, Collaboration (InformationWeek SMB, October 27, 2010) (news)
- Caringo Object Storage Software Puts SMBs On Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, October 26, 2010) (news)
- NEC Adds Fault Tolerant Support For Microsoft Hyper-V (InformationWeek SMB, October 25, 2010) (news)
- Search Advertising Spending Growth Slows (InformationWeek SMB, October 23, 2010) (news)
- Grovo Launches Training Videos On Web Tools, Services (InformationWeek SMB, October 22, 2010) (news)
- Vu Introduces Telepresence System For Remote Offices, SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, October 21, 2010) (news)
- Basware Intros SaaS Invoice Processing Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 20, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Introduces Office 365 Cloud Apps (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- SonicWall Refreshes Anti Spam Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- USRobotics Launches USB 3.0 Products Hub, adapters and cables take advantage of USB 3.0’s 10x speed advantage over USB 2.0. — (InformationWeek SMB, October 15, 2010) (news)
- Staples Announces Backup And Restore Services (InformationWeek SMB, October 13, 2010) (news)
- Rackspace Launches Business App Matchmaking Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 7, 2010) (news)
- Stratus Adds Hyper-V Support To Fault Tolerant Servers (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- Citrix Refreshes XenServer Virtualization Platform (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- Marathon Unveils Low Cost Server Fault Tolerance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Data Robotics Announces DroboPro FS Storage Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Blade Servers Offer Lower Cost, Reduced Complexity, Says HP (InformationWeek SMB, October 4, 2010) (news)
- Zoho Integrates Business Apps With Gmail (InformationWeek SMB, September 30, 2010) (news)
- QuickBooks 2011 Now Available (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Shipwire Announces Web Based Order Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Cisco Expands SMB Offerings (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- Ctera Extends Hybrid Cloud Storage Offering (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- — Web, cloud and mobile-enabled printing capabilities headline a refresh of HP’s printer, scanner and MFP offerings. (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Releases Small Business Server 7 Preview (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Nuance Launches Dragon Dictate For Mac 2.0 (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- HP Updates Printer Line — Web, cloud and mobile-enabled printing capabilities headline a refresh of HP’s printer, scanner and MFP offerings. (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Backup My Info! Enhances Online Backup Capabilities (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- Zendesk, LogMeIn Rescue Combine Remote Connectivity, Support (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- FalconStor Announces NSS SAN Accelerator For VMware View (InformationWeek SMB, August 31, 2010) (news)
- Infortrend Refreshes EonStor DS Storage Systems (InformationWeek SMB, August 25, 2010) (news)
- GetApp Provides Directory Of Business Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 25, 2010) (news)
- 01 Communique Web Conferencing Solution In Beta (InformationWeek SMB, August 19, 2010) (news)
- Lakeside Simplifies Planning For VMware View Desktop Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, August 18, 2010) (news)
- Central Desktop Adds Cloud Collaboration To Microsoft Office (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (news story)
- Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (news)
- e-DMZ Announces Free Remote Access Security Tool (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Intacct Partners With Clarizen, Adds Project Accounting Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- i365 Extends Cloud Server Disaster Recovery (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Xerox Advises Securing Data in Printer Hard Drives (InformationWeek SMB, August 09, 2010) (news)
- Future Systems Releases Casper 6.0 Tech Edition (InformationWeek SMB, August 06, 2010) (news)
- CMS Intros Bootable Backup Solutions For Servers (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (news)
- SonicWALL Intros Affordable, Simpler Remote Access For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- HP Unveils Mini Tower Desktop PC (HP Pro 3130) (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Improves Speech Recognition (InformationWeek SMB, July 29, 2010) (news)
- Smarsh Adds Mobile Message Archiving For Compliance, e-Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 28, 2010) (news)
- CoreTrace Bouncer Improves Application Whitelisting (InformationWeek SMB, July 28, 2010) (news)
- Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (news)
- Virtuon Offers Cloud Based Virtual Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, July 26, 2010) (news)
- Paragon Go Virtual Simplifies P2V Cloning Windows Desktops (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Backupify Intros Business Backup For Google Apps Data (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Dell KACE Offers Free Secured Browser Bundle (InformationWeek SMB, July 19, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: Secure Browsing Good If Done Well And Easily (InformationWeek SMB, July 20, 2010) (blog post)
- LapLink Simplifies Windows 7 Upgrade — PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant lets XP, Vista PCs move to Windows 7 without reinstalling apps, settings and data. (InformationWeek SMB, July 16, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: LapLink, PCmover, MoveNow, The Rest Of The Story (InformationWeek SMB blog, July 16, 2010)
- Casper Speeds Backup Cloning Of PGP Encrypted Drives (InformationWeek SMB, July 15, 2010) (news story)
- Aprigo Secures Google Docs (InformationWeek SMB, July 14, 2010) (news story)
- iCentera Adds Cloud Portals For B2B Sales (InformationWeek SMB, July 13, 2010) (news story)
- Netgear Switch Manages Multimedia Traffic (InformationWeek SMB, July 13, 2010) (news story)
- CloudBurst Load Tests Web Apps From The Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, July 9, 2010) (news story)
- Aestiva Offers Array 4GL Database Free (InformationWeek SMB, July 8, 2010) (news story)
- OTRS Announces iPhone, iPad Help Desk App (InformationWeek SMB, July 6, 2010) (news story)
InformationWeek SMB blog posts
These are blog posts.
Most of my blog posts will be short (300-500 words), typically newsy or reviewsy.
- Reading PDFs More Safely — Sadly, A Good Idea (InformationWeek SMB, December 1, 2010) (blog post)
- VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, October 18, 2010) (blog post)
- LogMeIn Lets IT Remotely Manage Multiple PCs In Batches (InformationWeek SMB, October 15, 2010) (blog post)
- The Cost of IT Availability, Versus Recovery Costs (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (blog post)
- Anti Virus Announcements May Not Be Catchy (InformationWeek SMB, October 1, 2010) (blog post)
- My Wish List For Online Backup, Computing Solutions (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Rhomobile Adds More Features To Smartphone Development Platform (InformationWeek SMB, September 17, 2010) (blog post)
- Dell, CommVault Add Cloud Power To Backup Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, September 15, 2010) (blog post)
- Cloud Sherpas SherpaTools Simplifies Administering Google Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (blog post)
- PoE Simplifies Powering, Placing Access Points Was: Power Over Ethernet Simplifies Powering, Placing Webcams, APs (InformationWeek SMB, August 13, 2010) (blog post)
- Is Your Copier A Security Threat? (InformationWeek SMB, August 12, 2010) (blog post)
- Laptop Batteries Can Run For Three Years (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- Recovering Servers In The Cloud Affordable For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)based on this news story: Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (news)
- Qualys Offers Free Browser Plug-In Checker (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Secure Browsing Good If Done Well And Easily (InformationWeek SMB, July 20, 2010) (blog post)based on this news story: Dell KACE Offers Free Secured Browser Bundle (InformationWeek SMB, July 19, 2010) (news story)
- LapLink, PCmover, MoveNow, The Rest Of The Story (InformationWeek SMB blog, July 16, 2010)based on this news story: LapLink Simplifies Windows 7 Upgrade — PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant lets XP, Vista PCs move to Windows 7 without reinstalling apps, settings and data. (InformationWeek SMB, July 16, 2010) (news story)
- Event report from CEALine Show and the Pepcom “Digital Experience” multi-vendor press event, New York City, June 23, 2010:
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 1
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 2 InformationWeek SMB, July 01, 2010)
- HP ProBook 4720s Notebook Packs Full Keyboard, 17-Inch Display (InformationWeek SMB, June 28, 2010) (product review)
- Zmanda Adds Features To Cloud-Based Backup For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, June 24, 2010)
- Kaseya Helps SMB VARs Automate IT Processes and Tasks (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 14, 2010)
- KineticD Adds Affordable Remote Access To Flexible Backup (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 11, 2010)
- RainStor 4 Improves Compliance Storage Costs, Accessibility For Transactions (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 10, 2010
- Cisco Intros Affordable Network Storage Appliances For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 9, 2010)
- Pano Logic Unveils 50 User Desktop Virtualization Kit (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 03, 2010) (virtualization)
- Panasonic Updates Fully-rugged Convertible Tablet PC (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 3, 2010)
- ActiveBatch Automates Job Scheduling On Multiple Machines (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 2, 2010) (system admin, IT management)
- Panasonic Simplifies Notebook WWAN Provisioning, Switching With Gobi2000 (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 28, 2010)
- VM6 VMex Reduces Virtualization Cost, Complexity For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 24, 2010)
- Janeiro Digital Speedramps Software Development For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 21, 2010)
- ScaleMP vSMP Foundation Offers Virtualization That Aggregates (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 20, 2010)
- Xcentric Lifts CPA IT Cloudwards (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 14, 2010)
- Cloud Computing Will Reinvigorate WAN Expertise (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 12, 2010) (event report)
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Hits Portability Price Performance Trifecta (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 11, 2010) (review) (blog post)
Information Security:
- Analyzing Analysts: Evaluating the accuracy of expert forecasts isn’t easy (Information Security magazine, December, 2002) (Note: This started out as a long article but turned into a short one)
- Putting Spam in the Can (September 2002) — “Filtering and blocking can dramatically cut down the amount of junk e-mail flowing through a mail server”
InformIT:
- Jason Busby on Educating Future Animators (InformIT.com, June 9, 2009) (interview)
- Ten Things I Hate About Web Sites (InformIT, Apr 28, 2006)
- Multiple Monitors: One Way To Get More Display Space (InformIT, February 24, 2006)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (December 22, 2005)
- Speed Bumps on the Wireless Superhighway: Obstacles on the Road to WiMAX (Oct 21, 2005)
- Fax Servers: Serving Faxes More Than Ever! (InformIT, September 3, 2004) (feature article)
- Buying a Non-Branded “White Box” PC — Tips on when, and how to, buy an unbranded “White Box” versus from a name-brand vendor (or building your own) (May 7, 2004)
- Using 802.3af (Power Over Ethernet) as a SysAdmin Tool By using Power over Ethernet (802.3af) to provide power for devices such as WiFi Access Points, VoIP desktop phones, and webcams, companies can save on A/C wiring costs and UPS provisioning. (April 2, 2004)
- Creating Opt-in Email Lists: Just Say Yes (February 20, 2004) — Why and how to create mailing lists as opt-in.
- “Power Doodads for Techno-Travelers: With Great Power Responsibility Comes Several Pounds of Accessories” (December 5, 2003) — An overview of AC/car/air power accessories for notebooks, PDAs and cell phones, and AA NiMH battery chargers (for digital cameras, etc.)
- Managing Disk Partitions Over the Network with Ghost Corporate Edition (October 31, 2003) — Dumping and restoring disk partitions, particularly the main system one, may be easier if you can do it over the network — and to many systems at once. Here’s a look at how Symantec’s Ghost Corporate Edition makes this possible.
The Inquirer
- Jerry Pournelle talks of Comdex Past Jerry’s memories of 20+ years of attending Comdex (The Inquirer.net, July 5, 2004)
Internet Evolution
- Calculating the True Cost of a Tablet (Internet Evolution, November 2, 2011)
- A Multi-Account Approach for E-Business Users (Internet Evolution, October 26, 2011)
- Creating ‘Secondary Identities’ on the Internet (Internet Evolution, October 20, 2011)
Internet.com Hardware Central
- Laptop Review: Dell Vostro V130 — The Glamorous Life (Hardware Central, February 7, 2011) (review)
- Netbook Review: Toshiba Mini NB305 — One Hand Tied Behind Its Back (Internet.com Hardware Central, October 28, 2010) (review)
- Notebook Review: Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T — Acer’s All-Around Performer (Internet.com Hardware Central, August 16, 2010) (review)
iPass Connect
iPass is a remote user access aggregator; its Connect site includes short product and topical articles.
- Portable Power Packs for Your Mobile Devices — “A pint of power for when there’s no outlet around” (iPass Connect, August 2009) (short feature article)
- Science Fiction Books For the Computer Fan (iPass Connect, May 26, 2009) (short feature article)
- Add-On Accessories For Your Digital Camera: Beyond Spare Batteries, The Right Stuff Means Better Pix (iPass Connect, May 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- Forget Notebooks, Go For Netbooks (iPass Connect, May 01, 2009) (short feature article)
- Top Business Travel Gear Sites: From Travel Duds To Tech Gear, These Sites Can Help You Find What You Need (iPass Connect, April 22, 2009)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
IoT (Internet Of Things) Journal
- At Xively Xperience, Advice on Building IoT Connected Product Businesses (Internet of Things Journal, October 4, 2015)
Intuit QuickBase Blog
- Project Management Lessons from the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER movie (Intuit’s Quickbase blog, April 28, 2014)
- Project Management Lessons from an Amateur Magician (Intuit’s Quickbase blog, February 10, 2014)
IT Business Network
- Secure “Mobile Data At Rest” ? Before It Leaves the Office — Avoid Those “Oh, ****!” Moments When You Lose A Device Or Disk (IT Business Net, July 5, 2006)
IT Expert Voice
(ITExpertVoice.com is a Dell-sponsored site about “deploying Windows 7 in the large enterprise.”)
- How Hardware Is Helping Server, Desktop System Virtualization (IT Expert Voice, July 29, 2010)
- Slashing Storage Costs For Historical Transactions (IT Expert Voice, July 22, 2010)
- Video Training For Windows 7: A Comparative Review (IT Expert Voice, May 03, 2010) (review of video training products)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- With Great Power Comes More Error Messages: Windows 7 Lessons Learned From Science Fiction, Comics, and the Movies (ITExpertVoice.com, December 24, 2009) (humor)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
ITProToday.com
- xMatters Incident Management Tool Adds Stackdriver Integration (ITProToday.com, April 7, 2019)
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- What You Need to Know about Microsoft’s Azure Blockchain Development Kit (ITProToday, December 11, 2018) (news)
- Use Cases and Scenarios for Converged Architecture” (ITProToday, February 26, 2016)
ITWorld.com
Feature articles and fun pieces for ITworld’s The Daily Tip:
Feature articles
- Introducing Mob programming: The best team technique you’ve (probably) never heard of (ITWorld.com, June 25, 2015) (feature article)
- Swiss Army smartphone: 9 tools your phone can replace (ITWorld.com, February 10, 2014)
- I’ll take mine to go: 12 apps to carry with you at all times (On a USB stick) (ITWorld.com, August 01, 2013) (feature article)
- Designing for mobile: Responsive design vs. mobilized sites vs. mobile app (ITWorld.com, May 30, 2013) (feature article)
- What today’s software developers need to know (ITWorld.com, September 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Six energy-efficient data center practices: How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways (ITWorld.com, August 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Lost programming skills: What today’s coders don’t know and why it matters (ITWorld.com, August 5, 2011) (feature article)
- Decoding compliance certification icons: What UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, and those other certification ‘marks’ under your laptop mean (ITWorld.com, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war (ITWorld.com, May 26, 2011) (feature article)
- Joomla or Drupal: Which CMS handles security best? (ITWorld.com, April 19, 2011) (feature article)
- Joomla vs. Drupal: An open source CMS shootout (ITWorld.com, February 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Essential Joomla! extensions — Joomla! developers offer up their favorite extensions, Part II (ITWorld.com, September 16, 2010) (feature)
- Joomla! jumpstart: 8 tips and best practices from Joomla! developers, Part I (ITWorld.com, September 8, 2010) (feature)
- Windows 7 migration: 8 things that are bound to happen (ITWorld.com, July 26, 2010)
- Technology we won’t miss — No tears are shed for these technologies that have come (and often) gone (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- Tech that makes you smile – There are some things you just can’t help but love (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- How to Stretch Your Security Dollar: Unexpected ways to get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments (ITWorld.com, October 22, 2009) (Slashdotted!
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
ITworld’s The Daily Tip
- The Daily Tip: Free alternative PDF tools: When you can’t (or don’t want) to use Adobe’s PDF tools (ITWorld.com, November 1, 2010) (also in PCWorld.com
- The Daily Tip: Your New iPhone: Things To Know, Get and Do (ITWorld.com, October 19, 2010)
- Mobile broadband: Prepaid and other no-contract option (ITWorld.com, October 18, 2010)
- 6 Proven Office Productivity Tools — Useful tools to increase your personal productivity (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband versus dongles or tethering: Which is best? — 4 ways to get online when there’s no WiFi in range (ITWorld.com, August 31, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband: Software-defined radio makes carrier-switching easy (ITWorld.com, August 30, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Uninterruptible Power Supply: Using and caring for your desktop UPS — Proper set up, periodic battery replacements are key to making sure your desktop UPS will work when you need it. (ITWorld.com, August 26, 2010)
- Choosing a desktop Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) — The Daily Tip: Local power quality and what gear you’ve got drive the desktop UPS decision (ITWorld.com, August 24, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Travel essentials: Useful small tech to pack — Stay connected, powered, and charged wherever you may roam. (ITWorld.com, July 30, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- Finding Yard Sale Tech Bargains (ITworld.com’s The Daily Tip, July 16, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: 6 (more) useful Windows 7 tools: Utilities so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already. (ITWorld.com, July 12, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: 6 useful Windows 7 tools Apps so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already (ITWorld.com, July 6, 2010)
- Free Windows 7 training videos (and more) — You might learn enough by watching (ITworld.com, June 16, 2010)
Kennedy Information
Articles on Open Source/Linux, and IT architecture issues, for the Intelligence Briefing section of the Global IT Services Report a monthly newsletter focussing on the larger global IT service/consulting firms. (Note: My name is on the masthead as a contributor, but not on the individuaL articles, and most of the content is only accessible to subscribers.)
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? (Answer: Yes, ranging from education and assessment through implementation) Quotes from BearingPoint, Broadleaf Services, Egenera, IBM, Transitional Data Services, Virtual Iron (May 2006)
- “Role of Open Source Growing” — Growing role of Open Source software and methodologies at Accenture, CapGemini, CSC, EDS, and HP (June, 2006)
- “Open Source as Consulting Opportunity” — Does Open Source Software create new consulting opportunities, and if so, what kind? Quotes from Wild Open Source, CapGemini Booz Allen Hamilton. (May 2006)
- “The Changing Role of IT Architects,” — As IT applications change from “silos” to more complex architectures, often crossing organizational boundaries, how is the role of IT architects changing, especially for consultants. Quotes from CIBER, Inc., Systems and Software Consortium, Capgemini. (March 2006)
- “What’s Ahead for Open Source Services in 2006” — Open Source adoption goes mainstream at enterprise level (Quotes from Eric Raymond; CapGemini; HP) (February 2006)
LinuxCom:
- Testimonials: Benefits of Working With The Linux Foundation: 3 Reasons IBM Participates in Linux Foundation Projects
- (Linux.com, June 15, 2016)
- Telecom Companies Collaborate Through OPNFV to Address Unique Business Challenges (Linux.com, May 28, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit 2016 Keynotes:
- Bring Networking Projects Under A Common Umbrella, Urges Cisco’s Dave Ward (Linux.com, June 1, 2016)
- How Newegg is Winning the Battle Against Patent Trolls (Linux.com, May 25, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit keynote from Docker’s Scott Johnson: “3 Reasons Docker and Containerization Lit Up Application Development” (Linux.com, May 18, 2016)
- Open Source Milagro Project Aims to Fix Web Security for Cloud, Mobile, IoT (Linux.com, April 29, 2016) (sponsored article)
- Exclusive Interview: Nick Dvas of Servers.com (Linux.com, September 29, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with Pivotal’s Roman Shaposhnik (Linux.com, September 25, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with IBM’s Anjul Bhambhri (Linux.com, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- How SMBs Can Put The Cloud To Work (Linux.com, September 15, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Today’s Web Architectures Call For Private Networking (Linux.com, September 8, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Project Calico: Open Source, High-Scale Network Fabric For The Cloud (Linux.com, September 2, 2015) (sponsored article)
- OpenStack Was Key To Building Servers.Com (Linux.com, September 1, 2015) (sponsored article)
- Why Many Companies Aren’t Securing OS Permissions Adequately (Linux.com, August 26, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Update From VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps Group: Offering Open Source Tools, Collaboration and More (Linux.com, August 20, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Microservices 101: What To Know, What To Do (Linux.com, August 11 August 2015) (sponsored content)
- As Public Cloud OS Instances Grow, So Do Security Admin Challenges (Linux.com, July 28, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Managing IT Access Privileges — Not As Solved As Management Thinks (Linux.com, July 14, 2015)(sponsored content)
- GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric Becomes Apache Ignite (Linux.Com, April 9, 2015)
LinuxPlanet:
- Unitrends Adds Linux Hot Snapshotting To Appliance-Based Rapid Recovery — Rapid Recovery No Longer a Luxury (April 27, 2006)
LinuxWorld:
- “Windows Refund Day” (January 25, 1999) (Also run on CNN.com)
Network Computing:
Monthly Internet page (called the “H-reportl” “I-report,” or “The Internet Page”), and other articles:
- The H-Report for December 15, 1995: Ta Ta For Now, Plus SomeTips And Tricks
- The H-Report for November 15, 1995 Hop on a quick guided tour of the Internet with the Internet TOURBUS, by “Doctor Bob” Rankin and Patrick Douglas Crispin.
- The H-Report for November 01 1995: Billing Software For ISPs – If you’re an Internet Service Provider (and who isn’t, these days), check out the User Tracking and Accounting (UTA) billing software program from RTD Systems and Network.
- The H-Report for October 15 1995 For an easy-to-read style guide to HTML, plus links of use to more experienced Web users, see Macmillian HTML Workshop, at http://www.mcp. com/general/workshop.
- The H-Report for October 1, 1995
- Another H-Report
- Connecting To The Internet? Start Here… A short “how and why” from back when this was all new…
- The Internet Page: Navigating The Web Navigators – For corporate network users, there are already more than enough reasons to get a Web browser, and there are plenty of choices.
- The Internet Page: What’s The Word On The Internet? We’re awash in HTML authoring tools: Microsoft’s HTML extensions to Word for Windows should be available from ftp.
MultiChannel News
- Carrying on With Keeping ‘CALM’ — Providers: We’Re Ready To Comply With Loudness Law” (NBMedia’s MultiChannel News, December 3, 2012) (news)
Newton TAB
- Recycling – Six Degrees of “Out” — guest commentary in my town’s weekly newspaper (Newton TAB, Wed Apr 25, 2007) (and reposted on the Newton Tab’s Environment section (produced by the Green Decade Coalition/Newton)
NetBioTek.com
- Efeckta Technologies Squeezes More Value Into Bio-informatics Data (In “Articles” — sorry, you’ll need JavaScript turned on to get the link) (March 29, 2002)
Network World:
From the “Careers” section:
- Dealing with budget cuts Tips for pulling off a network project when its funding gets slashed. (November 24, 1997)
- Hop on the Internet to rejuvenate your career — Increase your visibility and demonstrate your know-how in online discussion groups and mailing lists. (July 14, 1997)
- Tech savvy alone won’t get you to the top — Project management key to upwards motion (May 26, 1997)
- Recruiter outtakes – The Importance of Project Management and Project Lifecycle Skills (May 26, 1997)
- Speak up and advance your career — Use the trade show podium to gain industry visibility and open up new opportunities. (Network World, March 31, 1997)
- Understand the business before you say anything at a trade show (March 31, 1997)
- Bone up on those business skills Whether you want to move up or simply preserve your position as a network manager, you’re going to need business skills. (Network World, March 17, 1997)
Features:
- Internet telephony is older than you think (June 30, 1997)
- (Use intranet Newsgroups to) Read all about it (June 23, 1997)
- Network computers: a look behind the numbers (February 24, 1997)
- Building Web sites that can take a hit — Quotes Fudd’s Law: “If you hit anything hard enough, it will fall over.” (November 4, 1996)
- Rules of thumb for preventing Web server burnout — A watched pot may not boil, but an unwatched Web site may burn. (Network World, November 4, 1996)
- The Legacy Tango Linking legacy systems to intranets (October 21, 1996)
NewsForge.com:
- LinuxWorld expo wrapup (Friday February 18, 2005)
- Paying developers to get features faster (December 18, 2003) — For some Open Source and other programs, customers can fund the features they want.
- Brunswick’s Business Integration Engine thrives as Open Source project — Marine/recreational manufacturer turns internal Java project into OpenSource business (September 17, 2003)
- CeBIT America 2003 Show Preview — An overview of Linux and Open Source-related sessions and exhibits slated to be at CeBIT America 2003. (June 9, 2003)
- Windows refund initiatives slow, but may be picking up again (October 07, 2002) — If you couldn’t get the desktop or notebook you wanted without a bundled copy of Windows, you might be able to get a refund, or resell it, but don’t count on it. Here’s the update on those initiatives.
- Guardian Digital succeeding with Open Source security products (October 01, 2002) — One on-going question for the Open Source community remains, can companies make a business go of Open Source-based products and services?
- Linux makes life better: Open Source at BioIT World — Report from IDC’s first Bio-IT show, in Boston (March 22, 2002)
- Realtor group houses all kinds of Open Source projects — The National Association of Realtors’ Center for Realtor Technology is using the Open Source model for a variety of Java, XML and other projects (March 14, 2002)
- Bluesocket uses embedded Linux to speed development for wireless gateways, in NewsForge.com (January 7, 2002)
- Santa slays costs with Open Source, Linux (December 24, 2001)
- Internet World has (some) Linux: An aisle-stroller’s sampling of vendors (Monday December 17, 2001)?– There weren’t Linux vendors per se at the Internet World/Fall 2001 show in New York City… but there were vendors making use of Linux in serious corporate/enterprise products.
- Wanna buy a Linux desktop PC? Better try an independent OEM, (Monday, December 10, 2001) — Profile on Boston-based PCs For Everyone, one of the companies offering both Windows and Linux as pre-loaded boot OS options.
- Turner Consulting Group offers more affordable custom software using Open-Source apps (Wednesday November 28, 2001)
O’Reilly Network:
- Profile: Rich Teer, Solaris/Unix Hacker, Administrator, Consultant, and Author (OpenSolaris.org, May 15, 2005)
- Profile: Jörg Schilling (creator of CDrecord) (OpenSolaris.org, May 1, 2005)
- Pepcom “Holiday Spectacular” Event Offers Early View of New Digital Cameras, MP3 Players and More – Report on new consumer/”prosumer” digital media products shown at Pepcom holiday press event in NYC (O’Reilly Digital Media, September 30, 2004)
- Open Source Household — Linux consultant Ruben Safir doesn’t just use Linux and OpenSource at work, it’s also what he, his wife, and their six kids use at home, for schoolwork and for fun. (March 15, 2002)
- LinuxWorld: Big Vendors, More Suits – Report from the January 2002 LinuxWorld conference & expo in New York City (February 7, 2002)
PCMag:
- Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (PCMag.com, September 25, 2007) (news story) (originally appeared in eWeek.com)
- New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) (news story) (originally appeared in eWeek.com)
- CeBIT 2005: Double Comdex and Keep Walking PCMag.com, March 9, 2005) (originally appeared in eWeek.com)
Intuit QuickBase Blog
- Project Management Lessons from the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER movie (Intuit’s Quickbase blog, April 28, 2014)
- Project Management Lessons from an Amateur Magician (Intuit’s Quickbase blog, February 10, 2014)
IT Expert Voice
(ITExpertVoice.com is a Dell-sponsored site about “deploying Windows 7 in the large enterprise.”)
- How Hardware Is Helping Server, Desktop System Virtualization (IT Expert Voice, July 29, 2010)
- Slashing Storage Costs For Historical Transactions (IT Expert Voice, July 22, 2010)
- Video Training For Windows 7: A Comparative Review (IT Expert Voice, May 03, 2010) (review of video training products)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- With Great Power Comes More Error Messages: Windows 7 Lessons Learned From Science Fiction, Comics, and the Movies (ITExpertVoice.com, December 24, 2009) (humor)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
Mozy:
Shortish bylined pieces for “The Mozy Blog”:
- UPS update: What’s new, what to remember (The Mozy Blog, July 1, 2012)
- Reminder, basic quick fixes for troubled gear (The Mozy Blog, June 28, 2012)
- Making your important info available to you online (The Mozy Blog, June 27, 2012)
- Obsolete tech accessories to keep one of: A short list (The Mozy Blog, June 21, 2012)
- Inventorying and IDing your tech stuff: quick tips (The Mozy Blog, June 11, 2012)
- Small tech stuff (too) easily lost or mislaid, some thoughts (The Mozy Blog, May 24, 2012)
- How To Select a Backup Service: Start By Identifying What Files You Have (The Mozy Blog, May 16, 2012)
- Yard sales – A good place for tech bargains (The Mozy Blog, May 10th, 2012)
Processor:
For Processor magazine (and their web site), I’ve done a mix:
- product news stories (assigned, based on press releases),
- feature articles
- Tech In-Depth articles.
- “Three Questions” Interviews
- Featured Product write-ups
- News Articles write-ups
- Messaging In The Enterprise — SMEs Are Putting Text Messaging & IM To Work (Processor, June 20, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 25, Page(s) 11 in print issue) (feature article)
- Patch Management Tools — These Products Help IT Admins Keep Systems Secure — There are a number of patch management products appropriate for small to midsized enterprises, and many enterprise-grade system management tools include patch management capabilities. (November 19, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 47)
- Keep The Network Humming Right Along – Don’t Let These Mistakes Throw You Off Track — It’s no surprise that people often make mistakes in setting up and running networks. Here’s a handful to watch for. (Processor, October 15, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 42)
- Tech In-Depth: Get Ready For IPv6 – The Next Version Means Transition Planning, Some Upgrades & Tweaks (Processor, July 30, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 16, Page(s) 21 in print issue)
- Tech In-Depth: Energy Star Certification For Enterprise Storage (Processor, July 16, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 15, Page(s) 33 in print issue)
(These are short three-question interviews.)
- 3 Questions: Manage & Track Software Goals & Quality – Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management Offerings Help IT With Testing & Change Management (Processor, July 2, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 14, Page(s) 35 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- 3 Questions: Solutions For A Virtual World: PHD Virtual Simplifies Backing Up & Restoring Virtual Machines (Processor, June 4, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 12, Page(s) 31 in print issue)
- 3 Questions: Real-Time Storage Control – NTP Software Helps SMEs Watch & Manage Shared User Data (Processor, April 23, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 9, Page(s) 33 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Asset Lifecycle Management: Scalable Helps SMEs Track & Manage Their Hardware & Software Assets (Processor, February 12, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 4; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Lighten The Security Load: ETSec Helps SMEs Protect Their LANs Through Products, Managed Services & Expertise (Processor, January 14, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 2; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- WAN Security Solved – ClearPath Networks Makes It Easy & Affordable (Processor, January 1, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 1; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Take The Hassle Out Of Repetitive Tasks — ScriptLogic Helps SMEs Simplify, Speed Up & Improve Windows Management Processes (Processor, December 18, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 30; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- A Tapeless Backup Approach — Idealstor Simplifies & Speeds Backups With Ejectable Disks (Processor, December 4, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 29; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Fight The Heat Wave — Future Facilities Helps Take The Heat Out Of Data Centers (Processor, November 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 27; Page(s) 18 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Put Your Systems On Autopilot – Kaseya’s IT Automation Software Improves IT Staff Effectiveness & Systems Performance (Processor, October 23, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 26; Pge(s) 45 in print issue)
- DataPreserve Gives Small Companies Big-Company Backup — Reseller-Based Online Backup Offerings Combine Features With Affordability (Processor.com, October 9, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 25; Page(s) 28 in print issue)
- One From Many — ScaleMP Uses Aggregation, Not Partitioning, For High-Performance Computing Needs (Processor, August 28, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 22, Page(s) 39 in print issue)
- Proper Office Furniture Improves Efficiency – Hergo Provides Furnishings For Your Computers & Servers (Processor, August 7, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 21, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Taking Care Of Aging IT Products – DMD Systems Recovery Buys Used Equipment For Recycle Or Resale (Processor, July 17, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 19, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Keeping Out Dirt, Heat, Noise & More — Simplex Isolation Systems Provides Products For Data Center Environmental Control (Processor, June 5, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 16, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Improving Your Physical Infrastructure – Snake Tray Reduces The Cost & Time It Takes To Wrangle Cables & Manage Airflow (Processor magazine, May 22, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 15) (vendor interview)
- 3 Questions: Real Virtualization Expertise – Fairway Consulting Can Help Design, Implement, Manage & Even Host Virtualization Solutions (Processor, April 10, 2009; Vol.31 Issue 12, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Save Money With Recycled Media – Storage Media Brokers Buys, Recertifies & Resells Tape Media (Processor, March 27, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 11; Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Storage Solutions For Resellers & OEMs – Condre Focuses On Savvy Storage Selling (Processor, February 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 6, Page(s) 23 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Cooling Where You Need It Most – Data Aire Provides Precision Air For IT Gear (Processor, December 19, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 51, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Arch Convergence Switches Handle Core Converged Traffic – Avaya Cajun Line Lives On As Acadia Family (Processor, December 5, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 49, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Recoup & Save On Backup Media – RecycleYourMedia.com Keeps Used Tape Safely In Circulation (Processor, November 7, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 45, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Support, Enhancements For Open-Source — Gizmox Visual WebGui Supercharges Web/Desktop Development (Processor, October 10, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 41) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Going Virtual – Certeon Accelerates Wide-Area Application Access (Processor, August 8, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 32 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: CMS Products Protect Data On Desktops & Notebooks Professional-Class Solutions To Encrypt, Back Up, Restore & Recover (Processor, July 4, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 27; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Tri-Mag Provides Power, Filters & Chassis — Offering Flexibility For Regular Or Custom Orders (Processor Magazine, June 6, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 23 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Cool Air To Go — Atlas Provides Portable Air Conditioning For Sale Or Rent (Processor magazine, May 30, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 22; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Upsite Helps Data Centers Keep Maximum Cool — Products & Education Optimize Existing Air Conditioning (Processor magazine, May 16, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 20; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: i-Tech Provides LCDs For All Occasions — Products Range From 1U Rackmounts To Digital Signage (Processor, April 25, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 17, Page 29) (vendor interview)
- Pulizzi Provides Powerful PDUs – Eaton Acquisition Powers Denser Enclosures, Monitors Both Power & Environment (Processor, April 4, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 14) (vendor interview)
- Barracuda Appliances Protect Your Network – Stopping Threats To Email, Web, IM & More (Processor, March 28, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 13, page 29) (vendor interview)
- Conserving IT Budgets With Refurbished Hardware – World Data Products Offers Full Life Cycle Support (Processor, March 7, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 10, page 31) (vendor interview)
- 3 Questions: Amerex Fights IT Fires — Clean Agent Fire Suppression Won’t Hurt IT Gear, Data, Or Staff (Processor, February 1, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 5) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: For Pre-owned Network Gear, Try DNI — The Secondary Market Can Offer First-Rate Prices (Processor, January 18, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 3) (vendor interview)
- Integrien Avoids, Reduces Downtime – Alive Combines, Analyzes Management Info From Multiple Systems, Levels (Processor, December 14, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 50) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Etasis Builds Better Power Supplies For Servers (Processor, November 16, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 46) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: i/o Data Centers Provides Digital-Grade Space – Outsourced Rack, Cage & Room/Suite Data Center Facilities That Stay Up (Processor, November 9, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 45)
- “Three Questions: Technical Furniture Fits Computers Into Offices” – Hergo Ergonomic Support Systems Provides Modular Racking & Cabinets (Processor magazine, October 12, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 41)
- Three Questions: XRoads Networks Focuses On UBM — Unified Bandwidth Management For Network Resource Control (Processor, August 3, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 31 Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- Certified Used Tapes Save Money — Tape Media Manufacturer Turns To Recycling Media — Three Questions for Graham Magnetics (Processor, July 13, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 28, Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- “Building Servers The Way Customers Like Them” — “Three Questions” for Servers Direct (Processor, June 8, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 23 Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- Featured Product: Simple Storage Software — Open-E’s DSS V6 Delivers Enterprise-Class (Processor, May 7, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 10, Page(s) 30 in print issue) (vendor/product profile)
- Speed Problem Identification – Fluke Networks OptiView Portable Network Analyzer Adds Network Mapping & More (Processor, November 2, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 44) (news article)
- Physical & Virtual Management — KACE’s Integrated Appliances Combine Systems Management Processor, October 5, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 40) (news story)
- DynaComm PointGuard: Integrated Endpoint Security – Protect Your Windows Endpoints, Ports & Mobile Media (Processor, August 31, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 35)
- Server Migrations Simplified – Quest Helps You Keep Users Connected During Big, Complex Mail Upgrades (Processor, August 24, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 34)
- Fault-Tolerant Storage Includes High-Efficiency Cache Mirroring, “Green” Non-Battery Backup — ftScalable Storage array subsystem from Stratus (Processor, June 29, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 26
- Server Portability/Recovery Solution Now Even More Flexible — PlateSpin Adds Block Mode To PowerConvert Workload Transfers (Processor, June 22, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 25)
- “Custom Console System Makes Mounting Monitors Easy” Winsted Talon 2 Provides Freestanding Command Consoles for control situations where wall-mounted monitors are not an option. (Processor, May 25, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 21)
- Erase Files Remotely & Securely — CyberScrub’s Compliance Suite Manages Erasure Over The Network (Processor, May 11, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 19)
- Better Management Of Your Data: Combining Data Sharing & Retention Makes For A Better Solution – Quantum StorNext 3.0 software (Processor magazine, May 4, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 18)
- Attachmate WinINSTALL 9.0 – Features Simplify Updates & Security Checks (Processor, April 13, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 15)
- Dual-Core Platforms For Security & Communications Appliances — American Portwell Offers Compact, Cost-Effective Hardware Choices (Processor, March 16, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 11, Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- Let Legacy Apps Keep On Trucking – BlueZone Access Server Provides Flexible, Secure Access (Processor, February 16, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 7, Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- Bringing Wi-Fi Phones To The Enterprise — New Handsets Support 802.11a/b/g, PBX Features & Office Usage — SpectraLink NetPhone 8000 (Processor, February 9, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 6 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- Panduit PoE Midspan Exhibits Versatility — Compact Units Add Power In 8-Port Increments (Processor, January 19, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 3 Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- AirTight Upgrades WLAN Service & Planning Tool — SpectraGuard Planner Plots Positions For APs, Sensors (Processor magazine, December 8, 2006 — Vol.28 Issue 49 Page(s) 19 in print issue)
- Blade-Based Rackmount Appliances — Overland ULTAMUS RAID Offers Storage For SANs (Processor, November 24, 2006; Vol.28 Issue 47; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Paving The Way For Change — Lumeta’s Migration Service Eases Move From IPv4 To IPv6 (Processor, November 3, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 44; Page(s) 20 in print issue)
- Keep Older Data Readily Available – PowerFile A3 Built To Replace Tape — Optical jukebox provides low-power, cost-effective near-line storage alternative (Processor, October 13, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 41; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Get The Legacy Connection – Hummingbird’s Connectivity 2007 Lets Business Users Access Mainframe & Unix Apps (Processor Magazine, September 22, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 38 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Identify, Prioritize & Report Security Risks – McAfee Enhances Its Management Portfolio — McAfee adds/integrates Foundstone, Preventsys (Processor, September 15, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 37 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Manage Your Media – Transition Networks Offers Free SNMP Software With A GUI (Processor magazine, September 8, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 36 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Integrating Legacy Apps – Verastream Host Integrator 6.0 Boasts Productivity Enhancements (Processor magazine, September 1, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 35)
- More Devices, Fewer Circuits — 208V, 60A Vertical PDUs From Aphel Help Reduce Rackmount Power Management Costs (Processor magazine, August 25, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 34)
- “Less Energy, More Memory” – SuperMicro’s Servers Aim For Efficiency & Reliability (Processor, August 4, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 31)
- Simplify Role Management – Courion Takes On Provisioning Complexities (Processor, July 21, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 29)
- Encryption Made Simple – MaXXan Adds Affordable, Scalable Line-Speed SAN Encryption (Processor, June 30, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 26)
- IdealStor Adds SATA Line To Ejectable-Drive, NAS Backup Products (June 9, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 23, Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Clean Up Your Desktop” – Cut Cable Clutter With The Belkin Flip 2-Port KVM (May 5, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 18; Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Astaro Unified-Threat Gateway Security Appliance (February 24, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 8 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- Free Add-On Software For Opengear Console Server: Let Admins Remotely Control Security Through Secure Desktop Tunneling (February 17, 2006 Vol.28 Issue 7 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Improve Application Access Security — Cloakware Server Password Manager Eliminates Hard-coding Requirement (January 6, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 1 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- Model Compliance: Skybox Assure Helps Ensure Optimal & Secure Network Configuration (December 16, 2005; Vol.27 Issue 50; Page(s) 21 in print issue)
- Panduit’s NetRunner Simplifies Rack Cabling — Organize Your Cables With Ease (September 2, 2005; Vol.27 Issue 35 Page(s) 20 in print issue)
- A Proactive Approach To Preventing Spyware — Acronis Adds Management Console & Agent-Based Operations (August 19, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 33 Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- Policy-Based Wi-Fi Security For The SME — Senforce Safeguards Systems From Wireless Computing Vulnerabilities (August 19, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 33 Page(s) 20 in print issue)
- Plenty Of Storage Space — NeoSMART Will Boost Tape Cartridge Capacities Over 10TB (August 5, 2005, Vol.27 Issue 31; Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- Protect Your SME From Internal Or External Attack Unified Threat Management With CyberGuard Desktop Security Appliance (August 5, 2005, Vol.27 Issue 31; Page(s) 19 in print issue)
- Stop Outbound Spam — Barracuda Firewall Helps Protect SMEs From Network Hijacking (July 8, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 27, Page(s) 19 in print issue)
- RIM Extends BlackBerry For Enterprises – New Development Framework Simplifies Wireless Applications (June 24, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 25 Page(s) 30 in print issue)
- Blending Application Access & Secure Granular Control — Citrix SSL VPN Appliance Offers The Best Of Both Worlds (Processor, June 10, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 23 Page(s) 14 in print issue)
- Early Detection To Prevent Water Leak Damage – Liebert Liqui-tect Monitoring System Detects Leaks In Critical Spaces (May 27, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 21 Page(s) 14 in print issue)
- Monitor SysAdmin, Developer Access To Key Servers: e-DMZ Security Offers Control Through Its eGuardPost Appliance (April 29, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 17 Page(s) 14 in print issue)
- Identify & Address Infrastructure Risks Symantec Service Spots Vulnerabilities & Suggests Fixes (April 29, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 17 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- Sun Offers Solaris 10 As Free Download – New Production Version Features Improvements To Performance, Security (March 18, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 11)
- Keep Tabs On Your Network — Tripwire Enterprise 5.0 Monitors Changes On Servers, Network Devices (March 18, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 11)
- Keep An Eye On Outbound Email — Barracuda’s New Firewall Blocks Spam, Viruses, Policy Violations (March 4, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 9 Page(s) 15 in print issue
- Dynamic Resource Allocation For SAP Users — IBM’s IDI For mySAP Helps Data Centers Simplify Through Virtualization (February 18, 2005 – Vol.27 Issue 7 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- “A New Approach To Network Storage – Zetera Introduces IP-Based Alternative — Zetera’s patent-pending network storage technology, uses IP’s connectionless UDP (Unreliable Data Protocol) for the storage fabric for a low-cost connection to network storage. (February 18, 2005, Vol. 27, Issue 7)
- A Data Center On Wheels – APC’s InfraStruXure Express Offers True Mobility — APC’s recently announced InfraStruXure Express offers an interesting twist. It’s essentially a data center in a truck — just add servers. (December 10, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 50)
- Cisco Adds Enhancements To CallManager Software — Version 4.1 Offers Better Security & Privacy For VoIP Calls (December 10, 2004 – Vol.26 Issue 50 Page(s) 26 in print issue)
- Turn A Hotspot Into A Hot Zone: Deploy WLANs To Wider Areas With Nortel’s Mesh Networking Products (November 26, 2004, Vol.26 Issue 48 Page(s) 30 in print issue)
- Stratus ftServer W Series 2300 — Fault-Tolerance At Sub-$10,000 Price (news article) (November 5, 2004, Vol.26 Issue 45, Page 32 in print issue)
- Cisco SAN-OS 2.0 — Extension, Security & Management Software Added To MDS 9000 SAN Family (news article) (Processor Magazine, November 5, 2004, Vol.26 Issue 45; page 34 in print issue)
- “Citrix GoToAssist 6.0” – New Version Offers Permission-Based Troubleshooting, Diagnostic Tools — GoToAssist extends a company’s reach to allow quick communication between call centers and customers, such as when [basic] support is too difficult to handle just by phone. (October 29, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 44)
- More Bang For Your Security Buck – CyberGuard Adds Firewall/VPN/IDS Device To Its Lineup (October 1, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 40)
- 20GB In Your Shirt Pocket: SmartDisk Targets The Mobile User With Its FireFly Drive (August 20, 2004, Vol.26 Issue 34)
- Multiterabyte SAS Array Gets First Public Demo — Maxtor, LSI Logic & Vitesse Put New Protocol In The Spotlight Processor, August 20, 2004)
- “Finding Talent For Your IT Department- New Economic Realities Mean New Hiring Priorities, Say Experts” — tips to help you make the best decision when hiring IT staff, especially for companies with 250 to 1,000 employees where the IT development and/or support group may be smaller than desirable even in the best of time (March, 2004, Vol. 26, Issue 12)
- IBM’s Roadmap For DB2: Big Blue Discusses The Future Of Its Database Software (January 30, 2004).
- “Netgear Teams With Intel, Ramps Up Security — ProSafe Access Points Will Feature The IXP422 Networking Processor” — NetGear goes with Intel’s IXP422 processor for ProSafe line, starting with WG302 ProSafe 802.11g Wireless Access Point (Processor, Vol. 25 Issue 52, December 26, 2003)
- Power & Data On The Move — With IEEE Standard Ratified, Power Over Ethernet Vendors, Products Advance , (Processor, December 12, 2003) — Power over Ethernet (PoE) gets in gear with IEEE ratification of 802.3af standard.
- Linksys WRV54G Wireless Broadband Router — New Offering Includes IPsec VPN For $229 (November 28, 2003)
- Remote Computing Power On Demand — IBM Adds More OS Options To Virtual Server Service (November 28, 2003)
- “Trapeze Simplifies WLAN Management” (Processor, Vol. 25, Issue 44, October 31, 2003) — Trapeze’s Ringmaster software lightens the wireless LAN design, install and maintenance load for sysadmins.
ReadWriteWeb:
- Comparing Desktop VMs In The Cloud (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 13, 2011)
- Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 12, 2011)
- Tablets Become IT Admin New Mobility Tool (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 11, 2011)
- Geminare Offers Real-Time Cloud Failover (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 10, 2011)
- For High Availability, Look Towards Fault Tolerance (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 7, 2011)
- Cost Effective Clustering with ScaleMP (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 6, 2011)
- Are You Ready for Backup Bingo? (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 5, 2011)
- iPad as a Notebook Alternative:
- Part 1 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 3, 2011)
- Part 2 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 4, 2011)
- Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs (ReadWriteWeb, July 15, 2011) (feature)
Ricoh’s Work Intelligent.ly
(Custom/sponsored content – some with my byline, some without)
- File Sync and Share: Do You Have the Right Program For Your Enterprise? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, March 29, 2016) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- 3 Easy Ways Your Small Business Can Reduce Costs (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, February 06, 2016) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Data Security Best Practices Every Small Business Should Follow (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, November 10, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Bringing the Cloud Down to Earth: Tangible Uses for the Cloud (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, November 05, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- How to Implement a DevOps Structure in Your IT (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, November 01, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Disaster Recovery: How to Bounce Back from a Security Breach (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article)
- How to Protect Your Enterprise From DDoS Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 16, 2015) (sponsored article)
- The Pros (and Cons) of Consumption-First IT Testing (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 27, 2015) (sponsored content)
- The Ultimate Guide to Outsourcing Elements of Your Business (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 19, 2015) (sponsored content)
- How SMBs Can Become 21st Century Businesses (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 18, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Is Your Email In Danger of Being Hacked? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 13, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Beyond IT: The Non-Tech Guide to Implementing BYOD (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 05, 2015) (sponsored content)
- Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Start Prioritizing IT Security (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 24, 2015)
- How to Respond to Next-Gen Phishing and Malware Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 20, 2015)
- Open Source Software: What Are the Downsides? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 17, 2015)
- Is your IT Infrastructure Ready for the New World of Work? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 09, 2015)
- Are Containers the Answer to Your Virtualization Problem? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 07, 2015)
- 3 Tech Security Threats Facing Businesses Today (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 06, 2015)
- Remote Desktop Access: Keeping You Connected to Your Information (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 03, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
Sears ManageMyLife:
- Dern’s CES 2010 Reports: Coverage from and of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Tuesday, January 4, 2010 (including events before the show floor opened) through Sunday, January 10, 2010. (I was there Wednesday, January 06 through Friday, January 8.)
- Tablet PCs, 3D TVs Wow The Crowds At CES 2010 (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES 2010 Report: eBooks, Notebooks, Accessories Abound (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Day 3: Affordable Audio, Picture, Video Tools Offer New Creative Outlets (Sears ManageMyLife, January 08, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Wrap-up: From iPhone to Automobile, There’s At Least One New Product You’ll Want (Sears ManageMyLife, January 12, 2010) (show coverage)
SCMedia
These articles are sponsored — but writers are not told who the sponsor is until the project is done. (Note, you have to register to get to the articles, but there’s no cost to you.)
- Cryptojacking: The growing malware menace (SCMedia, July 2019)
SFRevu:
I’ve mostly written a mix of reviews, reports, and other stuff:
- book reviews,
- Event reports: science fiction conventions, technology events, and more
- Comic book/strip & graphic novel reviews,
- Movie, TV, audio and multimedia reviews
- other stuff
and I did a Comic book review column for about a year:
Book Reviews
- A Stir of Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman — This prequel to Ms. Hoffman’s A RED HEART OF MEMORIES and PAST THE SIZE OF DREAMING isn’t quite as good as either these, but it’s good enough. A YA (also for former YA’s) tale of how Susan Backstrom gets involved with ghosts, the haunted house, and magic-wielding fellow teens in contemporary Oregon. (August 2003)
- A Fistful of Sky, by Nina Kiriki Hoffman — A FISTFUL OF SKY doesn’t involve any of Hoffman’s previous novels’ characters, but, like them, it’s chockfull of magic, here, centered around the LaZelle family, who lives in Southern California, who as a rule have magical powers which typically manifest somewhere during puberty/ adolescence; in particular, we follow the tale, trials and challenges of Gypsum, a.k.a. “Gyp,” who, at age 21, hasn’t yet manifested any powers. Recommended.
Science Fiction Convention/Event Reports
- Report From Readercon 25 (science fiction convention report) (SFRevu.com, July 15, 2014)
- Arisia 2013, Photos and a short report (SFRevu.com, January 18, 2013) (Arisia is one of the Boston-area’s annual science fiction conventions)
- Event report: Arisia 2012 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January 16, 2012)
- Report from Boston ComicCon, April 30-May 1, 2011 (SFRevu.com, June 6, 2011) (event report)
- Event report, Arisia 2011 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2011)
- A look at Arisia 2010 — slide show of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January, 2010)
- Anticipation, the 67th Worldcon — August 6th – 10th, 2009 (SFRevu.com, posted August 6, 2009) (event coverage)
- Boskone 44 convention report — Brief report of the Boskone 44 science fiction convention held February 2007 in Boston, with Guest of Honor David Gerrold (SFRevu, posted March 2007)
- Boskone 41 Con Report: A Modest But Enjoyable Event — Boskone, 2004 (SFRevu.com, posted March 2004) (event coverage)
- The Dern Report: First Make Sure You’re Attending — My report & pix of TorCon3, the 2003 World Science Fiction Convention in Toronto over Labor Day Weekend. (See Sharon and Bruce’s Worldcon Adventure for lots more pix!
Comic Book/Strip & Graphic Novel Reviews
- “Graphic Novel” revew: SUPREME: THE RETURN, and SUPREME: THE STORY OF THE YEAR, Alan Moore’s comic books (here, collected in two trade paperback volumes, a.k.a. “graphic novels”) about Supreme. In these tales of this Superman-like character, Moore again shows he’s the master of superhero comic genres (and cliches), including Mad pastiches, cosmic plots, big trouble, humorous bits, and self-aware, self-referential characters. (August 2003)
- The Life Eaters by David Brin and Scott Hampton (SFRevu.com, November 2003) (Graphic novel review)
- “Graphic Novel” review Alex Raymond’s Flash Gordon Volume I — Raymond created space-opera adventurer Flash Gordon in these Sunday funny pages stripes; this is planned as the first of three, collecting these long out-of-print strips, here the first two year’s worth. (August 2003)
Movie, TV, audio and multimedia reviews
- Movie Review: John Carter (of Mars) (SFRevu.com, April 02, 2012)
- Movie Review: The Incredibles (SFRevu.com, November 5, 2004)
- The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen (SFRevu.com, July 2003) (Movie review)
Other Stuff
- Algis Budrys, 1931 – 2008 (SFRevu.com, June 12, 2008)
Daniel’s Comic Book Column
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 14 (December 2002) — Holiday recommendations: Graphic Novels Make Great Gifts. My final column (but not appearance) for SFRevu. (I’m shifting to uncolumnated reviews of graphic novels, for loose/wide definition thereof.)
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column #13 (November, 2002) — Sonic Disrupters, Y:The Last Man and other comics that are inarguably science fiction.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 12 (SFRevu.com, October 2002) — A Year, A Few More Quickie Reviews, Some TV.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 11 (September 2002) — Quickie Reviews Of (Some Of The) Comics I’ve Been Reading.
- (August 2002) — Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 10 — Green Arrow; other DC and Marvel updates.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 9 (July 2002) — Keeping Abreast Of Comic News — Where to find info; auto-bios by Stan Lee, Julie Schwartz; Kavalier & Clay.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 8 (June 2002) — Keeping abreast of comic news; musings on Crises of Infinite/Multiple Earths.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 7 (May 2002) — Spider-Man: The Movie, and other potpourri
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 6 (April 2002) — Free Comic Book Day! Spider-Man Retrospective!
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column #5 (March 2002) — Suggested comics from Alternative/Independent publishers.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column #4 (February 2002) — The Doom Patrol!
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column, #3 (January 2002) — “For a good place to start, try the JUSTICE LEAGUE OF AMERICA.”
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column, #2 (December 2001) — Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Strikes Again, plus Straczynski does Spidey, Morrison’s X-men, FF still Fantastic, and more.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column, #1 (November 2001) — The start of a new comic. No X-genes, radioactivity or lightning bolts involved in this origin!
Smartbear’s Software Quality Matters Blog
SmartBear Software’s Software Quality Matters blog (previously called Software Quality Connection) is aimed at “software developers, testers, and IT professionals.”
- 15 Code Editors For the iPad – For Free or Very Cheap (Smartbear Software Quality Matters, July 27, 2012)
- 3 Professional Reasons For Computer Professionals To Attend Science Fiction Conventions (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, May 05, 2011) (feature)
- Testing Apps For SmartPhones and Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store) (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, March 23, 2011) (feature)
Sm@rt Partner (Sm@rt Reseller):
- Pass the Aspirin InteropNET and other trade show networks deal with interoperability problems. (July 19, 1998)
- Sayonara, Spam (October 12, 1998)
- (September 28, 1998)
Talend (including Stitch):
- 4 Things You Should Know For A Career In Data Analytics (Stitch, November 19, 2019) (feature article)
TechBeacon:
(TechBeacon is sponsored by HPE.com, but HP exercised no control over its content, and there was no requirement to mention HP or its products.)
- Emerging server technologies: 6 hot trends to watch (TechBeacon.com, August 02, 2016) (feature)
- Network functions virtualization: What it is, and why you need it (TechBeacon.com, June 16, 2016) (feature)
TechRevu:
- Digital Experience NYC Summer 2019 (TechRevu.com, June 27, 2019)
- Products Seen at Pepcom Holiday Spectacular 2018 NYC (TechRevu.com, October 2, 2018)
- SPTechCon Boston 2018 (TechRevu.com, September 6, 2019)
- Dern@CES2017 – Tech gadgets and gizmos galore!
- DERN@CES2017: (Show Me The) Biggish Tablets, USB-C Gear, Mirrorless Cameras, Mobile Power, And More Please! — Based on pre-show PR info, some of the tech I’m looking forward to see and learn about. (TechRevu.com, December 13, 2016)
- DERN@CES2017: Some Things I Liked, Or You Might, and Some (TechRevu.com, January 23, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 2 of 3: Storage, Desktop/Notebook, Headphones, Cables, Even a UMPC (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 3 of 3: From Media & Entertainment to Power, Home, Sundries & A Dangdest Thing (TechRevu.com, January 25 2017)
- Review, Lenovo U310 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (TechReview, February 6, 2013)
- CES 2013: The Dern Report from CEA — Ten interesting products. (TechRevu, January 13, 2013) (also posted to CES 2013: The Dern Report (TechMonkeyMag.com, January 13, 2013)
- Event report: Pepcom NYC Holiday Spectacular An evening of new and upcoming tech toys\\\\\\products (September 15,2011)
- Lenovo All-In-One IdeaCentre B305 Packs Performance Power And Multimedia Pleasure Into Pleasing Package (TechRevu.com, March 15, 2011) (review)
- CES 2011 coverage — I didn’t make it to the show this year, but still managed to file several stories:
- CES 2011: Business Tools Amidst Consumer Stuff New Notebooks, Headsets, Software And More! (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: Electronics For Consumers — From Bag/Seat Combos To Living Room Videoconferencing, CES 2011 Has It All (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: More Stuff For Businesses And Consumers (TechRevu.com, January 12, 2011) (event coverage)
- Lenovo ThinkPad x100e – An Affordable Notebook That Means Business (TechRevu.com, December 8, 2010) (review)
- Gilbane Conference Boston: Web Management for the Enterprise (TechRevu, December 3, 2010) (event report)
- Sylvania Netbook Sylvania Netbook: Not The Netbook You Were Looking For (TechRevu.com, November 7, 2010) (review)
- Review: HP Mini 5102 Netbook (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2010)
- 2010 VMware Virtualization Forum — Products and vendors at this June 3, 2010 Boston event (TechRevu.com, June 03, 2010) (event report)
- Lite-On eTAU208 USB External Optical Drive (TechRevu.com, February 16, 2010) (hardware review)
- Dern@CES 2010: What I Saw, What I’d Like To Buy Or Try (TechRevu, January 14, 2010) (show coverage)
- Review: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Netbook — It weighs 3 pounds, but the 12.1″ display makes this the first netbook I can be seriously productive with. (TechRevu, November 23, 2009) (product review)
- Make Your Tax Prep Less Taxing: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008 (TechRevu, February 25, 2009) (product write-up, updated review info to come)
- Reports from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (January 5-11, 2009, in Las Vegas):
- CES Show Report: The Coolest Picks at CES 2009 — My short list and photo slide show (thanks to PictoBrowser of the best/most interesting things I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (TechRevu.com, January 19, 2009, show report)
- CES 2009: FINAL REPORT OF WHAT I SAW — My topic-sorted bullet list of what I saw at CES 2009 that looked interesting. (TechRevu.com, January 15, 2009) (show report)
- CES Pre-Show Kickoff Event: “CES Unveiled” , including Daniel and Ernest’s Preshow CES Podcast — stuff seen at CES’ CES Unveiled 60+ vendor press event (TechRevu.com, January 6, 2009)
- CES 2009: Off To Another Consumer Electronics Show! — a brief pre-show report on what’s to come (TechRevu.com, January 4, 2009)
- Event Report: Pepcom Wine/Dine/Demo NYC November 2008 From Asus and HP to ClickFree and PlantSense, a evening’s look at showed recent, new and upcoming consumer/prosumer/business tech products (TechRevu.com, December 02, 2008)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- Show Report: Enterprise 2.0 Conference — Are Businesses Ready For Social Technology? – a quick view from the show floor, Boston, June 9-12, 2008 (TechRevu.com, June 12, 2008) (show report)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- Dern’s Picks For CES 2008 — The products I’d give awards to, if I had awards to give, and some of the others I found the most interesting/intriguing. (TechRevu.com, January 30, 2008)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- What Daniel Saw at CES 2008 — My partial summary of what I saw at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, sorted by product category, with some comments. (See my Dern @ CES 2008 reports in my Trying Technology blog for more products and commentary.) (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2008)
- Olympus Evolt E510 10MP Digital SLR Camera — Nice sub-$1,000 DSLR with CCD Shift Image Stabilization and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses (TechRevu.com, October 1, 2007)
- Review: Fujifilm Finepix S700 7MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (TechRevu.com, June 2007)
- Keep Your Notebook Running Longer With APC’s outboard Universal Notebook Batteries — Outboard batteries offer more flexibility, time than spare in-board ones. (TechRevu.com, August 30, 2006)
- Power’s Outlets To Go Provide Portable Plugins — MonsterPower’s new 4- and 6-Outlet Outlets2Go give travellers enough places to plug in (mini-review) (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2006)
- SigGraph 2006 in Boston — Summary review of the exhibits and a few show floor pictures (TechRevu.com, August 4, 2006)
- If it’s Tuesday, this must be CeBIT — An overview of the CeBIT 2005 show in Hannover, Germany with some local color, sights and sounds, and an odd picture from the show floor. (TechRevu, March23, 2005)
- Hardware Review: Plextor PlexWriter 48/24/48U Hi-Speed USB CD-RW drive (and brief review of Roxio Easy CD Creator 5 software) — At sub-$200 MRSP, Plextor’s new PlexWriter 48/24/48U Hi-Speed USB CD-RW drive may not be the cheapest, but at MSRP of $155, it’s a fair price for a solid package of the right features. (July 22, 2003)
- Hardware Review: MicroSolutions Model 155015 80GB USB2.0 Backpack External Hard Drive (May 2003) — For reliable backups of data and of system images, external hard drives like MicroSolutions’ 80 GB USB 2.0 Backpack offer a compelling alternative — or, better, complement — to CD/DVD burners.
- NEC MobilePro 790/780 Jupiter Class Handheld PCs Score w/DPD (January 2003) — I’ve been using this two-pound hand-held PC, and/or its predecessor, for two+ years now, with good reason: it’s one of the perfect writer/journalist-on-the-go machines, thanks to a great keyboard, instant-on, and all-day power. Sure, it runs Windows CE, but that’s not a big negative (except for lack of drivers…).
TechMonkey:
(I’m a contributing editor to this, and also to TechRevu.com, its sibling site.)
- CES 2013: The Dern Report from CEA — Ten interesting products. (TechRevu, January 13, 2013) (also posted to CES 2013: The Dern Report (TechMonkeyMag.com, January 13, 2013)
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2012: A Stroll Through The Exhibit Hall (show floor report & slide show) (December 03, 2012)
- CES 2012 – CES Unveiled: Crowded Confusion on Press Day (TechMonkeyMag.com, January 12, 2012)
TechTarget:
I’ve news, reviews and features for a number of TechTarget sites, including:
- Brighthand.com (smartphone news/reviews)
- NotebookReview.com
- SearchSMBStorage.com
- TabletPCReview.com
- TechnologyGuide.com
Brighthand.com:
Brighthand does smartphone news and reviews. Most of the apps and many of the accessories I’ve reviewed here have been for the iPhone.
- Nine Handy Airline Travel Apps for iPhone & iPad (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com site, December 23, 2012)
- Review: Dropbox for iPhone: Multimedia Storage in the Cloud (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, August 29, 2012)
- Using Your iPhone for Summertime Reading (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, July 24, 2012)
- Four iPhone Privacy Apps for Protecting Your Content from Prying Eyes (TechTarget’s Brighthand Staff March 23, 2012) (review)
- MacPhun FX Photo Studio Review: Cool Photo Sharing & Special Effects for iPhones (TechTarget Brighthand, January 2012) (review)
- Square Credit Card Reader Review: Remarkably Easy (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, January 28, 2012) (iOS app review)
- Low-Priced iPhone Accessories Are Great as Holiday Gifts, or Any Time (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Download Lowdown: 10 Must-Have App Types for Your iPhone (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Dragon Remote Microphone App for iOS Review: Using Your iPhone for PC Speech Recognition (TechTarget Brighthand, November 24, 2011) (review)
- Corel Slingshot for iOS Review: Share Photos From Your iPhone Through Facebook (TechTarget Brighthand.com, November 3, 2011)
- TK-421 iPhone Case With Flip-Out Keyboard from ThinkGeek Review (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, September 4, 2011) (iPhone accessory review)
- Boingo Wi-Finder for iPhone Review: Finding Hotspots Everywhere(TechTarget Brighthand.com, August 6, 2011)
- Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display from ThinkGeek.com (Brighthand.com, July 30, 2011) (review)
- MotionX-GPS Review: Full-Featured Navigation for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 17, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (hardware review)
- Dragon Search for iPhone Review (TechTarget Brighthand.com, April 8, 2011) (software review)
- Dragon Dictation for iPhone Review (February 3, 2011) (software review)
NotebookReview.com:
- How To Back Up Your Social/Cloud Data: FaceBook, Twitter, Gmail, and more (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, July 3, 2014)
- WinZip System Utilities Suite Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, March 13, 2013)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 User Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com site, August 31, 2011) (product review)
SearchSMBStorage:
- Blade storage for SMBs: The pros and cons (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage, April 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, November 24, 2008) (short feature article)
- MAID and other energy-saving storage technologies for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 25, 2008) (short feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: Seven steps for outsourcing data storage for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, August 11, 2008) (feature article)
TabletPCReview.com:
- How To Use an Apple iPad to Remote Control a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, July 22, 2014)
- How to Connect a PC or Tablet Via 4G Wireless (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, February 12, 2014)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- Top Classroom Note-Taking Apps for the iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, August 26, 2013)
- Eight Free eReader Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, May 19, 2013)
- Best Apps For Meeting Health and Fitness Resolutions TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, January 05, 2013) (roundup review)
- Going on Vacation: iPad or Laptop? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2012)
- Ten Cool Trip Planning Apps for the iPad TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, August 16, 2012)
- How Do You Get Photos Onto an Apple iPad? — Affordable SD card accessories (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 25, 2012) (review)
- Join.Me Review: Free & Easy Screen Sharing from PCs to iPads (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 15, 2012) (review)
- BAM! POW! What are the Best iPad Comic Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, April 13, 2012)
- Apple iBooks 2 Review: Easy Reading on Your iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, March 26, 2012)
- CloudOn Review: The Best Way of Getting MS Office on an Apple iPad? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, February 17, 2012) (iPad app review)
- How to Choose an iPad Keyboard, And Which is the Best, Part 1 and Part 2 (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2011) – a look at several Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad
- What Role Will Windows 8 Play in Enterprise Tablet Adoption? (TabletPCReview.com, November 11, 2011) (feature article)
- What are the Essential Apple iPad Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, November 3, 2011) (ten-or-so good apps to get to start with)
TechnologyGuide.com:
- How To Turn Your Smartphone into a Business Phone (TechTarget’s TechnologyGuide.com, September 25, 2013)
T.H.E. Journal:
- Taking Inventory — Benefits of IT software, hardware asset management (in K-12 schools and school districts) (T.H.E. Journal, June 2007)
My Trying Technology blog:
- Don’t Try This: Watering Down The Music — MP3 player taking a washing and keeping on moshing (My Trying Technology blog, May 8, 2008)
- Fix One, Fry One, Buy One: Death Of A Motherboard — In which Daniel proves he’s not as smart a computer-fixer-guy as he thought he was… (My Trying Technology blog, May 1, 2008)
- Assault On Batteries, #1 – You Irreplaceable You (My Trying Technology blog, April 25, 2008)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #4 — (Some of) The Products I Saw At CES 2008 (My Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #3 — A Few Words (Well, Paragraphs) AboutThe Multi-Vendor Press/Analyst-Only Events (My Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #2 — Sunday – Storage Visions, Marty Winston’s Cherry Picks (My Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #1 — Consume Electronics! In Vegas! (My Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
Verizon:
These are news/feature information sites sponsored by Verizon. (Note, not all articles have bylines.)
- Put Your Smartphone or Tablet Camera to Good Business Use: Cameras in today’s mobile devices do much more than take pictures. (Verizon Solution Labs, July 3, 2013)
- Succeeding with Mobile Payments (Verizon Solution Labs, July, 2013)
- Remote Desktop Access — Almost Like Being There (Verizon Solution Labs, March 27, 2013)
VPNHaus:
(Note: VPNHaus.com is sponsored by NCP Engineering; I quote one of their guys, and they got the final edit, but there’s no product mentions)
- Don’t Worry, IPv6 Won’t Break Your Existing IPsec VPN, Part 1 and Part 2 (VPNhaus, October 25 and 27, 2011) (Note: VPNHaus.com is sponsored by NCP Engineering; I quote one of their guys, and they got the final edit, but there’s no product mentions)
VON Magazine:
VON Magazine is/was Jeff Pulver’s Voice On the Net magazine!). I was initially a columnist (“VoiceOvers”); then I was a Contributing Editor, doing a feature article each issue.
Note: If the link to an entry you are looking for is broken, contact me and I can email you the article.
- The Skype Phenomenon: The mania continues (January 2006) (note, you’ll need JavaScript to see this)
- Speech Recognition And VoIP: Can You Tell What I’m Saying Now? (December 2005) (note, you’ll need JavaScript to see this)
- Voice Over WiFi: A Work In Progress (VON Magazine, November 2005)
- Now You See– and Hear It: IP Conferencing & Collaboration is on the rise (October 2005)
- The New World of Prepaid Voice — Say this three times really fast: Plenty people, providers, prefer prepaid packets. (September 2005)
- Pay as You Packetize — VoIP billing technology finally matures. (August 2005)
- Regulatory Compliance & VoIP: More government rules on the way (July 2005)
- Exploring the Secondary Market – The Market for Second-Hand VoIP Equipment is Still in First Gear” (June 2005)
Columns:
- Fitting VoIP into Reality — Pet Peeves, worries and some small hurdles for VoIP. (March 2005)
- UPS for VoIP — With great (voice) responsibility comes the need for great power. (February 2005)
- What Matters — Wireless protocols and technologies that may impact VoIP (January 2005)
- Cutting through the Expo Fog — As VoIP surfaces at wider-turf shows, vendors need to address Quality-of-Information (Nov/Dec 2004)
- Of Cannibals, Clowns and Consumers — The commoditization of VoiP; PDAs get a wakeup call. (Sept/Oct 2004)
- VoIP at N+I/Vegas — VoIP strives for interoperability as it continues to mature. (July/Aug 2004)
- VoIP isn’t Sci-Fi, it’s worse Truth is stranger (and a lot less trouble-free) than fiction (VON Magazine, May/June 2004)
- (Vo)IP at CES 2004 — Some consumer VoIP products showed up at this year’s Consumer Electronic Show in Vegas. (March/April 2004)
- Planning, Power and Voice over IP — Planning and design tools For VoIP Over WiFi; Power over Ethernet for VoIP; Power backup plans (January/February 2004)
- (Vo)IP Meets 3G: Net Over Cell Phones — When IP meets 3G: When do packet-enabled wireless phone services really become useful? (November/December 2003)
- Look VON, No Wires! (Voice Over WiFi), (September/October 2003) — The first issue, my first column.
WebMaster:
- Protect or Serve – Site scaling for survival (April 1997)
Writer’s Market”:
- “Record Keeping and Pricing,” 2013 Writer’s Market, pages 100-109
Sorted Chronologically, Newest-To-Oldest
By-lined and non-bylined articles, and PR projects, that I’ve done, newest-to-oldest, include:
- Catching Up On Reading Nina Kiriki Hoffman (File770.com, December 23, 2023)
- The Children Who Ate All Their Halloween Candy Too Soon (File770.com, October 31, 2023) (One of my Dern Grim Bedtime Tales (Few Of Which End Well))
- Help! Timmy Fell In The Gravity Well! (File770.com, October 22, 2023)
- Another Dern Not-Quite-A-Review: Lawrence Block’s “The Burglar Who Met Fredric Brown” (File770.com, September 12, 2023)
- Careers Profile: The Power Engineer Electrifying John Deere’s Tractors, Trucks, and More — Brij Singh is modernizing farm and industrial vehicles (IEEE Spectrum: posted online August 22, 2023; print: September 2023, pp. 21-22)
- Reduced Budgets Impacting Upcoming TV/Video Seasons and Projects (File770.com, August 8, 2023) (humor)
- Careers Profile: From EE to VC: Eileen Tanghal’s Journey – At Black Opal Ventures, she’s working to diversify venture capital (IEEE Spectrum, May 11, 2023)
- An SFnal Weekend in Toronto: A Slide-Show Report: Even without a con, Toronto can still be SFnal (File770.com, May 6, 2023)
- Daniel Dern Review: Conan – Blood of the Serpent (File770.com, May 2, 2023)
- 3 Technologies CPA Firms Must Leverage in 2023 (Cloud hosting; digital transformation; robot process automation) (ICPAS Insight, Spring 2023)
- Careers Profile: This Harvard Law Professor is an Expert on Digital Technology: Jonathan L. Zittrain is also involved in tech policy (IEEE Spectrum: web version: April 21, 2023; print edition, May 2023 pages 21-23)
- Careers Profile: Eugene H. Spafford: Malware Nemesis: The Purdue professor has been fighting cybersecurity threats for decades (IEEE Spectrum: web version, February 16, 2023)
- Careers Profile: Craig Partridge Is Still Working to Improve Internet Traffic: He developed the first high-speed router 40 years ago (IEEE Spectrum: web version: October 21, 2022)
- Careers Profile: Melanie Olsen — Ensuring Underwater Robots Survive in Hot Tropical Waters: Australia’s ReefWorks brings autonomous marine systems out of the lab (IEEE Spectrum, September 15, 2022)
- Careers Profile, Magdalene Maluta, ARC Ride Global — Building a Fleet of Personal EVs in Kenya: This engineer keeps hundreds of electric bikes, scooters, and rickshaws on the road (IEEE Spectrum, August 18, 2022) (web version)
- This Startup Builds USVs That Collect Data About Oceans: The lightweight solar-powered drone operates nonstop for months (IEEE Spectrum: online, July 15, 2022) — Careers profile on Julie Angus, Open Ocean Robotics
- Finding A More Complete (Little) Nemo — Upcoming Bargain Book Alert, Plus A Few Snakes-Hands And Rabbit-Holes (File770.com, July 13, 2022)
- This VC Is Betting Big on Flying Taxis and Scooters: Adam Grosser says the transportation sector is ripe for investment (IEEE Spectrum: online, June 14, 2022)
- Testing Products for Consumer Reports: Maria Rerecich checks that they work as claimed (IEEE Spectrum — online, May 13, 2022; page 19, June 2022 print issue)
- Careers: Yung-Hsiang Lu — How Purdue University Commercializes Its Research (IEEE Spectrum.com – online: April 15, 2022; print edition, May 2022, page 17)
- The Integrated Designer: Magaly Sandoval-Pichardo’s vast range of experience lets her make the smallest circuits (IEEE Spectrum, March 22, 2022 online; page 17 April 2022 print edition)
- Reading Daily Comic Strips Online (File770.com, March 23, 2022)
- Sponsored Post: OPPO’s MariSilicon X Imaging NPU Amps Up Night Video for New Find X5 Smartphones (Anandtech.com (Sponsored Post), March 22, 2022
- Interview with Carol Pinchefsky About Her New Book, Turn Your Fandom Into Cash (File770.com, March 02, 2022)
- The Tapas Bar At The End Of The Expanse: Non-Spoilery Remarks After Finishing Book 9: Leviathan’s Fall (File770.com, January 7, 2021)
- Whose Foundation Is This Anyway? (File770.com, September 21, 2021)
- Wait, Wait, A Few Dern Moments: Notable Digital Freebies (F ile770.com, August 03, 2021)
- Better together: IT pros and low-code programs (TechRadar.com, December 16, 2021) (Sponsored article)
- What kind of low-code apps should citizen developers build? (TechRadar, December 07, 2021) (Sponsored)
- How to turn civilians into citizen developers (TechRadar, December 07, 2021) (Sponsored)
- Learning Options For Aspiring Additive Manufacturing Professionals and Students (GrabCAD.com, December 1, 2021)
- Career Profile: Becoming a Leader at NASA: Marcellus Proctor oversees major space projects (IEEE Spectrum, October 19, 2021)
- “How low-code helps people creatively meet their application needs” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
- “How citizen developers can solve the pro-code talent crisis” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
- “With the help if IT anyone can build low cost apps fast” (TechRadar, September 20, 2021) (Sponsored)
- Career Profile: Safety at Scale: GM’s Ankur Ganguli: Interdisciplinary experience is the key to her automotive career (IEEE Spectrum, August 24, 2021)
- Career Profile: From Spacecraft to Sensor Fusion Iverson Bell leveraged opportunities and risks to create a flexible skill set (IEEE Spectrum, July 2021)
- Career Profile: Engineer in Secret — Sandia’s Dennisa Thomas ensures systems work as intended (IEEE Spectrum, posted June 22,2021); and as Engineering Secrets (Spectrum magazine, July 2021, page 19)
- Tips for Recycling Computers, Phones and Other E-waste Successfully (Earth911.com, June 17, 2021)
- The Top 7 Schools with Additive Manufacturing Labs (GrabCAD.com, May 3, 2021
- Career Profile: S.B. Divya: How This EE Combines Engineering With Writing Some of the Best Sci-Fi Around IEEE Spectrum, (online) May 21, 2021 (online); page 19, June 2021 issue; and via IEEE’s viewer
- Career Profile: Bruce Schneier Wants You to Make Software Better (IEEE Spectrum, April 28, 2021)
- Career Profile: Privacy Entrepreneur Adrian Gropper (IEEE Spectrum, posted March 26, 2021); also online via nxtbook.com; and hardcopy, IEEE Spectrum, April 2021 issue, page 17)
- Why Smart Factories Need 3D Printers to be Connected (GrabCAD.com, April 22, 2021)
- APIs and SDKs: Integrating 3D Printing Into Your Manufacturing Software Ecosystem (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2021)
- Career Profile: Jeannette Plante: Saving NASA Missions Before They Go Wrong (IEEE Spectrum, March 2021, page 17)
- Boskone 2021 Pre-Con Report (File770.com, February 5, 2021)
- Arisia 2021: A Brief Dern’s- and Web’s-Eye View (File770.com, January 27, 2021)
- Career Profile: Carl Howe – Completely Changing Careers—and Still Coding (IEEE Spectrum, January 26, 2021)
- Recycling Mystery: Black-Colored Plastic (Earth911.com, January 7, 2021)
- Career Profile: Simone Campanoni Creating Better Software Compilers For Faster Computing (IEEE Spectrum, January 2021 — page 15 in the print edition)
- How To Donate Container Deposit Refunds to Worthy Causes (Earth911.com, November 11, 2020)
- Career Profile: When User Experience Means Life or Death?: Information architect Merryl Gross designs UX that averts calamities (IEEE Spectrum.com, October 21, 2020; IEEE Spectrum November 2020 issue)
- Plastic Bag and Plastic Film Recycling for Beginners — Why/How/Where tips (Earth911.com, October 7, 2020)
- Hankera-Pankera: A Not-Quite-A-Review Of Heinlein’s Pursuit Of The (File770.com, October 7, 2020)
- How Much Does 3D Printer Material Cost?(GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2020)
- File 770’s Dublin 2019 Coverage (done both as a Page and as a “Scroll” (post)) (File770.com, July 25, 2020) — Links to File770’s 30+ Convention Reports and 60+ other WorldCon/Hugo-related Scrolls and Items (“Items” are sub-sections in a Scroll)
- My Final Report From the Dublin 2019 WorldCon (File770.com, July 18, 2020) — Includes a short video of Spider Robinson, singing a Beatles song!
- How Much You Spend On a 3D Printer Depends on What You Want It to Do (GrabCAD.com, July 14, 2020)
- A Star Wars Song Parodies Sampler: Because OGH Asked For It (File770.com, July 9, 2020)
- How 3D Printing Empowers Artists (GrabCAD.com, May 19, 2020)
- I Am Going To Mouse My Shot: Hamilton Flick Comes to Disney+ on July 3 (File770.com, May 13, 2020)
- MIT’s Professor David Hardt Offers His Perspective On Industry 4.0 (GrabCAD.com, May 4, 2020)
- How NASA does software testing and QA (Functionize.com, April 21, 2020) (feature article)
- Software Every Engineer Needs to Know (GrabCAD.com, April 15, 2020)
- All In Color For A Zorkmid – (More) Free (Or Cheap) Digital Versions of Comic Books! (File770.com, April 10, 2020)
- A (Partial) Corona Song Parody Playlist (File770.com, April 3, 2020)
- Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! (File770.com, March 23, 2020)
- Ride-Hailing Is Eco-Unfriendly – What Can You Do Instead? (Earth911.com, March 23, 2020)
- Boskone 2020 Report (File770.com, February 19, 2020)
- So you want to become a software QA professional? (Functionize.com, January 27, 2020)
- Book Review: Barbara Krasnoff’s The History of Soul 2065 (File770.com, January 27, 2020)
- NASA’s 3D Printing Space Initiatives (GrabCAD.com, January 23, 2020)
- Arisia 2020 – Con Report & Pix (File770.com, Friday, January 17 – Monday, January 20, 2020)
- 3D Printers Could Be Coming to a Library Near You (GrabCAD.com, December 11, 2019)
- Crisis of Infinite Cameos: DC’s 2019 TV Cross-Over Event (File770.com, December 4, 2019)
- GrabCAD Gets Enlisted for Biodegradable Plastics Initiative (GrabCAD.com blog, November 20th, 2019)
- 4 Things You Should Know For A Career In Data Analytics (Stitch, November 19, 2019) (feature article)
- Watchmen Series Discussion Post (Here There Be Spoilers) (File770.com, October 23, 2019)
- zGlue: Giving Chip Creators More Flexibility and Speed-to-Market (GrabCAD.com, October 23, 2019)
- 10 Tips for Pitching to Investors (GrabCAD.com, October 1, 2019)
- Fictiv: The Rapid Prototyping Solution Startups Love (GrabCAD.com blog, August 19, 2019)
- How The GrabCAD Community Helps NASA Solve Tough Problems (GrabCAD.com blog, August 7, 2019)
- ReaderCon 30 Photos (File770.com, July 14, 2019) — 20 pictures and a brief bit of text from this year’s ReaderCon convention
- Jeff Wayne’s War of the Worlds (File770.com, July 12, 2019)
- To reduce security vulnerabilities in downstream facilities, try unikernels (Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, July 2019) (ghosted PR project)
- 7 Tips to Help You Master Media Interviews (GrabCAD.com, July 1, 2019)
- Digital Experience NYC Summer 2019 (TechRevu.com, June 27, 2019)
- Contract Medical Device Manufacturers Are on the Rise to Keep Costs Low (GrabCAD.com, May 8, 2019)
- In Space, Nobody Picks Up Your Trash: NASA Recycling in Space Award Winners (Earth911.com, May 3, 2019)
- My Doubly SF-Adjacent Day: Astronaut and Torah, Bendis (File770.com, April 30, 2019) (posted belatedly, the events were November 8, 2018)
- Dern’s Non-Spoiler Predictions/Suggestions For Avengers, Game of Thrones, Etc. (File770.com, April 26, 2019)
- Top Tech Picks from CES 2019 (GrabCAD.com, April 24th, 2019) — Some nifty products for professionals and consumers
- xMatters Incident Management Tool Adds Stackdriver Integration (ITProToday.com, April 7, 2019)
- Tiamat’s Wrath – A Non-Spoiler Recommendation for Newest Expanse Novel (File770.com, April 5, 2019)
- 7 Technologies that Caught Our Eye at CES 2019 GrabCAD.com blog, March 29th, 2019) — 3D printing, and things for hardware start-ups
- DevSecOps Definition: New Challenges, New To-Do’s (ITPRoToday.com, March 8, 2019)
- Boskone 56: Fun, Plus Adding Foothills To My Mount To-Be-Read (File770.com, February 24, 2019) – Con report and pictures from Boskone56
- Artificial Intelligence in Business: Using AI in Your Company (Datamation, February 8, 2019)
- Digital Badges Will Help People Looking to Work in Manufacturing Acquire New Skills (GrabCAD blog, January 9, 2019)
- What Skills Are Required for “New-Collar Jobs” in Manufacturing? (GrabCAD blog, December 26th, 2018)
- Why Unikernels are a Good Fit for Existing On-Premises Private/Hybrid Cloud Deployments NanoVMs.com, December 18, 2018) (ghostwritten for NanoVMs)
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
- Tips for Emptying Out a Loved One’s Home (Earth911.com, November 12, 2018)
- For Hardware Entrepreneurs and Startups, What Opportunities and Benefits Do “Smart Manufacturing” and “Industry 4.0” Offer? (GrabCAD.com, October 24, 2018)
- “The Sherlock Holmes Method for Raising Your Recycling Savvy” (Earth911.com, October 5, 2018)
- Products Seen at Pepcom Holiday Spectacular 2018 NYC (TechRevu.com, October 2, 2018)
- Quick Tips on Presenting Your New Product (and Company) at Pitch Events (GrabCAD.com, September 25, 2018)
- Cryptojacking: The growing malware menace (SCMedia, July 2019)
- SPTechCon Boston 2018 (TechRevu.com, September 6, 2018)
- Considering a CSA? How To Pick One That Works for You (Earth911.com, August 24, 2018)
- Readercon 29, July 12-15, 2018 (pictures) 19 in File770.com, and three in the August 2018 issue of Locus (but none in the free area of the site)
- Enjoy Your Coffee With Less Waste (Earth911.com, August 6, 2018)
- Recycling Better: Adjusting to Changes in Recycling Rules” (Earth911.com, August 2, 2018)
- Choosing a Chinese Manufacturer for Your New Hardware Product (GrabCAD, June 25, 2018)
- 5 Tips to Make Recycling a Part of Your Daily Routine (Earth911, June 18, 2018)
- DC Universe Pre-Order Offer (File770.com, July 19, 2018)
- Review, Etc of MIT’s HMS Pinafore: TNG from May 2018:
- “Speaking of Gilbert & Sullivan & Science Fiction…” (File770.com, May 11, 2018) My initial post, briefly reviewing it.
- MIT’s HMS Pinafore:TNG: Follow-up Notes and Links (File770.com, May 25, 2018)
- Do Prototyping Right for Funding, Manufacturing Success: Interview with Arrow Electronics’ Keaton Anderson (GrabCAD, May 17, 2018)
- Automation could make the modern workforce more ‘human’ ? here’s how (Business Insider, February 18, 2018) (sponsored content, from Smartsheet)
- Increasing Your Desktop Monitor Space: Ways and Whys (GrabCAD, March 27, 2018)
- These Are the Websites That Programmers Use All Day Long (GrabCAD.com, February 6th, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: It Pays To Increase Your Manufacturing Vocabulary (GrabCAD blog, January 30, 2018)
- A Rundown of Some of the Cool New Products Unveiled at CES (GrabCAD.com, January 16, 2018)
- Another Rejection Letter Story, More Or Less, or, How Barry Malzberg Got His F&SF Special Issue (File770.com, January 11, 2018)
- Hardware Creators: Make Sure You Learn to Speak ‘Manufacturese’ (GrabCAD blog, December 11, 2017)
- Creating A Mobile Medical Tool? Start With a Smartphone or Tablet (GrabCAD blog, November 6, 2017)
- Yes, Lean, Agile Methods Can Be Applied to Hardware Development Too (GrabCAD blog, September 18, 2017)
- Understanding, and Succeeding, at Hardware Crowdfunding (GrabCAD blog, August 30, 2017)
- WorldCon 2017 in Helskini: Worldcon 75 Photo Gallery by Daniel Dern (File770.com, August 12, 2017) — two dozen photos of and around the World Science Fiction Convention
- Hardware compliance certifications: a two-parter:
- Designing a New Hardware Product? You Need to Know About Compliance Certifications! (GrabCAD blog, July 26, 2017)
- Determining Time and Cost of Getting Compliance Certifications for a New Hardware Product (GrabCAD Blog, August 8, 2017)
- Dern@CES2017 – Tech gadgets and gizmos galore!
- DERN@CES2017: (Show Me The) Biggish Tablets, USB-C Gear, Mirrorless Cameras, Mobile Power, And More Please! — Based on pre-show PR info, some of the tech I’m looking forward to see and learn about. (TechRevu.com, December 13, 2016)
- DERN@CES2017: Some Things I Liked, Or You Might, and Some (TechRevu.com, January 23, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 2 of 3: Storage, Desktop/Notebook, Headphones, Cables, Even a UMPC (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2017)
- DERN@CES2017, Part 3 of 3: From Media & Entertainment to Power, Home, Sundries & A Dangdest Thing (TechRevu.com, January 25 2017)
- Emerging server technologies: 6 hot trends to watch (TechBeacon.com, August 02, 2016) (feature)
- Network functions virtualization: What it is, and why you need it (TechBeacon.com, June 16, 2016) (feature)
- Testimonials: Benefits of Working With The Linux Foundation:
- 3 Reasons IBM Participates in Linux Foundation Projects (Linux.com, June 15, 2016)
- Telecom Companies Collaborate Through OPNFV to Address Unique Business Challenges (Linux.com, May 28, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit 2016 Keynotes:
- Bring Networking Projects Under A Common Umbrella, Urges Cisco’s Dave Ward (Linux.com, June 1, 2016)
- How Newegg is Winning the Battle Against Patent Trolls (Linux.com, May 25, 2016)
- Collaboration Summit keynote from Docker’s Scott Johnson: “3 Reasons Docker and Containerization Lit Up Application Development” (Linux.com, May 18, 2016)
- Open Source Milagro Project Aims to Fix Web Security for Cloud, Mobile, IoT (Linux.com, April 29, 2016) (sponsored article)
- File Sync and Share: Do You Have the Right Program For Your Enterprise? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, March 29, 2016) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Why You Want Fast(er) Database Spin-Up, Spin-Down (Tesora.com, February 2, 2016) (sponsored blog post)
- 3 Easy Ways Your Small Business Can Reduce Costs (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, February 06, 2016) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Why Are There So Many Database Management Systems? (Tesora.com, January 12, 2016) (sponsored blog post)
- DevOps’ing Your DBMS (Tesora.com, December 14, 2015) (sponsored blog post)
- Why Enterprises Are Ready For Network Virtualization (VMware Radius, November 23, 2015) (PR)
- How Fully Is Your Company Moving To Business Mobility? (VMware Radius, November 16, 2015) (PR)
- Data Security Best Practices Every Small Business Should Follow (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, November 10, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- VMware survey’s “digital skills” in EMEA:
- “Millennial Myth” Busted: Employees of All Ages Drive Digital Change (VMware Radius, October 20, 2015) (PR) (Part 1 of 2)
- EMEA Digital Skills Survey Shows Value, Drivers & Obstacles (VMware Radius, October 22, 2015) (PR) (Part 2 of 2)
- An Enlighted Perspective on the IoT Landscape (Englighted.com, October 22, 2015) (PR, for Enlighted)
- VMware’s Jean-Pierre Brulard Talks VMworld 2015 Europe, EMEA Opportunities (VMware Radius, October 21, 2015) (PR)
- Unified Hybrid Cloud Computing Offers Opportunities To ‘Go Bigger, Go Better, Go Easier’ (VMware Radius, October 8, 2015) (PR)
- At Xively Xperience, Advice on Building IoT Connected Product Businesses (Internet of Things Journal, October 4, 2015)
- Five ‘Must-Do’s’ For Your Company’s Future Success From VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger (Forbes.com, September 24, 2015) (PR, for VMware) (strong rewrite based on VMware piece)
- Exclusive Interview: Nick Dvas of Servers.com (Linux.com, September 29, 2015) (sponsored article, Servers.com)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with Pivotal’s Roman Shaposhnik (Linux.com, September 25, 2015) (sponsored article, Pivotal)
- Apache Big Data Preview: Q&A with IBM’s Anjul Bhambhri (Linux.com, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article, IBM)
- Disaster Recovery: How to Bounce Back from a Security Breach (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 24, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- How to Protect Your Enterprise From DDoS Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, September 16, 2015) (sponsored article, Rioch)
- How SMBs Can Put The Cloud To Work (September 15, 2015) (sponsored article, Ricoh)
- Today’s Web Architectures Call For Private Networking (September 8, 2015) (sponsored article, Servers.com)
- Project Calico: Open Source, High-Scale Network Fabric For The Cloud (Linux.com, September 2, 2015) (sponsored article, Metaswitch Networks)
- OpenStack Was Key To Building Servers.Com (Linux.com, September 1, 2015) (sponsored article, Servers.com)
- The Pros (and Cons) of Consumption-First IT Testing (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 27, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Why Many Companies Aren’t Securing OS Permissions Adequately (Linux.com, August 26, 2015) (sponsored content, Fox Technologies)
- The Ultimate Guide to Outsourcing Elements of Your Business (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 19, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- How SMBs Can Become 21st Century Businesses (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 18, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Is Your Email In Danger of Being Hacked? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 13, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Update From VMware’s Cloud-Native Apps Group: Offering Open Source Tools, Collaboration and More (Linux.com, August 20, 2015) (sponsored content, VMware)
- Microservices 101: What To Know, What To Do (Linux.com, August 11 August 2015) (sponsored content, Cloud Foundry Foundation)
- Beyond IT: The Non-Tech Guide to Implementing BYOD (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, August 05, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- As Public Cloud OS Instances Grow, So Do Security Admin Challenges (Linux.com, July 28, 2015) (sponsored content, Fox Technologies)
- Bruce Schneier: It’s Time to Start Prioritizing IT Security (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 24, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- How to Respond to Next-Gen Phishing and Malware Attacks (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 20, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Open Source Software: What Are the Downsides? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 17, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Managing IT Access Privileges — Not As Solved As Management Thinks (Linux.com, July 14, 2015)(sponsored content, Fox Technologies)
- Is your IT Infrastructure Ready for the New World of Work? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 09, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Are Containers the Answer to Your Virtualization Problem? (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 07, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- 3 Tech Security Threats Facing Businesses Today (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 06, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Remote Desktop Access: Keeping You Connected to Your Information (Ricoh’s WorkIntelligent.ly, July 03, 2015) (sponsored content, Ricoh)
- Immersive Telepresence Technology Lets Rutgers Law Campuses Cyber-Combine Classrooms (EHP’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, June 25, 2015) (case history)
- Introducing Mob programming: The best team technique you’ve (probably) never heard of (ITWorld.com, June 25, 2015) (feature article)
- Companies Now Adopting Business Mobility Strategies Across Every Industry (VMware’s The Bridge, June 16, 2015)
- Make sure your employees use public WiFi safely (VMware’s The Bridge, June 15, 2015)
- Facebook Adding PGP Encryption Option For Email (Fortinet blog, June 09, 2015)
- Beware of “Malvertising” — Now Even Legit-Appearing Ads on Legit Sites May Be Unsafe (Fortinet blog, June 02, 2015)
- Still Running XP-Based Or Other Obsolete Point-Of-Sale? Move On ASAP! (Fortinet blog, May 8, 2015)
- Pocketable productivity: 5 folding keyboards for your smartphone (ComputerWorld, April 10, 2015) (review/roundup)
- GridGain In-Memory Data Fabric Becomes Apache Ignite (Linux.Com, April 9, 2015)
- “Innovate like a startup, deliver like an enterprise” — Interview with Paul Strong, VMware CTO (VMware’s The Bridge, March 30, 2015) (“custom content,” no byline)
- Bruce Schneier Talks Privacy, Politics, Books and More (Fortinet blog, March 31, 2015) (interview)
- Deep Dive: Mastering Mass Notification Strategies in Higher Education (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, March 5, 2015) (Note, access requires registering — feel free to ping me for a copy of this article.)
- How to Wrangle Your Digital Pictures on the Cheap — Free and low-cost tools for organizing large batches of images (IEEE Spectrum, January 27, 2015) (feature)
- How To Crowdfund Your Hardware Startup (IEEE Spectrum, December 20, 2014) (feature)
- Partners HealthCare announces new platform to help companies survey patients (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, December 9, 2014)
- Direct Tire now diagnoses your car’s troubles via video (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, November 18, 2014)
- Meetup’s Chip In button will simplify event cost-sharing (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, November 5, 2014)
- Does your ancient computer belong in a museum? (Dell TechPageOne, September 27 2014) (feature article)
- Choosing Remote-Collaboration Software: Hardware development requires more than general-purpose tools (IEEE Spectrum, September 22, 2014)
- Texas Tech University Adds Video Walls To Classroom Teaching Tools (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com site, July 31, 2014) (case study)
- How To Use an Apple iPad to Remote Control a Windows, OS X, or Linux PC (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, July 22, 2014)
- Report From Readercon 25 (science fiction convention report) (SFRevu.com, July 15, 2014)
- How To Back Up Your Social/Cloud Data: FaceBook, Twitter, Gmail, and more (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, July 3, 2014)
- Darkroom over digital: Film photography still popular at some local schools (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, June 17, 2014)
- MIT celebrates 50 years of Project MAC, Multics, and other computer foundations (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 27, 2014)
- In the Facebook era, will printed yearbooks survive? (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 23, 2014)
- Who needs a Tricorder? Apps and add-ons put a doctor in your pocket (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 16, 2014)
- Dan Bricklin, ‘father of the spreadsheet,’ now tackles mobile challenges at Alpha Software (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 06, 2014)
- Getting ‘Agile’ and ‘Lean’ not just for software developers (Boston Globe BetaBoston.com, May 05, 2014)
- Project Management Lessons from the CAPTAIN AMERICA: THE WINTER SOLDIER movie (Intuit’s QuickBase blog, April 28, 2014)
- How to keep your smartphone (and its data) secure (ComputerWorld, April 22, 2014)
- Making Phone Calls Using Tablets And Other Mobile Devices And Apps (EH Publishing HealthCareTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2014)
- Boston Convention & Exhibition Center Goes Big, Tall And Wide With Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 14, 2014) (case history)
- Managing PR Pitches and Releases: File or Delete? (Skyword’s Content Standard, April 11, 2014)
- Using 4K Video with Digital Signage (EH Publishing WorshipTechDecisions.com, April 10, 2014) (feature)
- Digital Den creator pushes for a new Boston-area computer museum (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 24, 2014) (feature article)
- How and why can mobile companies succeed? Xconomy event speakers tell all (Boston Globe BetaBoston, March 21, 2014) (event report)
- Tips for Online Writing about Complex Technology (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 17, 2014)
- How a velociraptors vs. cockroaches showdown raised $105,881 on Kickstarter — How role-playing-game writer Kevin Kulp made the crowdfunding campaign for his TimeWatch book succeed (Boston Globe’s BetaBoston.com, March 12, 2014) (feature)
- Writing an Article from a Press Release: What to Look for and Ignore (Skyword’s Content Standard, March 4, 2014)
- How to Connect a PC or Tablet Via 4G Wireless (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, February 12, 2014)
- Swiss Army smartphone: 9 tools your phone can replace (ITWorld.com, February 10, 2014)
- Project Management Lessons from an Amateur Magician (Intuit’s QuickBase blog, February 10, 2014)
- 6 Anti-Theft Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 7, 2013)
- 9 museums that want your legacy tech (ComputerWorld, October 3, 2013) (Slashdotted!)
- Adding Twitter to Your College or University Campus Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions.com, Sept 30, 2013)also posted as: Adding Twitter to Your Healthcare Emergency Notification Plan (EH Publishing’s CampusSafetyMagazine.com, January 8, 2014)
- Roundup: KVM Switches and Remote-Access Apps (IEEE Spectrum, September 27, 2013)
- How To Turn Your Smartphone into a Business Phone (TechTarget’s TechnologyGuide.com, September 25, 2013)
- Digital Signage Transforms Historic Building Into State-of-the-Art Finance Lab (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, September 09, 2013) (case history)
- Interactive Displays Make the Campus Tour an Engaging Experience (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2013) (case history)
- Kineto Wireless Lowers Monthly Server Backup Costs 50%, Avoids Spending $17K in New Tape Equipment (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Petroquip Lowers Server Backup Costs by 80% (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Top Classroom Note-Taking Apps for the iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, August 26, 2013)
- Spectrum’s Summer Science-Fiction Reading List: 19 classic and recent tales, starring engineers as the heroes (IEEE Spectrum.org, August 16, 2013)
- I’ll take mine to go: 12 apps to carry with you at all times (On a USB stick) (ITWorld.com, August 01, 2013) (feature article)
- MSP Backup: Time to Add Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery to Your Menu? (Zetta, July 09, 2013) (PR) (blog post)
- Put Your Smartphone or Tablet Camera to Good Business Use: Cameras in today’s mobile devices do much more than take pictures. (Verizon Solution Labs, July 3, 2013)
- Succeeding with Mobile Payments (Verizon Solution Labs, July, 2013)
- Courtyard by Marriott’s GoBoard Helps Guests Decided What to Do, Where to Go (EHPubs Hospitality Tech Decisions, June 04, 2013)
- Designing for mobile: Responsive design vs. mobilized sites vs. mobile app (ITWorld.com, May 30, 2013) (feature article)
- Profile: Kenny Greenberg — This neon wizard combines art and engineering (IEEE Spectrum, May 24, 2013)
- Eight Free eReader Apps for the iPad and iPhone (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, May 19, 2013)
- Understanding the Costs of Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, May 13, 2013)
- Mobile Interaction with Digital Signage (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, October 15, 2012)
- Providing Internet Connectivity for Events (EHPublishing’s Hospitality Tech Decisions site, February 27, 2013)
- Digital Signage Meets Social Networking (Verizon Wireless Solution Labs, April 2013)
- Case study: Architectural Firm Prellwitz Chilinski Associates Reduces NetApp Filer Offsite Backup Costs By Half (Zetta, April 5, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case history: Westinghouse Lighting Reduces Backup Costs, Adds Disaster Recovery Functionality, and Protects Data from Hurricane Sandy (Zetta, March 20, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Remote Desktop Access — Almost Like Being There (Verizon Solution Labs, March 27, 2013)
- Digital Signage Meets Social Networking (Verizon Solution Labs, March 20, 2013)
- How West Virginia University Uses Digital Signage For Campus Safety (EHPublishing, March 20, 2013)
- NetApp Offsite Backup with Zetta DataProtect by Cook Inlet Tribal Council (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case Study: Group Photographers Association — Local Storage Disaster Kick-Starts Cloud Backup Initiative (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Mizon Rounds Out MSP IT Offerings With Backup by Zetta – Reliable “no heartburn” backups help keep Mizon customers happy
- TEECOM – Technology for Architects to Bring Buildings to Life (Zetta, September 03, 2012) (PR) (case study)
- NetApp Backup: Amazon Web Services vs. Zetta DataProtect (Zetta blog post, April 2, 2013) (PR)
- Digital Signage Meets Social Networking (Verizon Solution Labs, March 20, 2013)
- WinZip System Utilities Suite Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com, March 13, 2013)
- Is Microsoft Azure Online Backup Overpriced? (Zetta blog post, March 06, 2013) (PR)
- Including Streaming Media in Digital Signage Content (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions site, March 1, 2013)
- 19 of the 100 entries in Computer Shopper’s The Top 100 Tech Products of 2012 list, for Shopper’s
- Special Report: Top 100 Products of 2012: Best Overall Products & Technologies (Computer Shopper, February 20, 2013)(Computer Shopper made the selections, I wrote the summaries for these entries, based on the original reviews in Computer Shopper and PCMag.com):
- Best Budget Big-Screen Laptop Samsung Series 7 Chronos 17.3-Inch
- Best Midsize Laptop: Acer Aspire Timeline Ultra M5 481TG-6814
- Best Business Laptop: Lenovo ThinkPad T430s
- Best Budget Laptop: Acer Aspire V5-471-6569
- Best Mainstream Desktop: Dell XPS 8500
- Best Touch-Screen PC: Sony VAIO Tap 20
- Best Business Desktop: Lenovo ThinkCentre M92p Tiny
- Best Cost-No-Object Desktop:
- Best Entertainment/TV-Centric PC: Sony VAIO L Series SVL24114FXB
- Best Color Laser/Laser-Class AIO Printer: Samsung CLX-6260FW Color Multifunction Printer
- Best Photo Printer: HP Photosmart 7510
- Best Budget E-Reader (Honorable Mention):
- Best E-Reader: Amazon Kindle Paperwhite (Wi-Fi)
- Best Color Tablet for Reading” Amazon Kindle Fire HD (7-Inch, Wi-Fi)
- Best Tablet Accessory: Logitech K810 Bluetooth Illuminated Keyboard
- Best Backup Drive (Desktop or Portable): Seagate Backup Plus Portable Drive
- Best External Hard Drive:
- Best External Portable Hard Drive: ADATA DashDrive Elite HE720
- Best “Phablet” (Large-Format Smartphone): Samsung Galaxy Note II
- BYOD Can Be Good For Employees and Productivity (Verizon Wireless’ Your Business Guide site, February 14, 2013)
- Comic Books Go Digital — Can Your Paper Version Do This? (IEEE Spectrum, February 2013) (feature)
- For Digital Signage, the Open Pluggable Specification Simplifies Installation (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 25, 2013)
- Review, Lenovo U310 13.3-Inch Ultrabook (TechReview, February 6, 2013)
- How Microsoft Uses Digital Signage for Internal Promotion and Communication (EHPublishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 24, 2013) (case history)
- Reselling Online Backup: A Podcast About “No Heartburn” Backup (Zetta blog post, January 23, 2013) (case history) (text article accompanying podcast)
- Arisia 2013, Photos and a short report (SFRevu.com, January 18, 2013) (Arisia is one of the Boston-area’s annual science fiction conventions)
- Getting a Disaster Recovery Solution From Your Backup (Zetta blog post, January 15, 2013) (PR)
- Video Walls: Providing the Big Picture Gets Easier, More Affordable (EHPublishing’s HealthCareTechDecisions.com, January 14, 2013)
- CES 2013: The Dern Report from CEA — Ten interesting products. (TechRevu, January 13, 2013) (also posted to CES 2013: The Dern Report (TechMonkeyMag.com, January 13, 2013)
- How to Manage Digital Signage’s Internal Cost: Microsoft and West Virginia University discuss how they pay for digital signage internally (EHPublishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 11, 2013)
- How an Enterprise Backup Solution Should Be Configured (Zetta blog post, January 9, 2013) (PR)
- Best Apps For Meeting Health and Fitness Resolutions TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, January 05, 2013) (roundup review)
- Nine Handy Airline Travel Apps for iPhone & iPad (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com site, December 23, 2012)
- Top 25 Tech Toys on the TechDecisions Editors Wish List (EHPublishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, December 13, 2013) (my slide/list, along with those of other EHPub editors)
- USB Power Delivery Will Power Not Just Smartphones But Also Notebooks, Displays and More (EHPublishing’s Health Tech Care Decisions, December 07, 2012)
- Carrying on With Keeping ‘CALM’ — Providers: We’Re Ready To Comply With Loudness Law” (NBMedia’s MultiChannel News, December 3, 2012) (news)
- Going on Vacation: iPad or Laptop? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2012)
- Materials Research Society Fall Meeting 2012: A Stroll Through The Exhibit Hall (show floor report & slide show) (December 03, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials (for Zetta Scalabytes Blog)
- Online Server Backup: Simplifying Backup for Different Assets and Applications (December 03, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Cloud Security (November 30, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Successful Data Recovery (November 27, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Successful Data Recovery (November 27, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: The Cost Conversation, Calculation (November 20, 2012)
- 18 Operating Systems – 1 Backup (Zetta blog post, November 19, 2012) (PR)
- A Backup Functionality Checklist (Zetta blog post, November 16, 2012) (PR)
- Hybrid Cloud Backup: Eliminating the Need For An Appliance (Zetta blog post, November 15, 2012) (PR)
- Remote Office Backup (Zetta blog post, November 7, 2012) (PR)
- Portable Chargers for Your Mobile Gadgets (IEEE Spectrum, November 2012) (also in the print edition, page 28, November 2012) (feature/review)
- Video Walls: Providing the Big Picture Gets Easier, More Affordable (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, November 5, 2012)
- Choosing an Online Backup Partner: 4 Lessons for Resellers from Zenith Infotech (Zetta blog post, October 23, 2012) (PR)
- Bluebeam Software to Showcase Award-Winning Project Collaboration Solution at the Construction Management Association National Conference and Trade Show (October 22, 2012 (PR, press release)
- Education Technology: A Hybrid Cloud Backup That Solves School Challenges (Zetta blog post, October 12, 2012) (PR)
- Deduplication ? It Really Just Means Faster Backups and Shorter Backup Windows (Zetta blog post, October 10, 2012) (PR)
- If The X-Men Worked In IT (Zetta blog post, September 20, 2012) (PR)
- Creating Content For Digital Signage (EHPubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, September 14, 2012)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Seeding Your Initial Backup (Zetta blog post, September 12, 2012) (PR)
- How to Acquire A Company, Technically: Protecting New Data With Online Backup (Zetta blog post, September 07, 2012) (PR)
- D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup – The Battle of Cost, Complexity, and Capabilities (Zetta blog post, September 4, 2012)
- Enterprise Cloud Backup – For SMBs? (Zetta blog post, August 30, 2012) (PR)
- Review: Dropbox for iPhone: Multimedia Storage in the Cloud (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, August 29, 2012)
- Understanding Snapshots: Server Backup With Granular Versioning (Zetta blog post, August 24, 2012) (PR)
- Online Server Backup Performance and Value: The Merced College Story (Zetta, August 22, 2012) (case history)(PR)
- Digital Signage Helps UCF (University of Central Florida) Promote Student Use of Technology EH Publishing’s HigherEdTechDecisions, August 30, 2012) (case history)
- Power Over HDBaseT: What Is It, Why Use It? (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, July 26, 2012)
- Using Your iPhone for Summertime Reading (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, July 24, 2012)
- 15 Code Editors For the iPad – For Free or Very Cheap (Smartbear Software Quality Matters, July 27, 2012)
- 3 ways to add broadband to your mobile devices — smartphone tethering, mobile broadband hotspot, or USB broadband adapter (ComputerWorld.com, July 25, 2012)
- Digital Signage Helps Joslin Diabetes Clinic Educate (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, July 19, 2012)
- How Online Backup Benefits Companies Committed To Local Backup (Zetta blog post, July 17, 2012) (PR)
- Does Your Beloved Tech Artifact Belong in a Museum? What museums do and don’t want (IEEE Spectrum, July 2012) (feature)
- Online Data Archiving: Save Time and Cost By Letting Your Data Retire (Zetta blog post, July 13, 2012) (PR)
- What’s Involved in Deploying Interactive Digital Wayfinding (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions.com, July 12, 2012)
- Wayfinding Digital Signage: Where the Maps Come From (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions.com, July 12, 2012)
- Protecting IT Assets From a Hurricane: A How To Guide (Zetta blog post, July 06, 2012) (PR)
- UPS update: What’s new, what to remember (The Mozy Blog, July 1, 2012)
- Reminder, basic quick fixes for troubled gear (The Mozy Blog, June 28, 2012)
- Making your important info available to you online (The Mozy Blog, June 27, 2012)
- Obsolete tech accessories to keep one of: A short list (The Mozy Blog, June 21, 2012)
- “Wi-FI Offload — Is Your Gateway Ready?” — testing aspects of load-shifting traffic from carrier wireless spectrum to Wi-FI (which connects to fiber) (Spirent, May 2012) (PR)(white paper)
- Mac Backup – A How To Guide For Small Business (Zetta blog post, June 20, 2012) (PR)
- Affordable Disaster Recovery: Compliance in the Cloud (Zetta blog post, June 18, 2012) (PR)
- Inventorying and IDing your tech stuff: quick tips (The Mozy Blog, June 11, 2012)
- The Key To SMB Offsite Backup Isn’t Backup, It’s Recovery (Zetta blog post, June 05, 2012) (PR)
- Wayfinding: Digital Signage Can Show You the Right Path (EH Publishing’s HospitalityTechDecisions, June 01, 2012) (reprinted in EH Publishing’s Campus Safety Magazine, December 9, 2013)
- How Offsite Backup Can Give Your Users a Day-To-Day Productivity Boost (Zetta blog post, May 31, 2012) (PR)
- How Do You Get Photos Onto an Apple iPad? — Affordable SD card accessories (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 25, 2012) (review)
- Small tech stuff (too) easily lost or mislaid, some thoughts (The Mozy Blog, May 24, 2012)
- How To Select a Backup Service: Start By Identifying What Files You Have (The Mozy Blog, May 16, 2012)
- Join.Me Review: Free & Easy Screen Sharing from PCs to iPads (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, May 15, 2012) (review)
- Power Over Ethernet: What Is It, What’s New? (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, May 11, 2012)
- Yard sales – A good place for tech bargains (The Mozy Blog, May 10th, 2012)
- Bassmaster hooks new fishing site with Drupal and Acquia Managed Cloud (Acquia, May 2012) (PR) (case study)
- High-End Performance for Controlled Environments: Fortinet adds enterprise-class IPv6-ready appliance and a carry-grade security blade to its Firewall product lineup (QuinStreet EnterpriseNetworkingPlanet.com, April 26, 2012) (news)
- 10 commandments of Windows security (CSO Online, April 23, 2012) (feature)
- Content Management Software for Your Company’s Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 20, 2012)
- Save Money on Your Digital Signage Roll-out (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Simple Best Practices for Digital Signage (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- Experts Share Top Digital Signage Trends (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 19, 2012)
- BYTE Interviews Jerry Pournelle (Byte.com, April 16, 2012 (interview) — A Skype audio interview with Jerry Pournelle, done at the February 2012 Boskone science fiction convention. (Jerry had to stay home, due to a virus, but we had a live audience). Here’s audio, plus transcription (done by me) of the podcast, posted in four parts, plus a short biography and bibliography. (Note, if the in-article links to the various parts aren’t working — as of October 2020 they weren’t, use these:
- Podcast Part 1: Pournelle On Computers And Science Fiction (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 2: Pournelle On ARPAnet, Totalitarianism, And Productivity (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 3: Pournelle On Ebooks (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Podcast Part 4: Pournelle On Using Multimedia To Sell Books (InformationWeek, April 7, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Bibliography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Jerry Pournelle: A Short Biography (InformationWeek, April 9, 2012)
- Using IP / Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Company (EH Publishing CorporateTechDecisions.com, April 15, 2012)
- Video Surveillance Camera Budget Savers (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Best Practices When Using Video Surveillance Cameras (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Top Video Surveillance Camera Trends from the Experts (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Company (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- BAM! POW! What are the Best iPad Comic Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, April 13, 2012)
- Using IP/Digital Video for Security and Surveillance at Your Health Care Facility (EH Publishing’s HealthcareTechDecisions.com, April 13, 2012)
- Movie Review: John Carter (of Mars) (SFRevu.com, April 02, 2012)
- Purdue University’s Digital Signage Enterprise (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012) (case study)
- Digital Signage Lessons Learned (by Purdue IT) (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions, March 28, 2012)
- Apple iBooks 2 Review: Easy Reading on Your iPad (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, March 26, 2012)
- New products “slide show” roundups for Digital Signage Expo (DSE) 2012, Las Vegas, March 6-9, 2012: (I did captions and URL-wrangling)
- DSE 2012: New Commercial Displays (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Software (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- DSE 2012: New Digital Signage Media Players (EH Publishing TechDecisions, March 12, 2012)
- 3 Digital Signage Tips from Purdue University (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, March 12, 2012)
- Event report: Boskone 49 — Feb. 17-19 – Westin Waterfront, Boston, MA (SFRevu.com, February 2012)
- Digital Signage Tips from Jason Swinford, Founder of Eat at Recess (EH Publishing’s CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- CloudOn Review: The Best Way of Getting MS Office on an Apple iPad? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, February 17, 2012) (iPad app review)
- Selecting Displays for Your New Digital Signage (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Digital Signage Quotables: Jason Swinford, Founder of Eat at Recess (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Guidelines for Sizing Digital Signage Displays (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Quotables: Digital Signage Budget Savers (EH Pubs CorporateTechDecisions.com, February 13, 2012)
- Sanitize your hard drives with Drive eRazer Ultra (ComputerWorld, February 1, 2012) (review)Also posted to PC Advisor
- What Cloud Computing Means to Accounting and Finance Professionals (HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, February 1, 2012) (feature) ( Try here if first link is dead)
- Square Credit Card Reader Review: Remarkably Easy (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, January 28, 2012) (iOS app review)
- Cloud Backup Costs Less For Full Data Disaster Protection (Zetta, January 19, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Event report: Arisia 2012 — slide show and brief report of January Boston-area science fiction and fantasy convention (SFRevu.com, January 16, 2012)
- MacPhun FX Photo Studio Review: Cool Photo Sharing & Special Effects for iPhones (TechTarget Brighthand, January 2012) (review)
- Trends in Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 16, 2012)
- Cloud Backup: More Than Just Offsite and Online (Zetta, January 13, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Accessibility Questions (Zetta, January 11, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Security Concerns (Zetta, January 9, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Quotables: Best Practices for Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Pain Points Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Tough Issues Facing Users of Digital Signage for Security (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, January 9, 2012)
- Cloud Backup Performance Must Meet Your Business Needs (Zetta, January 06, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Is Cloud Backup Right for You? Four Key Factors… (Zetta, January 5, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Digital Signs Can Provide Weather, Emergency Warnings (EH Publications’ CorporateTechDecisions.com, December 29, 2011
- How to Choose a Cloud Backup Service HP’s InputCreatesOutput.com, December 22, 2011) (feature)
- Today’s Mountaineers Use Digital Signage to Relay Information (EH Publishing HigherEdTechDecisions.com, December 19, 2011) Case history, how West Virginia University is using digital signage for emergency alerts and everyday info
- How to Choose an iPad Keyboard, And Which is the Best, Part 1 and Part 2 (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, December 19, 2011) – a look at several Bluetooth keyboards for the iPad
- Low-Priced iPhone Accessories Are Great as Holiday Gifts, or Any Time (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Download Lowdown: 10 Must-Have App Types for Your iPhone (TechTarget Brighthand.com, December 2011)
- Yes, It Really Can Take Being Dropped, Frozen, and Heated (IEEE Spectrum, November 2011) (review of Panasonic fully-rugged Toughbook — putting it through home versions of ruggedness testing — fun!)
- Dragon Remote Microphone App for iOS Review: Using Your iPhone for PC Speech Recognition (TechTarget Brighthand, November 24, 2011) (review)
- What Role Will Windows 8 Play in Enterprise Tablet Adoption? (TabletPCReview.com, November 11, 2011) (feature article)
- Corel Slingshot for iOS Review: Share Photos From Your iPhone Through Facebook (TechTarget Brighthand.com, November 3, 2011)
- Calculating the True Cost of a Tablet (Internet Evolution, November 2, 2011)
- Winter Emergency Data Backup & Recovery Readiness (Zetta, November 01, 2011) (PR) (blog post)
- “Record Keeping and Pricing,” 2013 Writer’s Market, pages 100-109
- What are the Essential Apple iPad Apps? (TechTarget’s TabletPCReview.com, October 28, 2011) (ten-or-so good apps to get to start with)
- A Multi-Account Approach for E-Business Users (Internet Evolution, October 26, 2011)
- Don’t Worry, IPv6 Won’t Break Your Existing IPsec VPN, Part 1 and Part 2 (VPNhaus, October 25 and 27, 2011) (Note: VPNHaus.com is sponsored by NCP Engineering; I quote one of their guys, and they got the final edit, but there’s no product mentions)
- Creating ‘Secondary Identities’ on the Internet (Internet Evolution, October 20, 2011)
- Comparing Desktop VMs In The Cloud (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 13, 2011)
- Boingo Expands HotSpot Options For Mobile Devices (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 12, 2011)
- Tablets Become IT Admin New Mobility Tool (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 11, 2011)
- Geminare Offers Real-Time Cloud Failover (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 10, 2011)
- For High Availability, Look Towards Fault Tolerance (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 7, 2011)
- Cost Effective Clustering with ScaleMP (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 6, 2011)
- Are You Ready for Backup Bingo? (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 5, 2011)
- iPad as a Notebook Alternative:
- Part 1 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 3, 2011)
- Part 2 of 2 (ReadWriteWeb.com, October 4, 2011)
- Blink Reaction partners with Acquia to create exceptional Drupal websites (Acquia, September 2011)(PR)(case study) (Note: this was a rewrite/merge of two existing versions)
- Event report: Pepcom NYC Holiday Spectacular An evening of new and upcoming tech toys\\\\\\products (September 15, 2011)
- What today’s software developers need to know (ITWorld.com, September 14, 2011) (feature article)
- TK-421 iPhone Case With Flip-Out Keyboard from ThinkGeek Review (TechTarget’s Brighthand.com, September 4, 2011) (iPhone accessory review)
- Lenovo IdeaPad U260 User Review (TechTarget’s NotebookReview.com site, August 31, 2011) (product review)
- ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud (Acquia, August 2011)(PR)(case study)
- New Rules For Refreshing Server Hardware HP’s InputCreatesOutputcom, August 24, 2011)
- Six energy-efficient data center practices: How vendors and industry groups are confronting the challenge of data center power and cooling in new and unusual ways (ITWorld.com, August 22, 2011) (feature article)
- Lost programming skills: What today’s coders don’t know and why it matters (ITWorld.com, August 5, 2011) (feature article)
- Bluetooth Watch with Caller ID Display from ThinkGeek.com (Brighthand.com, July 30, 2011) (review)
- Telemedicine: Changing The Way Doctors See Patients (CDW HealthCare Catalog, pp. 28-29, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- “Solving the Certification Puzzle: The Certifications You Need to Compete in Global Markets (Microsoft, July 2011) (32-page booklet about regulatory certifications, e.g., UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, Energy Star, Ruggedizing. The booklet was printed and distributed by Microsoft, and also posted to a Microsoft internal site. The project was done by Triangle Publishing Services, Inc.. I was the lead writer.)
- Boingo Wi-Finder for iPhone Review: Finding Hotspots Everywhere(TechTarget Brighthand.com, August 6, 2011)
- Choosing the Right Local/Cloud Hybrid Backup For SMBs (ReadWriteWeb, July 15, 2011) (feature)
- Decoding compliance certification icons: What UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, and those other certification ‘marks’ under your laptop mean (ITWorld.com, June 22, 2011) (feature article)
- MotionX-GPS Review: Full-Featured Navigation for Apple iPhone, iPod touch and iPad (TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 17, 2011) (software review)
- Review: Jawbone ERA Bluetooth headset TechTarget Brighthand.com, June 11, 2011) (hardware review)
- Report from Boston ComicCon, April 30-May 1, 2011 (SFRevu.com, June 6, 2011) (event report)
- Why Color Printing is Getting Cheaper (InputCreatesOutput.com, an HP site), May 20, 2011)
- Computer de-evolution: Features that lost the evolutionary war (ITWorld.com, May 26, 2011) (feature article)
- 3 Professional Reasons For Computer Professionals To Attend Science Fiction Conventions (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, May 05, 2011) (feature)
- Joomla or Drupal: Which CMS handles security best? (ITWorld.com, April 19, 2011) (feature article)
- Dragon Search for iPhone Review (TechTarget Brighthand.com, April 8, 2011) (software review)
- Four iPhone Privacy Apps for Protecting Your Content from Prying Eyes (TechTarget’s Brighthand Staff March 23, 2012) (review)
- Review: Canon Selphy CP800 portable photo printer (Computer Shopper, March 2011) (product review)
- Testing Apps For SmartPhones and Mobile Devices (Without Buying Out the Store) (Smartbear’s Software Quality Connection, March 23, 2011) (feature)
- Lenovo All-In-One IdeaCentre B305 Packs Performance Power And Multimedia Pleasure Into Pleasing Package (TechRevu.com, March 15, 2011) (review)
- Joomla vs. Drupal: An open source CMS shootout (ITWorld.com, February 14, 2011) (feature article)
- Laptop Review: Dell Vostro V130 — The Glamorous Life (Hardware Central, February 7, 2011) (review)
- Dragon Dictation for iPhone Review (February 3, 2011) (software review)
- CES 2011 coverage — I didn’t make it to the show this year, but still managed to file several stories:
- CES 2011: Business Tools Amidst Consumer Stuff New Notebooks, Headsets, Software And More! (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: Electronics For Consumers — From Bag/Seat Combos To Living Room Videoconferencing, CES 2011 Has It All (TechRevu.com, January 7, 2011) (event coverage)
- CES 2011: More Stuff For Businesses And Consumers (TechRevu.com, January 12, 2011) (event coverage)
- HP Refreshes Thin Client Devices (InformationWeek SMB, January 04, 2011) (news)
- Metalogix Introduces SharePoint Migration Manager (InformationWeek SMB, December 15, 2010) (news)
- Tax Software Primer: CPAs have choices…probably more than they thought they had (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, November/December 2010)
- SMBs See Opportunity In The Cloud — says Microsoft-sponsored survey. (InformationWeek SMB, December 10, 2010) (news)
- IT Outages Cost Businesses Billions, according to survey by CA. (InformationWeek SMB, December 9, 2010) (news)
- Zoho CRM Integrates With QuickBooks, Telephony (InformationWeek SMB, December 8, 2010) (news)
- Lenovo ThinkPad x100e – An Affordable Notebook That Means Business (TechRevu.com, December 8, 2010) (review)
- Bocada Announces Data Protection Management For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, December 07, 2010) (news)
- SlimWare Introduces Cloud-Based Software Driver Updates (InformationWeek SMB, December 07, 2010) (news)
- Gilbane Conference Boston: Web Management for the Enterprise (TechRevu, December 3, 2010) (event report)
- Uptime Software Introduces Cloud Monitoring (InformationWeek SMB, November 30, 2010) (news)
- Shoutlet Announces Facebook Storefront Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 24, 2010) (news)
- AT&T iPhone App Targets ‘Backup And Go’ (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Coupa Integrates Expense Management With SalesForce (InformationWeek SMB, November 23, 2010) (news)
- Dell Introduces File Level Encryption (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- Drobo S Storage Array Adds USB 3.0 Connectivity (InformationWeek SMB, November 17, 2010) (news)
- Wave Online Accounting Counts On Small Businesses (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Dell Updates Laser, Multifunction Printers For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 16, 2010) (news)
- Avaya Updates IP Office Communication Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, November 15, 2010) (news)
- Meraki Introduces Cloud Managed 802.11n Access Points (InformationWeek SMB, November 11, 2010) (news)
- MainCloud Intros Content Sharing Service (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- ScaleMP Rolls Server Virtualization Software (InformationWeek SMB, November 9, 2010) (news)
- OS33 Cloud Provisioning Targets MSPs, Resellers (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- HP Designs Digital Signage Players For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Netgear Rolls Flexible Storage, Switches For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 8, 2010) (news)
- Sylvania Netbook Sylvania Netbook: Not The Netbook You Were Looking For (TechRevu.com, November 7, 2010) (review)
- WooEB Launches Content Platform For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, November 3, 2010) (news)
- Visage Updates SaaS Mobility Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, November 2, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Free alternative PDF tools: When you can’t (or don’t want) to use Adobe’s PDF tools (ITWorld.com, November 1, 2010) (also in PCWorld.com
- Implix Launches Conferencing Services In Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, November 1, 2010) (news)
- VeriSign Offers $1 Promo For Its Trust Seals (InformationWeek SMB, November 1, 2010) (news)
- HyperOffice Adds Cloud Collaboration Tools For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, October 29, 2010) (news)
- Netbook Review: Toshiba Mini NB305 — One Hand Tied Behind Its Back (Internet.com Hardware Central, October 28, 2010) (review)
- Really Simple Systems Rolls Free CRM (InformationWeek SMB, October 28, 2010) (news)
- Informative Graphics Updates Document Redaction, Collaboration (InformationWeek SMB, October 27, 2010) (news)
- Caringo Object Storage Software Puts SMBs On Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, October 26, 2010) (news)
- NEC Adds Fault Tolerant Support For Microsoft Hyper-V (InformationWeek SMB, October 25, 2010) (news)
- Search Advertising Spending Growth Slows (InformationWeek SMB, October 23, 2010) (news)
- Grovo Launches Training Videos On Web Tools, Services (InformationWeek SMB, October 22, 2010) (news)
- Vu Introduces Telepresence System For Remote Offices, SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, October 21, 2010) (news)
- Basware Intros SaaS Invoice Processing Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 20, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Your New iPhone: Things To Know, Get and Do (ITWorld.com, October 19, 2010)
- Microsoft Introduces Office 365 Cloud Apps (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- SonicWall Refreshes Anti Spam Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 19, 2010) (news)
- Mobile broadband: Prepaid and other no-contract option (ITWorld.com, October 18, 2010)
- VMware Go Pro Cloud Tool Simplifies Trying Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, October 18, 2010) (blog post)
- LogMeIn Lets IT Remotely Manage Multiple PCs In Batches (InformationWeek SMB, October 15, 2010) (blog post)
- USRobotics Launches USB 3.0 Products Hub, adapters and cables take advantage of USB 3.0’s 10x speed advantage over USB 2.0. — (InformationWeek SMB, October 15, 2010) (news)
- Staples Announces Backup And Restore Services (InformationWeek SMB, October 13, 2010) (news)
- Rackspace Launches Business App Matchmaking Service (InformationWeek SMB, October 7, 2010) (news)
- Stratus Adds Hyper-V Support To Fault Tolerant Servers (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)
- Citrix Refreshes XenServer Virtualization Platform (InformationWeek SMB, October 6, 2010) (news)Also run in InformationWeek, October 11, 2010, page 24
- Marathon Unveils Low Cost Server Fault Tolerance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Data Robotics Announces DroboPro FS Storage Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, October 5, 2010) (news)
- Blade Servers Offer Lower Cost, Reduced Complexity, Says HP (InformationWeek SMB, October 4, 2010) (news)
- Anti Virus Announcements May Not Be Catchy (InformationWeek SMB, October 1, 2010) (blog post)
- Zoho Integrates Business Apps With Gmail (InformationWeek SMB, September 30, 2010) (news)
- My Wish List For Online Backup, Computing Solutions (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (blog post)
- QuickBooks 2011 Now Available (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Shipwire Announces Web Based Order Management Tool (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- VAR Dynamics Combines CRM, Mobile Access — SaaS-based TenDigits MobileAccess for Dynamics CRM provides access from Apple’s iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch and RIM’s BlackBerry. (InformationWeek SMB, September 27, 2010) (news)
- Cisco Expands SMB Offerings (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- 6 Proven Office Productivity Tools — Useful tools to increase your personal productivity (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2010)
- Ctera Extends Hybrid Cloud Storage Offering (InformationWeek SMB, September 22, 2010) (news)
- Microsoft Releases Small Business Server 7 Preview (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Nuance Launches Dragon Dictate For Mac 2.0 (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- HP Updates Printer Line — Web, cloud and mobile-enabled printing capabilities headline a refresh of HP’s printer, scanner and MFP offerings. (InformationWeek SMB, September 21, 2010) (news)
- Essential Joomla! extensions — Joomla! developers offer up their favorite extensions (Part II) (ITWorld.com, September 16, 2010) (feature)
- Rhomobile Adds More Features To Smartphone Development Platform (InformationWeek SMB, September 17, 2010) (blog post)
- Backup My Info! Enhances Online Backup Capabilities (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- Zendesk, LogMeIn Rescue Combine Remote Connectivity, Support (InformationWeek SMB, September 16, 2010) (news)
- Dell, CommVault Add Cloud Power To Backup Appliance (InformationWeek SMB, September 15, 2010) (blog post)
- Joomla! jumpstart: 8 tips and best practices from Joomla! developers (ITWorld.com, September 8, 2010) (feature)
- Security Questions To Ask Your Cloud Provider — Interview with NeoSpire’s director of security, Sean Bruton (InformationWeek SMB, September 1, 2010) (interview)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband versus dongles or tethering: Which is best? — 4 ways to get online when there’s no WiFi in range (ITWorld.com, August 31, 2010)
- FalconStor Announces NSS SAN Accelerator For VMware View (InformationWeek SMB, August 31, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Embedded mobile broadband: Software-defined radio makes carrier-switching easy (ITWorld.com, August 30, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Uninterruptible Power Supply: Using and caring for your desktop UPS — Proper set up, periodic battery replacements are key to making sure your desktop UPS will work when you need it. (ITWorld.com, August 26, 2010)
- Infortrend Refreshes EonStor DS Storage Systems (InformationWeek SMB, August 25, 2010) (news)
- GetApp Provides Directory Of Business Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 25, 2010) (news)
- Choosing a desktop Uninterruptible Power Supply (UPS) — The Daily Tip: Local power quality and what gear you’ve got drive the desktop UPS decision (ITWorld.com, August 24, 2010)
- How Hardware Is Helping Server, Desktop System Virtualization (IT Expert Voice, July 29, 2010)
- 01 Communique Web Conferencing Solution In Beta (InformationWeek SMB, August 19, 2010) (news)
- Lakeside Simplifies Planning For VMware View Desktop Virtualization (InformationWeek SMB, August 18, 2010) (news)
- Notebook Review: Acer Aspire TimelineX 4820T — Acer’s All-Around Performer (Internet.com Hardware Central, August 16, 2010) (review)
- Cloud Sherpas SherpaTools Simplifies Administering Google Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (blog post)
- Review: HP Mini 5102 Netbook (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2010)
- Central Desktop Adds Cloud Collaboration To Microsoft Office (InformationWeek SMB, August 16, 2010) (news story)
- PoE Simplifies Powering, Placing Access Points Was: Power Over Ethernet Simplifies Powering, Placing Webcams, APs (InformationWeek SMB, August 13, 2010) (blog post)
- Social Media Now: What can LinkedIn, Twitter, Facebook, et al do for you? (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHTS magazine, August 2010)
- Is Your Copier A Security Threat? (InformationWeek SMB, August 12, 2010) (blog post)
- Laptop Batteries Can Run For Three Years (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Offers Free Wi-Fi Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (blog post)
- Meraki Adds Wi-Fi Management Tools (InformationWeek SMB, August 11, 2010) (news)
- e-DMZ Announces Free Remote Access Security Tool (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- Intacct Partners With Clarizen, Adds Project Accounting Apps (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010) (news)
- i365 Extends Cloud Server Disaster Recovery (InformationWeek SMB, August 10, 2010)
- Xerox Advises Securing Data in Printer Hard Drives (InformationWeek SMB, August 09, 2010) (news)
- Future Systems Releases Casper 6.0 Tech Edition (InformationWeek SMB, August 06, 2010)
- CMS Intros Bootable Backup Solutions For Servers (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (news)
- Cloudmark Offers Free Single-Folder Email Spam Filtering (InformationWeek SMB, August 03, 2010) (blog post)
- SonicWALL Intros Affordable, Simpler Remote Access For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)
- HP Unveils Mini Tower Desktop PC (HP Pro 3130) (InformationWeek SMB, August 02, 2010) (news)And this related blog post, HP And The SMB Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, August 2, 2010)
- The Daily Tip: Travel essentials: Useful small tech to pack — Stay connected, powered, and charged wherever you may roam. (ITWorld.com, July 30, 2010)Also run in PCWorld
- Tech In-Depth: Get Ready For IPv6 – The Next Version Means Transition Planning, Some Upgrades & Tweaks (Processor, July 30, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 16, Page(s) 21 in print issue)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking Improves Speech Recognition (InformationWeek SMB, July 29, 2010) (news)
- Smarsh Adds Mobile Message Archiving For Compliance, e-Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 28, 2010) (news)
- CoreTrace Bouncer Improves Application Whitelisting (InformationWeek SMB, July 28, 2010) (news)
- Geminare Cloud Backup Adds Indexing, Auditing, Discovery (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (news)and this related blog post: Recovering Servers In The Cloud Affordable For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Qualys Offers Free Browser Plug-In Checker (InformationWeek SMB, July 27, 2010) (blog post)
- Windows 7 migration: 8 things that are bound to happen (ITWorld.com, July 26, 2010)
- Virtuon Offers Cloud Based Virtual Desktop (InformationWeek SMB, July 26, 2010) (news)
- The Daily Tip: Choosing a Bluetooth headset: 7 must-have features (ITWorld.com, July 23, 2010)
- Slashing Storage Costs For Historical Transactions (IT Expert Voice, July 22, 2010)
- Paragon Go Virtual Simplifies P2V Cloning Windows Desktops (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Backupify Intros Business Backup For Google Apps Data (InformationWeek SMB, July 22, 2010) (news story)
- Dell KACE Offers Free Secured Browser Bundle (InformationWeek SMB, July 19, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: Secure Browsing Good If Done Well And Easily (InformationWeek SMB, July 20, 2010) (blog post)
- LapLink Simplifies Windows 7 Upgrade — PCmover Windows 7 Upgrade Assistant lets XP, Vista PCs move to Windows 7 without reinstalling apps, settings and data. (InformationWeek SMB, July 16, 2010) (news story)and this related blog post: LapLink, PCmover, MoveNow, The Rest Of The Story (InformationWeek SMB blog, July 16, 2010)
- Finding Yard Sale Tech Bargains (ITworld.com’s The Daily Tip, July 16, 2010)
- Tech In-Depth: Energy Star Certification For Enterprise Storage (Processor, July 16, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 15, Page(s) 33 in print issue)
- Casper Speeds Backup Cloning Of PGP Encrypted Drives (InformationWeek SMB, July 15, 2010) (news story)
- Aprigo Secures Google Docs (InformationWeek SMB, July 14, 2010) (news story)
- iCentera Adds Cloud Portals For B2B Sales (InformationWeek SMB, July 13, 2010) (news story)
- Netgear Switch Manages Multimedia Traffic (InformationWeek SMB, July 13, 2010) (news story)
- The Daily Tip: 6 (more) useful Windows 7 tools: Utilities so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already. (ITWorld.com, July 12, 2010)
- CloudBurst Load Tests Web Apps From The Cloud (InformationWeek SMB, July 9, 2010) (news story)
- Aestiva Offers Array 4GL Database Free (InformationWeek SMB, July 8, 2010) (news story)
- The Daily Tip: 6 useful Windows 7 tools Apps so good they may encourage you to move to Windows 7, if you haven’t already (ITWorld.com, July 6, 2010)
- OTRS Announces iPhone, iPad Help Desk App (InformationWeek SMB, July 6, 2010) (news story)
- Event report from CEALine Show and the Pepcom “Digital Experience” multi-vendor press event, New York City, June 23, 2010:
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 1
- Affordable SMB Productivity Tools, Part 2 InformationWeek SMB, July 01, 2010)
- 3 Questions: Manage & Track Software Goals & Quality – Borland’s Application Lifecycle Management Offerings Help IT With Testing & Change Management (Processor, July 2, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 14, Page(s) 35 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- HP ProBook 4720s Notebook Packs Full Keyboard, 17-Inch Display (InformationWeek SMB, June 28, 2010) (product review)
- Zmanda Adds Features To Cloud-Based Backup For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB, June 24, 2010)
- Free Windows 7 training videos (and more) — You might learn enough by watching (ITworld.com, June 16, 2010)
- Kaseya Helps SMB VARs Automate IT Processes and Tasks (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 14, 2010)
- KineticD Adds Affordable Remote Access To Flexible Backup (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 11, 2010)
- RainStor 4 Improves Compliance Storage Costs, Accessibility For Transactions (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 10, 2010
- Cisco Intros Affordable Network Storage Appliances For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 9, 2010)
- Cross-Platform Smartphone Apps Still Difficult — challenges (and solutions) for creating native applications for multiple smartphone environments (e.g., iPhone, Blackberry, Android) (IEEE Spectrum, June 2010) (feature article) (appears as “Writing Small” in the print issue)
- 3 Questions: Solutions For A Virtual World: PHD Virtual Simplifies Backing Up & Restoring Virtual Machines (Processor, June 4, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 12, Page(s) 31 in print issue)
- Pano Logic Unveils 50 User Desktop Virtualization Kit (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 03, 2010) (virtualization)
- 2010 VMware Virtualization Forum — Products and vendors at this June 3, 2010 Boston event (TechRevu.com, June 03, 2010) (event report)
- Panasonic Updates Fully-rugged Convertible Tablet PC (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 3, 2010)
- ActiveBatch Automates Job Scheduling On Multiple Machines (InformationWeek SMB blog, June 2, 2010) (system admin, IT management)
- Panasonic Simplifies Notebook WWAN Provisioning, Switching With Gobi2000 (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 28, 2010)
- VM6 VMex Reduces Virtualization Cost, Complexity For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 24, 2010)
- Janeiro Digital Speedramps Software Development For SMBs (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 21, 2010)
- ScaleMP vSMP Foundation Offers Virtualization That Aggregates (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 20, 2010)
- Xcentric Lifts CPA IT Cloudwards (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 14, 2010)
- Cloud Computing Will Reinvigorate WAN Expertise (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 12, 2010) (event report)
- Smart Phone IQ: Are smart phones smart enough for CPAs? (ICPAS Insight, May/June 2010) (feature article)
- Lenovo ThinkPad Edge Hits Portability Price Performance Trifecta (InformationWeek SMB blog, May 11, 2010) (review) (blog post)
- Featured Product: Simple Storage Software — Open-E’s DSS V6 Delivers Enterprise-Class (Processor, May 7, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 10, Page(s) 30 in print issue) (vendor/product profile)
- Video Training For Windows 7: A Comparative Review (IT Expert Voice, May 03, 2010) (review of video training products)
- 3 Questions: Real-Time Storage Control – NTP Software Helps SMEs Watch & Manage Shared User Data (Processor, April 23, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 9, Page(s) 33 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Dragon NaturallySpeaking 10 gives you hands-off computing (ComputerWorld.com, March 25, 2010) (software review)
- Lite-On eTAU208 USB External Optical Drive (TechRevu.com, February 16, 2010) (hardware review)
- Are You Being Served? — SaaS for CPA firms and their customers (ICPAS Insight magazine, February/March 2010)
- Wind power control systems go to (temperature) extremes – High-temperature uninterruptible power supply helps Danish control system designers handle Mongolian temperatures up to 55 ° C (Control Engineering, February 1, 2010) (PR) (feature article) (rewrite/edit based on initial vendor write-up)
- Asset Lifecycle Management: Scalable Helps SMEs Track & Manage Their Hardware & Software Assets (Processor, February 12, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 4; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- Lighten The Security Load: ETSec Helps SMEs Protect Their LANs Through Products, Managed Services & Expertise (Processor, January 14, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 2; Page(s) 29 in print issue)
- Are Windows 7 Certifications Worthwhile? (IT Expert Voice, January 18, 2010) (feature article)
- Dern’s CES 2010 Reports: Coverage from and of the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show, Las Vegas, Tuesday, January 4, 2010 (including events before the show floor opened) through Sunday, January 10, 2010. (I was there Wednesday, January 06 through Friday, January 8.)
- Tablet PCs, 3D TVs Wow The Crowds At CES 2010 (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES 2010 Report: eBooks, Notebooks, Accessories Abound (Sears ManageMyLife, January 06, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Day 3: Affordable Audio, Picture, Video Tools Offer New Creative Outlets (Sears ManageMyLife, January 08, 2010) (show coverage)
- CES Wrap-up: From iPhone to Automobile, There’s At Least One New Product You’ll Want (Sears ManageMyLife, January 12, 2010) (show coverage)
- Dern@CES 2010: What I Saw, What I’d Like To Buy Or Try (TechRevu, January 14, 2010) (show coverage)
- WAN Security Solved – ClearPath Networks Makes It Easy & Affordable (Processor, January 1, 2010 – Vol.32 Issue 1; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- With Great Power Comes More Error Messages: Windows 7 Lessons Learned From Science Fiction, Comics, and the Movies (ITExpertVoice.com, December 24, 2009) (humor)
- Take The Hassle Out Of Repetitive Tasks — ScriptLogic Helps SMEs Simplify, Speed Up & Improve Windows Management Processes (Processor, December 18, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 30; Page(s) 21 in print issue) (profile) (vendor interview)
- A Tapeless Backup Approach — Idealstor Simplifies & Speeds Backups With Ejectable Disks (Processor, December 4, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 29; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Reading PDFs More Safely — Sadly, A Good Idea (InformationWeek SMB, December 1, 2010) (blog post)
- Review: Lenovo’s IdeaPad S12 Netbook — It weighs 3 pounds, but the 12.1″ display makes this the first netbook I can be seriously productive with. (TechRevu, November 23, 2009) (product review)
- A Notebook That Can Maybe Take a Beating — I test GammaTech’s “fully rugged” MT10 Durabook tablet, although not as comprehensively as I wanted to (IEEE Spectrum, November 2009) (review)
- Technology we won’t miss — No tears are shed for these technologies that have come (and often) gone (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- Tech that makes you smile – There are some things you just can’t help but love (ITworld.com, November 19, 2009) (feature article)
- Portal Power: Emerging accounting portal technologies streamline financial processes and boost productivity (Illinois CPA Society INSIGHT magazine, November 2009)
- Fight The Heat Wave — Future Facilities Helps Take The Heat Out Of Data Centers (Processor, November 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 27; Page(s) 18 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- IT Lessons Learned From Past OS Migrations — (IT Expert Voice, October 30, 2009)
- Put Your Systems On Autopilot – Kaseya’s IT Automation Software Improves IT Staff Effectiveness & Systems Performance (Processor, October 23, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 26; Pge(s) 45 in print issue)
- How to Stretch Your Security Dollar: Unexpected ways to get additional ROI from security, business continuity, disaster recovery and compliance investments (ITWorld.com, October 22, 2009) (Slashdotted!
- DataPreserve Gives Small Companies Big-Company Backup — Reseller-Based Online Backup Offerings Combine Features With Affordability (Processor.com, October 9, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 25; Page(s) 28 in print issue)
- Paying too much for WiFi, 3G? You have options — Aggregators, bundles, new offers can bring out-of-office Internet access under control (ITWorld.com, September 22, 2009)
- Instant On — Why can’t your computer wake up as quickly as your BlackBerry? — “Alternate (non-Windows) Boot Environments” like Phoenix HyperSpace, DeviceVM SplashTop, Xandros Presto, versus Windows Hibernate (IEEE Spectrum, p.28 and online, September 2009)
- One From Many — ScaleMP Uses Aggregation, Not Partitioning, For High-Performance Computing Needs (Processor, August 28, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 22, Page(s) 39 in print issue)
- Ten Cool Trip Planning Apps for the iPad TechTarget’s TabletPCReview, August 16, 2012)
- Cost-Conscious Technology — Affordable accounting software and SaaS offerings (ICPAS Insight, August 2009) (feature)
- Review: 5 USB turntables convert LPs to MP3s – Review of five USB turntables and associated software and gear, plus some tips (ComputerWorld, August 07, 2009) (review) (feature) This story was also run on other IDG sites including:
- World’s Coolest Personal Computer (Hardcore Computer’s liquid-cooled Reactor) (IEEE Spectrum, August 2009)
- Portable Power Packs for Your Mobile Devices — “A pint of power for when there’s no outlet around” (iPass Connect, August 2009) (short feature article)
- “Briefs” for APC magazines and literature. During 2008, I wrote nine “brief” — one-sheet marketing pieces for APC, mostly about APC’s Online TradeOff Calculator tools, which have been used in APC’s Currents magazine and/or other materials. the (See APC section in the PR & Marketing Projects section for the list, including links to published pieces.)
- Proper Office Furniture Improves Efficiency – Hergo Provides Furnishings For Your Computers & Servers (Processor, August 7, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 21, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Taking Care Of Aging IT Products – DMD Systems Recovery Buys Used Equipment For Recycle Or Resale (Processor, July 17, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 19, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Portable Computers Under $1000 and 1 Kilogram (IEEE Spectrum, June 2009)
- Jason Busby on Educating Future Animators (InformIT.com, June 9, 2009) (interview)
- Three Questions: Keeping Out Dirt, Heat, Noise & More — Simplex Isolation Systems Provides Products For Data Center Environmental Control (Processor, June 5, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 16, Page(s) 39 in print issue)
- Science Fiction Books For the Computer Fan (iPass Connect, May 26, 2009) (short feature article)
- Improving Your Physical Infrastructure – Snake Tray Reduces The Cost & Time It Takes To Wrangle Cables & Manage Airflow (Processor magazine, May 22, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 15) (vendor interview)
- Putting your BI to work – What’s in your data warehouse? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, BI)
- Governance should be the decider – Should IT drive business or vice versa? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk and Compliance)
- Appliance-izing applications — A good job for an expert (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Managing by magic – Adding SaaS to your app development, deployment mix (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Security leads to compliance, not vice versa – Don’t just watch (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, Security and Privacy)
- A shopping list of sundries: Virtualization Everywhere Means More Tools Everywhere (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, virtualization)
- All your infrastructure belongs to us (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, application infrastructure)
- Plan Strategically For The Present — Strategic Sourcing In Today’s, Ahem, Challenging Economy (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, strategic sourcing)
- Separate Thoughts About Unified Communications — What Might SaaS, Managed Services, Open Source, Google, and Skype Have In Common? (BTQuarterly.com, June 2009) (blog entry, unified communications)
- Add-On Accessories For Your Digital Camera: Beyond Spare Batteries, The Right Stuff Means Better Pix (iPass Connect, May 15, 2009) (short feature article)
- Forget Notebooks, Go For Netbooks (iPass Connect, May 01, 2009) (short feature article)
- Top Business Travel Gear Sites: From Travel Duds To Tech Gear, These Sites Can Help You Find What You Need (iPass Connect, April 22, 2009)
- Blade storage for SMBs: The pros and cons (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage, April 15, 2009)
- 3 Questions: Real Virtualization Expertise – Fairway Consulting Can Help Design, Implement, Manage & Even Host Virtualization Solutions (Processor, April 10, 2009; Vol.31 Issue 12, Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Separate Thoughts About Unified Communications – What Might SaaS, Managed Services, Open Source, Google, and Skype Have In Common? (BTQ Quarterly, April 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Dude, Where’s My VM? — Does Virtualization Let IT Change Too Fast? (BTQ Quarterly, April 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- First Affordable Fuel Cells for Mobile Gear Medis Technologies first to market with fuel cell for handheld/mobile gear (IEEE Spectrum Online, April, 2009; also, IEEE Spectrum April 2009, page 16)
- Three Questions: Save Money With Recycled Media – Storage Media Brokers Buys, Recertifies & Resells Tape Media (Processor, March 27, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 11; Page(s) 39 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Applications Considered as a Matrix of Varying Priorities (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- Managing IT Business Services As a Service – Service-Now.com (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Tired of waiting for Windows to boot? HyperSpace and Splashtop can help — review of two “instant-on Pre-Boot Environments (review) (ComputerWorld, March 20, 2009)
- CES Show Report: The Coolest Picks at CES 2009 — My short list and photo slide show (thanks to PictoBrowser of the best/most interesting things I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (TechRevu.com, January 19, 2009, show report)
- Putting Your Data To Work (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Business Intelligence)
- Minding the Volcano (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Governance, Risk & Compliance)
- Changing Passwords at the Speed of Business (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
- For Scaling, Brains May Beat Brawn (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Application Infrastructure)
- Social Marketing by the Book: Marketing and Selling in a 2.0 World (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- Enterprising Web 2.0: Accept and Accommodate Popular Tools, Or Else (BTQ Quarterly, March 2009) (blog entry, Web 2.0)
- Bluetooth Blocks Noise: Talk Wirelessly with Comfort, Sound Quality and Style (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Grab and Go Camera – Take Your Shirt-Pocket Digital Camera Wherever You Travel Without Taking Up Space (iPass Connect, March 2009) (product review)
- Make Your Tax Prep Less Taxing: TurboTax Home & Business Federal + State + eFile 2008 (TechRevu, February 25, 2009) (product write-up, updated review info to come)
- If You Can’t Buy Less, Bargain Better (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Strategic Sourcing)
- Virtualization is Still in Development (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- How Virtualization Improves Software Development (CIO.com, February 11, 2009) (feature article)Also picked up by:
- PC World Australia (February 12, 2008)
- Good Gear Guide, (February 12, 2008)
- SaaS Offers Timely Solutions: SaaS, PaaS Good Match For Today’s Economy (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, SaaS)
- Thin Clients: Sounds Like Terminal Spirit (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, application delivery)
- To Ensure Security, don’t make insecurity an option — Secure-by-default products simplify security (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Security, Risk & Compliance)
- Are you a Good List or a Bad List? Duplicate, Duplicate, Boil and Grumble (BTQ Quarterly, February 2009) (blog entry, Business Intelligence)
- Three Questions: Storage Solutions For Resellers & OEMs – Condre Focuses On Savvy Storage Selling (Processor, February 6, 2009 – Vol.31 Issue 6, Page(s) 23 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Reports from the 2009 Consumer Electronics Show (CES) (January 5-11, 2009, in Las Vegas):
- CES Show Report: The Coolest Picks at CES 2009 — My short list and photo slide show (thanks to PictoBrowser of the best/most interesting things I saw at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show (TechRevu.com, January 19, 2009, show report)
- CES 2009: FINAL REPORT OF WHAT I SAW — My topic-sorted bullet list of what I saw at CES 2009 that looked interesting. (TechRevu.com, January 15, 2009) (show report)
- CES Pre-Show Kickoff Event: “CES Unveiled” , including Daniel and Ernest’s Preshow CES Podcast — stuff seen at CES’ CES Unveiled 60+ vendor press event (TechRevu.com, January 6, 2009)
- CES 2009: Off To Another Consumer Electronics Show! — a brief pre-show report on what’s to come (TechRevu.com, January 4, 2009)
- Three Questions: Cooling Where You Need It Most – Data Aire Provides Precision Air For IT Gear (Processor, December 19, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 51, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- What Science Fiction Writers Have Learned About Predicting The Future of Technology — Science fiction authors Larry Niven, Robert Sawyer, Nancy Kress and Charles Stross look back at looking forward. (CIO.com, December 16, 2008) (feature article/interviews)This article was picked up by other IDG publications, including:
- ComputerWorld, as “Sci-Fi: What’s it really about? Four famous authors reflect on their hits, their misses and why they write science fiction (December 17, 2008)
- InfoWorld, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future — Science fiction isn’t (as a rule) about predicting the future, and science fiction writers aren’t trying to predict it.” (December 16, 2008)
- and “mobilized” in mobile.cio.com, as “Sci-Fi Writers and Technology’s Future” (December 16, 2008)
- and in the New Zealand CIO.com site, as “The men and women who saw tomorrow” (December 18 2008)
- and posted again in CIO.com (December 16, 2008)plus blog notes in:
- Rob Sawyer’s blog (Rob even found the article and posted this up before I let him know the article was up)
- the “blink” section (on the left) of Locus Online (for non-science-fiction fans: Locus Magazine is covers “news of the Science Fiction publishing field and coverage of new science fiction books and magazines.”)
- Ulmekirjanikud ja tulevikuennustamine (12/17/08)
- Three Questions: Arch Convergence Switches Handle Core Converged Traffic – Avaya Cajun Line Lives On As Acadia Family (Processor, December 5, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 49, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Event Report: Pepcom Wine/Dine/Demo NYC November 2008 From Asus and HP to ClickFree and PlantSense, a evening’s look at showed recent, new and upcoming consumer/prosumer/business tech products (TechRevu.com, December 02, 2008)
- Small Is Big in Notebooks?but Not Too Small — Ultralight computers add back a few more ounces and a lot more usability (IEEE Spectrum magazine, December 01, 2008) (feature article)
- Does SaaS have Critical Mass yet? (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Application Delivery)
- The Blinding Curve of Virtualization” (BTQuarterly.com, November 2008) (blog entry, Virtualization)
- How To Get the Best Internet Connectivity While You Travel — Comparing short-hop travel choices — plane, train, bus — for being productive with your computer in terms of comfort (elbow room), connectivity, power and convenience. (CIO.com, November 24, 2008) (feature article)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: The pros and cons of solid-state drives for notebook computers (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, November 24, 2008) (short feature article)
- Three Questions: Configuresoft Automates, Improves Configuration Management — IT Staff Efficiency, Compliance & Security All Benefit (Processor, November 21, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 47, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Infra Dig and The Ripple Effect: System solutions may have inequal opposite reaction (BTQuarterly.com, November 14, 2008) (blog entry, Application Infrastructure)
- Coulda, Woulda, Shoulda: People Who Need Policies and Procedures (BTQuarterly.com, November 14, 2008) (blog entry, Security & Privacy)
- Holiday Gifts: Toshiba Qosmio G55 series – A Laptop On Steroids The Cell-based Quad-Core model does nifty video processing (IEEE Spectrum, November 2008)
- Three Questions: Recoup & Save On Backup Media – RecycleYourMedia.com Keeps Used Tape Safely In Circulation (Processor, November 7, 2008, Vol.30 Issue 45, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- WLAN Well-Being: A Pro-Active Approach Protects Servers Before Breaches Happen — Securing Your Company’s Wireless LANs, and Servers (CDW Solutions catalog, October 29, 2008) (feature article)
- Ready For Anything: Rugged Notebooks Get Down To Business Wherever And Whenever — Beyond “business-rugged,” today’s semi-rugged and fully-rugged notebook computers are ready to tough it out. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 01, 2008) (feature article)(case studies)
- Three Questions: Support, Enhancements For Open-Source — Gizmox Visual WebGui Supercharges Web/Desktop Development (Processor, October 10, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 41) (vendor interview)
- MAID and other energy-saving storage technologies for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 25, 2008) (short feature article)
- Photo Report From Pepcom Holiday Spectacular — Laptops, Portable Storage Drives, Phones and Gadgets for Early Holiday Shoppers — Pepcom evening multi-vendor press event, New York City, September 18, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (show report)
- Web 2.0 in Pictures: Scenes from the Web 2.0 Expo New York 2008 — Web 2.0 Expo, Javits Center, New York City, September 16-19, 2008 (eWeek.com, September 23, 2008) (“slide show” show report)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: How to secure mobile data on USB drives for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, September 17, 2008) (short feature article)
- Case Study: How One Company Broke Down Silos and Improved Application Integration — Qualcomm’s move to Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) (CIO.com, September 15, 2008) (case study)
- Three Questions: Checking On Security, Compliance & Performance — AirDefense Monitors 802.11 WLANs For Rogue APs, Intruders & More (Processor, September 12, 2008 — Vol.30 Issue 37, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Cutting The Cord — Ip KVM Switches Allow Remote Hardware Access From Any Location (CDW Solutions catalog, September 3, 2008) (feature article)
- Three Questions: ElcomSoft Recovers Lost Passwords, Audits Security — Regain Access To Protected Data, Applications, Systems (Processor, August 29, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 35, Page(s) 27 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Review: 3 power plug meters help you save money and energy — The KillAWatt EZ, Watts up? and Brultech ECM1220 let consumers, homeowners, and IT/energy professionals measure how much energy a device (or its power brick) is using (ComputerWorld, August 26, 2008) (also run in PC World’s Business Center) (review)
- “SMB Software to Run Your Server & Your Business” — This article provides an overview of the key software that a small business needs or should consider for its servers, and related advice to ensure reliable, secure operation of this essential business support tool. (August 20, 2008) (white paper/feature article) (Here’s a copy in case you can’t get it from the CRN Libary.)(Note, this was a custom feature article, done for Diskeeper under my byline. Editors: Diskeeper owns the the rights to this version, feel free to ask them or me for permission to use this. I’ve got a longer version, and additional quotes and information, which I’m happy to sell.)
- SMB STORAGE TIPS: Seven steps for outsourcing data storage for SMBs (TechTarget SearchSMBStorage.com, August 11, 2008) (short feature article)
- Three Questions: Going Virtual – Certeon Accelerates Wide-Area Application Access (Processor, August 8, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 32, Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Notebooks Rule — Notebook PC Convenience And Productivity Are Key Drivers To Expanding Use (CDW Solutions catalog, August 6, 2008) (feature article)
- New social networks invent product twists and focuses to stay in the game (DEMO.com, August 06, 2008) (news/feature article)
- Review: Lenovo U110R IdeaPad — Lenovo’s new consumer/multi-media oriented ultraportable notebook (TechRevu.com, July 14, 2008) (product review)
- Using Virtual Worlds to Run Your Network Operations and Data Centers — Second Life and other virtual worlds provide a user interface for data, network operations centers and collaboration. (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article)
- How to Get Started in Virtual-World Operations — Free/inexpensive ways to get started with using virtual worlds for business (originally done as a sidebar to the “Using Virtual Worlds…” article) (CIO.com, July 09, 2008) (feature article) (how-to article) (Also run on ComputerWorld.com, July 11, 2008)
- 3 Questions: CMS Products Protect Data On Desktops & Notebooks Professional-Class Solutions To Encrypt, Back Up, Restore & Recover (Processor, July 4, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 27; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Panasonic’s CF-W7 Toughbook — Three Pounds Of Business Rugged Portable Power (TechRevu.com, June 21, 2008) (product review)
- Messaging In The Enterprise — SMEs Are Putting Text Messaging & IM To Work (Processor, June 20, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 25, Page(s) 11 in print issue) (feature article)
- Clustering and Mirroring — Processes offer failover and replication capabilities proving critical to business-continuity and disaster-recovery strategies (CDW NetComm catalog, June 18, 2008) (feature article)
- Show Report: Enterprise 2.0 Conference — Are Businesses Ready For Social Technology? – a quick view from the show floor, Boston, June 9-12, 2008 (TechRevu.com, June 12, 2008) (show report)
- Tri-Mag Provides Power, Filters & Chassis — Offering Flexibility For Regular Or Custom Orders (Processor Magazine, June 6, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 23 Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Cool Air To Go — Atlas Provides Portable Air Conditioning For Sale Or Rent (Processor magazine, May 30, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 22; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- Three Questions: Upsite Helps Data Centers Keep Maximum Cool — Products & Education Optimize Existing Air Conditioning (Processor magazine, May 16, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 20; Page(s) 29 in print issue) (vendor interview)
- HP 2133 Mini-Note Combines Ultraportability with Affordability — Four Models, from Linux on Flash to Windows on Hard Drive (eWeek MidMarket, May 13, 2008) (product review)
- Penryn Core Will Speed Notebooks, Stretch Battery Life — Intel’s New CPU Tech Brings Performance Benefits (eWeek Mid-Market, May 08, 2008) (news article)
- Review: HP 2133 Mini-Note PC — HP’s new three-pounder, in Linux or Windows versions, from $499 to $749 (TechRevu.com, May 09, 2008) (product review)
- Don’t Try This: Watering Down The Music — MP3 player taking a washing and keeping on moshing (My Trying Technology blog, May 8, 2008)
- What’s New In Notebooks — Mobile PC Offerings Keep Expanding: From CPUs And Cellular To Green And Small — Intel Penryn, embedded broadband, Vista, ultra-lights, and “greening” (CDW 2008 0507 Solutions catalog)
- Fix One, Fry One, Buy One: Death Of A Motherboard — In which Daniel proves he’s not as smart a computer-fixer-guy as he thought he was… (My Trying Technology blog, May 1, 2008)
- Three Questions: i-Tech Provides LCDs For All Occasions — Products Range From 1U Rackmounts To Digital Signage (Processor, April 25, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 17, Page 29) (vendor interview)
- Assault On Batteries, #1 – You Irreplaceable You (My Trying Technology blog, April 25, 2008)
- Running Only on Open-Source Software — Profile of Smartleaf, a small financial services company running almost entirely on Open Source (MidMarket.eWeek.com, April 06, 2008) (news/interview)
- Jamcracker Expedites SAAS — XML-based Jamcracker Integration Toolkit reduces the time it takes to flip the “SAAS switch.” (eWeek Mid-Market, April 14, 2008) (news)
- SEH Print Server Serves Up Energy Savings (eWeek.com, April 11, 2008) (news)
- HP Intros $499 [and up] Mini-Notebook — New Linux-or-Windows sub-three-pound ultraportable 2133 Mini-Note PC good for executives, professionals or students (eWeek Mid-Market, April 8, 2008) (news)( A brief summary appeared in eWeek.com’s Mobile & Wireless area.)
- Pulizzi Provides Powerful PDUs – Eaton Acquisition Powers Denser Enclosures, Monitors Both Power Environment (Processor, April 4, 2008, Vol. 30, Issue 14) (vendor interview)
- CardScan Grabs Business Cards — Review of CardScan Executive mobile USB-powered business card scanner (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008) (product review)
- APC, mFuel External Notebook Batteries Keep Humming (eWeek.com, April 2, 2008 (product review) (Also see my ‘mini-slide-show’ of photos of the APC UPB90 and the mFuel, which ran in eWeek in October 2007.)
- Shut Up and Drive: Congress Passes Nationwide Law to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving (CIO.com, April 01, 2008) (humor – see publication date)
- Wi-Fi Predators Attack Hot Spots Businesses Don’t Know They Have — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 31, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com, Businesses Leave Wi-Fi Hot Spots Unprotected - Users Still Worst Enemy to Endpoint Security — Session report from Boston SecureWorld Expo (eWeek MidMarket, MidMarket.eWeek.com, March 28, 2008) (news story, event coverage)
(and a short summary in eWeek.com) - Take Note — Today’s Notebooks Take Mobility To The Max (CDW 0108 Solutions catalog) (feature article)
- Barracuda Appliances Protect Your Network – Stopping Threats To Email, Web, IM & More (Processor, March 28, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 13, page 29) (vendor interview)
- Vendors Stream to Greener Printing — Samsung, HP up the green levels of printer manufacture, use and end-of-life (eWeek, March 14, 2008) (news story)
- Faster Canon Printers Offer More Features for Less Money — Four new Canon imageCLASS black-and-white laser MFPs for small and home offices (eWeek MidMarket, March 14, 2008) (news story) (and this shorter version, Faster Canon Multifunction Printers Help Cut Costs (eWeek, March 14, 2008)
- Kodak Aims Digital Media Products at Midmarket — Kodak announcements at AIIM 2008 show (eWeek, March 12, 2008) (news story), and this shorter version, (eWeek MidMarket, March 13, 2008)
- AIIM/OnDemand 2008 Report — Slide Show: The Top SMB-Focused Printing Tech from AIIM (eWeek MidMarket, March 8, 2008)
- Conserving IT Budgets With Refurbished Hardware – World Data Products Offers Full Life Cycle Support (Processor, March 7, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 10, page 31) (vendor interview)
- Lexmark Proving Its Chops in Health Care – MFPs and apps for medical offices (eWeek, February 29, 2008) (news story)
- eCopy Scans Directly To Business Applications (eWeek, February 15, 2008) (news article)
- Canon Adds Equitrac Tracking to imageRUNNER Devices (eWeek, February 14, 2008) (news article)
- 3 Questions: Better Monitor & Control Power – BayTech Goes Down To The Socket Level (Processor, February 15, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 7) (vendor interview)
- Scan and Print Software Simplified — Xerox SMARTdocument Travel Express workgroup software (eWeek, February 11, 2008) (news article)
- Thick Is In — New Océ TCS4XT thick-original large-format scanner) — (eWeek, February 08, 2008) (news article)
- Panasonic Toughbook W7 — Review of Panasonic’s three-pound Windows ultralight notebook (TechRevu.com, February 5, 2008) (product review)
- 3 Questions: Amerex Fights IT Fires — Clean Agent Fire Suppression Won’t Hurt IT Gear, Data, Or Staff (Processor, February 1, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 5) (vendor interview)
- Dern’s Picks For CES 2008 — The products I’d give awards to, if I had awards to give, and some of the others I found the most interesting/intriguing. (TechRevu.com, January 30, 2008)
- Ultralight Review: Lenovo ThinkPad X61s — another look at Lenovo’s security-oriented business-class three-pound notebook. (TechRevu, January 30, 2008)
- What Daniel Saw at CES 2008 — My partial summary of what I saw at the 2008 Consumer Electronics Show, sorted by product category, with some comments. (See my Dern @ CES 2008 reports in my Trying Technology blog for more products and commentary.) (TechRevu.com, January 24, 2008)
- Three Questions: For Pre-owned Network Gear, Try DNI — The Secondary Market Can Offer First-Rate Prices (Processor, January 18, 2008 – Vol.30 Issue 3) (vendor interview)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #4 — (Some of) The Products I Saw At CES 2008 (My Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- DERN @ CES 2008 Report #3 — A Few Words (Well, Paragraphs) AboutThe Multi-Vendor Press/Analyst-Only Events (My Trying Technology blog, January 17, 2008)
- Ricoh Builds Printer HotSpots on the Road — new color, monochrome HotSpot laser printers let users with Internet-enabled notebooks, cell phones, handheld users print directly, no drivers required. (eWeek, January 16, 2008) (news article)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #2 — Sunday – Storage Visions, Marty Winston’s Cherry Picks (My Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
- Dern @ CES 2008 Report #1 — Consume Electronics! In Vegas! (My Trying Technology blog, January 9, 2008)
- Scanners, OCR Make Good ROI Sense for Small Biz (eWeek.com, December 14, 2007) (news article)
- Three Questions: Integrien Avoids, Reduces Downtime – Alive Combines, Analyzes Management Info From Multiple Systems, Levels (Processor, December 14, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 50) (vendor interview)
- Konica Minolta Latest Color Laser Printer Packs Features — new bizhub C353P printer (eWeek.com, December 13, 2007) (news article)
- Kyocera Hopes Cost Per-Page and Partners Drive Growth (eWeek, December 7, 2007) (news article)
- Print Market Tackles Sustainability, Environmental Concerns — InfoPrint, Lexmark lead initiatives (eWEEK.com, December 06, 2007) (news article)
- Can You Print Me Now? — Networked printers easier to share, says Lexmark (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Pick the Proper Printer — For small business, it’s a bottom-line impact (eWeek.com, November 29, 2007) (news article)
- Ricoh Adds Rights Management to ScanRouter (eWeek.com, November 28, 2007) (news article)
- HP Unveils Imaging, Print Solutions – New vertical solutions for identify document issuers, European brokerages (eWeek.com, November 16, 2007) (news article)
- Three Questions: Etasis Builds Better Power Supplies For Servers (Processor, November 16, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 46) (vendor interview)
- Keep Up With Proofing — Advice from Kodak: Advances in technology are improving the methods for proofing pages and creating new uses. (eWeek.com, November 15, 2007) (news article)
- Dell Printers Citrix-Certified — Desktop and workgroup models are guaranteed to work with Presentation Server. (eWeek.com, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Technology Driving Ink Sales — Kodak Research Labs on high-end inkjet printers (eWeek, November 14, 2007) (news article)
- Three Questions: i/o Data Centers Provides Digital-Grade Space – Outsourced Rack, Cage & Room/Suite Data Center Facilities That Stay Up (Processor, November 9, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 45)
- Health Workers Addicted to Black and White Unlike most other verticals, medical SMBs prioritize speed and features (eWeek.com, November 8, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Reports InfoPrint as Subsidiary Is Succeeding (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Updates 3 imageRUNNER MFPs to Maintain No. 1 Market Spot (eWeek.com, November 5, 2007) (news story)
- Speed Problem Identification – Fluke Networks OptiView Portable Network Analyzer Adds Network Mapping & More (Processor, November 2, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 44) (news article)
- Kyocera Adds MFPs for SMBs or Workgroups (eWeek, October 26, 2007) (news article)
- Stand and Print Securely – Ricoh offers proximity-card login for secure printjob access (eWeek, October 24, 2007) (news story)
- Canon Speeds Up Scanning — New ScanFront systems (eWeek, October 19, 2007) (news story)
- APC, mFuel External Batteries Prolong Notebook Computing — brief captioned slide-show on external batteries for notebooks (eWeek, October 21, 2007) (product review)
- Xerox Demos ‘Intelligent Redaction’ (eWeek, October 17, 2007) (news story). Summary and link to eWeek.com story appeared in PCMag.com, October 17, 2007; and ExtremeTech, October 17, 2007),
- “Three Questions: Technical Furniture Fits Computers Into Offices” – Hergo Ergonomic Support Systems Provides Modular Racking & Cabinets (Processor magazine, October 12, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 41)
- 15 Business Diamonds in the Consumer Electronics Rough — Here’s 15 of the nifty business-worthy products I spotted at ZD’s September 2007 Digital Life Expo in New York City, and the associated ShowStoppers multi-vendor evening press event (and Pepcom’s “Holiday Spectacular” a week earlier) (eWeek, October 5, 2007) (new product write-ups/photos)
- Physical & Virtual Management — KACE’s Integrated Appliances Combine Systems Management Processor, October 5, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 40) (news story)
- Olympus Evolt E510 10MP Digital SLR Camera — Nice sub-$1,000 DSLR with CCD Shift Image Stabilization and 14-42mm f/3.5-5.6 lenses (TechRevu.com, October 1, 2007) (digital camera product review)
- Xerox Wants to Help Customers Gain Digital Print Savvy (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh a Kodak Reseller — Ricoh to resell Kodak NEXPRESS color presses. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared on eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 25, 2007) - Xerox Speeds, Simplifies Digital Printing Process — New FreeFlow features expedite personalized marketing, Web-to-book and other tasks. (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Epson Unveils 4 New Products — Fastest Laser-quality ink-jet, other multi-function printers (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
Also appeared as Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (ExtremeTech.com, September 25, 2007), Epson Unveils Speedy New SOHO Inkjets (PCMag.com, September 25, 2007) and Epson Unveils 4 New Products (eWeek Channel Insider, September 25, 2007) - Xerox Debuts 4 High-Speed ‘Light Production’ Systems — To help companies bring more print jobs in-house (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Xerox Tool Assesses TCO of Print — new ProfitQuick Investment Planner modelling tool (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Ricoh Adds VAR, OEM Partners In New Business Group — Ricoh’s Production Printing Business Group goes after high-end printing/product markets (eWeek, September 25, 2007) (news story)
- Solid-Ink Print Levels the Color, Black-And-White Price Barrier — Xerox promises color printing at a black-and-white price with solid-ink sticks. (eWeek, September 24, 2007) (news story) Also appeared in eWeek’s ChannelInsider section (September 24, 2007)
- Ricoh Middleware Links Documents to Sage Accounting (eWeek, September 19, 2007) (news story)
- Is That 200GB of Data in Your Pocket? – Review: Toshiba’s USB 2.0 Portable External Hard Drive (eWeek, September 7, 2007) (product review)
- Backing Up Your Files – A look at consumer-oriented online backup services, including important things to know, and sample providers. (DigitalLanding.com, September 2007) (“how-to” tech feature article)
- Lexmark Touts Advantages of Wireless Printing — Lexmark introduces WiFi-enabled inkjet printers and all-in-one devices for under $300. (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek, September 6, 2007)
- DynaComm PointGuard: Integrated Endpoint Security – Protect Your Windows Endpoints, Ports & Mobile Media (Processor, August 31, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 35)
- Server Migrations Simplified – Quest Helps You Keep Users Connected During Big, Complex Mail Upgrades (Processor, August 24, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 34)
- Computerworld’s big guide to USB peripherals – Whether you want something useful, something playful or something just plain fun, there’s a USB device for you (ComputerWorld.com, August 9, 2007)
- Wiring Loma Linda — Former city CIO James Hettrick reflects on the rollout (CDW StateTech, August 14, 2007)
- Xerox Office Services 4.2 to Manage Print Inventory and TCO eWeek, August 9, 2007)
- Kodak Looks to Ease Project Collaboration Version 3.0 of Kodak’s Insite Creative Workflow System (eWeek, August 8, 2007)
- New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek, August 8, 2007) (news story)
also appeared as: New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek’s Channel Insider, 08-AUG-2007) and New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) - New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek, August 8, 2007).
also appeared as: New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (eWeek’s Channel Insider, 08-AUG-2007) and New Canon Laser Pushes Duplex and Network Features (PC Magazine, September 9, 2007) - Working ‘untethered’: How to get by without wires, power cords or cables — Are you ready to be truly unwired at the office or home? (Computerworld, August 01, 2007)
- Eight Reasons NOT to Use Linux in the Enterprise (CIO.com, July 31, 2007)
- InfoPrint Adds 4 Workgroup Color Printers, MFPs (eWeek.com, July 27, 2007
- Ricoh Intros Wide-Format Printers for CAD, Technical Renderings (eWeek, July 27, 2007)
- ThinkPad X61s is a small and light – but powerful – system A review of Lenovo’s 3-pound ultralight notebook (also posted on eWeek’s Channel Insider area (eWeek.com, July 23, 2007)
- Review: Olympus SP-550UZ 7.1MP Digital Camera with Dual-Image Stabilized 18x Optical Zoom (TechReview, July 2007)
- Review: Fujifilm Finepix S700 7MP Digital Camera with 10x Optical Zoom (TechRevu.com, June 2007)
- Certified Used Tapes Save Money — Tape Media Manufacturer Turns To Recycling Media — Three Questions for Graham Magnetics (Processor, July 13, 2007, Vol.29 Issue 28, Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- Data Deposit Box Stores Data Safely Off-Site Review: Online storage service Data Deposit Box patches the gaps in your data storage by taking data safely off-site. (eWeek.com, July 5, 2007)
- Fault-Tolerant Storage Includes High-Efficiency Cache Mirroring, “Green” Non-Battery Backup — ftScalable Storage array subsystem from Stratus (Processor, June 29, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 26
- Server Portability/Recovery Solution Now Even More Flexible — PlateSpin Adds Block Mode To PowerConvert Workload Transfers (Processor, June 22, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 25)
- Taking Inventory — Benefits of IT software, hardware asset management (in K-12 schools and school districts) (T.H.E. Journal, June 2007)
- “Building Servers The Way Customers Like Them” — “Three Questions” for Servers Direct (Processor, June 8, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 23 Page(s) 27 in print issue)
- “Custom Console System Makes Mounting Monitors Easy” Winsted Talon 2 Provides Freestanding Command Consoles for control situations where wall-mounted monitors are not an option. (Processor, May 25, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 21)
- Better Management Of Your Data: Combining Data Sharing & Retention Makes For A Better Solution – Quantum StorNext 3.0 software (Processor magazine, May 4, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 18)
- Recycling – Six Degrees of “Out” — guest commentary in my town’s weekly newspaper (Newton TAB, Wed Apr 25, 2007) (and reposted on the Newton Tab’s Environment section (produced by the Green Decade Coalition/Newton)
- Attachmate WinINSTALL 9.0 – Features Simplify Updates & Security Checks (Processor, April 13, 2007, Vol. 29, Issue 15)
- Looking for a Bluetooth mobile phone headset? I try out the Aliph Jawbone, Gennum nX6000 and Plantronics Discovery 665, for InformationWeek:
- Review: Three Cool Bluetooth Headsets (InformationWeek.com, April 7, 2007 12:00 AM) (the original online review)
- Noise Got You Feeling Blue? Try These Bluetooth Headsets (Information Week, April 23, 2007 issue, posted April 21, 2007 12:00 AM) (a shorter print version) — here’s a scan of the actual page, and the posted version of the print version.
- Power Play — With IT-oriented power protection solutions, careful planning keeps your data center humming cost-effectively. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Remote Network Hardware Management — Tips for managing remote equipment from your desk — KVM and serial console over IP give IT more reach (CDW Netcomm catalog, March 2007)
- Dual-Core Platforms For Security & Communications Appliances — American Portwell Offers Compact, Cost-Effective Hardware Choices (Processor, March 16, 2007 – Vol.29 Issue 11, Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- For VON Preview Buzz, an eight-page self-mailing piece sent to about 15,000 people, for PulverMedia’s 2007 Spring VON (Voice/Video On The Net) conference in San Jose, March 2007 — five short pieces (on short deadline): show overview, three vendor Q&As, and “Video on the Net”
- Designing Your Network for the Future — Here are the new products and technologies to consider as you refresh, upgrade and expand. (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Keeping Remote Users Safe Makes Sense (CDW Netcomm catalog, 2007 Q1)
- Boskone 44 convention report — Brief report of the Boskone 44 science fiction convention held February 2007 in Boston, with Guest of Honor David Gerrold (SFRevu, posted March 2007)
- Let Legacy Apps Keep On Trucking – BlueZone Access Server Provides Flexible, Secure Access (Processor magazine, February 16, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 7, Page(s) 17 in print issue)
- Bringing Wi-Fi Phones To The Enterprise — New Handsets Support 802.11a/b/g, PBX Features & Office Usage — SpectraLink NetPhone 8000 (Processor magazine, February 9, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 6 Page(s) 15 in print issue)
- Panduit PoE Midspan Exhibits Versatility — Compact Units Add Power In 8-Port Increments (Processor magazine, January 19, 2007; Vol.29 Issue 3 Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Post-Digital Life Expo 2006 product reviews/write-ups, in eWeek New Products blog and/or eWeek Product Reviews:I did nearly a dozen and a half short write-ups — including quick hands-on trials where possible (not in-depth testing), of a bunch of products I saw at the October 2006 Digital Life Expo at New York City’s Javits Center (and/or at the associated evening multi-vendor events by Pepcom and ShowStoppers. Four of these appeared first during November, on eWeek, and included some pictures and/or screen shots. In mid-December 2006, eWeek started up a New Products blog, and all the write-ups are there (including blog versions of the four that had already been posted):
- Zone Alarm Takes Cyber-Security Into Non-Cyber World Add Real-World Identity Protection While Protecting Your PC (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:19 PM/EST)
- U3 Lets USB Drives Carry Usable Programs Along With Data Portable Applications Initiatives Still Have A Way To Go — (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:17 PM/EST) — Appeared originally as eWeek.com review, U3’s USB Drives Carry Programs Along with Data (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VoIP Easy – Simple Gizmo Works With POTS Gear (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:15 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, SunRocket’s LaunchKit Makes Adding VOIP Easy (eWeek.com, November 14, 2006)
- Sunbelt’s CounterSpy Roots Out Rootkits – Stand-alone anti-spyware fights fast (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:13 PM/EST)
- Seagate’s External SATA Drives – Speed Meets Capacity – As long as you’ve got SATA ports on your PC, of course (eWeek, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:08 PM/EST) — Originally appeared as eWeek.com review, Seagate’s External SATA Drives: Speed Meets Capacity (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Network Magic Helps Manage Home Networks, Computers – Consumer-oriented tool troubleshoots, solves problems (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:04 PM/EST)
- Ruckus Wireless WiFIs Well For Streaming, HiDef – A/B/G MIMO Router, Adapter Pump Up The Bandwidth (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:07 PM/EST)
- MediaMax Offers 25GB of free online – Free/fee sharing/backup service targets consumers, professionals (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Add A Terabyte or Three With Infrant ReadyNAS 4-Drive SATA NAS – Home/Office Network Device Can Also Stream Media Directly (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 2:02 PM/EST)
- Use your iPod in weather, water with H2O Audio’s iPod housings 0 Patented control lets you click through the casing (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:59 PM/EST )
- Find stuff on mobile media with Gaviri PocketSearch – This 5MB search engine goes where you go (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:55 PM/EST)
- DLink 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Build A NAS And Features Easy-install Disks For Network Storage (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:51 PM/EST) — originally appeared as eWeek.com review, D-Link 2-Bay Enclosure Lets You Fill NAS Yourself (eWeek.com, November 15, 2006)
- Is Your Web Site Press Ready? (CDW BizTech magazine, June 2006) (sidebar to the main “Working the Web” article)
- CyberDefender Launches Free Early Detection Center Suite – Everything-But-Firewall PC Protection, Still In Beta (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:49 PM/EST)
- Diagnose Why Your Car’s “Check Engine” Light Is On – A Useful Device — If It Works (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:47 PM/EST)
- Become Strives To Improve On-Line Shopping – Also Finds Pre/Post-Purchase Research Info (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:45 PM/EST)
- Audible.com Adds Wireless Content For SmartPhones – Let Your Phone Grab an Hour Of New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Etc. For Your Morning Commute (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 1:23 PM/EST)
- Accomplice Offers a Free, U3-able P2P PIM – Prioritize Tasks, Coordinate Teams With This Portable App (eWeek.com, Friday, December 08, 2006 11:21 AM/EST)
- AirTight Upgrades WLAN Service & Planning Tool — SpectraGuard Planner Plots Positions For APs, Sensors (Processor magazine, December 8, 2006 — Vol.28 Issue 49 Page(s) 19 in print issue)
- Bring Printing Back In-House — Affordable color laser printers are making it possible for marketing departments to offer in-house color and save signficant time and money on short-run color jobs. (CDW Solutions catalog, November 2006)
- Your 10 Biggest Network Security Worries — Learn what threats and vulnerabilities today’s small business IT professionals need to defend against, along with tips on how to fight them. (CDW NetComm catalog, November 2006)
- Blade-Based Rackmount Appliances — Overland ULTAMUS RAID Offers Storage For SANs (Processor, November 24, 2006; Vol.28 Issue 47; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- Switch to Speed and Simplicity — Small- to medium-sized businesses are turning to wireless switches, along with lower-cost “thin” or “right-sized” access points, to deploy and manage pervasive wireless service quickly, securely, and cost-effectively. (CDW Netcomm catalog, November 2006)
- Paving The Way For Change — Lumeta’s Migration Service Eases Move From IPv4 To IPv6 (Processor magazine, November 3, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 44 Page(s) 20 in print issue)
- Securing Teleworkers — Growing security concerns make it more important than ever that IT provide secure access for users working remotely. (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, p 33-35)
- Secure Switches for Today’s Applications — Handling Traffic for Media-Rich, Data-Intensive Applications (CDW Netcomm catalog, October 2006, pp. 16-19)
- Keep Older Data Readily Available – PowerFile A3 Built To Replace Tape — Optical jukebox provides low-power, cost-effective near-line storage alternative (Processor magazine, October 13, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 41; Page(s) 18 in print issue)
- “Weather Or Not — Is Your IT Ready For Prolonged Power Outages? (CDW Netcomm catalog, September 2006)
- Get The Legacy Connection – Hummingbird’s Connectivity 2007 Lets Business Users Access Mainframe & Unix Apps (Processor magazine, September 22, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 38 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Identify, Prioritize & Report Security Risks – McAfee Enhances Its Management Portfolio — McAfee adds/integrates Foundstone, Preventsys (Processor, September 15, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 37 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Somebody Call Security – Implement a reliable strategy to protect your mobile devices and the data they carry (CDW Netcomm catalog, August 2006)
- Manage Your Media – Transition Networks Offers Free SNMP Software With A GUI (Processor magazine, September 8, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 36 Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Keep Your Notebook Running Longer With APC’s outboard Universal Notebook Batteries — Outboard batteries offer more flexibility, time than spare in-board ones. (TechRevu.com, August 30, 2006)
- MonsterPower’s Outlets To Go Provide Portable Plugins — MonsterPower’s new 4- and 6-Outlet Outlets2Go give travellers enough places to plug in (mini-review) (TechRevu.com, August 17, 2006)
- “Less Energy, More Memory” – SuperMicro’s Servers Aim For Efficiency & Reliability (Processor magazine, August 4, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 31)
- SigGraph 2006 in Boston — Summary review of the exhibits and a few show floor pictures (TechRevu.com, August 4, 2006)
- Supercharging Your Computer Room: Server virtualization delivers efficiency and flexibility (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006, p. 70)
- Keep Your Cool — If the cooling system in your data center racks and rooms isn’t adequate, your IT gear can melt down. Here are some ways you can reduce and remove excess heat (CDW Netcomm catalog, June 2006)
- Getting The Best Deal — Savvy Negotiating Can Stretch IT Budgets (CDW StateTech Magazine, July/August 2006)
- Spend Wisely – Getting the Most IT From Taxpayer Dollars, by Catherine Maras O’Leary, CIO, Cook County, Ill (I was the project ghostwriter) (CDW StateTech Magazine, July /August 2006)
- Three “Infosheets” on how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be used as an infrastructure application server, intended as “Did you know…” pre-sales pieces, e.g. to identify specific uses for Red Hat:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a file server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a print server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a web server
(Red Hat, July 2006 — I’ll include URL once I determine that they’re posted, and where.)
- Secure “Mobile Data At Rest” — Before It Leaves the Office — Avoid Those “Oh, ****!” Moments When You Lose A Device Or Disk (IT Business Net, July 5, 2006)
- Progress Is The Product At TechEd — Report from the TechEd 2006 Show Floor (CMP Desktop Pipeline, June 15, 2006)
- IdealStor Adds SATA Line To Ejectable-Drive, NAS Backup Products (Processor, June 9, 2006 – Vol.28 Issue 23, Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Clean Up Your Desktop” – Cut Cable Clutter With The Belkin Flip 2-Port KVM (Processor magazine, May 5, 2006, Vol. 28, Issue 18; Page(s) 16 in print issue)
- Ten Things I Hate About Web Sites (InformIT, Apr 28, 2006)
- Fuel Cells For Mobile Users Are Coming, Sort Of — Don’t expect micro methanol-based fuel cells soon, but other chemistries and technological approaches are on the way, or even here already. (CMP Desktop Pipeline, May 2, 2006; also picked up by InformationWeek, SmallBusinessPipeline, and Network Computing)
- Securing Your Desktop Computers Today — and Tomorrow (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- Unitrends Adds Linux Hot Snapshotting To Appliance-Based Rapid Recovery — Rapid Recovery No Longer a Luxury (LinuxPlanet, April 27, 2006)
- Smart Switches If your network needs performance and security that your current unmanaged switches can’t provide, take a look at today’s Web-enabled smart switches. (CDW NetComm catalog, April 2006)
- “Data Center Virtualization Creating New Consulting Opportunities” — Is interest in server/storage virtualization for IT optimization in data centers creating new consulting opportunities? (Answer: Yes, ranging from education and assessment through implementation) Quotes from BearingPoint, Broadleaf Services, Egenera, IBM, Transitional Data Services, Virtual Iron. Kennedy Information Global IT Services Report (May 2006)
- Savvy Server Consolidation Many companies are consolidating servers with blades and rack mounts to improve performance and staff efficiency –as well as their budgets. (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006 )
- Power Play: Protect your essential IT gear from damaging power failures with the right UPS (CDW BizTech magazine, March 2006)
- Notebook Security ‘In the Wild’ — Securing data, network activity, and physical systems of your company’s notebooks when out-of-office (CDW NetComm catalog, March 2006, pp 74-77)
- Multiple Monitors: One Way To Get More Display Space (InformIT, February 24, 2006)
- Multifunction Printers for Multitasking Staffs Lower prices, enhanced functionality and productivity features make today’s multifunction printers more value-filled than ever. (CDW Solutions catalog, February 2006)
- Disk-to-Disk-to-Tape Technology — D2D2T combines both disk and tape as backup media, for solutions that offer IT the best mix of speed, flexibility, convenience and cost-effectiveness. (CDW Solutions catalog, January 2006)
- The Skype Phenomenon: The mania continues (VON Magazine, January 2006) (note, you’ll need JavaScript to see this)
- One Keyboard, Mouse, and Monitor To Rule (Well, Run) Them All — KVM switches for desktop and notebook users (InformIT, December 22, 2005)
- “Keeping A Close Watch” — Theft, fire, overheating or water damage are as much realities as viruses, spyware and network intrusions. IP video cameras, along with locks and other devices help ensure physical security for your site and its equipment. (CDW Netcomm catalog, December 2005, p 30-33)
- Laser Multi-Function Printers: Ready For Prime Time (CDW Solutions catalog, October 2005)
- Start-to-Finish: System Refresh (I did some editing and added text to an existing mss.) In addition to system upgrades, an established three- to five-year refresh cycle will help improve overall system performance and lengthen the life of your hardware. (CDW Solutions catalog, October 2005)
- Now You See– and Hear It: IP Conferencing & Collaboration is on the rise (VON Magazine, October 2005)
- Power Failure Insurance Standby, line-interactive and online dual-conversion UPSs can play a role in keeping equipment up when the power goes down. (CDW Solutions, September 2005)
- Disk Defragging for Maximum Performance Research shows that regular disk defragmentation is a good way to glean an extra ounce of prevention from your network maintenance routine. (CDW Solutions, September, 2005)
- Gateway-Level Security Stopping network nuisances at the gateway level — before potential threats enter the network — greatly reduces the cost and effort of fighting them. (NetComm catalog, October 2005)
- Power Protection: Don’t Let Those Volts Cause Jolts — A look at the non-UPS power protection products that can help protect your networks and computers. (CDW NetComm catalog, September 2005)
- Road Warriors: Don’t Look Now — Given the dropping price of videoconferencing, it might be time to consider using the technology in your office. (CDW BizTech magazine, August 2005)
- Wanted: Easy, Affordable E-mail Archiving — The Sony AIT Intradyn solution eases the strain and cost of e-mail retrieval and legislation compliance. (CDW NetComm Catalog, July 2005)
- Forever Young — To take advantage of PC innovation and keep pace with the competition, companies have operated on a three-year tech-refresh cycle. (NOTE: I didn’t do this from scratch, I did rewriting plus additional text.) (CDW Solutions catalog, May 2005)
- Exploring the Secondary Market – The Market for Second-Hand VoIP Equipment is Still in First Gear” (VON Magazine, June 2005)
- How Computers Work (and why they crash) — How I.T. Works: Looking Inside the Box (CDW-G EdTech magazine, Summer 2005)
- Profile: Rich Teer, Solaris/Unix Hacker, Administrator, Consultant, and Author (OpenSolaris.org, May 15, 2005)
- If it’s Tuesday, this must be CeBIT — An overview of the CeBIT 2005 show in Hannover, Germany with some local color, sights and sounds, and an odd picture from the show floor. (TechRevu, March23, 2005)
- Recent Advances Boost System Virtualization — IBM’s recently-released rHype Hypervisor code, Intel’s “Vanderpool” technology, and other events are propelling system virtualization (eWeek, March 4, 2005)
- USB Flash Memory RAM Sticks Doing More In Less Space — An update on what Iomega, Lexar, M-Systems, SanDisk and other USB flash RAM drive vendors are doing in terms of capacity increases and price drops, as well as differentiating with security, software and other features. (CMP Small Business Pipeline, September 8, 2004)
- Power over Ethernet Reduces Cabling Costs And Improves Administration (CMP Systems Management Pipeline, August 26, 2004)
- IE, Robot – Editorial Blog: Would Asimov’s Three Laws of Robotics protect our networks? (Systems Management Pipeline, June 29, 2004)
- Jerry Pournelle talks of Comdex Past Jerry’s memories of 20+ years of attending Comdex (The Inquirer.net, July 5, 2004)
- Great Responsibility Doesn’t Always Come With Great (Computer) Power Editorial Blog: As Spider-Man, Peter Parker learned that great power comes with great responsibility… but not all computer owners exercise it (CMP Systems Management Pipeline, June 30, 2004)
- VoIP isn’t Sci-Fi, it’s worse Truth is stranger (and a lot less trouble-free) than fiction (VON Magazine, May/June 2004)
- Buying a Non-Branded “White Box” PC — Tips on when, and how to, buy an unbranded “White Box” versus from a name-brand vendor (or building your own) (InformIT, May 7, 2004)
- Using 802.3af (Power Over Ethernet) as a SysAdmin Tool By using Power over Ethernet (802.3af) to provide power for devices such as WiFi Access Points, VoIP desktop phones, and webcams, companies can save on A/C wiring costs and UPS provisioning. (InformIT, April 2, 2004)
- Paying developers to get features faster (NewsForge, December 18, 2003) — For some Open Source and other programs, customers can fund the features they want.
- “Power Doodads for Techno-Travelers: With Great Power Responsibility Comes Several Pounds of Accessories” (InformIT.com, December 5, 2003) — An overview of AC/car/air power accessories for notebooks, PDAs and cell phones, and AA NiMH battery chargers (for digital cameras, etc.)
- “For Malzberg It Was They Came,” The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction (F&SF), June 2003 — My first published SF story of the new decade! It’s part of the special tribute to Barry Malzberg, author of numerous books and stories including BEYOND APOLLO and HEROVIT’S WORLD. See mini-reviews of my story (and of the rest of the issue, too) in at BlueJack and Tangent Online.
- “Building Blocks for Microsoft .NET: The Case for Reusable Components” (Supplement to SD Times, May 1, 2003) — Fourteen of the fifteen software component vendor profiles in this supplement. My by-line’s on them, but since the vendors paid for them (by buying an ad), and got to see the final text, I consider this PR, or at least “advertorial”. That’s neither a complaint nor a criticism, mind you, just a statement.
- Daniel’s Comic Book Column # 14 (SFRevu.com, December 2002) — Holiday recommendations: Graphic Novels Make Great Gifts. My final column (but not appearance) for SFRevu. (I’m shifting to uncolumnated reviews of graphic novels, for loose/wide definition thereof.)
- Be Prepared — A Paranoid’s Guide to Computer Ownership (ComputerClick Magazine, October, 2002) — My summary of free, cheap and affordable — and easy — steps anybody can (and should!) do to protect their computer, and the data on it. E.g. virus scanners, UPSs, backups, and more. Nothing earthshattering here; this is meant as an accessible piece for the new computer owner/user.
Custom, Sponsored, “Ghostwriting,” PR/Marketing, Etc.
These articles and other writing projects appear everywhere from vendor/agency sites and pub This includes everything from my-bylined to somebody else’s byline — typically a company executive — or no byline. (As long as my name is on the check, I’m happy.) Some are, or could be considered, journalism; others are arguably or even inarguably PR/marketing collateral.
Over the years, I’ve done PR projects for, directly or through agencies, have included BBN, Data General, Digital Equipment Corp., Gandalf, and IBM. (At some oint I’ll go back to my file cabinet to list, scan, and post more of the pre-Web-era stuff, as opportunity permits.)
Here’s ones that are (or were) online: APC, Acquia, BlueSocket, CDW (Catalogs, magazines and more) CMP Custom Media Solutions, Diskeeper, Enlighted, Functionize GrabCAD InfoWorld (custom publishing), Microsoft, NanoVMs, PlainBlack, PulverMedia, Red Hat, Ricoh WorkIntelligently, SD Times, Sony, Spirent, Talend, Tesora, VMware, and Zetta.
APC:
During 2008, I wrote nine “brief” — one-sheet marketing pieces for APC, mostly about APC’s Online TradeOff Calculator tools:
- Design and Deployment Characteristics of an Efficient Enterprise Data Center — New approach gets IT and Facilities working together (APC Currents, Business Edition, August 2009, page 20) (~700-word “brief”)
- Simplify Thermal Containment Solutions with Interactive online Selector — APC TradeOff Tools: InRow Containment Selector (APC Currents, Business Edition, June 2009, page 16) (~700-word “brief”)
- “How Much Could You Save Using Online TradeOff Tools?” — Data Center Efficiency Calculator (APC Currents, Business Edition, April 2009, page 8) (~700-word “brief”)
- Is Your Data Center Too Cold? — Colder Isn’t Always Better” (APC Currents, Business Edition, February 2009, page 22) (~700-word “brief”)
- APC TradeOff Tools Quantify Impact of Data Center Planning Decisions (APC Currents, Business Edition, February 2009, pages 6-7) (~700-word “brief”)
- “Managed Services Keep Your Foot In The Door” (APC Availability Advisor, February 2009) (~700-word “brief”)
- Data Center Index Efficiency Calculators tools: How much could you save using [APC’s] Online TradeOff Tools? (not yet run)
- TradeOff Tools Quantify Impact of Data Center Planning Decisions (not yet run)
Acquia:
(Acquia provides commercial support and services for the Drupal open-source content management systems.)
- Bassmaster hooks new fishing site with Drupal and Acquia Managed Cloud (Acquia, May 2012) (PR) (case study)
- Blink Reaction partners with Acquia to create exceptional Drupal websites (Acquia, September 2011)(PR)(case study) (Note: this was a rewrite/merge of two existing versions)
- ChrisRock.com and SuperStar Media deliver the laughs with Acquia Dev Cloud (Acquia, August 2011)(PR)(case study)
PlainBlack:
- WebGUI Drives Atomic Learning’s Training Center (January 2004) — Case history done for PlainBlack.
BlueSocket:
- “Wireless Gateways: Going Beyond VPNs for WLAN Security and Management Solutions” (Note, only about half of this came from me; they changed the focus after I’d done several drafts.)
CMP Custom Media Solutions:
- E-mail newsletters (editorial content, plus link searching and summaries), sent out by CMP on behalf of clients including AT&T and BellSouth, on topics including Voice over IP, VPNs, and wireless LANs.
Diskeeper:
- “SMB Software to Run Your Server & Your Business” — This article provides an overview of the key software that a small business needs or should consider for its servers, and related advice to ensure reliable, secure operation of this essential business support tool. (August 20, 2008) (white paper/feature article) (Here’s a copy in case you can’t get it from the CRN Libary.)(Note, this was a custom feature article, done for Diskeeper under my byline. Editors: Diskeeper owns the the rights to this version, feel free to ask them or me for permission to use this. I’ve got a longer version, and additional quotes and information, which I’m happy to sell.)
- Technical newsletters — company/industry/market-specific intro/wrap text, based on client-provided information, plus selections from marketing text from Diskeeper
Falcon Electric:
I’ve been doing a mix of case histories, features and other projects, some start-to-finish, some editing and rewriting starter text:
- Wind power control systems go to (temperature) extremes – High-temperature uninterruptible power supply helps Danish control system designers handle Mongolian temperatures up to 55 ° C (Control Engineering, February 1, 2010) (PR) (feature article) (rewrite/edit based on initial vendor write-up)
Functionize
(See Functionize listing in ByPub/Site entries.)
GrabCAD
(See InfoWorld (Custom Publishing)
- Windows to the Future: Displays to Go
- Notebook computer displays catching up with desktop counterparts (Used in an insert to InfoWorld) (1997)
Microsoft:
- “Solving the Certification Puzzle: The Certifications You Need to Compete in Global Markets (Microsoft, July 2011) (32-page booklet about regulatory certifications, e.g., UL, CE, FCC, TUV, RoHS, Energy Star, Ruggedizing. The booklet was printed and distributed by Microsoft, and also posted to a Microsoft internal site. The project was done by Triangle Publishing Services, Inc.. I was the lead writer.)
- Croatian Forests Improves Field Productivity with Windows CE .NET Mobile Application — case study (posted March 14, 2004)
- .NET Framework, Visual Basic .NET Help NSE Inc. Add Value to SharePoint Collaboration Solutions — case study (posted February 4, 2004)
- Global Beverage Group Speeds Mobile Application Development, Performance With Visual Basic .NET and .NET Compact Framework — Case Study (posted December 9, 2003)
- Sunkist Growers Creates New Fruit Accounting System with Visual Basic .NET, .NET Framework — Case Study (posted November 6, 2003)
- Corzen Inc. Builds New B2B Information Service Faster and Under Budget with Visual Studio.NET – Case Study: Corzen Inc.s use of NET Framework, Visual Studio.NET to build their Corzen Indicators B2B web site (posted August 28, 2003)
- AMS Services .NET Framework case history: AMS Services Reduces Costs and Development Time, Increases Scalability with Smart Client Technology
- .NET Compact Framework case history: MapShots — “MapShots Extends Agricultural Desktop GIS/Recordkeeping Suites to Pocket PC Quickly, Affordably Using .NET Compact Framework & Visual Studio .NET”
- .NET case history: XcelleNet — “.NET Framework, Visual Studio .NET Speed Development, Deliver Rich User Experience for XcelleNet’s Afaria Mobile Infrastructure Solution”
NanoVMs:
NanoVMs provides unikernal (small, purpose-built virtual machines) products and services. I’m writing a mix of bylined and ghostwritten (their or no byline) blog posts, magazine articles, and other pieces for them.
- To reduce security vulnerabilities in downstream facilities, try unikernels (Hydrocarbon Processing magazine, July 2019) (ghosted PR project)
- Why Unikernels are a Good Fit for Existing On-Premises Private/Hybrid Cloud Deployments NanoVMs.com, December 18, 2018) (ghostwritten for NanoVMs)
- To Meet New Computing At The Edge Requirements, Try Unikernels (NanoVMs blog, October 21, 2018)
Pulvermedia:
- 5 short pieces (on short deadline): show overview, three vendor Q&A’s, and “Video on the Net,” for the VON “Preview Buzz” mailer brochure (an eight-page self-mailing piece sent to about 15,000 people), for PulverMedia’s 2007 Spring VON (Voice/Video On The Net) conference in San Jose, March 2007. (PulverMedia, February/March 2007)
Red Hat:
- Three “Infosheets” on how Red Hat Enterprise Linux can be used as an infrastructure application server, intended as “Did you know…” pre-sales pieces, e.g. to identify specific uses for Red Hat:
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a file server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a print server
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux as a web server
(Red Hat, July 2006 — I’ll include URL once I determine that they’re posted, and where.)
SDTimes (Advertising Supplement)
- “Building Blocks for Microsoft .NET: The Case for Reusable Components” (Supplement to SD Times, May 1, 2003) — Fourteen of the fifteen software component vendor profiles in this supplement. My by-line’s on them, but since the vendors paid for them (by buying an ad), and got to see the final text, I consider this PR, or at least “advertorial”. That’s neither a complaint nor a criticism, mind you, just a statement.
Sony:
- Text for direct mail piece for Sony Vaio PCV210P all-in-one desktop PC
Spirent:
- “Wi-FI Offload — Is Your Gateway Ready?” — testing aspects of load-shifting traffic from carrier wireless spectrum to Wi-FI (which connects to fiber) (Spirent, May 2012) (PR)(white paper)
Talend
(See Talend listing in ByPub/Site entries.)
Tesora:
- Why You Want Fast(er) Database Spin-Up, Spin-Down (Tesora.com, February 2, 2016) (sponsored blog post)
- Why Are There So Many Database Management Systems? (Tesora.com, January 12, 2016) (sponsored blog post)
- DevOps’ing Your DBMS (Tesora.com, December 14, 2015) (sponsored blog post)
VMware:
Some of my pieces for VMware have been for their Radius site (and before it, “The Bridge”), which is a mix of stories from and/or sponsored by VMware. I’m doing a mix of bylined and “custom content” for it.
- Why Enterprises Are Ready For Network Virtualization (VMware Radius, November 23, 2015) (PR)
- How Fully Is Your Company Moving To Business Mobility? (VMware Radius, November 16, 2015) (PR)
- VMware survey’s “digital skills” in EMEA:
- “Millennial Myth” Busted: Employees of All Ages Drive Digital Change (VMware Radius, October 20, 2015) (PR) (Part 1 of 2)
- EMEA Digital Skills Survey Shows Value, Drivers & Obstacles (VMware Radius, October 22, 2015) (PR) (Part 2 of 2)
- VMware’s Jean-Pierre Brulard Talks VMworld 2015 Europe, EMEA Opportunities (VMware Radius, October 21, 2015) (PR)
- Unified Hybrid Cloud Computing Offers Opportunities To ‘Go Bigger, Go Better, Go Easier’ (VMware Radius, October 8, 2015) (PR)
- Five ‘Must-Do’s’ For Your Company’s Future Success From VMware CEO, Pat Gelsinger (Forbes.com, September 24, 2015) (PR, for VMware) (strong rewrite based on VMware piece)
- Companies Now Adopting Business Mobility Strategies Across Every Industry (VMware’s The Bridge, June 16, 2015)
- Make sure your employees use public WiFi safely (VMware’s The Bridge, June 15, 2015)
- “Innovate like a startup, deliver like an enterprise” — Interview with Paul Strong, VMware CTO (VMware’s The Bridge, March 30, 2015) (“custom content,” no byline)
Zetta:
Zetta is an online backup provider; I’ve been (ghost)writing case histories and blog posts, for their Scalabyte Blog.
Case Histories:
- Kineto Wireless Lowers Monthly Server Backup Costs 50%, Avoids Spending $17K in New Tape Equipment (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Petroquip Lowers Server Backup Costs by 80% (Zetta, August 2013) (PR) (case history)
- Case study: Architectural Firm Prellwitz Chilinski Associates Reduces NetApp Filer Offsite Backup Costs By Half (Zetta, April 5, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case history: Westinghouse Lighting Reduces Backup Costs, Adds Disaster Recovery Functionality, and Protects Data from Hurricane Sandy (Zetta, March 20, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- NetApp Offsite Backup with Zetta DataProtect by Cook Inlet Tribal Council (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Case Study: Group Photographers Association — Local Storage Disaster Kick-Starts Cloud Backup Initiative (Zetta, March 14, 2013) (PR) (case study)
- Mizon Rounds Out MSP IT Offerings With Backup by Zetta – Reliable “no heartburn” backups help keep Mizon customers happy
- Reselling Online Backup: A Podcast About “No Heartburn” Backup (Zetta blog post, January 23, 2013) (case history) (text article accompanying podcast)
- TEECOM – Technology for Architects to Bring Buildings to Life (Zetta, September 03, 2012) (PR) (case study)
- Online Server Backup Performance and Value: The Merced College Story (Zetta, August 22, 2012) (case history)(PR)
Blog Posts:
- MSP Backup: Time to Add Cloud Backup and Disaster Recovery to Your Menu? (Zetta, July 09, 2013) (PR) (blog post)
- NetApp Backup: Amazon Web Services vs. Zetta DataProtect (Zetta blog post, April 2, 2013) (PR)
- Is Microsoft Azure Online Backup Overpriced? (Zetta blog post, March 06, 2013) (PR)
- Getting a Disaster Recovery Solution From Your Backup (Zetta blog post, January 15, 2013) (PR)
- How an Enterprise Backup Solution Should Be Configured (Zetta blog post, January 9, 2013) (PR)
- Choosing an Online Backup Partner: 4 Lessons for Resellers from Zenith Infotech (Zetta blog post, October 23, 2012) (PR)
- Education Technology: A Hybrid Cloud Backup That Solves School Challenges (Zetta blog post, October 12, 2012) (PR)
- Deduplication ? It Really Just Means Faster Backups and Shorter Backup Windows (Zetta blog post, October 10, 2012) (PR)
- If The X-Men Worked In IT (Zetta blog post, September 20, 2012) (PR)
- Online Server Backup Essentials: Seeding Your Initial Backup (Zetta blog post, September 12, 2012) (PR)
- How to Acquire A Company, Technically: Protecting New Data With Online Backup (Zetta blog post, September 07, 2012) (PR)
- D2D2T vs. Online Server Backup – The Battle of Cost, Complexity, and Capabilities (Zetta blog post, September 4, 2012)
- Enterprise Cloud Backup – For SMBs? (Zetta blog post, August 30, 2012) (PR)
- Understanding Snapshots: Server Backup With Granular Versioning (Zetta blog post, August 24, 2012) (PR)
- How Online Backup Benefits Companies Committed To Local Backup (Zetta blog post, July 17, 2012) (PR)
- Online Data Archiving: Save Time and Cost By Letting Your Data Retire (Zetta blog post, July 13, 2012) (PR)
- Protecting IT Assets From a Hurricane: A How To Guide (Zetta blog post, July 06, 2012) (PR)
- Mac Backup – A How To Guide For Small Business (Zetta blog post, June 20, 2012) (PR)
- Affordable Disaster Recovery: Compliance in the Cloud (Zetta blog post, June 18, 2012) (PR)
- The Key To SMB Offsite Backup Isn’t Backup, It’s Recovery (Zetta blog post, June 05, 2012) (PR)
- How Offsite Backup Can Give Your Users a Day-To-Day Productivity Boost (Zetta blog post, May 31, 2012) (PR)
- Cloud Backup Costs Less For Full Data Disaster Protection (Zetta, January 19, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Cloud Backup: More Than Just Offsite and Online (Zetta, January 13, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Accessibility Questions (Zetta, January 11, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- 5 Cloud Backup Security Concerns (Zetta, January 9, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Cloud Backup Performance Must Meet Your Business Needs (Zetta, January 06, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Is Cloud Backup Right for You? Four Key Factors… (Zetta, January 5, 2012) (PR) (blog post)
- Winter Emergency Data Backup & Recovery Readiness (Zetta, November 01, 2011) (PR) (blog post)
Humor
I love doing humor pieces, particularly tech/scifi/comic related. (Note, the links below aren’t necessarily where the pieces first appeared.)
- Reduced Budgets Impacting Upcoming TV/Video Seasons and Projects (File770.com, August 8, 2023) (humor)
- A (Partial) Corona Song Parody Playlist (File770.com, April 3, 2020)
- Telepathic? Telekinetic? We’re Hiring! (File770.com, March 23, 2020)
- With Great Power Comes More Error Messages: Windows 7 Lessons Learned From Science Fiction, Comics, and the Movies (ITExpertVoice.com, December 24, 2009) (humor)
- Shut Up and Drive: Congress Passes Nationwide Law to Ban Cell Phone Use While Driving (CIO.com, April 01, 2008) (humor – see publication date)
- Internet Predicts Overloading of Metcalfe, .GIF at 11 🙂 (August 12, 1996); also, Dern vs Metcalfe vs crypto-bioflavinoids (my comments on it all)
- Life Placement Associates (April 1991)
(Some of) The Pops Kringle Kronicles:
- Santa slays costs with Open Source, Linux (NewsForge, Monday December 24, 2001)
- MIS-adventures of Pops Kringle (December 1992)
- If You’ve Been Good, Press One (December 1990)
Postings to Newsgroups & Mailing Lists:
- Infrequently Asked Questions: The Lesser Internut Trivia Hunt (1990 or 1993)
- My “net swifties” posting to info-cobol, from February 1985 (thanks, Google!) Note the .arpa mail domain!