Larry Dignan

Ever wonder why everyone on the planet can find out about your kid on MySpace.com and you cant? Former dot-com executive and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban has a few ideas. Here are some excerpts from Cubans www.blogmaverick.com: “My daughter is only 2. Not old enough, yet, to have a MySpace page. Not quite, anyway. […]

Vonage is cutting its customers in on its initial public offering. In an e-mail, the VOIP (voice over IP) provider detailed a plan to allow its customers direct access to shares of its IPO offering, currently expected to price between $16 and $18. “Because much of our success is attributable to our customers, we have […]

VeriCenter Chief Technology Officer Dave Colesante is a rare bird. Unlike many IT executives, Colesante has actually thought about a potential avian influenza virus, or bird flu, pandemic and reckons his company, which provides technology services, is relatively prepared if the virus becomes transmitted through human contact. After all, Colensantes 225-person support staff is used […]

Heres a good recipe for combustion: Take one survey on IT certifications, discover that these credentials could be viewed as a waste of money and then tell a bunch of techies that all those acronyms following their names are just about worthless. Kaboom! A study by Foote Partners, an IT compensation and workforce management firm […]

Internet Fraud Boys will scam, be scammed If Internet fraud were a battle of the sexes, men have the upper hand as both perpetrators and hapless victims. Thats just one of the takeaways from the 2005 annual report from the Internet Crime Complaint Center, or IC3, a partnership between the FBI and the National White […]

Sun Microsystems finally got the memo on what kind of CEOs succeed in todays technology market. Unfortunately, it came 1,393 days, or 3 years, 9 months, too late. Sun has announced that chatty CEO Scott McNealy would hand the reins to Jonathan Schwartz, who steps up to the plate to be chief executive. McNealy will […]

EMPLOYMENT Shiny, happy IT people Technology workers are feeling pretty good about themselves these days. After a decline in confidence in February, IT folks are feeling downright spunky, according to Rasmussen Reports Hudson Employment Index. How confident are IT workers? The Hudson Employment Index, which is built from surveys of 9,000 workers, climbed 10 points […]

Innovation 1: a creation (a new device or process) resulting from study and experimentation [syn: invention] 2: the creation of something in the mind Source: WordNet 2.0, 2003 Princeton University Remember that definition because, in upcoming months, folks may start thinking “innovation” means “marketing pitch.” And if were not careful, “innovation” may become as meaningless […]

“Apple has no desire or plan to sell or support Windows, but many customers have expressed their interest to run Windows on Apples superior hardware now that we use Intel processors,” said Philip Schiller, Apples senior vice president of Worldwide Product Marketing. “We think Boot Camp makes the Mac even more appealing to Windows users […]

Marketing Dells new dude? A video file is being passed around on the Web that depicts Dell computers being sold on TV shopping channel QVC, and it could give Dell another pitchman almost as popular as the “Dude” guy. So long, Dude; hello, Randy? Heres a transcript of Randy and his Dell love interest: Hosts: […]