Typically, this year’s CES was big, bland, and (reportedly) bad, but one item that caught my TiVo-loving eye was the introduction of the Seagate PipelineHD hard drive. It’s a three-platter drive optimized for DVR use, like the earlier DB35 series, with quieter seeks and bearings, and an expanded thermal envelope. The DB35 has been a […]
Living in a Copyrighted World
Techdirt’s I Learned It From Watching YOU, Big Content, pointed me to a Washington Post story, Hey, Isn’t That… about how the big old media companies have been repeatedly caught with their pants down, stealing content from us little guys. This got me thinking again about my own similar experiences. See, I’ve had my work […]
Optimus Maximus: Ultimate Keyboard Non-Demo at CES!
Aah, Veronica Belmont, I wish you would ask the hard questions… Yes, the Mahalo/Engadget geek-reporter got an in-person demo (with Artemy Lebedev) of an Optimus Maximus keyboard at CES, but (predictably) the video leaves much to be desired. You might remember my earlier discussion of this amazing $1500 OLED-equipped display/keyboard monstrosity. I’m still not buying […]
2008 – The Year the US Mobile Phone Market Normalizes
Rather than making a ton of predictions about the coming year, I’m going to make one big one: 2008 will be the year that the mobile phone market in the USA finally opens up, catching up to the standards of the rest of the world. For the first time, the average American will be able […]
Complying with Data Privacy Laws
I’ve been working on a new whitepaper for Hitachi focused on privacy laws in the United States and Europe, and what we mere storage folks can do to help comply with them. It’s pretty amazing stuff – the American system is totally different from the European, no surprise. Where they have sweeping top-down rights to […]
