http://mooreslore.corante.com/ en-us dana@a-clue.com 2005-12-20T14:03:37-05:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/20/the_ces_hype_machine_tunes_up.php While you're all tucking into your Christmas turkey the hype machine for the next round, the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, is already filling media inboxes. CESlong-ago replaced Comdex as the technology industry's premier trade show.Somewhere between the Internet... 44481@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-12-20T14:03:37-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/15/windows_live_why.php I was attracted to Windows Live by a Web blog I respect, but whose name I have somehow lost. The claim which struck me was images with Windows Live were clearer than those with Google Earth. Some examples were shown.... 41862@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-12-15T13:25:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/13/surrender_billy.php In The Wizard of Oz the Wicked Witch of the West writes "Surrender Dorothy" in the sky. But she can be destroyed by a bucket of water. Microsoft's problems can't be solved that easily. And their best course at this... 40351@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-12-13T10:44:49-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/12/05/what_the_world_of_always_on_needs_now.php The International Telecommunications Union has released a full report on what I've been calling The World of Always On, which they call The Internet of Things. The report correctly identifies the biggest problem, user acceptance: Concerns over privacy and data... 39530@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Always On 2005-12-05T14:28:23-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/12/stringers_choice.php There are two salient points about the Sony scandal you will only read at Mooreslore. (Or at least you'll read them here first.) The first point you've already gotten. Who's behind the scandal? It's not a Japanese. It's a U.S.-based... 37872@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-11-12T20:34:58-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/09/why_monopoly_40_will_fail.php One word: branding. Microsoft is not a Big Time Brand, as my friend Rob Frankel would say. It doesn't give most of us the warm fuzzies. It's not a trusting relationship. There's no love there, as there is with Apple... 37766@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-11-09T12:39:03-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/11/04/viruses_cut_out_the_middleman.php Instead of attacking Windows, Linux, or the Mac, today's hip, new virus writers are going after the anti-virus programs. Russian-born Israeli Andrey Bayora has documented how this is done at his company, SecurityElf. He dubs the attack, "The Magic Byte."... 37693@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Security 2005-11-04T12:33:45-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/17/microsoft_plays_ogre.php Let's set the wayback to the year 1973, shall we? I was 18, a kid really. And I had arrived at this strange institution called Rice University. I played in the band, I was interested in journalism, I was full... 37108@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Strategy 2005-10-17T12:43:06-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/10/13/wygiwys_what_you_get_is_what_you_see.php The Macintosh interface has been around, in one way or another, for 30 years. It has been the dominant computing interface for 15 years. Jakob Nielsen (left), the King of Internet Usability (my title for him), says it is time... 37032@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Moore's Lore 2005-10-13T13:02:51-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/28/palmwindows_not_a_big_deal.php News that Palm is in the Windows Mobile business is not that big a deal. Palm has been faltering for years. Even before it split off from its operating system unit, PalmSource, it was losing market share in big hunks.... 36609@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Consumer Electronics 2005-09-28T10:33:53-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/21/what_im_retirement_age.php Well, nearly, judging from the latest re-org news coming out of Microsoft. The retiree in this case is Jim Allchin (right), who has been the Windows guru there for years. What struck me was his age, 53. I'm going to... 8962@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Software 2005-09-21T14:54:00-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/12/why_ebayskype_could_be_aoltime_warner.php Skype, like most VOIP companies, is a tax arbitrage play. The idea is that you avoid the tax costs of telephony by running your voice calls over an Internet connection. As everyone gets broadband, telephone service dies a natural death.... 8943@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Telecommunications 2005-09-12T14:56:43-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/10/dont_take_itunes_50_for_windows_for_now.php NOTE: There is an update to this article. Please go here to view it. There are apparently serious problems with Version 5.0 of iTunes for Windows, which comes bundled with Version 7.0 of QuickTime. Users are reporting that not only... 8940@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Software 2005-09-10T16:31:02-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/09/08/upgradeitis.php Over at ZDNet, Steve Gillmor (left) has a wonderful commentary that got me thinking about a financial disease, one to which corporations like Microsoft are addicted and by which users like us are burdened. I call it Upgrade-itis.... 8934@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Business Models 2005-09-08T09:25:52-05:00 http://mooreslore.corante.com/archives/2005/08/29/fight_for_the_new_interface.php The fight has barely begun for control of the new Internet interface, the RSS reader. NOTE: We were honored to get two important responses to what follows. Markos Moulitas says he never had an "exclusive" on Cindy Sheehan (I usually... 8921@http://mooreslore.corante.com/ Internet 2005-08-29T15:14:45-05:00