Palm’s new Foleo

by | Monday, June 4, 2007 | Future Tech, Information Management | 1 comment

How to botch an announcement I’ve been thinking about email lately (see Email value management and What is email?). So it was interesting to see that Palm managed to bungle the announcement of their “next big thing” the email companion called Foleo....

Proud plumbing

by | Friday, June 1, 2007 | Enterprise, Information Management | 4 comments

So why did Cisco buy social-networking software provider Tribe? John Chambers, Cisco CEO, is quoted in the D/ blog on the Wall Street Journal website (it might be open to non-subscribers, but I’m in an airplane right now and can’t check) “A lot of...

Home RAID vs backup?

by | Wednesday, May 30, 2007 | Backup, SOHO/SMB | 57 comments

I got into it today on ZDnet with one of the other bloggers, George Ou, who published Why dumb-downed no-RAID storage is bad for consumers. As I believe that RAID is an idea whose time is coming to a close, I responded with Why home RAID won’t fly. So far, ZDnet...

What is email?

by | Monday, May 28, 2007 | Architecture, Information Management | 4 comments

Mirrorworlds for the masses David Gelernter’s company, Mirror Worlds Technologies, tried to put an interface on Windows that reflected how people actually remember and link their experiences, rather than some CompSci metadata accommodation. The company ceased...