Too many of us -- and I include myself -- are too willing to go to war and not willing enough to find harder, but often more successful, collaborative ways to solve problems. I often look at both the U.S. and Microsoft as similar entities in their respective spaces, and I'm often fascinated by how examples of good and bad judgment can be applied to both. While the U.S. is currently locked on a war path, the next administration will likely focus on reversing this, and we might be able to look at the peace dividends that Microsoft is currently getting for similar U.S. benefits.
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In 1990, at the dawn of the digital epoch, the American futurist George Gilder wrote a prescient little book called Life After Television: The Coming Transformation of Media and American Life. Back then, in the primeval soup of the Web 0.1 age, Gilder predicted a grand historical platform shift in the distribution of information and entertainment, in which the television epoch would be replaced by "the age of the telecomputer." Fast-forward 18 years: Web 0.1 has matured into Web 2.0 and Gilder's epochal shift no longer sounds like the wishful thinking of a digital Hegelian.
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My sister-in-law, Mary, thinks she is God's gift to Scrabble tiles. No kidding: This woman believes she can divine key tiles from the bag so that she can create killer words. She plays as if the existence of mankind depends on it. Playing Scrabble against her is both nerve-racking and satisfying. There's always a challenge when I come up with a triple score word that includes high-point letters like K, J, X, Q and Z. The problem is that I don't come up with those words often enough.
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A computer with a sky-high public profile these days -- the much talked-about and often coveted MacBook Air from Apple -- was the first laptop to get cracked in a security hacking contest Thursday. While headlines around the Web are claiming that it took only two minutes, there's more to the story. The cracking went down at the CanSecWest security conference in Vancouver, British Columbia, at the PWN to OWN 2008 contest, where security gurus attempt to hack into laptops for $10,000 in prize money.
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Mozilla's Firefox has a loyal following of people who say it's a lot better than the leading browser, Microsoft's Internet Explorer. But Mozilla CEO John Lilly looks like he also has a close eye on Apple's Safari browser, which commands a mere fraction of Firefox's market share even though it's available on both Windows and Mac. Last year, Lilly used his official blog to call out Steve Jobs over some pie charts he didn't like. Now, he's called attention to Apple's way of pushing out the latest edition of Safari.
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