Should Eliison Buy Apple? Background: Apple is in loads of trouble. They just fired 2700 employees and bought an operating system with no acceptance. Oracle CEO, Larry Elison, (One of the Top Ten Richest Men in America) is feeling the waters to see if buying the ailing Apple for a cool 1 Billion dollars. Ellison,…
39 People Dead on the Internet This is the headline everyone is seeing now. I find that the “Legitimate” news industry paints a fairly grim view of the Internet. Scare tactics, fear mongering, and downright lies have blemished the infancy of a new medium. Next time you see a news article on a non-internet forum.…
I’ve been busy, OK? Kokopelli New Media has taken a strong upswing, and kept my dumb ass busy for months. Now, things have progressed into something a little more structured and I have set aside time to write about the latest and greatest on the web. So lets get right into it. Continuing with my…
I hear the wackiest things when it comes to the Network Computer and what the world and computing will be like in the coming years and months. I will not claim that I know exactly what will succeed and what is just moonshine, but I will lay out the possibilities for you. The players are…
Six months ago many industry analysts predicted the demise of Apple after they posted a 700 million dollar loss. Many thought that they were ripe for a hostile takeover. Recent events have saved Apple from the brink of destruction and set them on the road to a fabulous comeback. After licensing the technical info for…
Lately the research I’ve been doing has to do with Visual Basic and its Web potential as opposed to Perl or C. Visual basic is much easier to learn and it seems that most programmers have frowned upon it for no other reason than its lack of complexity. I have been searching through a plethora…
Before the internet, Early Adopter meant that you had to read page 74 of obscure trade magazines and go to lame gatherings to see the latest and greatest technologies. In other words, you either were a major enthusiast or you stood in line with the rest of the world and got it when it came…
Didn’t we just settle this? The Communications Decency Act? Deemed Unconstitutional? Hello? Anyone paying attention? New York Governor George “Ringo” Pataki signed a bill making it a felony to transmit indecent materials to minors via the internet in the State of New York. Basically, it’s a localized version of the CDA. I’m not sure if…
Yahoo launched yet another local guide to a city. This time 2000 miles away from Yahoo’s California home base. It’s good old New York New York. If they can make it here they can make it anywhere. New York. The site, although in the same monotone, lame-o style as the rest of Yahoo, covers the…
I am so sick of spin doctors. Every company wants to be on the front page of the trade mags delivering the next big thing. Today it was big blue, IBM. IBM announced that by the end of the year they will ship a $700 internet box capable of email and web browsing. Be still…
Macromedia is kicking ass! Just after releasing a new shockwave version with streaming audio and porting the popular plugin to Microsoft Internet Explorer, Macromedia has struck a deal with Netscape. In the next version of Netscape Navigator (4.0), Shockwave will be bundled into the package, most likely making Shockwave the most popular plugin on the…
With the end of summer comes the end of vacations and loose business climates. The autumn weather should bring serious new attitudes to the internet. All of those companies that have been mulling over what to do for an internet strategy are finally ready to put up the bucks to finance the cyber-construction. Budgets for…
I had the good fortune to try out Windows NT 4.0 yesterday and install it on my PC. I learned some very important lessons. The first lesson is to always listen to your girlfriend; she knows best. She told me to install NT on a weekend so I wouldn’t be down during the week if…
What a hellacious week. First I got a summer flu. Then I sprained my ankle. And finally my bathroom turned into the Thing that ate Cleveland when raw sewage overflowed from the toilet and bathtub for three hours. So in case you really missed these columns, I have a good excuse. It’s been a bad…