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14 Reasons iPhone Sucks (or, Yet Another iPhone 3G Review)

I’m a Blackberry user. I had an 850 back when “Compassion Conservatism” meant “Clinton-esque economic prosperity, only with a tax cut”, a $10 trillion debt seemed like science fiction, and no one thought that Iraq had anything to do with 9/11.
Oh how times have changed. Here’s an old photo of the device, courtesy of [...]

What can big companies do now that small companies can’t currently afford?

From the Google Blog:
(It’s a thinly veiled ad for google products, but it is food for thought about (a) market opportunities for your own pursuit, and (b) what some google engineers are probably working on.)

Today, only the largest companies can afford to hire consultants and experts. In the future, even small companies will be able [...]

A Security Checklist for Newbies.

One of my clients had their web site compromised this morning. Apparently some hacker in Russia figured out their web server’s SSH password, logged in, and replaced their root index page. (No, my firm had never performed a security audit for them – the site structure was set up by a predecessor.)
Bummer. Here’s a [...]