SAN in comment and analysis
'A full-scale switch to Macs is laughable'
Comment Another reader, an iPhone and Mac app developer from San Francisco, added: "Years and years ago it was demonstrated that it costs no more to support a heterogeneous environment of Macs and PCs than it does to support a... [13 Oct 2009]
Dave Girouard
AS Profile Before that he was at Apple and before that an associate in Booz Allen & Hamilton's Information Technology practice in San Francisco. Dave Girouard heads up Google's enterprise business division which has grown steadily... [29 Sep 2009]
Evan Williams
AS Profile It's been a spectacular year for Twitter, the microblogging site that started life back in 2006 as a side project for staff at a San Francisco start-up but has since mushroomed into a social networking juggernaut,... [29 Sep 2009]
Why 1970s hackers had 'whiz kid' status
Comment Well, my first hacking occurred as a student at Monroe High School in Sepulveda, in the San Fernando Valley. Kevin Mitnick, one of the most famous computer hackers, talks to CNET News about his days on the dark side and... [23 Jun 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 12.06.09
Round-Up The great, the good and the technology-obsessed descended on San Francisco this week to worship the cult of Mac. That's according to the Global Language Monitor, a company which sifts the web for neologisms in search of... [12 Jun 2009]
A new media world: Napster's 10-year anniversary
Comment In short, my feeling about Napster requires me to paraphrase TV critic Tim Goodman of the San Francisco Chronicle: Everything we know today about the music industry, we owe to Fanning and Napster. Ten years after the... [03 Jun 2009]
When IT security becomes a gothic horror story
Comment The RSA Conference in San Francisco, the big annual get together for the great and the good of corporate IT security, is just getting under way - and I'll be reporting from it all this week. The RSA Conference unveiled a... [21 Apr 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Beware the new phishers
Comment Compiled in San Francisco Airport having observed a young man 'cruising' computer screens in the gate area. Dispatched the next day from San Diego via a free hotel LAN During the past 12 months or so I... [01 Mar 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Want to beat the economy?
Comment Compiled on VS019 flying London to San Francisco and dispatched the next day from my hotel in San Bruno via a free LAN provided by my hotel Here we are in an ever-complex world, driven by technology and... [26 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Face-off with a hotel TV
Comment Compiled in my San Bruno, California, hotel room. Dispatched the next day from San Francisco Airport via a commercial wi-fi service. So there you are, having flown across the Atlantic. You feel a little... [23 Feb 2009]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Digital Britain? Not quite
Comment Compiled in a San Diego coffee shop where bandwidth seems plentiful and the connectivity is free. Dispatched the next day via a free wireless LAN at my hotel. On 11 February the UK government publicly committed to... [19 Feb 2009]
Is Salesforce.com sitting pretty for cloud wars?
Comment But it's last week's product announcement at Salesforce.com's Dreamforce user conference in San Francisco that suggests the company could deliver on Benioff's vision of businesses running their entire operation in the... [12 Nov 2008]
Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams
AS Profile Twitter began life as a side project for staff at a San Francisco start-up before being opened up to the wider world, in autumn 2006. Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams are the holy trinity who co-founded Twitter,... [07 Oct 2008]
Peter Cochrane's Blog: Social networking power
Comment First draft compiled on highway 101 heading south from San Francisco and finalised on BA286 flying to London the next day. Dispatched to silicon.com from a free wi-fi site in London a few weeks later after a further... [22 Sep 2008]
Inbox: YouTube surveillance, skills gap, Naked speak
Comment Go Leez, San Jose, CA The weekly Inbox column collects the best and most thought-provoking of the reader comments silicon.com receives each week. Inundating silicon.com's inbox this week have been comments surrounding... [11 Aug 2008]
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