http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/ en-us 2008-05-01T14:36:01-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/05/vint-cerf-waxes-nostalgic-on-t.html Source: Google Esquire magazine, not really known as a bastion of IT and Internet news, has a brief, intriguing interview with Vint Cerf, one of the pioneering luminaries in our industry and a hero of mine. Cerf (full name:... Christopher Saunders 2008-05-01T14:36:01-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/04/presence-and-working-smarter-o.html A story from our West Coast bureau chief, David Needle, got me taking a brief stroll down memory lane. Dave had written last week about distractions -- the bane of getting things done (in both the traditional and the David... Christopher Saunders 2008-04-07T20:38:05-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/03/time-to-play-catchup-for-mozil.html My colleague Sean Michael Kerner touches on one heck of a shortcoming at Mozilla: Why doesn't it do more to cross-promote its own projects? Mozilla's rivals certainly don't share the same reluctance to aggressively cross-promote their products. Look at Microsoft,... Christopher Saunders 2008-03-25T12:51:28-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/03/datacenter-costs-whos-to-blame.html Wanted to say a bit more about datacenter energy costs and how little businesses understand about getting them in line. Yes, we all know datacenter costs are growing out of control -- but businesses themselves are often to blame. How... Christopher Saunders 2008-03-19T18:31:29-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/03/datacenter-costs-horror-storie.html My colleague Pedro Hernandez, who blogs about Green IT over at Enterprise IT Planet, and I sat down today with IBM's Steve Sams. Sams is VP of IBM's Global Site and Facilities Services, and the go-to guy when it comes... Christopher Saunders 2008-03-19T14:11:56-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/03/one-problem-google-cant-solve.html Et tu, Gmail? No matter how finely tuned your spam filter may be, it will one day fail. Perhaps, like mine, and most of ours, it fails every single day. Christopher Saunders 2008-03-12T01:02:15-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/02/time-warner-cable-dabbles-in-p.html Time Warner Cable, my ISP at home, has elected to pursue a somewhat controversial route to better monetizing its users: Insinuating itself into their Web surfing behavior. I'm probably making this sound more nefarious than it really is. The ISP... Christopher Saunders 2008-02-28T11:16:29-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/02/mobile-content-in-postcarrier.html I suppose I'm not done ranting about mobile content and the Nokia news. I've deliberately not mentioned the obvious: Nokia is not a carrier. With Ovi, Nokia is competing with the likes of Google, Apple and Microsoft -- technology players... Christopher Saunders 2008-02-06T13:33:15-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/02/nokia-mobile-content-and-the-e.html Nokia. We here typically think of the Finnish mobile phone giant as just that -- a handset maker. But it's aiming to be far more. The company began rolling out its "N-Gage" and "Share on Ovi" offerings earlier this week,... Christopher Saunders 2008-02-06T12:24:54-05:00 http://blog.internetnews.com/csaunders/2008/01/gadgets-in-need-of-problems-to.html Reuters writer Eric Auchard takes a whack today at sorting out the myriad of new products being shown off in Las Vegas this week at CES. His take? Plenty of new gadgets are simply “in need of problems to solve.”... Christopher Saunders 2008-01-08T11:20:38-05:00