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The Obamas got a Portuguese Water Dog. We have a Portuguese Water Dog. No huge deal, they chose the breed for the same reasons we did -- great pets, don't shed. Obama announced his affection for UNC Tar Heel basketball. I'm a lifelong fan, but, hey, so are a lot of folks. Obama hosted the ...

A big story in IT is the shift from inside out to outside in -- that is, to technology being popularized in the consumer world and then making its way into the enterprise, rather than the other way around. This goes back at least to the days of the PC, and the pattern has repeated itself with ...

by Tony Kontzer Just a few short weeks ago, I wrote here that Twitter had no intention of adapting itself to capture the corporate market and would instead focus on continuing to grow the global conversation. Turns out Biz Stone & Co. had a little something up their sleeve. The company's ...

by Tony Kontzer I found myself thinking about what it takes to run an IT organization as I sat watching free jazz legend Ornette Coleman blow away a crowd at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall Sunday night. What does a 79-year-old avant-garde saxophonist have to do with business technology, ...

The panel I moderated at the Sino-American CIO Summit included senior executives from the Bank of Shangai, Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, World Wildlife Fund, and Microsoft. Unless the simultaneous translation was way off and the panelists were in fact mocking my stupid questions rather than ...

by Tony Kontzer Numerous stories last week about the Internet turning 40 have proclaimed that the first message crashed the fledgling network, but let's try not to be negative. I mean, who wants to have their flaws pointed out to them at their 40th birthday? Instead, let's take a look at ...

One of the first things I noticed upon checking into my hotel in Beijing in late October was that my personal blog was inaccessible. I was blocked by the Great Firewall of China. It's not that the Chinese government finds my thoughts on local politics, UNC basketball, and my wife's photography ...

One of the first things I noticed upon checking into my hotel in Beijing in late October was that my personal blog was inaccessible. I was blocked by the Great Firewall of China. It's not that the Chinese government finds my thoughts on local politics, UNC basketball, and my wife's photography ...