Drones Start To Play A Law Enforcement Role

December 21, 2011

How a drone helped a sheriff keep watch on suspected extremists from a safe distance, literally until the cows came home.

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Putting Friendly Drones In Civilian Skies

September 29, 2011

Having proved their worth on the battlefield, aerial drones are waiting to serve on the home front.

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Waiting For My Next iPhone

August 30, 2011

To Apple and AT&T: I won’t settle for just any 4G.

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The Overlooked Talent Of Steve Jobs

August 26, 2011

Steve Jobs engineered history’s biggest corporate turnaround.

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Saying No To Service Plans

July 14, 2011

I did a quick survey yesterday and counted 55 Web-capable devices — desktop, laptop, server and tablet computers, plus smartphones — in my life. Being a business owner, and a father of university students, means having to say “yes” to a lot of capital spending. If we include printers, routers, Internet telephones, Slingboxes, televisions and various appliances, my gizmo census is way over 100. But I have zero service plans …

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Financial Planning For The Formerly Deceased

May 27, 2011

Financial planning, like most disciplines, generally relies on the assumption that the dead will remain that way. Some people, however, are not as willing to accept this premise. Cryonicists believe science will eventually give us the ability to reanimate the dead. In preparation for this possibility, they elect to have their bodies, or sometimes merely their heads, stored in extreme low temperatures so that, when the time comes, they can …

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Wrong Turn Is Often Fatal In Computer Business

August 1, 1997

The phenomenal pace of change in the computer industry creates a business environment as unforgiving as the Sierra Nevada was to 19th-Century emigrants. Getting lost for even a little while can put a company at grave risk of a lingering, unpleasant death. Apple Computer Inc. is the latest to demonstrate this principle, and it was evident well before the ouster earlier this summer of Gilbert Amelio as the company’s third …

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Work-around Beats Futzing Around

May 1, 1997

When America Online went off-line a few months ago, I felt only a drop of sympathy for all the small business owners who howled. I just cannot feel too sorry for a guy who complains “I lost $25,000 in sales because I couldn’t check my e-mail!” If it’s worth $25,000 to you, why not have a backup? How about an account with CompuServe (unless AOL completes the rumored buyout), Microsoft …

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A Simple Network With Windows 95

February 1, 1996

My former employer, the Big Accounting Firm, brought out the heavy hitters nine years ago when it first networked a few personal computers in our New York office. Three specialists flew in from Chicago one Friday, entrenched themselves at the New York Hilton, and spent the weekend shuttling between the hotel and our computer room, whence issued much jargon and cussing. With a final sprinkle of holy water on Monday …

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