Recently, I picked up a Sony Digital Book Reader PRS-300.  I found a great deal on Craigslist, and am ready to begin reading everything I can find.  The only problem is, it’s pretty hard to find reasonably priced e-books.  Fortunately Google Books has all the classics, but what if I want to read new...
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2010 will bring a load of new gadgets, technology, and advancements for consumers and enterprises alike.  Microsoft is releasing Office 2010, Apple is releasing their new Tablet (iTablet), NVIDIA is releasing their “GeForce 3XX” series of graphics cards, SSD’s will be (hopefully) affordable, and Sprint should have a 4G/3G phone. Office 2010 – with...
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Newspapers and blogs around the globe have been carrying an amazing story of technological arrogance and organizational ineptitude regarding security of a key data feed from US intelligence systems.  We read headlines like: “Iraq Insurgents Hack US Drones” (WSJ), “Hacked Drones: How Secure Are US Spy Planes?(ABC)”, “Insurgents Hack Into US Spy Drone Videos“(AP),...
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Adobe Flex is a software development approach and environment which enables the production of cross-platform Rich Internet Applications.  Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) is the cross-platform runtime environment used by Flex (as well as Flash, HTML, JavaScript and AJAX) for deployment of desktop applications. I’ve long known the power of Flex and AIR, and have...
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I found: If We Can Put a Man on the Moon: Getting Big Things Done in Governmentto be a book I couldn’t put down. This great read is about results and how to get them.  And, as the title implies, it focuses on big results in government.  The government is doing many things to...
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Safari Books is looking for stand out technologist developers/programmers who are using technology in creative ways, including helping the community. Here’s more from their announcement: If you’ve done something that demonstrates dynamite CODING SKILLS, we want to hear about it. Safari Books Online’s Coder Challenge is here! We are looking for dynamite coders. Developers...
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I’ve mentioned before that I run my small business, Crucial Point LLC, primarily by leveraging cloud computing capabilities. With this post I’ll mention a book that helped me do that: Google Apps: The Missing Manual. This book does a great job at capturing the core functionality of Google Apps. However, no book can keep...
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For a combination of personal and professional reasons, Pro OpenSolaris is the perfect book at the perfect time for this period in my life. As a CTO with enterprise-grade experience I know Open Source Software and its many benefits.  And as a security professional I have long known of the powerful security features of...
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Last week at the InfowarCon my friend Dan Kuehl handed me a copy of Cyberpower and National Security.  Cyberwar has been a topic Dan has been exploring in some detail for quite a while.  I first met Dan in 1996 when I was a student at the USMC Command and Staff College, and at...
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The world does not change in discrete, binary steps.  There is a great deal of continuity from the past to the present and on to the future.  But many of us sense things are different in the world today.   Technology is changing every life and every business, economic megatrends are producing changes, war...
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