John Hazard

Microsoft Photosynth, the company’s three-dimensional photo reconstruction software, went public Aug. 20, letting users render in 3-D photos from Yahoo’s Flickr, Facebook or Google Picasso. Microsoft Photosynth works by linking photos to other photos on the Web where they overlap. It lets users combine an array of photos of a single location into a navigable, […]

Are you LinkedIn? Your resume on Monster? Your mug on MySpace? Your face on Facebook? Do you Yahoo? YouTube? Twitter? To listen to conventional wisdom, finding, keeping and excelling at your job now involves the tools we were only recently beginning to accept as tools for finding love. Still, not everyone Twitters, Monsters or LinksIn […]

IT Report Cards yesterday and this week were a mixed bag. The big names of enterprise IT showed little sign of an economic slowdown or recession. “IBM profits rose 22 percent on sales of services and software, much of it overseas“ “Intel profit rose 25 percent as demand for notebooks and desktops zooms“ “Microsoft revenue […]

Dreaming of being your own boss? Keep it between the sheets because this is no time to leave your employer to start up your own shop, say the brains at Challenger, Gray and Christmas, an executive placement and research firm. Credit is tight, inflation is driving the cost of doing business out of control, consolidation […]

report%20card.jpg It’s report card week in Silicon Valley (also in Armonk, N.Y., and Redmond, Wash.) and Google, Microsoft, IBM, Intel and AMD, all bellweather tech companies, report quarterly earnings this week. Key takeaways: Intel is up and AMD is doing better, signs PC demand remains strong. Intel and AMD are also signs of the spending […]

The SCO Group must pay Novell $2.5 million after a judge rules that Novell, not SCO, owns the rights to the Unix operating system. Utah District Court Judge Dale Kimball ruled that SCO owes Novell for royalties it collected when it licensed Unix to Sun Microsystems, a product it did not have the rights to […]

Mac%20Clone.jpg Apple has sued Psystar, a White Box maker that began selling a $399 Mac clone in April, for copyright and software licensing violations. Apple is also asking a court to order Miami-based Psystar to “recall all such products sold to the public as a result of Psystar’s infringement of Apple’s copyrights,” according to the […]

Friday was a dark day for reporters at newspapers and local television stations nationwide. The iPhone 3G launch meant editors sent them in droves to Apple stores nationwide to ask all the same mind-numbing questions so we could gather the same boring footage and notes and file identical reports. Not what we had in mind […]

Lucy%20and%20Ethel.jpg The Web development tools space is a green field. New technologies appear every day, many of them free, and the opportunity for good technology to gain mass adoption is always there. That’s great news if you’re making the tools, not so for those left trying to make sense of the onslaught of new ones […]

There is no shortage of live coverage of the iPhone. Almost all reports indicate long lines made worse by slow service. All fingers point to the AT&T activation servers, which were overwhelmed establishing accounts for throngs of new customers nationwide. The problem is the compulsory activation. It worked pretty well last year–you waited in a […]