Ted Ritzer: Ted's Tech PicksOK, so this is where I choose strategic technology from the 200+ news sources I monitor(Untitled)- December 29, 2003 Holy Grail of Inexpensive Laptop Alternative! My daughter wants to be able to write articles for her university newspaper, but can't afford a laptop!Dana may have the answer running on Palm! So if you want to check this laptop altnernative, check out their website.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tedSTechPicks/2003/12/29.html#a3801 The Linux Switch Experiment!- December 29, 2003 The PCworld Linux Switch Experiment: this article is based around the idea of taking away Windows from a non-geek, and replacing it with Linux for a month to see if they could be productive using Linux, and secondarily to see if they would immediately switch back after the experiment. The punchline, OK, I can't resist, and for you Linux people, the punchline is this Windows user had not yet switched back, but as he says the jury is still out on the complete switch scenario! That said though you.http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tedSTechPicks/2003/12/29.html#a3799 (Untitled)- December 24, 2003 Merry Christmas from the Accordian Guy worth repeating: Stole this file from the above site, cause I think it really does capture some of both the frustration and the joy of Xmas. All the best from WIFLblog and enjoy the Accordian Guy's Christmas story, and don't forget to visit his site: the Accordian Guy Christmas story now follows: Merry Christmas, and I mean it in the nice sense of the phrase by Joey deVilla on December 24, 2003 12:13PM (EST) This is from last year (with a little...http://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tedSTechPicks/2003/12/24.html#a3748 (Untitled)- December 9, 2003 Pivotal dumps Talisma for Chinadotcom unit. Pivotal Corp. said Monday it has signed a definitive merger agreement with Chinadotcom Corp. unit CDC Software, scrapping an earlier agreement with an investment firm that planned to merge Pivotal with Talisma Corp., another maker of midmarket CRM (customer relationship management) software. InfoWorld: Top Newshttp://blogs.salon.com/0001455/categories/tedSTechPicks/2003/12/09.html#a3510 |