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There was no warning. No “brace for impact” alert. There was nothing—literally. The failure rate of computer hard disks is about 1% per year. And last week, while the whole country was about to give thanks, my computer’s hard drive decided to call in sick—permanently—making me one of the 1%. There was no blue screen…

Job Oportunity—Safe to say that 54,000 new private sector jobs a month isn’t likely to create a sense of economic euphoria anytime soon, but it’s sure better than negative job growth. As our economy sluggishly signals an overall upswing, the hemorrhaging seems to be over for the most part: companies are growing revenues and there…

So right around the time last week’s post on “Cloud Computing” was hitting cyberspace, Sony’s PlayStation Network went down, followed closely by Amazon’s web services arm. (The latter two occurrences, totally unrelated to the former . . . really, I promise!) Now, Sony and Amazon are two giants of the cloud computing space. As of…

If I read the tea leaves correctly (or is that banana fronds?), that big old desktop computer or high-powered laptop in your home or office—the one that’s packed with expensive software, hardware, and gigabytes of storage space—will soon be outmoded, as will all those storage CDs, DVDs, and productivity software suites that are stacked on…