必読記事・論考(IT)

NYT 12/19/04 Who's Afraid of China?
SHAYNE MYHAND, the day-shift manager of Dell's flagship factory here, does a lot of chaperoning. As many as four or five times a day, he finds himself playing host to corporate chieftains and midlevel scouts who come to marvel at the dazzlingly efficient assembly plant that may be the best hope for keeping blue-collar jobs in the United States.

NYT 12/19/04 Learning Early That Success Is a Game
WHEN my children push my buttons, they do it with an Xbox controller. As I watch the two of them staring at the screen, oblivious to the real world around them (specifically their mother standing nearby and talking about room-straightening), I fear for their future.

NYT 12/19/04 The Pursuit of Knowledge, From Genesis to Google
The desire to know everything on earth and in heaven is so ancient that one of the earliest accounts of this ambition is already a cautionary tale

Forbes 12/16/04 Get Ready To Call ITunes
Apple Computer and Motorola could soon show us the mobile phone they are developing to play music purchased from Apple's iTunes online music store.

CNET 12/18/04 Web-only comic strip takes games seriously (almost)
They still play games and make comics today. The difference is, now they are making a living.

Slate 12/17/04 The Urge To Merge By Daniel Gross
$100 billion in mergers this week! What's going on?

patricweb 12/16/04 Lenovo-2
http://patrickweb.com/weblog/categories/ibm/lenovo2.html

Life With Alacrity 12/18/04 Google Suggest Dissected
http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2004/12/google_suggest_.html

Jonathan Schwartz's Blog 12/17/04 Every Customer Visit is a Lesson.
http://blogs.sun.com/roller/page/jonathan/20041217#my_how_times_change

David Galbraith 12/15/04 The real reason why Google is digitizing libraries?
http://www.davidgalbraith.org/archives/000691.html#000691

Divid Coursey 12/17/04 Why Software-as-a-Service?
http://blog.ziffdavis.com/coursey/archive/2004/12/17/5112.aspx