I came home recently to find my lovely, tech-challenged wife had a new slate computer. My wife is smart — a teacher, a former business owner and a school board member. But she does not go out and buy technology.
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I write not to laud Steve Jobs for his successes — world-changing as those were. I write to laud him for his failures, because in them, he found what I consider his greatest successes, and America’s greatest hope for the future.
Speaking as a partner in a technology firm that almost exclusively promotes Microsoft products, I may be accused of heresy, but here goes.
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C/D/H, the largest SharePoint consulting firm in Michigan, sent eight consultants to the Microsoft SharePoint Conference in Anaheim, California earlier this month.
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There we all were, at a board meeting of a well-known and highly regarded nonprofit on which I serve. We were all happy that we were going to watch the spectacular LipDub video the facility made with film students from Grand Valley State University.
The tech guy hit “play.” We all smiled — we couldn’t help ourselves, because the video was just too funny. But just two or three minutes in, the media player locked up and rebooted.
Crickets.
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The latest Murdoch debacle, in which staffers at a British scandal sheet allegedly hacked into the private voice mail boxes of both the royals and murder victims created a wave of fear about invasion of privacy, this time in voice mail communications.
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