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Latest Articles from Roger Strukhoff
By Roger Strukhoff The following is an unedited transcript of an internal email exchange yesterday afternoon at SYS-CON Media offices. Disclaimer: We did not have any conversation with any of the hardware vendors regarding the selection of the hardware to install and use for the new 'SYS-CON.TV' and 'blo... Feb. 9, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,196 Replies: 4 | By Roger Strukhoff  During the recent WCA International Symposium in San Jose, California, Samsung's Dr. Young Kyun Kim gave a keynote on how the well-known merging of consumer electronics with computer systems, telecommunications, and broadcasting is leading to a '4G World' that joins devices, networks, ... Feb. 5, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 17,479 Replies: 7 | By Roger Strukhoff The recent HP management re-org have prompted recent concerns over Carly Fiorina and her performance, particularly in that this re-org slammed the company's underperforming PC business into its perenially successful printer division, a move that could, as the thinking goes, drag down t... Jan. 26, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 28,512 Replies: 33 | By Roger Strukhoff 'If you want a friend in Washington, get a dog,' the saying goes. The same holds true for most anyone in a public light, including CEOs of very large computer companies. The latest CEO being dogged by criticism is Carly Fiorina of HP, who is facing 'a skeptical business press' and 'con... Jan. 25, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 10,150 Replies: 2 | By Roger Strukhoff Reports this morning said that Federal Communications Commission Chairman Michael K. Powell will resign from his post. Thrust in almost a no-win position between large telecommunications companies on one side and more entrepreneurial technology and service providers on the other, Powel... Jan. 21, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 11,170 Replies: 1 | By Roger Strukhoff 'Sunshine returned recently to Silicon Valley after two weeks of Seattle-like storms and overcast skies,' writes our West Coast Bureau Chief, Roger Strukhoff, reporting from from Mountain View, CA. 'Now comes news of fair weather for Mountain View-based Mozilla's Firefox browser, which... Jan. 21, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 21,108 Replies: 6 | By Roger Strukhoff; Matt Vande Voorde Up to 5,000 Oracle/PeopleSoft employees are about to be fired. 'What's not known,' write Roger Strukhoff and Matt Vande Voorde, reporting direct from Pleasanton, CA yesterday, 'is how many of those jobs will be plucked from the sprawling PeopleSoft campus, which dominates the Hacienda ... Jan. 15, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 36,945 Replies: 10 | By Roger Strukhoff  Is the Oracle/Peoplesoft battle stressing people out? Well, it's not helping, says a Bay Area stress management expert. 'People are having to live with the uncertainty of 'will I have a job tomorrow,' or on a larger scale, 'will the company be here tomorrow?',' says Lucy Yaldezian, who... Jan. 14, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 26,292 Replies: 1 | By Roger Strukhoff Roger Strukhoff, SYS-CON Media West Coast Bureau Chief, reports on a multi-pronged tsunami relief effort was outlined and discussed early this morning at the 11th Annual WCA International Symposium and Business Expo (www.wcai.com) in San Jose, California. Jan. 13, 2005 12:00 AM EST Reads: 19,956 Replies: 1 | By Roger Strukhoff 'Thank-you, everyone for developing, deploying, and improving the Internet,' writes Roger Strukhoff. 'Thank-you Tim Berners-Lee for realizing its power. But no thanks to everyone who has overemphasized it, paradigmatically hyperbolized it, obtusely not gotten that it doesn't matter if ... Sep. 27, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 16,061 Replies: 9 | By Roger Strukhoff 'If software from any single company, let alone multiple applications in mixed environments, actually worked properly,' writes Roger Strukhoff, 'there wouldn't be much of a software business to speak of in the first place. Companies would simply make the sale, check in on customers now... Sep. 25, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 15,543 Replies: 21 | By Roger Strukhoff 'Its role is to keep content in the home once it has arrived there,' Intel's Steve Bard explains to Roger Strukhoff. The 'it' in question is DTCP-IP, which Intel sees as playing a major part within the emerging digital home environment. Intel COO Paul Otellini wishes someone would come... Sep. 21, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 13,368 | By Roger Strukhoff 'I get confused by a lot of Sun's technology advertising and marketing,' writes Roger Strukhoff. But there are numerous reasons, he argues, not to give up on Sun - the company that famously grew 'from start-up mode to $1 billion in annual sales without spending one cent on advertising ... Sep. 21, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 47,719 Replies: 26 | By Roger Strukhoff Reporting direct from the Intel Developer Forum being held this week in San Francisco, SYS-CON Special Reporter Roger Strukhoff tells of Intel's ambitious wireless 'Digital Home' vision for consumers who demand ease-of-use rather than mere technical wizardry. Sep. 9, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 12,578 | By Roger Strukhoff Intel COO Paul Otellini acknowledged product-development hiccups while maintaining that the global IT market is 'surging,' and pointed to the potential of wireless and international markets during an extensive keynote speech at the Intel Developer Forum at San Francisco's Moscone Cente... Sep. 7, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 17,343 Replies: 3 | By Roger Strukhoff Linux has the potential to conquer vast swaths of the world's corporate computing terra electronica and LinuxWorld Conference & Expo this year had some bang to it. 'But Linux will go nowhere if its market leaders continue to give us dream sequences and one-word summaries,' observes Rog... Sep. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 11,573 Replies: 1 | By Roger Strukhoff How is a company that sells classified ads around free Internet searches going to maintain a valuation higher than that of major automotive colossi like General Motors the Ford Motor Company? Industry veteran Roger Strukhoff hopes for the Googlebest...but fears the Googleworst. Aug. 20, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 14,976 | By Roger Strukhoff The management team of Comdex, which they are 'postponing' this year, says not to worry, that the show will be back in 2005. 'Wouldn't it be pretty to think so?' muses Roger Strukhoff. Meantime, he mourns today's announcement and looks back at the ups and downs of 'the one event that d... Jun. 24, 2004 12:00 AM EDT Reads: 22,010 Replies: 14 | By Roger Strukhoff Symantec's CTO talks about comprehensive security and how today's IT organizations must address it. Mar. 6, 2004 12:00 AM EST Reads: 28,000 | By Roger Strukhoff A panel of investment bankers and venture capitalists agreed that consumer products will drive demand over the next few years in the wireless business and technology arena. Moderated by Guy Kawasaki of Garage Technology Ventures (www.garage.com), the panelists spoke during WCA Internat... 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Roger Strukhoff earned a BA with honors from Knox College, a Certificate in Technical Communications from UC-Berkeley, and an MBA from CSU-East Bay. His work recently won a "Stevie" American Business Award as best publication in its category. His volunteer work in international affairs merited a Letter of Commendation from the Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. He splits most of his time between Silicon Valley and Southeast Asia, but can also be found at 
