Ivan Krstić

LAPTOP Magazine interviews Andy Tung, director of U.S. Sales for MSI, who sell between 150-250 thousand of their MSI Wind subcompact notebooks (”netbooks”) a month. Money quote: We have done a lot of studies on the return rates and haven’t really talked about it much until now. Our internal research has shown that the return of [...]

Everyone I talk to tells me the same thing about the current Wall Street drama: it’s a slow-motion train wreck, and it’s impossible to look away. And in the last few days it’s turned into a first-class, live action political blockbuster that came to an abrupt and unsatisfying denouement about half-way through and then played [...]

In a Cambridge restaurant, a table away from mine: Guy: … so anyway, Geneviève is totally my sugar mama now. What can I say, I like my women like I like my wine: rich, French, and full-bodied. Girl with German Accent: And here I thought you were going to say “white, German, and having dinner with a [...]

In the four weeks that the ask me anything post has been up, I’ve received two questions. My father wanted to know when I was going to call my mother, and my mother asked what a “blog” was. The third question arrived just as I began typing this post. My friend Katherine, she of the [...]

When I’m giving a talk that doesn’t have a firm time limit, I like to end it with an Ask Me Anything™ segment, which I briefly described before: That’s where I brilliantly field all questions I can answer, and make up incredibly convincing answers for any I can’t. (In the past, I’ve been asked about computer [...]

Inexplicably, my e-mail address seems to have wound up on the distribution lists of a number of PR people, who are now sending me press releases announcing new hardware and software a few days before the news officially hit the wire. There are lots of problems with this setup. Notably: Since I didn’t ask for these releases, [...]

I’m off to Vancouver tomorrow to keynote the 20th annual FIRST conference, where I get to tell a bunch of smart security people that we’re massively screwing the pooch as an industry. It’s great fun. In fact, I’m pretty sure I’m becoming the official boogeyman of the security conference circuit — costume ideas appreciated. Anyway, if [...]