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David Coursey

Editor-at-Large David Coursey is a veteran technology journalist with more than 25-years’ experience writing about business and consumer computing. Contact him at david@coursey.com.

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How Google and Microsoft can stop .sucks

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY11 YEARS AGO

Google and Microsoft can do the world a favor by stopping the upcoming .sucks top-level domain damn near dead in its tracks. How? Simply by not indexing anything with a .sucks domain extension on their search engines. Or pages that refer to …

No, really, the PC is not dying (and why I still need one)

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY11 YEARS AGO

I understand it fits Wired‘s worldview, but that doesn’t make it true. I am talking about its latest entry in the “PC is dead” sweepstakes, in which the imminent death of something — what, exactly? — is repeatedly predicted. For decades. “No, …

Mobile will decide Marissa Mayer’s fate at Yahoo

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY11 YEARS AGO

If Yahoo! Inc. were still a high-profile company, CEO Marissa Mayer would not have lasted this long. It’s almost like falling up, the way Mayer survives as Yahoo becomes less and less relevant. Nothing she has done seems to have helped the …

CDC data predicts death of landline home phones

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

A survey conducted by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention finds wired residential telephones have disappeared from nearly half of American homes. By next year, a majority of homes will likely be landline free, wireless service replacing wired. How does the …

I was wrong: Microsoft is still killing Dropbox

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

This is the first time I’ve ever followed up a “looks like I was wrong” column with one saying “or maybe I was wrong about that.” Just the other day, I called back my position that Microsoft OneDrive would kill Dropbox, Box and the …

End Apple’s iPhone bait-and-switch, kill 16GB iPhone

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

For those on tight budgets, standing at the counter trying to decide “which iPhone” is a tough decision. Apple is a past master at overcharging for memory, so the difference between today’s entry-level 16GB iPhone and the next-step 64GB model is $100. …

Surprised me: Microsoft won’t kill Dropbox

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

This is not how things were supposed to work out. Several years ago, I theorized that once Microsoft, Apple and others got their acts together, the spaces inhabited by Dropbox, Box and the other cloud storage companies would get pretty lonely. When …

Bezos wrong, FAA right on drones

NEWS By DAVID COURSEY12 YEARS AGO

By tiptoeing into drone approval, the Federal Aviation Administration is doing precisely what it is supposed to do: Provide for safe air travel and the safe use of airspace. The FAA does not exist to make Jeff Bezos or venture capitalists happy. …

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