The Crowd Is Wise (When It's Focused)
FEW concepts in business have been as popular and appealing in recent years as the emerging discipline of “open innovation.” It is variously described as crowdsourcing, the wisdom of crowds, collecti...
Intel's 34nm-based 320GB solid state drive creeps closer to reality
Hankering for an SSD that's as big as your traditional HDD? So is Intel, or so we hear. In fact, we've been hearing whispers that a capacious 320GB solid state drive was in the works since January …
With No Notice, Twitter Adds More Limits - Password Trouble Ensues
Twitter is up to their old antics of adding limits again, changing the API, and not telling developers as they do so. This morning Twitter released into production new limits around their verify_cred...
Nokia planning a new line of handsets dubbed Cseries
Interesting, very interesting. We are all familiar with the branding nightmare that is Nokia's higher-end line of phones. Eseries for business, Nseries for fun — but even fanboy blogs seem to have a...
AT&T Is A Big, Steaming Heap Of Failure
When Om Malik of GigaOM said he was breaking up with his iPhone 5 months ago because of the failures of AT&T, I must admit, I thought he was overreacting. I was wrong. — Since I switched to AT&T fr...
News Flash: The Bad Guys Win
Sigh. — I guess its time for another crop of news products from journalists. Why is it that when these guys all go onto the field of battle “once more into the breach” style, they don't understand ...
The NSA wiretapping story nobody wanted
Whistleblower Mark Klein tells in his new book of how he was ignored. He spoke with IDG News. … Following is an edited transcript of the interview. — IDG News Service: By some estimates there are 1...
Google Looks to Campuses for ‘Cloud’ Converts
With Schools Like Notre Dame in Its Camp, Opens Another Front in Battle Against Microsoft — NEW YORK (AdAge.com) — Google's got a not-so-secret weapon in its bid to convert the world to applications...
CHART OF THE DAY: What Phones Do People Dump For iPhone?
What phones are Apple's iPhone buyers throwing away? A lot of Motorola RAZRs. — Some 29.4% of iPhone 3G buyers were upgrading from Motorola devices, according to Nielsen's Q2 2009 Mobile Insights S...
MSN Preps for Major Renovation, Focusing on Five Verticals, as It “Does Less Better”
The edging-ever-closer-to-consummation deal talks with Yahoo about an online advertising and search partnership and the aggressive marketing of its new Bing search service aren't the only things …
Hulu's Content Owners Are Missing A Major Opportunity This Summer
It's no secret that summer is the season of terrible television, when networks flock to broadcast cheap reality TV and game shows that actually will turn your brain into a slippery pile of goo.