The A4 and the A8: secrets of the iPad's brain
Most companies, when they go to the enormous expense of designing a complex chip, tell everyone about it. Even a company like Sun or IBM, whose chips are used only in their own computers, unveil the ...
Open Wi-Fi ‘outlawed’ in Digital Economy Bill
The government will not exempt universities, libraries and small businesses providing open Wi-Fi services from its Digital Economy Bill copyright crackdown, according to official advice released earli...
The Steady, Efficient Decline Of Yahoo
Efficiency is a business school idea that suggests a company is running smoothly. It's absolutely terrific when you're talking about a coal mining operation or a Supercuts. But when it comes to a co...
Wordle In Trademark Trouble, Seeks Legal Advice
I have much love for Wordle. I've used the text cloud generator dozens of time for use in presentations, TechCrunch posts and random stuff ever since I discovered the tool. — But as of yesterday, t...
The Game-ified Life
You should watch this talk on the future of games by game designer Jesse Schell. It is the most mind-changing talk I've heard in many years. There were so many new ideas in it, and they went by so f...
Epic Fail in Congress: USA PATRIOT Act Renewed Without Any New Civil Liberties Protections
Yesterday evening, the U.S. House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to renew three expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, after the Senate abandoned the PATRIOT reform effort and approved …
Mike McConnell on how to win the cyber-war we're losing
The United States is fighting a cyber-war today, and we are losing. It's that simple. As the most wired nation on Earth, we offer the most targets of significance, yet our cyber-defenses are woefull...
The Raging Septuagenarian
Taking on the Times, Google, and, in a sense, his own children, Rupert Murdoch is not going gently into the night. — On Saturday, January 9, Rupert Murdoch was on his Boeing 737 returning to New Yor...
Mags To Their Digital Units: Drop Dead
Funny how the parallel universe works: the same magazine publishers who were touting digital last year because, well, print sucked, are now going to spend about $90 million talking about how print rul...