2011 will be the year Android explodes
(Not this kind of smartphone growth.) Image by @boetter via Flickr — Ever-improving networks and a big hardware announcement that will send handset prices plummeting both point to smartphone growth...
Cambridge university refuses to censor student's thesis on chip-and-PIN vulnerabilities
After the UK banking trade association wrote to Cambridge university to have a student's master's thesis censored because it documented a well-known flaw in the chip-and-PIN system, Cambridge's Ross A...
Leo Laporte Builds Empire With ‘This Week in Tech’
Balancing on a giant rubber ball in a broadcast studio and control room carved out of a cottage in Petaluma, Calif., Leo Laporte is an unlikely media mogul. — From that little town in California win...
What Happens When You Steal a Hacker's Computer
Meet Melvin Guzman. He somehow ended up with a Mac stolen from Zoz, a rather crafty hacker who happens to love that computer “like his firstborn.” Here's a hilarious account of what happened—complet...
Why 2011 isn't 1995 for Apple
In 1995 I remember waiting in lines to buy Windows 95. It effectively ended the design lead Apple had for 11 years in personal computers. From then on Microsoft had both the thought leadership and t...
Man quits job, makes living suing e-mail spammers
SAN FRANCISCO - Daniel Balsam hates spam. Most everybody does, of course. But he has acted on his hate as few have, going far beyond simply hitting the delete button. He sues them. — Eight years ...
Flickr Should Have Built Instagram. But They Didn't. Here's Why.
Back in June, we reported on the departure of Kellan Elliott-McCrea from Yahoo. While not hugely known outside the developer community, we had received several tips indicating just how important Elli...
The Unwelcome Return of Platform Dependencies
Editor's Note: The following guest post is written by a Silicon Valley CEO. Frank Dupree is a pen name — In the late 1990s, the rise of the browser was supposed to usher in an era of unprecedented ...