A Sister's Eulogy for Steve Jobs
I grew up as an only child, with a single mother. Because we were poor and because I knew my father had emigrated from Syria, I imagined he looked like Omar Sharif. I hoped he would be rich and kind...
Protecting The Safe Harbors Of The DMCA And Protecting Jobs
My partner Brad and I spent Thursday in DC along with a bunch of entrepreneurs and VCs. We talked to dozens of our elected officials about an issue that is very concerning to us, protecting the safe ...
Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical & Ubuntu — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will announce at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL, that they wi...
Luck Is Just the Spark for Business Giants
BETTER to be lucky than good, the adage goes. — And maybe that's true — if you just want to be merely good, not much better than average. But what if you want to build or do something great? And w...
Cable Is Holding Web TV at Bay, Earnings Show
This time a year ago, the television industry was rife with worry about so-called cord-cutting — people dropping cable subscriptions in favor of watching TV over the Internet. — But for the most par...
Facebook's Zuckerberg: If I Were Starting A Company Now, I Would Have Stayed In Boston
Yesterday, Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg took the stage at Y Combinator's Startup School in a candid interview with Y Combinator Partner Jessica Livingston.
ATTENTION APPLE FANS: Samsung Blowing Past Apple To Become The Biggest Smartphone Vendor Is Not Good News
For the past couple of years, Apple fans have responded to the Android threat with an evolving series of arguments about why Android isn't a threat:
More than just sexy phones: how Nokia will help sell Windows Phone 7
Unlike, oh, to pick a random example, Apple, Microsoft has only a very limited retail presence. The company has opened a handful of (high-quality and actually rather pleasant) Microsoft stores in the...
Ubuntu Linux heads to smartphones, tablets, and smart TVs.
Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical & Ubuntu — Mark Shuttleworth, founder of Canonical, the company behind Ubuntu Linux, will announce at the Ubuntu Developer Summit in Orlando, FL, that they wi...
Siri Hacked to Run on an iPod Touch and iPhone 4
Apple's new Siri voice recognition system is only officially available to new iPhone 4S users. Predictably, over the past few weeks, there have been various attempts to port Siri to previous generati...
Skype Goes After Reverse-Engineering
While Skype has now expanded their Linux API support to allow other applications to take advantage of Skype video calls and other features, a few months ago the Skype protocol began to be reverse-engi...
Facebook Adds Subscribe Button to Comments Box Plugin to Increase Civility, Subscribers
Facebook is giving users another way to add Subscribers to their public updates by introducing a Subscribe button beside commenter names in its Comments Box social plugin.
Met police monitors mobile phones
Civil liberties group raises concerns over Met police purchase of technology to track public handsets over a targeted area — Britain's largest police force is operating covert surveillance technolog...