Combating Online Piracy while Protecting an Open and Innovative Internet
Thanks for taking the time to sign this petition. Both your words and actions illustrate the importance of maintaining an open and democratic Internet. Right now, Congress is debating a few pieces o...
Obama Administration Responds to We the People Petitions on SOPA and Online Piracy
The White House has responded to two petitions about legislative approaches to combat online piracy. In their response, Victoria Espinel, Intellectual Property Enforcement Coordinator at Office of Ma...
A response to the news from Apple
Producer Brian Reed writes: — There's news from Apple today, relating to some of the issues discussed in our program last week “Mr. Daisey and the Apple Factory.” — For the first time, Apple has r...
Ringing Finally Ended, but There's No Button to Stop Shame
They were baying for blood in the usually polite precincts of Avery Fisher Hall. — The unmistakably jarring sound of an iPhone marimba ring interrupted the soft and spiritual final measures of Mahle...
Samsung Merging Its Bada OS With Intel-Backed Tizen Project
Samsung said it is working on merging its homegrown “bada” smartphone operating system with Tizen, an operating system project the company is conducting with chipmaker Intel. — Samsung is merging it...
Technology Waves and Valuations: Are We in a Social Networking Bubble?
Note: This topic is partly related to the Hypernet but also related to where we are in the Social Networking cycle. It's an atypical post for this blog, but a lot of readers asked me about this and h...
Schlep Blindness
There are great startup ideas lying around unexploited right under our noses. One reason we don't see them is a phenomenon I call schlep blindness. Schlep was originally a Yiddish word but has passe...
Apple factory inspections turn up scores of labor violations
An addendum discloses for the first time the names of 156 Apple suppliers — From Apple's Supplier Responsibility Progress Report — Apple's (AAPL) sixth annual “supplier responsibility” report is s...