Bill Gates: ‘I wrote Steve Jobs a letter as he was dying. He kept it by his bed’
People's plutocrat Bill Gates talks about friendly rivalry, and how to get bankers to part with their money. — Change the world: 'If you have a dream and it comes true, it's a very cool thing,' says...
Letter to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey urging him not to cooperate with censors
Reporters Without Borders has written to Twitter Executive Chairman Jack Dorsey voicing deep concern about yesterday's announcement that Twitter will introduce geolocated censorship …
The ACTA Fight Returns: What Is at Stake and What You Can Do
The reverberations from the SOPA fight continue to be felt in the U.S. (excellent analysis from Benkler and Downes) and elsewhere (mounting Canadian concern that Bill C-11 could be amended to adopt SO...
We Have Every Right to Be Furious About ACTA
If there's one thing that encapsulates what's wrong with the way government functions today, ACTA is it. You wouldn't know it from the name, but the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement is a plurilate...
Macworld finds its footing as a “hardcore consumer lifestyle event”
Macworld Expo, a once powerful Mac tradeshow, is getting new life as smaller event for Apple consumers and fans. The revamped three-day event, now called Macworld | iWorld, is taking place this week...
Study: Only 1% of Facebook ‘Fans’ Engage With Brands
Not Many Fans Are Creating Content, But That Might Not Be a Bad Thing — For a few years now, brands have been touting frothy Facebook “like” numbers as evidence of their social-media acumen. But ho...
Israel sets sights on next-generation Internet
Israel is often referred to as “Startup Nation,” thanks to its long history of high-tech breakthroughs produced by scrappy little companies. But in one critical area, the speed of Internet connection...
Two Weeks In, Google Says “Search Plus Your World” Going Well, Critics Should Give It Time
Two weeks ago, Google launched Search Plus Your World. Since then, Google has faced strong criticisms that SPYW is making its search relevancy worse and favoring its Google+ social network too much.
Mega Aftermath: Upheaval In Pirate Warez Land
Despite its “rogue site” status and various other warnings, when MegaUpload went down last week it still came as a shock. — But what came next was unprecedented, a dramatic reaction in cyberlocker l...
Megaupload: A Lot Less Guilty Than You Think
The recent Department of Justice decision to indict Megaupload for copyright infringement and related offenses raises some very thorny questions from a criminal law perspective. A few preliminaries: ...
Pass the popcorn: Y Combinator startup caught stealing from 37signals
Here's some developer drama for your Saturday morning: Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure's 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HT...
T-Mobile To Offer Additional Unlocked iPhone Support Beginning January 30th
Starting on January 30th, T-Mobile will “begin offering additional support to customers using an Apple iPhone on our network.” T-Mobile's added iPhone support will include “common procedures …
Someone Finally Makes “S**t Silicon Valley Says”
After an onslaught of “S**t [blank] Says” videos in my Facebook Newsfeed, I appealed to Twitter yesterday, surprised that the industry that invented YouTube hadn't weighed in on the phenomenon. — Li...
That Was Fast: Betaworks Returns All Capital... And Then Some
The New York tech scene has certainly received a lot of hype, but a lot of people are waiting for results that prove it's more than just that. Proof that New York is really a tech ecosystem that is h...