The cloud is not only the hottest growth market in online services, but it's also the darling subject of journalists who like to write about a new era of convenience. We've been here before, and I don't want to go back.
Unlike my new dashboard screen, my old car radio couldn't supplement my rear view mirror, stream live Internet audio, control an iPhone or find the nearest Starbucks. But it sure was easier to change radio stations.
The Wii has sold 86 million consoles since its launch, but those sales are beginning to slow dramatically. Hardcore gamers are attracted to horsepower and the Wii is barely a pony. The Wii 2 will be a stallion, for a while anyways.
On Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court sided with AT&T; in AT&T; Mobility v. Concepcion -- a decision with devastating consequences for consumer protection and civil rights.
Law enforcement likes that most of our electronic communications are offered only feeble privacy protections. They don't want to have to go to a judge to get a search warrant.
The most resonant thoughts at the Guardian's Activate Summit were not specific prescriptions for changing the world, but powerful ways to reframe political, technological and social discourse.
In 2011, 30 years after the first launch of Discovery, the shuttle program is drawing to a close and -- on April 29 -- Space Shuttle Endeavour is slated to embark on its final journey to the cosmos.
Our contributing photographer set up seven cameras around the launchpad with hand-built triggers designed to fire in response to the ear-splitting roar of the rockets igniting.
In Steven Levy's new book Inside The Plex, we get a rare first-hand view of Google's flirtation, and eventual disillusionment, with politics as a means to foster social change.
Evgeny Morozov criticizes the assumption that the Internet is necessarily helping to promote democracy.
I know my folks could learn how to use Twitter. But while I slogged through the technical specifics, I was avoiding their real question -- why should we use Twitter at all?
What possibilities will we see, what wonders, what dangers, when we live in a world when it's as easy/cheap to manufacture a computing device as it is to print a picture? When we live in a world of a trillion nodes?
Florida received a few blows to the proverbial gut recently as two technology companies announced their stunning growth... followed by a rapid departure.
Today, we're announcing a small but powerful feature available to users with badges that allows you to post a brief description of yourself right below your username.
The war in Congo is a war which most people know nothing about, despite the fact that we're all directly connected to it.
"Change accent to Midwest," I say. For the next part of the interview, I'm in auditory nirvana, listening to both parties speak about a fascinating topic, and even better, in the accent I grew up with.
Users should demand more than changes in corporate fine print -- we should demand that the government and industry create a public geolocation map not controlled by any single company.
The U.S. defense and intelligence communities have traditionally been difficult markets to engage. For this reason, most early stage entrepreneurs know very little about these organizations as potential partners or clients.
Chances are, the computer you're reading this post on was made in Shenzhen, China. If it's an Apple, it was made at Foxconn. Shenzhen is a special economic zone where China's already lax labor laws don't apply.
Josh Fruhlinger, 2011.04.29
Dr. Jeffrey H. Toney, 2011.04.29
