DEMO Deja Vu
At the TechCrunch Disrupt conference this week, entrepreneurs Peter Thiel and Max Levchin made a splash by declaring the state of innovations as being somewhere “between dire straits and dead.” I think they are fundamentally wrong, but that’s a hard …
Should Apple Fear HTML 5? Not a Chance
IDG News Service’s Leok Essers has an article in which a couple of financial analysts predict dire consequences for Apple from the growing adoption of HTML 5, a technology that allows web pages to behave much more like native apps.
Toni …
Mozilla Gets Tough on Digital Certificates
In a preemptive step to protect users from possible attacks based on fake digital certificates, Mozilla has given certificate issuers a week to present proof of security measures they have taken or have their certificates rejected by Firefox browsers.
Digital certificates …
The day Apple won the Flash fight
By Darrell Etherington via GigaOm
America Invents: A Step Toward Patent Reform
The America Invents Act, now awaiting President Obama’s signature, will not solve the most serious problems of the U.S. patent system, especially the ugly mess of vague and dubious software patents. But it is a welcome step on the long …
Delivering fast boot times in Windows 8
By Steven Sinofsky via Building Windows 8 blog
It’s the User Experience, Stupid; How iPhone Critics Miss the Point
The title tells it all: 10 Reasons Why iPhone 5 Doesn’t Stand a chance Against Motorola Droid Bionic. The article, by Elias Samuel in International Business Times, not surprisingly, lists 10 ways in which the Droid Bionic, just announced for …
Bringing Hyper-V to “Windows 8”
Windows chief Steven Sinofsky gives the nitty-gritty on client virtualization in Windows 8, via Building Windows 8 Blog
Why No One Can Match the MacBook Air
Peter Bright at Ars Technica has a feature about his frustrating search for a Windows notebook that can match the MacBook Air–and how difficult it will be for Intel to pull off its quest for Air-like Ultrabooks. The big questions …
Netflix vs. Starz: Hollywood Keeps a Tight Rein on Content
In a short article today, The Los Angeles Times sheds some fascinating light on the failed negotiations that will result in Netflix losing streaming movie and TV content from Starz at the end of February. Nextflix, the paper said, offered …
How To Fix the A&T/T-Mobile Deal
Sascha Segan, the phone guru at PCMag.com, has an interesting suggestion on how AT&T might salvage its challenged purchase of T-Mobile USA. Divesting 25% of the company wouldn’t satisfy Justice Dept. antitrusters, but a binding promise to open its network …
Spectrum Wars: The Bleak Outlook for Wireless
In a post at TechCrunch, Frank Barbieri argues that the entire dispute over the AT&T’s acquisition of T-Mobile is really about the failure of spectrum allocation policies in the U.S. He’s right although AT&T’s short-term case would be stronger if …
In Praise of Longevity: The HP 12c Calculator
How many tech products that made their debut in 1981 are still with us today in essentially unchanged form? Today marks the 30th anniversary of the release of the HP 12c financial calculator, a device contemporary with the Apple ][e, …
Obscure Attack Threatens Privacy, e-Commerce
An attack on a Dutch company in the obscure–to most of us–business of issuing digital certificates poses a serious challenge to secure web communications. No, you shouldn’t stop using Amazon.com or Gmail, but the attack opens another front in the …
The Two Most Dangerous Words in Technology
via MobileOpportunity, Michael Mace on the dangers of pre-announcement
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