Month: March 2011

On Days Like This it's easy to feel hopeless, and think covering technology is a trivial pursuit. Just realize not ...

Manufacturing costs have already disappeared. Distribution costs have already disappeared. What gets pressed is simply the cost of marketing, which ...

To succeed in a big market you have to be scaled. Canonical was never scaled to succeed in the desktop ...

The hidden message of the Forbes Rich List. Making one man super-rich makes everyone else super-poor. Carlos Slim swallowed his ...

What Tioga wants to do is start down the road toward a standard contract that can be used by everyone ...

What's the difference between Newt Gingrich running for President and Charlie Sheen running? Sheen has a constituency.

By using third parties to create an honest ecosystem, Android maintains pressure on Apple even while having to defend its ...

Point is, the job of managing a mobile Linux system can't be done by anyone who isn't scaled as well ...

We're at the same place in time that PCs were 30 years ago, when it comes to apps. Apps are ...

There is no “energy shortage.” There is instead an artificial crisis created by our delayed industrial evolution and political connivance. ...