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- The new generation of tinkerers are chips off the old blockThu, May 24, 2012 WIRED: FOR A PLACE built on the silicon chip and printed circuit boards, the public side of Silicon Valley has spent a long time away from tiny black and green mazeworks. Chip factories, which used to squat across the valley, have long ago moved to China.
- Yahoo must reconcile its identities as media and technologistThu, May 17, 2012 WIRED: IT LOOKS LIKE it’s going to be Yahoo’s “year of the three emperors”. The company entered 2012 without a company head, after its board summarily dismissed Carol Bartz, the chief executive of only two years. The new chief executive, Scott Thompson, started in January, and lasted less than five months, after being ousted this week following a shareholder proxy battle and accusations he had faked a computer science degree on his resume. Thompson had been in the middle of scything through Yahoo’s employee count and, judging from discussion board posts, did not seem to be popular with at least some of the remaining staff.
- Music industry needs to change its tuneThu, May 10, 2012 WIRED: LAST WEEK, I referred to the settlement between Irish ISP Eircom and the Irish music industry body IRMA, whereby Eircom agreed to block the Pirate Bay from Irish Net users.
- Pursuing the pirates will never solve the problemThu, May 3, 2012 WIRED: Pursuing the pirates will never solve the problem, writes DANNY O'BRIEN
- Beeminder puts an end to geeks wasting timeThu, Apr 26, 2012 WIRED : I’ve been tracking attempts to help with self-control for several years now, ever since failing, honest to God, to finish a book on procrastination
- How our PC revolution could turn out most mundaneThu, Apr 19, 2012THERE’S PLENTY OF language bandied around about a “post-PC” world, but what does a truly post-PC world look like? How can we expect business and home life to change when the personal computer becomes a museum piece? And what should we expect to replace it?
