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As someone who has lived through this issue for many years, and who watched the tortoise- like and tortured pace of discussions about unidirectionality and bidirectionality—I felt the pain, believe me. We can’t do that again, but the sad saga … Continue reading →

Infosys’s HQ in Bangalore The Economic Times reports that India’s Defense Research and Development Organization— is this the equivalent of the US’s DARPA?—has set up software centers in Delhi and Bangalore with a charter to develop a highly-secure operating system. … Continue reading →

I’m in a neologistic, word-coining mood this morning.  Like you, I have one eye on my Tweetdeck, half-consciously absorbing facts, information, memes, and other synaptic nourishment that’s flowing around me. At some point in my day, I’m inevitably walking an … Continue reading →

I couldn’t make last night’s New York Tech Meetup in person, so I grabbed my laptop, settled into my sofa chair (after removing the cat), and watched the Livestream broadcast.  Besides liking introspectr (more on them in a later post), … Continue reading →

Cisco’s marketing department has continued their cuddly product naming  with the announcement of umi (pronounced you-me) last week. It’s basically Skype or in Cisco-speak, “telepresense,” for regular folks. And by regular folks they mean TV-watchers with an Internet connection but … Continue reading →

Holy Heisenberg! Scientific American, the magazine better known for writing about dark holes and gene splicing, has editorialized earlier this month on the state of US broadband. While SA has in recent years taken on more topical subject matter, there … Continue reading →

Trying to find a WiFi signal I am back from my Italian adventure, enjoying every minute of walking down narrow Roman alleys, biking past Umbrian fields, and eating and drinking the riches of the campagna. I was undecided about bringing … Continue reading →

I wanted to get this post out before we close up shop for a small business-related trip. We’re taking off to study social networking issues in a beloved southern European country noted for its incredible contributions to art, culture,  food, … Continue reading →

I was hoping to enter the Android-age this week courtesy of Velocity Micro’s $199 Cruz Reader. The Reader arrived yesterday on my porch sometime during a late afternoon editorial meeting. I excitedly opened up the UPS cardboard to be teased … Continue reading →

The best thing that would happen is Facebook would open up its network and we’d use that information to improve our ads and our search. Failing that, there are other ways in which we can get that information, which is … Continue reading →