By Tony Kontzer PBS' Nightly Business Report this week unveiled its list of the 30 most important innovations of the last 30 years, based on the judgment of a panel of faculty from the Wharton School at t....
Shares in Apple tanked after Steve Jobs announced a surprise leave of absence due to health reasons. Few executives are as closely identified with their companies as Jobs is with Apple, which he founded a....
Urs Hölzle, Google's SVP for Operations, responds to a Sunday Times article that cites a Harvard study claiming that two Google searches "can generate about the same amount of carbon dioxide as boiling ....
At one point or another, all information technology watchers get a little sick of buzzwords. Maybe not just a little--after all, there are way too many to go around, so maybe the sickness is more like a di....
Plenty of companies have reasonable qualms about their offshore outsourcing initiatives, but make no mistake: offshoring is alive and well. In two years, 25 percent of all IT jobs will be located outside....
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google has shifted its position on net neutrality, supported by big-thinker Lawrence Lessig. Lessig responds with a post called "The made-up dramas of the Wall Street ....
I find the Bernstein report discussed here (The Long View: Netbooks, Wireless and Cloud Computing -- Client Software's Imperfect Storm) somewhat perplexing, if only for the lack of timelines and qualifiers....
LA Times analogizes a cleaned-up YouTube to the imposition of law on the Wild West. I'd say it's just another example of The Man homogenizing something raw and populist in order to make money off of it. H....
Once again, IT employment rose in the face of otherwise horrible job numbers. Today's release of November statistics from the BLS shows a jump of about .2% 2.7% in computer systems design and related serv....
Job cuts at AT&T are making headlines -- and rightly so, 12,000 is a big number and the human cost is severe. But the other cuts announced today are important, too: "AT&T plans to reduce its 2009 capital e....
Ning, the white-label social net company, is discontinuing its Red Light District, aka its home for "adult" social networks. It's not a moral or philosophical decision, but an economic one: "[T]hey don't g....
"Atlantic, a unit of Warner Music Group, says it has reached a milestone that no other major record label has hit: more than half of its music sales in the United States are now from digital products, like....
Randall Stross defines the gender gap in computer science well in this NYT article, but he doesn't do much to explain it. That's understandable. When we wrote last year about the closely-related problem ....
Joe Trippi told us before the election that a superior ground game could be worth 2-3% at the polls to a presidential campaign. TechPresident's Nancy Scola called that estimate "more art than science," whi....
The manifesto for an RNC tech strategy I mentioned this morning follows a call by one of its signatories, Patrick Ruffini, for a new conservative blogosphere: Most conservative blogs are still stuck in 200....