Monday, June 29, 2009 10:45 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Two weeks ago, I wrote about Virgin America's and Google's joint plans to promote cloud computing through what they were touting as the world's first online scavenger hunt. I'm here to report that the Day in the...
Monday, June 29, 2009 10:38 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer It's been quite a few months for World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee. First, in April, he was awarded an honorary doctorate by the Universidad Politécnica de Madrid. A week later, he was one of six faculty...
Wednesday, June 24, 2009 10:15 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Eastman Kodak's decision to stop producing its Kodachrome film stock after 74 years is the proverbial nail in the coffin, signaling an unofficial end to the film era. Once considered the pinnacle of photographic technology, with unparalleled...
Monday, June 22, 2009 10:54 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer The Internet long has been referred to as a "disruptive" technology, meaning it had the potential to displace existing paradigms, alter the course of technology, and change the way people interacted with technology. On all counts, the...
Wednesday, June 17, 2009 10:18 AM/EST
Sorry, Twitter-haters, but the microblogging service has a new fan: the State Department, which reportedly urged Twitter's managers to delay scheduled downtime because tweets from Iran are providing critical intelligence on the situation there. I can't believe I'm still arguing...
Monday, June 08, 2009 10:12 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer Is the iPhone America's best hope for economic recovery? And is your company with the program? This week, as the Apple developer community gathers in San Francisco to learn how to build cutting-edge apps for the iPhone...
Monday, June 01, 2009 10:25 AM/EST
by Tony Kontzer If there was any remaining doubt that Google had established itself as Microsoft's Public Enemy No. 1, it's officially gone. The companies' dueling announcements last week -- Microsoft with its Bing "decision engine," and Google with its...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:16 AM/EST
Tony Kontzer posts an entertaining and insightful rant about Twitter. The micromessaging service is overexposed, and people do use it for all kinds of silly things. But the Twitter backlash is very similar to the backlash against blogging when that...
Wednesday, May 20, 2009 10:11 AM/EST
Twitter, shmitter. Yes, I'm a journalist, so I'm on Twitter. Which makes me a Twitterer, or a Tweeter, or a twit--I'm not sure which. I don't use it much, mostly for communicating random thoughts and observations to an audience of...
Monday, May 11, 2009 10:34 AM/EST
Tense standoff between U.S. military personnel and possible hostiles in Iraq? There's an app for that. Apple's iPods and iPhones, symbols of a modern urban lifestyle, are now in use in a very different setting - the front lines of...
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