Monday, November 16, 2009
Apple Wouldn’t Risk Its Cool Over a Gimmick, Would It?
“SOME of the best-loved technology on the planet” is how Apple describes its products when recruiting new employees.
Monday, March 9, 2009
When Everyone’s a Friend, Is Anything Private?
Facebook has a chief privacy officer, but I doubt that the position will exist 10 years from now. That’s not because Facebook is hell-bent on stripping away privacy protections, but because the popularity of Facebook and other social-networking sites has promoted the sharing of all things personal, dissolving the line that separates the private from the public.
Monday, February 9, 2009
Why Television Still Shines in a World of Screens
Subscribers to print newspapers have gone missing, as everyone knows. Book publishers are also wondering where readers have disappeared to.
And yet television stands out as the one old-media business with surprising resilience. Though we are spending a record amount of time online, including a record amount of time watching video, we are also watching record amounts of very old-fashioned television, according to Nielsen Media Research.
Monday, December 29, 2008
What Carriers Aren’t Eager to Tell You About Texting
Text messaging is a wonderful business to be in: About 2.5 trillion messages will have been sent from cellphones worldwide this year. The public assumes that the wireless carriers’ costs are far higher than they actually are, and profit margins are concealed by a heavy curtain.
Monday, November 17, 2008
What Has Driven Women Out of Computer Science?
Ellen Spertus, a graduate student at MIT, wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl had a boy-girl ratio of six to one. And why were only 20 percent of computer science undergraduates at M.I.T. female?
Monday, November 3, 2008
30 Seconds to Boot Up? That’s 29 Too Many
New laptops that boot up in 30 seconds? Too slow for me. Five seconds? Better, but what I want is a machine that’s ready in about a second, just like my smartphone.
Monday, October 6, 2008
Can’t Open Your E-Mailbox? Good Luck
Logging on to Gmail or other email service has become a routine of daily life, completed without a thought. What would you do, however, if you woke up tomorrow, plugged in your user name and password as you always do, but then received an unfamiliar message: “User name and password do not match”?
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
First It Was Song Downloads. Now It’s Organic Chemistry.
After scanning his textbooks and making them available to anyone to download free, a contributor at the file-sharing site thePirateBay.org composed a colorful message for “all publishers” of college textbooks, warning them that “myself and all other students are tired of getting” ripped off. All forms of print publishing must contend with the digital transition, [...]
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