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Apple’s Lucky Break: Book on Its Downfall Is Blah

Apple CEO Tim Cook has dismissed as "nonsense" Haunted Empire: Apple After Steve Jobs, a new book written by former Wall Street Journal reporter...

Apple CarPlay Downplayed Because More Is Still to Come

Apple's CarPlay intro was a dud, according to Roger Lanctot, associate director of Strategy Analytics' Global Automotive Practice. His March 12 blog post on...

Fixing Wireless Broadband: The Debt Sprint’s Son Says He Owes America

Masayoshi Son, the CEO of Softbank and now chairman of Sprint's board of directors, gave his first speech in the United States before the...

On Web’s 25th Anniversary, Web Inventor Berners-Lee Speaks Out

The 25th anniversary of the creation of the World Wide Web was marked on March 11, and just in time to commemorate that special...

Titanfall Is a Big Test of Microsoft’s Cloud Vision

Today's launch of Titanfall, a major title for the Xbox One console (also available for Windows PCs and on the Xbox 360 later this...

Satya Nadella, the New Microsoft and a Quest for ‘Swing’

At MacWorld 2009, John Gruber, of the Daring Fireball blog, gave a talk called the "The Auteur Theory of Design," in which he talked...

Bill Lowe, Leader of the IBM PC Development Team, Dies at 72

Bill Lowe, the 'father' of the IBM PC, died Oct. 19 at 72. It is odd now to think of IBM without a PC...

Oracle Needs to Learn Lessons From Its Team’s America’s Cup Victory

I spent the early part of the week at Oracle's OpenWorld customer conference in San Francisco learning about engineered systems, the expansion of the...

TEDx Conference Organizers Can Teach the IT Vendor Show Promoters

I went to the TEDx Cambridge (Mass.) event last week. Next week I am heading off for the rounds of fall shows including Oracle...

VMworld’s Cloud Computing Message Was Clear Even From a Virtual View

I attended VMworld virtually this year. This means I stayed on the East Coast, while on the West Coast the 10th annual show—with the...