New Processors in Mobile Market Helps Handsets, Helps Software Developers
As featured on Slashdot, competition among processors that power mobile handsets is heating up. ARM--whose chips dominate the mobile phone market--announced its smallest, lowers power multicore chip yet. These chips [...]
This Week In Antitrust
Today, we're kicking off a new feature on the blog, a weekly round up of the tech industry's various antitrust cases and "potential" antitrust concerns. While last week's antitrust news [...]
“Hey, Pot… It’s the Kettle.”
This news story from last week just about speaks for itself, and little commentary is needed. (And no, it's not a leftover from April 1.) It feels like something that [...]
No Patent Troll Here — Rewarding Innovation Down Under Through Patents
Slashdot's recent discussion of how an Australian research/tech transfer agency enforced its patent rights against 14 of the world's largest tech companies has what everybody should view as a happy [...]
LA City Council Reads ACT’s “Paying for Free” Paper
OK, maybe nobody on the city council actually read Paying for Free, the paper where we describe the security, privacy and sustainability costs of "free" software. Still, on Monday the [...]
The Meaning of Innovation—And What’s Coming Next
It’s a term that’s been thrown around a lot over the past couple of years, at times being more popular than at others. Now seems to be one of those [...]