John Markoff has an interesting piece in the New York TImes today about the Digital, Life, Design conference in Munich. The theme of the piece is that the whole "World is Flat" phenomenon has removed the intitutional advantage of Silicon Valley companies. It's an interesting theory, but also a bit [...]
Recently, the tech press and blogging community have been buzzing over a new European Commission report on the economic impact of Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) on the European information and communication technologies (ICT) sector. One thing, however, is notably missing from the online debate over the nearly 300 page [...]
That is the big question on the day the world awoke with a technolust-at-first-sight hangover. How did Apple create a device so utterly cool and innovative that geeks, hipsters, and soccer mom's alike are now counting the days until they can buy one?
