South Korea Moves to Curb Bloatware in Smartphones


Bloatware has become a huge issue for many users of smartphones around the world. The manufacturer promises that you get a certain amount of storage space on the box, but when you turn the device on...

American Love Affair helps you Buy American And Keeping Jobs In The U.S.


Throughout this would-be U.S. economic recovery, job creation has not matched what it has been in prior recoveries and incomes are under pressure. Once mighty retailers like Sears Holdings and Barnes...

Steve Jobs Did Not Liberate Us. Tim Berners-Lee Did, By Freeing Ones and Zeros To Eat the World


30 years ago today, Steve Jobs unveiled the Macintosh. More accurately, The Great Magician took it out of a bag and let it talk to us. The Macintosh, as I learned from first-hand experience in 1984,...

The End of the FCC’s Net Neutrality Rules, at Least For Now


As most commentators, myself included, predicted last fall, a federal appellate court has vacated the FCC’s controversial 2010 “net neutrality” rules, holding that the agency wildly exceeded its...

The Apple Mac Turns 30 Years Old


Apple sure has come a long way. The company has seen hard times and been rescued from the doldrums by a resurgent Steve Jobs. It also saw its super-genius founder Jobs succumb to cancer a few years...

Macintosh At 30: Interesting, Profound And Curious Things Said About the Mac


— The Macintosh ‘speaking,’ with help from a computer-generated voice narrator, at its introduction by Apple co-founder Steve Jobs on January 24, 1984 at the Flint Center in Cupertino, California....

Display Ads are as Compelling As TV Spots


In the lobby of Google’s Building 900 at its Mountain View headquarters, there’s a display of Google-colored squares and rectangles that looks like a bland abstract-art piece. It turns out these are...

The Apple Macintosh And 30 Years Of Changing


Today marks the 30 year anniversary of the Apple Macintosh personal computer, a tool that I have used almost every day of my professional life for almost that entire span. I feel particularly...