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Intel Hedges Bets With $8 Billion Acquisition Of McAfee
Chipmaker Intel Thursday announced a $7.68 billion bid to buy computer security company McAfee, a huge bid to secure the “internet of things” — the billions of chips in connected devices beyond...
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Can You ‘Bip Bop’? Apple Wants To Know
Hardcore geeks and Apple fanboys aren’t the only ones preparing to watch Steve Jobs announce whatever he is going to announce today. Why else would I have been on NPR’s “Morning Edition” discussing the...
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Google Launches ‘Music Beta,’ a Streaming Cloud Service for Tunes
SAN FRANCISCO — In its long-anticipated effort to bring music storage to the cloud, Google debuted its own streaming music service at its I/O developer conference on Tuesday morning. Dubbed “Music Beta...
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HP Looks Set to Fire Fired CEO Léo Apotheker. Now What?
After a string of disappointing quarters, Hewlett-Packard CEO Léo Apotheker killed the Palm hardware unit and proposed spinning off personal computing to focus the company on enterprise software. Now...
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Three Screens And A Cloud: Xbox, Windows Phone, and the Future of the...
There are plenty of smartphone remote applications. But the Windows Phone 7 does two smart things: It doesn’t just change the channel on the Xbox, but can pull and identify content from it,...
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‘Twine’ Seeks To Tie Up The Smart Environment
Thanks to cloud computing and cheap sensors, a 2.5-inch rubber block is moving the lofty vision of the Internet of Things a big step closer to reality. A pair of MIT Media Lab alums have come up with a...
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Dirty Little Secrets: The Trouble With Social Search
When Google launched Search plus Your World on Tuesday, we expected the Google+-aided personalized search engine to draw serious criticism on many fronts: privacy, security, antitrust concerns, the...
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Big Tech | HP Cuts 27K Employees, Looks to Cloud and Data Analytics for Growth
Hewlett Packard CEO Meg Whitman announced the layoff of 27,000 employees Wednesday, or 8 percent of the company’s workforce. The painful move is part of Whitman’s strategy to refocus the hardware and...
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Education | A School in the Cloud and the Future of Learning
Professor Sugata Mitra is developing an entirely new approach to education, one that could dismantle a centuries-old way of teaching.
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Health Science | Wellframe Wants to Help Fix Your Broken Heart
Having a heart attack is no picnic. That’s obvious. And some might say the experience itself is traumatic enough that it should snap people out of unhealthful lifestyles. Not so. Part of the problem is...
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