2011 was a year of many milestones for Google. The company launched several new products, revamped existing services, and it was also the year Google made its biggest acquisition ever. Google saw several small but significant developments, changes and services. In January, with the Egyptian government pulling the plug on the nation’s Internet, Google launched...
The letter that took down Mark Hurd as CEO of HP has leaked after a court said it was going to be made public. Arik Hesseldahl of All Things D got a copy of the letter, and made it available for embed. We’ve embedded it below. Ken Glueck, who works at Oracle, where Hurd...
Verizon’s LTE network has had a hell of a month. After a year of smooth performance, interrupted only by one major glitch in April, the new ultra-fast 4G network has experienced a string of three outages in a single month, shutting down access to smartphone and wireless hotspot customers across the country. In an...
Don’t Be a Free User Services and software that has no revenue model at all makes me nervous as a user. The problem isn’t unique to Web services. I’ve watched well-supported FOSS projects grow and prosper (Firefox, Linux, Hadoop, Apache, etc.) while hobby projects that I’ve taken a liking to eventually sputter and fail...
During Michael Spindler’s disastrous three year reign as CEO of Apple, one of his main projects was licensing Mac OS to outside vendors, and plenty of Mac clones popped up. Spindler was ousted in 1996 to make way for Gil Amelio, who of course only lasted one year before Steve Jobs returned. He’s credited...
IDC Energy Insights is one of the smart grid sector’s top research firms. Each year it issues its top 10 predictions for energy and utilities. I attended this year’s webinar and came away with my own version, which I’ve shared with you below. I want to emphasize that my version overlaps with IDC’s but...
Editor’s note: This story is part of a series we call Redux, where we’re re-publishing some of our best posts of 2011. As we look back at the year – and ahead to what next year holds – we think these are the stories that deserve a second glance. It’s not just a best-of...
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ComScore’s three-month report on mobile subscribers (ending in November) is out. The results: Samsung is the number one phone manufacturer in the U.S. and Android is still the top mobile OS. Apple did see its smartphone market share grow a bit, from 27.3% to 28.7% in the last three months. But Google’s Android platform...
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