Recent articles by Bob Brown
February 08, 2010
Google's Nexus One got a big time endorsement over the weekend from Linux kernel developer Linus Torvalds, who blogged about the Android-based smartphone being "a winner."
February 03, 2010
There¿s quite a collection of good and colorful blogs that track iPhones, Android devices, BlackBerries and other smartphones and no shortage of overlapping coverage among them. Here¿s a spin through 50 of these blogs.
January 27, 2010
Need a break from the Apple iPad? Here are 10 fun facts about RIM and its BlackBerry smartphones
January 07, 2010
Jon Kleinberg, a computer science professor at Cornell University, has won the 2009 Katayanagi Emerging Leadership Prize for his research into network phenomena, such as how Web pages link, how social media friendships happen and how peer-to-peer file-sharing works.
December 23, 2009
RIM's second BlackBerry network outage within a week is but the latest in a string of network service outages, including cloud computing service outages, that have plagued the industry and frustrated customers this year. Big names like Google, Microsoft and Salesforce.com have been among the companies scrambling to restore services in 2009.
December 10, 2009
Google on Thursday said its enterprise search appliance will now show relevant Twitter posts alongside internal and external search results.
December 09, 2009
Internet2, the advanced networking consortium powered by educational and research organizations, has announced that it¿s on the lookout for a new CEO.
December 03, 2009
Reports this week out of Arizona about how a public school district IT chief lost his job have put the use of volunteer grid computing efforts in the spotlight.
December 02, 2009
We asked the team at Perfect Apology to rate the quality of the apologies issued by top tech companies and executives this year (Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, among them) for their assorted mistakes and misdeeds. And yes, we did this BEFORE Tiger Woods issued his apology today.
December 01, 2009
Kanye West, President Obama and David Letterman grabbed headlines this year when they apologized for assorted ill-advised acts or rash statements. But they more than met their match in the high tech industry, where big names from Amazon to Apple to Microsoft were forced to issue mea culpas in the wake of bad and worse decisions. Here¿s a recap of what the tech industry has been most sorry about in 2009.
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