Goodbye e-books, hello apps

02/02/12

E-book sales are, surprisingly, flattening and Gibbs knows why: E-books don't really work very well.

The real reasons why SOPA and PIPA are real bad

01/27/12

A reader letter makes Gibbs sum up why SOPA and PIPA are such bad ideas.

No SOPA blackout? We know who you are

01/20/12

Yesterday saw many major Web sites going into blackout to protest SOPA and PIPA ... but, to their shame, a few of the biggest opted out

Your identity up for grabs

01/13/12

Security was a big issue in 2011 with more sophisticated and a wider range of threats than ever before wasting even more of everyone's time at a cost of billions of dollars.

2012 Outlook: The end of everything?

01/09/12

Gibbs reviews last year's predictions and sees that the end could be nigh ...

Goodbye 2011 ... What a year!

12/19/11

Gibbs ponders the year that just shot past ...

Social networking, ignorance, and apathy

12/08/11

Social networking services really do a bad job with managing our privacy ... and the problem apparently is that we and they don't know and don't care to fix it

How stupid can cell carriers be? Really Stupid.

12/05/11

The recent revelation that most of us are carrying around smartphones with embedded rootkits is both surprising and not so surprising. It's surprising because it makes you wonder, "How stupid can the carriers be?" It's not surprising in that we know the answer to that.

The Eighth Annual Gibbs Golden Turkey Awards

11/23/11

For the eighth time, Gibbs awards those who deserve opprobrium for epic reasons

Apple and jail made cool

11/21/11

Apple, Steve Jobs, Richard M. Stallman, nerds, and Microsoft ... a heady mixture that Gibbs decides to stir this week

Net neutrality rules and the FCC's huge mistake

11/11/11

The Senate disapproval resolution of the FCC's net neutrality rules failed; could the FCC have made a serious mistake?

IT consumerization: It's biblical!

11/07/11

The consumerization of IT can't be stopped. You've got no choice about it ...

While we wait for cold fusion, let's update the ECPA

10/24/11

Gibbs wants you to get as excited about protecting your privacy as many of you are about cold fusion

Cheap power: An overnight revolution

10/14/11

In a couple of weeks the world could be forever changed by power too cheap to meter. Or not.

IT ... as Steve said: "Click. Boom. Amazing!"

10/07/11

What can IT learn from Steve and Apple?

Silver Surfers are past it? Never!

09/30/11

Been around a while? You may well be a "Silver surfer" and that makes you an IT hero!

AT&T and alternate universes

09/26/11

Gibbs marvels at how theories about alternate universes abound.

Cinemas will die out and museums will have to evolve

09/16/11

When it comes to things like movies and museums, it's all about the experience. But that experience is going to change because it's no longer necessary or even as pleasurable to be at those venues as it once was and you know what will take their place? No? Read on.

Hooked on Google

09/12/11

Gibbs got cut off from parts of Google and it made him worry ...

Liar liar, brain's been fired

09/02/11

Gibbs wonders what will happen when we can no longer lie?

Distracted to death (Jennifer Aniston naked)

08/26/11

Gibbs ponder our obsession with our digital electronics.

No nyms equals evil

08/22/11

Gibbs discusses privacy and pseudonyms and how Google is being particularly evil by demanding "real" names

Who are you? Non? Anon?

08/12/11

Gibbs ponders anonymity. At least, it might be Gibbs ... how would you know?

Freedom and privacy, R.I.P.

08/08/11

Gibbs sees two kinds of privacy, and if both aren't already lost, they soon will be.

Swartz, guilty as charged?

07/22/11

Aaron Swartz, founder of progressive action group Demand Progress, has been a bad boy, but how bad?