Posts Tagged ‘ personal ’

Little iPads, Little Pixels, And Resolution Independence (An Apple Rumor Medley)

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Another crop of Apple rumors has grown up under our feet, and it seems a little reaping is in order. Two rumors are making the rounds, both of which warrant a little consideration but should, as usual, be taken lightly until more substantial evidence appears. Both have their origins in Digitimes, which prides...

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HP To Keep webOS Alive By Making It Open Source

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HP To Keep webOS Alive By Making It Open Source

Well, there we have it. After weeks of deliberation, HP CEO Meg Whitman has just announced to all of the company’s employees that HP will make webOS’s underlying code available under an open-source license. Before I go any further, I’d like to take this chance to applaud HP on making the right decision:...

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Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For “An Operating Role” At Yahoo

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Andreessen Says He Has No Plans For “An Operating Role” At Yahoo

VC Marc Andreessen has taken to his personal blog to quell the rumors that he’s in the running for the position of chairman of the board at Yahoo. The rumors have been widely reported by a number of news outlets based on unknown sources. Serious speculation has ensued, even leading people to wonder...

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Princeton Beats Out 13 Schools to Win Facebook’s College Hackathon

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Princeton Beats Out 13 Schools to Win Facebook’s College Hackathon

Overcoming stiff competition from MIT and Waterloo, Princeton won this year’s Facebook College Hackathon finals. Over the past few months, Facebook conducted run-off competitions at fourteen colleges across the United States and Canada, and this Friday held the finals at Facebook headquarters in Palo Alto. The Princeton team was the only one comprised...

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Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle

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Apple May Have Won The PC War… By Losing The Windows Battle

What exactly is a PC? That question is likely to become a hot topic over the next few years. Originally, we thought of PCs as the Apple II or then the IBM PC. They were machines that had to sit on a desk because, while significantly smaller than a mainframe, they were still big...

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