Here I sit blogging in my hotel room at the Renaissance in Austin, Texas before a full day of search and social marketing brain dump at Pubcon South. Immediately after that is SXSWi for a few days. A few days after that it’s NYC for a PRSA thing followed by SES New York.  I speak at 15 plus e...

“Paper is dying, but it’s just a device.” So says Nick Bilton, editor in the New York Times research and development lab. Bilton talked with Wired about what he sees as the future of news delivery, and paper, in his view,  is not going to go away, but it will play a smaller role i...

In his latest LTN column, Ball in Your Court, Craig Ball debunks the long-held hard drive multi-pass erasure myth, that goes like this: "Top notch computer forensic examiners have special tools and techniques enabling them to recover overwritten data from a wiped hard drive so long as the drive was ...

Filed under: Etc., I.C.E., Tech, Ford In the near future, Ford vehicles may fire back a retort if you get cheesed off enough to yell at the car. According to the details of a patent filing, Ford is working on an Emotive Advisory System (EAS) that simulates emotions when interacting with occupants, a...

Filed under: Consumer experience, Amazon.com (AMZN) It's not too hard to find stories on the latest Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) e-book reader, the Kindle 2. But the newly released Kindle has a lot to live up to, according to a recent ChangeWave survey of original Kindle e-book owners. Fifty-eight percent ...

Reader tking says his laptop started out with a bad power jack — but has slowly escalated in brokenness with each Dell intervention. tking says: My problems started when my Dell Vostro 1510 laptop wouldn't keep the power cord plugged in without extra effort. The first tech support person was m...

De gehele Disk Station-line-up van Synology is online verschenen. De fabrikant van nas-systemen komt met twaalf modellen voor een, twee, vier of vijf harde schijven die cpu's met kloksnelheden van 266MHz, 1,06GHz of 1,2GHz hebben....

Samsung Electronics today announced its new EcoGreen F2EG hard disk that delivers a massive 1.5TB of capacity with 500GB per disk. With increased recording density and reduced number of disks, the EcoGreen F2 drive is more power efficient by supporting a capacity up to 1.5TB with 3 disks....

BOSTON, MA (MARKET WIRE) In a world in which traditional sources of business advantages like scale and customer knowledge can be easily replicated, Intellectual Property (IP) stands as the main source of sustainable competitive advantage. But because IP is hard to see and generally ignored by establ...

Format wars are commonplace in the modern history of electronics. Even Thomas Edison had to deal with political and corporate wrangling for the format of his early wax audio cylinder records invented in 1877.  The dispute over which audio recording format would become the standard continued until 1...