Nokia Appoints a Bureaucrat To End Bureaucratic Slowdowns
Nokia is a company with a hidebound culture that has stifled innovation and critical change for years. Who does it hire as CEO? Someone who ran one of Microsoft's more bureaucratic divisions.
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China Cuts Off Rare Earths to Japanese High Tech. Who's Next? [Update]
As part of a dispute, China allegedly stopped shipments of rare earths, vital to high tech, to Japan. China has a lock on global production and could do the same to anyone.
Why Verizon Wants You to Make its Next Phone
Verizon is experimenting with open source hardware to create a cheap process for prototyping devices that may turn out to be mobile's next big thing.
New Kindle Games Block Book Publishers From Number One Bestsellers
Jonathan Franzen's buzzworthy, Oprah co-signed book Freedom is being blocked from the number one Amazon (AMZN) Kindle spot -- by a video game, Electronics Arts (ETRS) Scrabble. The lumping together of apps and books could anger publishers, authors, agents and readers in short order.
New Adobe Demo Is the Digital Camera's Future: Super Focus
Adobe and other companies are creating plenoptic cameras that allow manipulation of focus after someone has taken a picture. From fixing pics to 3D, this technology will be huge in photography.
Why Apple, Microsoft, and Others Will Take Chips In-House
For years, hardware vendors have looked to semiconductor companies to provide chips that powered products. Now big names are looking at getting into the silicon business themselves.
Windows 7 Phone Attempts Its Last Laugh
Can Microsoft get away with swooping in and selling an "easier" smartphone?
RIM's BlackPad Could Be the iPad's Biggest Rival This Holiday
The Wall Street Journal says Research In Motion (RIMM) iPad rival, codenamed BlackPad, will be out this fall and announced as soon as next week. With smart planning, the 7-inch BlackPad tablet can exploit the iPad's biggest weaknesses.
New "YouTube Instant" Shames Other Music Services
In one fell swoop, a rogue programmer has helped YouTube rise head-and-shoulder above other song-finding tools.
Silicon Valley News Flash: Angel Investors Like To Make Cash
The Silicon Valley tech crowd is abuzz with allegations of secret meetings by major angel investors who want to restrict competition and cooperate for better bargains. And this is surprising why?
Michael Arrington's Math is Way Off on Silicon Valley Collusion
Michael Arrington's accusations of collusion among Silicon Valley angel investors don't add up.
Why Adobe Hasn't Rebounded From Apple's About-Face: It's the Software Cycle, Stupid
Wall Street and some pundits wonder why Adobe didn't see a bigger surge of interest in its tools for moving Flash applications to the iPhone and iPad. They forget how software really works.
Consumers Won't Cut Cable -- Because They'll Find that They Can't
The current hand wringing turmoil over whether consumers will give up on cable for Internet-delivered video are overdone. How will consumers get online anyway?
CBS May Head to Hulu, Making the Video Site Even More Formidable
If Hulu gets CBS, it would have a block of television programming that would be difficult for anyone else to duplicate.
Blockbuster's Plight Exposes a Broader Corporate Creativity Problem [Update]
Blockbuster is in trouble in large part because it did not address disruptive challenges from competitors. However, what led it into this position is common in many companies.
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Weeks before Election Day, the FEC can't enforce the law
Tropical Storm Isaias forms in Gulf, could reach U.S. as hurricane this weekend
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Iran's Houthi allies deny losing ground as Mideast crisis engulfs Yemen
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The life and travels of an alleged Chinese agent in the U.S.
How Israeli and Palestinian kids are coping 3 years after Oct. 7, 2023
Christa Pike is conscious, speaking after botched execution, attorneys say
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Former Cornell frat members ask university to clear their names
Fort Hood shooter Nidal Hasan to be executed Dec. 3, email states
