2014
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It’s Time to Kill Surface
“The question that needs to be asked and answered is why hardware.” To Satya Nadella’s credit, he provided not just the answer, but the question as well. And, looked at narrowly, there were good things seen – and not seen – at Microsoft’s Surface event. Having clearly failed as a mass market device, it makes […]
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Daily Update: JD.com Prices IPO, Google’s SEC Letter, Patent Reform Dies
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Daily Update: Lenovo Earnings, Windows 8 Banned, Google Buys Divide
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Podcast: Exponent Episode 004 – Technology and Politics
On the newest episode of Exponent, the podcast I co-host with James Allworth: Are the recent debates on net neutrality, the protests of Google buses, even SOPA a sign of things to come? Building on yesterday’s article The Net Neutrality Wake-up Call, we discuss the intersection of technology and politics. Why do people in technology […]
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Daily Update: GoPro Files for IPO, Angela Ahrendts’ and Apple Retail, Groupon Launching iPad Checkout System
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The Net Neutrality Wake-up Call
Sometime in the summer of 2002, having just graduated from university and determined to change the world, I was driving home from Albert Lea, Minnesota formulating my resignation letter. After graduating I had, rather naively I suppose, assumed that politics was the best means to effect the change I desired, and so had taken a […]