So if Apple is really launching a 7.85in "iPad mini", how does that square with what Steve Jobs said two years ago?The Guardian From ACM Opinion | October 23, 2012
Although online learning has great potential to enhance the education process, Princeton University president emeritus William Bowen cites three obstructions to...Stanford Report From ACM TechNews | October 17, 2012
Although academic fields will often enjoy more than Andy Warhol's famous 15 minutes of fame, they too are subject to today's ever-hungry machinery of hype. Like...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 17, 2012
In the age of freely available modeling software, laser cutters and 3D printers, shapes that must stay secret for security's sake don't stay secret for long. Especially...Forbes From ACM Opinion | October 15, 2012
When discussing innovation, the Chinese like to tout the country’s "Four Great Inventions"—paper, gunpowder, the compass, and woodblock printing—and their enormous...Slate From ACM Opinion | October 10, 2012
You can tell a lot about a politician's priorities from who they deign to follow on Twitter. When David Cameron joined the service on Saturday, he started out following...The Guardian From ACM Opinion | October 9, 2012
One of the things that makes attackers dance around their basement lairs is finding unencrypted Web sessions.Threatpost From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2012
Americans should have no reasonable expectation of privacy over the location data stored by their mobile phone.Slate From ACM Opinion | October 3, 2012
Many new technologies are based on what companies and designers seem to think their users might want to do, or what they envision them wanting to do, but not as...GigaOm From ACM Opinion | October 1, 2012
Google Chairman Eric Schmidt says Apple should have continued to use Google’s mapping application in iOS 6 instead of swapping it out for its poorly received home...AllThingsD From ACM News | September 27, 2012
There is a widening gulf between application developers and security decision makers inside the enterprise, and it’s starting to cost companies serious money.Threatpost From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2012
We already know that design matters. Product design. Industrial design. Experience design. Supply chain design. Witness the renewed fervor for the iPhone 5 today...Wired From ACM Opinion | September 24, 2012
The iPhone 5 is here and millions of people will buy it and love it. But its arrival also starts the clock ticking on the next iPhone. CNET From ACM Opinion | September 19, 2012
The near-term future of phones is fairly well-established. The iPhone 5 was released Wednesday and its similarity to every Apple phone since 2007 serves as a reminder...The Atlantic From ACM Opinion | September 14, 2012
What could well be the next great technological disruption is fermenting away, out of sight, in small workshops, college labs, garages, and basements. Tinkerers...The Economist From ACM News | September 13, 2012
Last May when Mark Zuckerberg wed his Chinese-American girlfriend, Priscilla Chan, a joke began to make the rounds on China's version of Twitter, a microblog—or...Fortune From ACM Opinion | September 11, 2012