Our favorite new social site for discovering and remember all the fun things we want to do, Schemer, has finally emerged from beta. Even better, to celebrate the fact, and thank GeekDad and GeekMom for being early partners, they’re featuring our Schemer sites today:
Raising Baby Einstein in your house? Let your accomplices, GeekDad and GeekMom …
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Google’s daily brainteaser helps hone your search skills.
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In order to compete with PC manufacturers selling inexpensive Windows ultrabooks, Apple is primed to release a lower-priced, $800 MacBook Air in Q3 — immediately begging the question, ‘What will you actually get for your low cost of entry?’
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Users howled when Microsoft tried to lock down Windows. Now Apple is upping its own security — and everyone loves it.
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The more you rely on cloud-based services, the more important good backups become. If you’re using Gmail, Gmvault makes it a snap to back up your account, ensuring you have a copy of your data even if the Gmail cloud someday blows away.
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The more you rely on cloud-based services, the more important good backups become. If you’re using Gmail Gmvault makes it a snap to backup your account, ensuring you have a copy of your data even if the Gmail cloud someday blows away.
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New York Magazine was kind enough to ask me to write a big story on Mark Zuckerberg and Facebook to celebrate the company’s long-awaited IPO. The story’s out now, and you can read it here. Here are some key points: Most people still think of Mark Zuckerberg as a sort of an idiot-savant — a [...]
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On Monday, a jury is set to decide whether Google infringed Oracle’s copyrights in cloning the Java APIs on its Android mobile operating system. But that’s not the big decision. The big one comes later. Even if the jury decides that Google ran afoul of the law in building a new version of Oracle’s Java platform, this won’t settle the broader question everyone is waiting for: Can you actually copyright an API?
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Users howled when Microsoft tried to lock down Windows. Now Apple is upping its own security ? and everyone loves it.
When Microsoft announced its Trustworthy Computing Initiative in 2002, the response was immediate and consistent. Developers, users, press, and pundits alike decried the effort as an Orwellian attempt to limit freedom on what was then …
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! Global markets shuddered Monday after election results in France and Greece raised yet more questions and concerns about the future of the Eurozone. Major markets in Asia fell by more than 2% overnight, oil prices tumbled and equities in Europe and the U.S. headed south in the initial reaction [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! The health of the financial system was one of the big items on the agenda at the Milken Institute Global Conference in LA last week. In the accompanying video, I discuss the state of the banking industry - and bank regulations - with two renowned experts: Chicago Booth professor [...]
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Follow The Daily Ticker on Facebook! The $1 trillion student loan crisis will be a top priority for President Obama and senior administration officials this week. The president will discuss ways to prevent undergraduate subsidized loans from doubling July 1 with student government leaders from across the country on Monday. Vice President Biden meets with [...]
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