Howie Choset, a professor of robotics at Carnegie Mellon University, has spent years creating mechanical snakes with names such as Uncle Sam, Betsy Ross, Pepperoni...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | January 8, 2013
Prior to his death on Oct. 5, 2011, Steve Jobs made sure that the elevation of Tim Cook—his longtime head of operations and trusted deputy—to Apple chief executive...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | December 10, 2012
With Paul Otellini heading in May to the nearest 18-hole course, speculation is rampant about who will replace him.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM News | November 21, 2012
"It’s really a little computer." You remember the first time you said it, a few years ago, when you grasped just how much a smartphone can do.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | November 2, 2012
In 2004, Mark Zuckerberg launched Facebook from his Harvard University dorm room, hoping to see what his classmates were up to on campus. The following eight years...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | October 4, 2012
"IPhone5 Launch Causes Riots" You'd expect to see headlines like this when consumers beat down doors and trample each other, yet these riots were in China, among...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 27, 2012
Four years ago, Apple set out on a dangerous path. It spent about $300 million on a struggling chip designer called PA Semi. The purchase signaled that Apple intended...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | September 20, 2012
Intel researchers recently demonstrated a system that has the potential to do away with computer passwords.Bloomberg From ACM TechNews | September 17, 2012
The big question: Is the iPhone a "bicycle for the mind," as the late Steve Jobs said about the first Mac, or a crutch that does too much of our thinking for us...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 25, 2012
On June 18, Microsoft beckoned 200 or so members of the media to a grimy, industrial part of Hollywood for what it described as a can’t-miss affair.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 20, 2012
Proteins are the workhorses of our cells: They turn food into energy and determine our health. Each one is a chain of molecules—sometimes thousands of links long—that...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | June 11, 2012
In the days of the Internet bubble of the mid to late 1990s, companies received millions of dollars of venture capital to offer products that weren't especially...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | May 24, 2012
Facebook got a black eye last week when General Motors announced it would cease advertising on the platform, yanking $10 million in annual ad spending away from...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | May 22, 2012
Bre Pettis looks like a throwback. He’s got an Elvis Presley-meets-Buddy Holly thing going on with his chunky sideburns, thick-rimmed black glasses, and sculpted...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | May 18, 2012
Sometimes an IPO is more than just another IPO, and that's the case with Palo Alto Networks, which has just filed to go public.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Careers | April 11, 2012
In anticipation of Apple’s introduction of Siri in Chinese this year, I decided to try Dragon, a line of smartphone voice apps by Nuance Communications—the company...Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 20, 2012
It's a Saturday afternoon in Palo Alto, Calif., and there goes David Cheriton, navigating the Silicon Valley suburb's tony downtown on his bike.Bloomberg Businessweek From ACM Opinion | March 6, 2012