During Road Trip 2009, Daniel Terdiman arrived in Aspen with an iPhone with no battery life. He used Verizon's MiFi 2200 to create a walking Wi-Fi hot-spot for...CNet From ACM Opinion | June 30, 2009
A frequent question I hear about Communications, and about ACM publishing in general, involves its access model. I am asked: "Why don't you adopt the open-access...Moshe Y. Vardi From Communications of the ACM | July 1, 2009
As you read this, I am somewhere in rural China, probably disoriented, perhaps eating a fish eye, and certainly not paying attention to the news. This column was...The Seattle Times From ACM Opinion | June 29, 2009
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) professor Pattie Maes, who leads human-computer interface research at MIT's Media Lab, says in an interview that current...Mass High Tech From ACM TechNews | June 26, 2009
Rwanda is emerging as an interesting test case on how a digital divide is actually being bridged in a methodical, well-thought-out, step-by-step manner. The first...The Washington Post From ACM Opinion | June 25, 2009
Beijing recently announced that starting on July 1, all computers sold in China must come installed with government-designed software to block pornography. Testing...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 22, 2009
Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, has worked for a European company, Netvibes.com, and has recently moved back to Shanghai. In this interview,...SG Entrepreneurs From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2009
Gang Lu, the founder of MOBINODE and OpenWeb Asia, has worked for a European company, Netvibes.com, and has recently moved back to Shanghai. In this interview,...SG Entrepreneurs From ACM Opinion | June 15, 2009
I've had the government's 60-day Cyberspace Policy Review sitting on my desk for many days now, dutifully highlighted and marked up with notes. And I see one gigantic...TechBlogPlus From ACM Opinion | June 12, 2009
Not long ago Web browsing required sitting in one place and using a computer plugged into a cable. Now, people expect to hop online whenever they want using wireless...The Wall Street Journal From ACM Opinion | June 10, 2009
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...Microsoft PressPass From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2009
Wired magazine writer and author Steven Levy interviews Microsoft Corp.'s Chief Software Architect Ray Ozzie about the value of cloud computing and how it will...Microsoft PressPass From ACM Opinion | June 9, 2009
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2009
World Wide Web inventor Tim Berners-Lee wants to put the Web under the microscope to investigate how it changes our behavior. He discusses the Web Science Research...New Scientist From ACM Opinion | June 5, 2009
The one thing you can say for certain about Twitter is that it makes a terrible first impression. You hear about this new service that lets you send 140-character...Time From ACM Opinion | June 4, 2009
"Computer science is the best candidate for laying the foundation of systems biology, and not mathematics as it has been thought so far," says University of Trento...GenomeWeb Daily News From ACM TechNews | June 1, 2009
Gregg Favalora, the founder, president, chief executive officer and chief technology officer of Actuality Medical Inc., discusses 'crystal ball' 3-D imaging, breakthrough...Computerworld From ACM Opinion | May 1, 2009
Charlotte Yarkoni joined Xeround as chief executive officer 16 months ago. Now, the former Amdocs and Cingular executive is transitioning the software company from...TechFlash From ACM Opinion | April 27, 2009
The commercial opportunities of software as a service are widely hyped these days and many think SaaS is the future of software. That might be true in the medium...Martin Campbell-Kelly From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2009
Differences in telecommunications regulation between the U.S. and the European Union are a key factor in viewing the debate over network neutrality legislation...Pierre Larouche From Communications of the ACM | May 1, 2009