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...innovations in technology, energy and transportation. Recall, please, the national mood in the mid-'70s: after the 1960s party, we found ourselves in a slough of despondency, with an oil crisis, a terrible recession, a kind of Weimarish embrace of decadence, national malaise - and at that very dispirited moment, Microsoft and Apple were founded. The next transformative, moneymaking technologies and businesses are no doubt coming soon to a garage near...
...Still, new Shuffle aside, the button's days may be numbered. Touchscreen and tablet PCs are becoming more popular, and the latest generation of cellphones like the iPhone incorporate gestures and on-screen keyboards. Microsoft is touting its next-generation Surface technology, bringing the day of the massive Bond-esque touchscreen ever closer. The button may be on its last legs, but may I offer one humble request: Please, leave them in elevators. Making 23 separate stops on the way up to work isn't my idea of a gleaming future, Mr. Jobs...
...perfect—with over 40 behavioral advertising companies on the internet, TACO has yet to block all ad tracking. “Hopefully, that will all be done within the next year,” he said. Soghoian noted that he has already talked to Microsoft and Mozilla about incorporating TACO into the popular web browsers Internet Explorer and Firefox. Mark A. Fusunyan ’12 said that since he doesn’t tend to click on online ads, ad-tracking did not pose a “huge concern?...
...easy, playful thing to say back then. So what? What do we need all this for anyway? But I was in Seattle recently and I said, "Capitalism is dead, the economy is screwed up. Oh well." Everyone's like, "Yeah, we all lost our jobs yesterday." Boeing, Microsoft and Starbucks laid off a good 30,000 each in one day. I was literally looking at an unemployed audience. You have to be aware of who you're talking to in an audience. It's no f---ing around anymore. These people, they're still coming to shows, they're still...
Ironically, it was U.S. technology firms that created much of the technology supporting the Great Firewall, and companies such as Google, Yahoo and Microsoft have taken tough criticism from human rights advocates for tolerating the country's censorship. "I simply don't understand how your corporate leadership sleeps at night," the late Rep. Tom Lantos, a Holocaust survivor, told tech representatives at a 2006 House hearing. Yahoo has taken the most heat, after it acknowledged giving the government information that led to the imprisonment of at least one Chinese journalist. (The company says it was required to comply with Chinese...