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  • What Apple should do with some of its cash -- buy Nuance

    Nuance Communications is the top player in the growing speech recognition field, and Apple should lock it up with an acquisition of the company.

    Blog posts | March 19, 2012 4:05am PDT

  • Stanford University guards its Apple treasure trove

    Apple contacted Stanford University and donated a treasure trove of Apple materials in 1997 for their Silicon Valley Archives. Is it never to be viewable to the public?

    Blog posts | December 31, 2011 9:10am PST

  • 10 things (and 4 outrages) techies need to know about President Obama's State of the Union Address

    This was not Barack Obama's best speech and I couldn't help, by the end, being left with the feeling that our President and our nation could have done better -- much better.

    Blog posts | January 26, 2011 5:39am PST

  • Tech Awards: Al Gore's a bore, "cash prizes" . . . and amazing laureates

    My review of the Tech Awards Gala which celebrated some amazing laureates doing wonderful work...

    Blog posts | November 20, 2009 2:35pm PST

  • Reconsidering Obama's ed speech? Sort of

    Obama's speech to America's students is creating an incredible amount of controversy, far more than I would have expected. In fact, my post yesterday was met with quite a flame war that kept...

    Blog posts | September 4, 2009 10:21am PDT

  • Student free speech vs. taxpayer rights

    While this is only peripherally related to educational technology, the recent uproar over free speech at the University of Maryland is worthy of consideration; it certainly appears that both sides...

    Blog posts | April 8, 2009 5:58am PDT

  • Supreme Court won't hear appeal in Va. antispam case

    A Virginia antispam law is now officially unconstitutional. The U.S. Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal of a Virginia Supreme Court decision that invalidated a state law that makes illegal...

    Blog posts | March 30, 2009 4:58pm PDT

  • Tag Cloud of Obama's inauguration speech

    Emily Chang fed the president's speech into a tag cloud generator: "New" and "Nation" stick out to me most. Also "common" and "people". What are your thoughts on the tag cloud?

    Blog posts | January 20, 2009 9:47am PST

  • Va. decision knocking down antispam law strikes blow for First Amendment

    The comments so far on the Virginia Supreme Court's invalidation of a state antispam law have been uniformly negative. One commenter, for instance, advocated spamming the opinion's author, Justice...

    Blog posts | September 14, 2008 2:37pm PDT

  • Free speech for students, revisited

    When I was in high school (not so long ago, but quite some time in computer years), we tested the limits of free speech with t-shirts, the occasional flyer, buttons, and even editorials in the...

    Blog posts | June 1, 2008 8:20pm PDT

  • In close First Amendment case, Virginia court upholds spammer conviction

    What do geeks hate more than free speech restrictions? Spammers! Thus, anti-spam laws are an interesting collision. Spamming is clearly speech -- albeit commercial speech. So are antispam laws...

    Blog posts | March 3, 2008 8:26am PST

  • Spammer says state law is unconstitutional

    Is an anti-spam law unconstitutionally infringe on free speech? That's what a former spammer is arguing to the Virginia Supreme Court, The Washington Post reports. Jeremy Jaynes of Raleigh, N.C.,...

    Blog posts | September 12, 2007 8:18pm PDT

  • Photos: Bill Gates goes to Harvard

    In a commencement speech at Harvard, the world's richest dropout urge efforts to end the world's inequities.

  • A call for copyright-free debates

    Law professor Lawrence Lessig is calling on the political parties to make video of presidential debates available without copyright entanglements. On his blog, Lessig writes: The uncertainty...

    Blog posts | April 25, 2007 4:33pm PDT

  • Photos: Mitnick on the job

    Former hacker now spends a lot of time giving speeches on security.

  • New Net political rules a fine compromise

    Rules strike a balance between free speech and campaign reform.

    Blog posts | April 6, 2006 12:19pm PDT

  • Microsoft's May Day manifesto

    Redmond holds court on open source. But who cares anymore?

    News items | May 8, 2001 12:00am PDT

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