Steve Jobs returns to Apple Computer and Apple has thrives by executing the same essential formula over and over: Find an exciting new technology whose complexity and cost keep it out of the average person’s life. Streamline it, mainstream it, strip away the geeky options. Take the credit. (more…)
GOOGLE’ S experimental service Google Scholar (www.scholar.google.com ) scours the Web for academic papers. But while it may prove an asset for students and those who work in areas like science, neither it nor any other search engine is very useful for historians whose research involves plowing through documents from the time when handwriting ruled. (more…)
HOWEVER tough it is to return from vacation, it’s tougher still to return to an e-mail in-box filled with hundreds, or even thousands, of messages that have piled up in your absence; unless you have a blackbery! (more…)
IF YOU’RE AN information junkie, you have probably discovered the appeal of reading weblogs, those online journals that mix commentary with links to related sites. Here is an older article but still relevant today. (more…)
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