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Software patents are broken, and it’s hurting our economy
We have an incentive system at work in the apps ecosystem. Angry Birds has been downloaded one billion times, Temple Run over 150 million. Other developers see the potential for great financial reward with their work, which encourages further development, risk taking, and invention. This benefits not only developers but also smartphone owners and our [...]
13 Mobile & Tech Predictions for 2013
It’s that time of year: time to make astrology-like generalities in the guise of concrete predictions for 2013. My charts were decent last year, so I’ll try to repeat that performance, hopefully with a tad more specificity. This is (most likely) not an exhaustive list of all that will happen in 2013. Some notable omissions [...]
Pirate’s Booty
As a faithful nerd, I made haste to get home quickly today to install and play my piping-hot, release-day copy of Blizzard’s new RPG, Diablo 3. Unfortunately, millions of other PC and Mac gamers had the same intentions I did, and the game’s servers were down for maintenance, due to unexpected heavy loads. While Diablo [...]
