The quantified self: Counting every moment
Technology and health: Measuring your everyday activities can help improve your quality of life, according to aficionados of “self-tracking”(12)
Israeli technology companies: What next for the start-up nation?
Even in Israel, it is hard to turn young companies into adults(25)
The semiconductor industry: Space invaders
America’s Intel and Britain’s ARM have long dominated different bits of the global chip market. Now each is attacking the other’s stronghold(20)
Ubiquitous computing: Up close
Technology will become even more personal(3)
Microsoft and Intel: Wintel swings
The marriage that dominated personal computing becomes more open(6)
Transistors: Plugging the leaks
As physical limits bite, electronic engineers must build ever cleverer transistors(6)
Computing: Parallel programming, once an obscure niche, is the focus of increasing interest as “multicore” chips proliferate in ordinary PCs(13)
Computer processors: The Difference Engine: Intel left outside
Despite its clever processor chips, Intel has failed to crack the mobile market(17)
Tablet computers: The Difference Engine: Send in the clones
It is absurd to pay $500 or more for an iPad lookalike(16)
Business and WikiLeaks: Be afraid
Companies must adapt to a world where no secret is safe(20)
Programmable processors: Kneading chips
Semiconductors are becoming more malleable, too(2)
Passwords redux: Cracking passwords with video cards
If you really want your password to stay safe, learn a sonnet by heart(6)
Information technology in transition: The end of Wintel
As Microsoft and Intel move apart, computing becomes multipolar(62)
Intel's antitrust cases: Pay up and play on
The giant chipmaker may find it convenient to settle the FTC’s case, despite rejecting the accusations against it(0)
Dell's SEC settlement: Taking away Dell's cookie jar
Michael Dell's computer firm gets off rather lightly with a $100m penalty to settle accusations of fraudulent accounting(22)
Optical computing's bright future: Light without logic
Optical devices are finally going inside computers, but only in parts(9)
America’s economy is set to shift away from consumption and debt and towards exports and saving. It will be its biggest transformation in decades, says Greg Ip (interviewed here)(53)
Why the sunbelt and urban sprawl are down but not out(1)
With demand at home at rock bottom, American firms are looking abroad(4)
Competition policy: Prosecutor, judge and jury
Enforcement of competition law in Europe is unjust and must change(5)
Technology firms and antitrust: Here we go again
As one long-running antitrust case comes to an end, others emerge(0)
Intel and AMD: Agreeing on a pay-off
Intel and AMD end their legal disputes, but regulators may not be placated(5)
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