Practical Technology

In 2011, we saw, according to IDC’s latest Worldwide Quarterly Server Tracker, factory revenue in the worldwide server market grew for Linux while it shrank for Windows and Unix. What I find especially interesting about this is that IDC doesn’t measure when you or your company install Linux on a bare-metal server or a re-purposed [...]

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When HP first announced that webOS and Enyo its application framework, would live on as an open-source project I thought it might have a chance to be successful. Now, after listening to HP’s slightly more detailed plans and due consideration, I think webOS is a dead operating system walking. Here’s why 1. Plan? What Plan? [...]

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You know those HP TouchPads that are sale right now, the ones that didn’t look that interesting after Amazon and Barnes & Noble released their Android-powered tablets? Well, you may want to get one anyway. WebOS, its operating system, isn’t dead after all. Today, HP announced that webOS would live on as an open-source project. [...]

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HP’s board appears to have sobered up. You know how it is. You get drunk, you black out, and you wake up in the morning with Leo Apotheker as your CEO. OMG! Well, it seems HP has sobered up, and now, they’re kicking Apotheker out and bringing in former eBay CEO Meg Whitman to be [...]

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Some people are still in denial. They think that Steve Jobs retiring as Apple’s CEO won’t change Apple much. I beg to differ. I think it changes everything. Further, I think it changes far, far more than just Apple’s role in the world. You don’t replace a Steve Jobs easily. Actually, you can’t replace him [...]

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