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I previously looked into the Top 100 Paid apps (henceforth known as the top-sellers) and found that their average price has been declining. In this post, I'll examine which iTunes categories? are p...

One of the most interesting DisasterTech projects I've been following is "Decisions for Heroes" led by developer and Irish Coast Guard volunteer Robin Blandford.
Decisions is like Basecamp for volu...

It appears that Sprint has stopped routing traffic (called "depeering") from Cogent as a result of some sort of legal dispute. Sprint customers cannot reach Cogent customers, and vice versa. The ef...

Yesterday, Andrew Sheppard pointed me at a desktop 3D printer for under $5000. That brought back some memories...
In the early 80s, I worked for Imagen, the company that made the first laser printe...

Check out this perception altering post on the Ponoko blog. It really puts the current state of 3D printers in context: they're now cheaper than laser printers were in 1985. It almost dares you to ...

Tele Atlas's October set of mapping data will include 55,000 updates that were made by Tomtom GPS customers. Tomtom only finished the acquisition of Tele Atlas in June. This the first time that we...

In my talks this year, I have been outlining some of the world's great problems, highlighting some of the things that are being done by technology innovators to solve them, and urging my listeners ...

Many of the keynote videos from last week's second Web 2.0 Expo Europe are available. The highlight for me was definitely Tim's conversation with Martin Varsavsky, the CEO of Fon. He discussed his...

This morning at Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference, the Windows Live ID team announced that Windows Live ID will support OpenID 2.0 with a Community Technology Preview today and product...

Nick Carr's difficulty in understanding my argument that cloud computing is likely to end up a low-margin business unless companies find some way to harness the network effects that are the heart o...