Motorola's handset division badly needs some ray of light to eke into its darkest hour -- and employees might just see that today. The company hired well-regarded Sanjay Jha, who had been Qualcomm's chief operating officer, to be the company's co-CEO with current CEO Greg Brown. Yes, it's...
It was going to be way too hard to write my final USA TODAY column after 22 years here. So I cooked up a way to get the very people I've been writing about all these years to do this last column for me. I sent...
Sometimes, it's worth pausing to appreciate how vastly things have changed in technology since 10 or 15 years ago. The other day, I started pulling out my columns from the 1990s. I've been writing weekly columns about tech for USA TODAY since 1991. This week's and next week's...
Want to buy one of the most innovative, power-efficient, inexpensive laptops made today? You can't. Right now, they're only for poor kids in developing countries. Which is all very nice, in a warm, corporate-philanthropy kind of way. A number of tech companies -- including Intel, AMD,...
Today, IBM's Fran Allen becomes the first woman to win the most prestigious prize in computing, the A.M. Turing Award. And tomorrow? Well, Thursday is officially Introduce a Girl to Engineering Day. Together, these items add up to a pretty sad statement: Technology companies have failed colossally at...
Q: You're talking about making investments that are not going to pay off for 10 or 15 years. How do you make the decision to invest in something that's that far out and that expensive? A: You can't delegate. Yes, the technical work and a lot...
Q: Corning is 156 years old, and it completely dominates this small town in Upstate New York. You're the CEO. You go to the grocery store and everybody knows who you are. What's that like? A: Being in the small town constantly reminds you the consequences of your...
Q: What were your circumstances growing up? A: My family had come from outside of Scranton, Pa., and that's where I grew up. Neither of my parents went to college. So, for me, very early on, I knew the value of education. And at times the family was...
Q: How did you end up running Corning's fiber-optic business during the telecom boom? A: I got a call that they wanted me to go to work in optical fiber, and I had absolutely no interest whatsoever in doing that. So I turned that job down as I...
Q: After the telecom bust, Corning lost half its revenue and most of its market capitalization. How did you even think about a problem that profound? A: You can't be wed to whether you were right or wrong before. You have to make a decision for the whole...
Correction ran 2/15/2007: An Apple iPod music player was incorrectly identified in a photo caption Wednesday. The online digital music business stinks. ITunes, Rhapsody, Zune Store, Napster -- you name it. They're all failures. The hype has people believing otherwise. Bloggers, tech writers and...
Michael Dell believes his company's problem is bureaucracy? Yikes. That's like Iraq thinking its problem is a lack of tourists. Last week, Michael reclaimed the CEO title at the personal computer company he founded, Dell. (To everyone at Dell, Michael is known just by his first...
Apple CEO Steve Jobs is trying to start a stampede to make music downloaded from iTunes or any online store playable on any device without restrictions. In a major pronouncement that joins a growing chorus of discontent about copy restrictions, Jobs on Tuesday posted a manifesto, "Thoughts on...
SAN FRANCISCO -- Philip Rosedale didn't create Second Life to be a game or a toy. He thinks he is remaking the Internet -- taking it on a giant leap forward, much like the invention of the Mosaic browser or World Wide Web. "What would feel like success?"...
Maybe U.S. consumers need another Carterfone to bust open the cellphone industry. No, this is not referring to some hotline on Jimmy Carter's White House desk. ("Mr. President, Brezhnev's on the Carterfone yet again. Something about Prince Albert in a can.") The landmark 1968 Carterfone Decision...
LAS VEGAS -- It feels perverse to meet amid the spectacle of 108-inch TV screens, automatic scalp massagers and cars with 20,000-watt stereos and talk about the digital divide. It's like ordering a seven-course spread at Spago and then discussing world hunger. But for at least two of the CEOs...
After becoming affiliated with the New Orleans Zephyrs last year, the New York Mets were supposed to present a $20,000 check today for playground enhancements in Orleans and Jefferson parishes. But due to inclement weather preventing Mets members from coming to New Orleans, the check presentation has...
LAS VEGAS -- Hey, what happened to the celebrities? The rock concerts? The parties that rivaled Roman bacchanals, right down to the waitresses in togas? I'm here at the Consumer Electronics Show, and it seems so much more sober this time. Last year by now I'd spotted Tom Cruise and...
LAS VEGAS -- The giant Consumer Electronics Show has always been about bragging rights: Who has the slickest computers, most-miniature camera and most awe-inspiring gizmos and gadgets. No surprise, the biggest crowds Monday at the annual industry confab surrounded amazing, high-definition TVs on display at booth after booth. Sharp crowed...
The "company," as we've known it for almost a century, is about to go the way of vinyl albums, floppy disks and perked coffee. It is about to get wikified. Or starfished. Or cracked open like a beehive hit with a baseball bat. Depending on whom you ask. Three new...
Articles 2006-12-27
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