News and articles about Tech

• Pictures - The evolution of Route 128

  15 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  
  Take a look at Route 128's history and get a glimpse of its possible future. We should see the last of the big blocks of vacant office and research space left over from the last recession gobbled up as the biotech and tech firms that line the corridor aggressively compete for new talent in 2012. But all those new commuters will generate new and even greater traffic headaches as the 1950s-vintage highway becomes increasing overloaded. Look for talk of ideas like “bus on shoulder’’ lanes and regional transit hubs gaining momentum in the next year.
  
  
  

• Apple CEO Tim Cook could top pay list in 2011

  10 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Tim Cook could well end up being the highest paid CEO in America in 2011, after Apple Inc. granted him a million restricted stock units last August for taking the reins shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died.
  
  
  

• Microsoft CEO hits familiar chord in CES swan song

  10 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer struck a familiar chord Monday in his swan song at the International Consumer Electronics Show.
  
  
  

• Cloud Computing: Business Transformation in the Cloud

  13 Jan, 2012, Huffington Post

  The IBM Smart Cloud is transforming industries as diverse as healthcare, energy, government, and filmmaking. These cloud computing case studies help to illustrate the tremendous...

• WATCH: New Facebook App Lets Users Compose Last Update Before They Die

  18 Jan, 2012, Huffington Post

  The deathbed is an inconvenient place to compose your last Facebook update. Frankly, at that point, you might have other priorities. However, a new application...

• DealBook: Yahoo Shakes Up Board

  08 Feb, 2012, New York Times

  Four long-serving directors will leave, and two new members have been named, following the resignation of the co-founder Jerry Yang.
  
  

• Verizon Outs Morotola Droid 4: See The Features

  10 Jan, 2012, Huffington Post

  Verizon on Monday took the Motorola Droid 4 smartphone off the leash ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. This fourth-generation Droid smartphone...

• Apple confirms it bought Israel-based Anobit

  11 Jan, 2012, Boston Globe

  Apple is confirming it has bought Anobit Technologies, an Israeli maker of flash memory technology already used in many of its gadgets.
  
  
  

• Archives detail Apple origins

  31 Dec, 2011, Boston Globe

  Stanford’s Apple Collection, the largest assembly of Apple Co. historical materials, can help historians, entrepreneurs and policymakers understand how a startup launched in a Silicon Valley garage became a global technology giant. “Through this one collection you can trace out the evolution of the personal computer,’’ said Stanford historian Leslie Berlin. “These sorts of documents are as close as you get to the unmediated story of what really happened.’’ The collection is stored in hundreds of boxes taking up more than 600 feet of shelf space at the Stanford’s off-campus storage facility.
  
  
  

• Report says Apple to unveil new iPad in March

  10 Feb, 2012, Boston Globe

  A news report says Apple plans to unveil a new iPad early next month. AllThingsD, a website affiliated with The Wall Street Journal, says Apple Inc. is holding an event in San Francisco the first week of March -- the same week Apple announced the iPad 2 last year.