Akamai’s New CEO Aims to Speed Up Mobile Computing
Co-founder—and now CEO—Tom Leighton plans data-prioritization trials with Ericsson and massive use of distributed devices for transmitting video.
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Obama's Data Techniques Will Rule Future Elections
Part 3: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters.
How Obama Wrangled Data to Win His Second Term
Part 2: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters.
How Obama Used Big Data to Rally Voters, Part 1
Part 1: How President Obama’s campaign used big data to rally individual voters.
Why China’s Homemade Microchips Will Struggle to Displace Western Giants
Loongson is making steady progress toward a viable microprocessor, but its chosen architecture could keep it from supplanting its rivals.
New Chromebook: Getting Better, but Its Internet Dependence Is Limiting
Google’s browser-based operating system is still shaky when offline, but Samsung’s Chromebook, priced at just $249, is a decent cheap laptop.
Amazon Is Undermining the E-Reader Market It Created
Sales of dedicated e-readers like Amazon’s Kindle are falling now that people are buying all-purpose tablets like the Kindle Fire instead.
New Quad-Core Mobile Chip Will Mean Cheaper High-End Smartphones
Combining components on a single chip lowers the cost of manufacturing.
Sliding Images Fool Spambots Without Driving You Mad
Startup Minteye says its sliding, image-based Captcha is simpler to use and a potential money maker.
The iPhone Gets an Answer to Google Now
Siri gets some competition from an app that offers answers to search queries you haven’t even made yet.
