Aug 15, 2011

Over the past eight months, companies like Sony, along with the web server/sites of the U.S. Senate, CIA, and FBI, have all experienced major security breaches as a result of hackers. The motives behind these attacks vary, but many are said to be political or in an effort to expose a security flaw. Regardless of the reason, in each case innocent customers are...

Aug 10, 2011

Software patents are kind of like the government issuing a fiction writer the exclusive right to kill characters so as to evoke emotion.

Aug 9, 2011

Whether you know it or not, patents on scientific discoveries and technological innovation effect your life in all kinds of tiny and insidious ways.

Aug 4, 2011

When I moved from Atlanta to Chicago about a year ago to start my own company and explore a new city, attending the inaugural midVenturesLaunch was my first exposure to the local startup technology scene. The event, highlighted by Brad Keywell’s keynote, was an affirmation that I was in good company helping Chicago transform from a flyover afterthought...

Aug 2, 2011

I downloaded OS Lion on the day it was released. I watched my friends post on Facebook about its beauty, cleanliness, and on and on like this for about two hours while it was downloading. I read some ecstatic tweets and rather obsequious reviews on Lion’s App Store page. I was expecting greatness, some life-changing-ly awesome desktop operating system from the...

Jul 30, 2011

I recently read an article titled, “Technology is the New Smoking”. As in, the new socially acceptable addiction most likely to interrupt your conversation repeatedly throughout an evening, especially now that most municipalities consider tobacco to be passé. That technology has collectively become an addiction is not really in dispute. A global...