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The Beauty of Bridges : The bridge is among our most ancient technologies. The moment some distant ancestor thought to place a log where he (or she) wanted to cross the stream, and not where the logs happen to have fallen, the bridge was born. A bridge inspires us. A bridge overcomes an obstacle and connects Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Beauty of Bridges : The bridge is among our most ancient technologies. The moment some distant ancestor thought to place a log where he (or she) wanted to cross the stream, and not where the logs happen to have fallen, the bridge was born. A bridge inspires us. A bridge overcomes an obstacle and connects Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Godfather of Bangalore It's a little past midnight, and a lonely parcel of farmland not far from the new international airport in Bangalore, India, is soaking up a gentle rain. At the center of the lot is a house surrounded by a low stone wall. There's a hole in the roof and a bushel of ginger drying under an awnin Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Meet Leland Chee, the Star Wars Franchise Continuity Cop On the wall behind Leland Chee's desk is a portrait of an Ithorian, an alien with a hammer-shaped head that you glimpse briefly in the famous Star Wars cantina scene. In its leathery, foot-long fingers, the Ithorian holds a cube decorated with elaborate metallic tracings, a device known as a Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The World According to Carly Fiorina News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Memo to Jerry Yang: Call Ballmer and Take the $33-a-Share Blow the Whistle, Fade Into Obscurity The Chemistry in Chemicals Subscribe to Portfolio magazine As chief executive of H Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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The World According to Carly Fiorina News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Memo to Jerry Yang: Call Ballmer and Take the $33-a-Share Blow the Whistle, Fade Into Obscurity The Chemistry in Chemicals Subscribe to Portfolio magazine As chief executive of H Home > Rss Directory > Business > Wired News |
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The World According to Carly Fiorina News from Portfolio.com Also on Portfolio Memo to Jerry Yang: Call Ballmer and Take the $33-a-Share Blow the Whistle, Fade Into Obscurity The Chemistry in Chemicals Subscribe to Portfolio magazine As chief executive of H Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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WarGames: A Look Back at the Film That Turned Geeks and Phreaks Into Stars It was the year Ronald Reagan called the Soviet Union an "evil empire"; the year the United Nations implored the Russians to withdraw from Afghanistan; the year ABC aired The Day After, a TV movie about the wake of a nuclear attack on the US. In the midst of all this came WarGames, a fizzy li Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within I really want to nuke Athens. I know it's possible. Hell, I've watched and rewatched the YouTube videos of the 14-year-olds who've done it in Sid Meier's new game, Civilization Revolution. The guttural roar of the ICBM taking off, the flare of the missile as it arcs slowly across Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Games Without Frontiers: Games Give Free Rein to the Douchebag Within I really want to nuke Athens. I know it's possible. Hell, I've watched and rewatched the YouTube videos of the 14-year-olds who've done it in Sid Meier's new game, Civilization Revolution. The guttural roar of the ICBM taking off, the flare of the missile as it arcs slowly across Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Driven: Shai Agassi's Audacious Plan to Put Electric Cars on the Road Agassi will sell his battery-powered cars cheap and make money off drivers' electricity purchases. Photo: Joe Pugliese The problem, he decided, was oil-consuming, CO2-spewing cars. The solution was to get rid of them. Not just some, and not just by substituting hy Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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The Industry Standard taps crowd wisdom Are crowds really wise? A growing number of businesses are betting they are. The latest venture is a new incarnation of The Industry Standard, the poster child for the rise ? and precipitous fall ? of the dot-com boom. Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > General > Wired News |
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Gear Gallery: New Motorola Slider, Mobile TV and the Ultimate Gadget Watch : The Z9 effortlessly satisfies the standard phone user, and pleases the rest of us with a couple extra perks. You get your e-mail and IM; you can listen to music from the microSD card or buy some more. Calls are above-average quality (trust us, we've been shouting into an iPhone for the last yea Home > Rss Directory > Technology > Wired News |
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Surviving the tech manager's global squeeze It's the new reality of IT: working as part of a global team, with coworker and outsourcers all over the world, coordinated by a project manager at headquarters. But that reality can be ugly, as managers are stretched across time zones, with no such thing as being off Home > Rss Directory > Technology > InfoWorld |