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By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 14, 2007
Museum sees him as GPS pioneer; he hopes patent suit judge agrees
Boston inventor Robert Tendler is being recognized by the Smithsonian Institution for his ground-breaking work with global positioning technology. He hopes a federal court in Texas will recognize it, too. (Page C10, 563 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Apr 14, 2007
Local Net firm aims to match families with tutors, sitters
A new company in Waltham hopes to make the Internet the safest place to find a babysitter or a tutor for the kids. (Page B6, 490 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 5, 2007
Let the games begin
What will millions of poor children do with cheap laptop computers? Play games, of course. But not just any games. (Page C10, 717 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 9, 2007
Dell to bolster Microsoft, Novell alliance
The controversial alliance between Microsoft Corp. and Linux software vendor Novell Inc. has a new member: computer maker Dell Inc. (Page E1, 595 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 7, 2007
Massachusetts' robot invasion
If the robots ever do rebel against their human masters, the trouble is likely to start somewhere in Massachusetts. (Page D1, 1013 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 14, 2007
Mix of new tools helps fight online predators
According to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children, one of every seven children between 10 and 17 has been solicited for sex on the Internet. It's the kind of statistic that can frighten parents into pulling the plug. (Page D9, 1003 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 26, 2007
Translating type for a digital age
Despite its small size, Bitstream Inc. of Cambridge has made a big name for itself in the digital text business. Bitstream's font products generate many of the typefaces you see on your computer screen, television, or cell phone. If you work with WebEx Internet conferencing software, or used the onscreen program guide in Comcast's digital cable television service, then you've ... (Page A40, 235 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 22, 2007
PC World editor quits after Apple story killed
The editor-in-chief of PC World, a major computer magazine owned by International Data Group of Boston , has resigned in a dispute over the publication of an article that criticizes Apple Inc. (Page C3, 285 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 4, 2007
A digital son of Polaroid
The rise of digital photography spelled doom for the old-fashioned instant film cameras from Polaroid Corp. But now a team of Polaroid veterans plans to make digital cameras more like classic Polaroids, with a device that fits in a shirt pocket and prints digital snapshots in seconds, without using ink. (Page C1, 809 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jan 30, 2007
How Lotus changed the business world
On Saturday, Mitch Kapor and about 650 of his friends and former colleagues will get together in Cambridge to celebrate changing the business world. (Page C1, 1015 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: May 11, 2007
EMC to sell 10% of Calif. software business in IPO
EMC Corp. of Hopkinton plans to turn virtual software into real cash. The company will sell 10 percent of its California software subsidiary VMware Inc. in an initial public offering this year. VMware dominates the field of virtualization software -- programs that let a single computer do the work of several machines. (Page E3, 440 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 8, 2007
HD radio pumps up volume
Over 600 new radio stations have come to America's airwaves in the past three years -- and you probably haven't noticed. (Page C1, 857 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Mar 30, 2007
Record industry cracks down on illegal file swaps
The Recording Industry Association of America has opened one of its biggest assaults yet on illegal file-swapping with warning letters to 13 colleges, including the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, asking them to identify on-campus file-swappers who the industry intends to pursue for copyright violations.By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Mar 7, 2007
Marlborough-based 3Com prepares for comeback
MARLBOROUGH -- In the glory days of the late 1990s, 3Com Corp. built itself a little city on a hill. The company's 125-acre Marlborough site was the East Coast outpost of a California firm that aimed for world domination of digital networking and communications. (Page D1, 938 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Apr 19, 2007
SEC, ex-SpeechWorks pair settle suit
The Securities and Exchange Commission has reached a settlement with two former employees of SpeechWorks International Inc. over claims they used faulty accounting practices to mislead investors. But a third former SpeechWorks employee plans to fight the charges in court. (Page B4, 377 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 23, 2007
When it comes to rewards, Xboxers know score
On Microsoft's Xbox Live online gaming network, my name's Bremery -- not that anybody cares. Here's what really matters. My Xbox Live "gamerscore" is 650. Pitiful. Maybe if I spent less time playing PC games -- like the marvelous new strategy title Supreme Commander -- and more time on my Xbox 360, I might amount to something. (Page D1, 772 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Mar 17, 2007
Not only cool, but very likely groundbreaking
After the relentless buildup of the past six months, the temptation to trash Apple Inc.'s new iPhone is pretty much irresistible. (Page B5, 464 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jun 30, 2007
FCC rule requires all new TVs to be digital
Americans who don't know the difference between high-definition television and digital television are about to learn, thanks to a federal mandate that kicks in this week. (Page D9, 526 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 26, 2007
State will keep Office after Microsoft makes change in software
The state of Massachusetts says a new document format from Microsoft Corp. meets revised state standards, ensuring that state agencies can keep using Microsoft's popular Office software suite. (Page C3, 436 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 3, 2007
3Com founder takes the reins at GreenFuel
Robert Metcalfe, a founder of 3Com Corp. and the engineer who led the development of Ethernet computer networking technology, is taking the helm at a Cambridge start-up that seeks to replace imported oil with home-grown algae. (Page C3, 426 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jul 4, 2007
Online dating and the economics of love
As Valentine's Day arrives, the online dating business is in the midst of an extreme makeover.By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 13, 2007
Cambridge considers nanotech curbs
The Cambridge City Council is considering a law to regulate the use of super-small nanoparticles in research and manufacturing. If the council decides to act, it will make Cambridge the second city in the United States, after Berkeley, Calif., to regulate nanotechnology. (Page C1, 784 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Jan 26, 2007
EMC to expand Irish operations
EMC Corp.'s booming VMware subsidiary plans to beef up its European operations by adding about 369 workers to its technical support call center in Ireland. (Page C3, 465 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Feb 23, 2007
EMC chief got $20m pay deal
EMC Corp. chief executive Joseph Tucci's 2006 pay package cost his company $20.2 million in salary, bonus, and company stock, compared to $29.8 million in 2005, according to a proxy statement filed with federal regulators yesterday. (Page D1, 489 words)By: Hiawatha Bray|Date: Mar 28, 2007
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