Free! Why $0.00 Is the Future of Business

By Chris Anderson, Wired Magazine
At the age of 40, King Gillette was a frustrated inventor, a bitter anticapitalist, and a salesman of cork-lined bottle caps. It was 1895, and despite ideas, energy, and wealthy parents, he had little to show for his work. He blamed the evils of market competition. Indeed, the previous year he [...]

It’s easy being green

By Brian Won, Ars System
The color green
For years and years, computing was all about performance. Faster CPUs, better video cards, more RAM—all to make sure you had the biggest and baddest box on the block. Recently, we’ve seen a new trend, focused mainly on lower-energy, more efficient computing. The marketing buzz says that a green [...]

Offline Web Applications

By Erica Naone, Technology Review
Web-based computer programs, unlike their desktop counterparts, are always up to date and are instantly available, no matter where the user is or what operating system she’s running. That’s why cloud computing–so called because it involves software that resides in the “clouds” of the Internet–has caused a “tidal shift in how [...]

Better Than Free

By Kevin Kelly, The Third Culture
The internet is a copy machine. At its most foundational level, it copies every action, every character, every thought we make while [...]

Global games giant sets up shop

By Leung Wai-Leng, ST
Singapore’s nascent video game industry has scored its biggest coup to date, with one of the world’s largest computer game companies announcing plans this week to set up a development studio here. Ubisoft, which has made hit titles such as Assassin’s Creed and Tom Clancy’s Splinter Cell, said it will hire 300 [...]