November 25, 2008 Microsoft has been touting its "software plus services" strategy for some time, but if you want see some of the most creative thinking about how to meld cloud services with traditional PC software you'd do well to look not at Microsoft but at Mathematica. Wolfram Research, which makes Mathemetica, a heavy-duty and widely used program for computation and modeling, announced last w

November 24, 2008 Where did the pixels go? Not so long ago, you couldn't look at type on a computer without seeing the ghost of the screen's pixel grid behind it. But as screen resolutions have improved (thank you, Moore's Law), pixels have become at once far more plentiful and far less visible. Indeed, the pixel has all but disappeared. Look hard at what you're reading: Can you see one? Jason Kot

November 07, 2008 Blogging seems to have entered its midlife crisis, with much existential gnashing-of-teeth about the state and fate of a literary form that once seemed new and fresh and now seems familiar and tired. And there's good reason for the teeth-gnashing. While there continue to be many blogs, including a lot of very good ones, it seems to me that one would be hard pressed to make the ca