FairWinds based its analysis on 1,058 domain names for companies on the Global 500 and Fortune 500 lists. Of the companies…
Among the many projects researchers at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center (PARC), most revolved around documents and printing, probably not surprisingly. But it makes clear that a paper-free office is a tragic dystopia in the copier company's eyes. [VentureBeat]
By 2010, Asians will account for 90 percent of the world's engineers. Americans are increasingly too lazy to bother to get computer-science degrees. Yet the U.S. government refuses to raise the cap on H-1Bs, the visas which allow foreign engineers to work at American companies. "It's moronic," Sun Microsystems CEO…
Behold the best tech ad in Super Bowl history: Apple's "1984" ad, which cost $1.6 million to make and run, and only aired nationally once. The following nine ads, while perhaps not as iconic, are all fascinating in how they seek to make the mysteries of tech compelling to the masses.
Xerox is synonymous with copiers. But it urgently wants you to forget all that — and, as well, its brief, pointless stint as a "document management company." It has now joined hundreds of young, hip Internet companies with 3D glassy ball logos. Xerox hired Interbrand to spend 18 months conducting 5,000 interviews to…
[Xerox hardware designer Chuck] Thacker revealed the real origins of the term [WYSIWYG]. He said it was coined by his wife, Karen, who upon seeing an Alto running Bravo, turned to him and said, "You mean, what I see is what I get?" Mrs. Thacker is a true technophobe, he said in a phone interview Thursday, one who…
