Test Flights Into the Google Cloud (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Brad Stone / New York Times:Test Flights Into the Google Cloud  —  JORDON WING is a devoted user of Google products like Gmail, the Chrome browser and Google Docs, the Web-based word processing program.  —  A few weeks ago, Mr. Wing, a high school student from Spokane, Wash., took another Google product out for a [...]


Wal-Mart Is Said to Be Buying Vudu Movie Service (Brad Stone/New York Times)

Brad Stone / New York Times:Wal-Mart Is Said to Be Buying Vudu Movie Service  —  SAN FRANCISCO — Wal-Mart is making a major move into the business of selling movies over the Internet.  —  The retail giant has agreed to buy Vudu, a three-year-old Silicon Valley startup whose online movie service is built …


Software patents are the problem not the answer (Brad Burnham/Union Square Ventures)

Brad Burnham / Union Square Ventures:Software patents are the problem not the answer  —  Nathan Myhrvold and I have exactly the same goal.  We’d both like to promote useful innovations that have a positive social impact.  But we have very different opinions about how to do it.  Nathan believes the patent system is the answer [...]