Doctorow cites the iPad's inability to share content, and its "infantilizing" hardware as ways in which the iPad will stifle innovation.
Integrating hardware in ways that only one company can manage might result in dangerous dependencies, he says.
We discussed AUTUMNX hardware and ways to effect low power reliable operation making near real time data available on the internet.
Hewlett-Packard's $18 billion write-off in 2012 was a repudiation of a decade of mistakes, including the 2011 takeover of Autonomy, a software firm, but also of Compaq, a rival hardware maker, way back in 2002.
Hewlett Packard's (HP) $18 billion write-off in 2012 was a repudiation of a decade of mistakes, including the 2011 takeover of Autonomy, a software firm, but also of Compaq, a rival hardware maker, way back in 2002.
"This is the first time in my career that the hardware is way ahead of the software," says William Miller, a partner at OVP Venture Partners in Kirkland, Wash.
Today, Microsoft is focused squarely on software (and some hardware by way of its very downsized phones business).
For those not in the loop, Bug Labs is targeting hardware the way Linux targets operating systems; making open-source, community-editable hardware that can be combined into pretty much anything you want it to be.
After applying the proposed approximation, we modified the original algorithm in a hardware-friendly way and made it possible to exploit data parallelism at implementation below.
Rather than take Apple's approach, creating new businesses in things like music and tablets, Ms. Whitman is trying to make hardware in new ways, with more features.
