Author name: Dennis Kneale

http://bit.ly/1JeHfxL Who’s the bigger snoop–government or Google?  On my panel at the Milken Global Forum, ACLU’s President, an Intel privacy veep, an anti-hacker and a computer scientist debate that question and hold forth on what may already be a moribund idea: the notion that anything we do or say can remain private in a digital […]

For decades data storage has been a control freak’s dream: Data are “structured” and consistent, dutifully tucked away in disk-based systems that are prodigious in capacity but cantankerous and inflexible, unable to expand or shrink as data flows dictate. Now comes a data deluge that will make control freaks… freak. A new wave of “unstructured”

In the annals of innovation, inspiration can emerge from frustration.  For David Barrett, it came a few years ago after the “scarring experience” of a clash with vexing, outdated back-office software. He had just joined Akami after it acquired a startup he had formed with Uber co-founder Travis Kalanick, and Barrett had to use an

Nicholas Negroponte became famous as a futurist with his book “Being Digital,” published in 1995. A few years later, a cub reporter at The Wall Street Journal asked him what would be next for the Net. “Things,” Negroponte answered. “Things that think want to link.” Soon, he foretold, the Internet would link everything from household

Silicon Valley doesn’t really matter anymore.  A high-tech CEO posed that provocation to me recently, though he had founded his company in Europe and had just relocated it to the valley that made innovation famous. It was a move made mainly for appearances, the CEO maintained, for these days innovation happens everywhere, far beyond the