Internet

Cisco Fellow Bruce Davie Joins Stealth Start-Up Nicira

Arik Hesseldahl in News on January 27 at 5:56 am PT

All these hires are making the secretive networking start-up look ever more interesting by the day.

LG: 55-Inch Glasses-Free 3-D Screen Is on the Way

Lauren Goode in News on January 9 at 12:03 pm PT

At CES, some electronics makers are now teasing big-screen, glasses-free 3-D — sooner rather than later, LG says.

At CES 2012, 3-D Is Riding Shotgun to “Smart” TVs

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 6 at 10:48 am PT

3-D isn’t going away — it’s becoming just another check-off feature, as TV sets get “smarter.”

The Internet Isn’t Fun Anymore (Comic)

Nitrozac and Snaggy in Voices on January 4 at 2:59 pm PT

Here is the latest comic from our Joy of Tech friends at Geek Culture, Nitrozac and Snaggy. Joy of Tech appears three times a week in the Voices section of this site.

Roku to Launch Cordless Streaming Stick for TVs

Lauren Goode in Commerce on January 4 at 6:59 am PT

Roku, maker of set-top boxes that stream media like Netflix and Angry Birds to TVs, is hoping its new Streaming Stick will offer all the bells and whistles of “smart” TV sets.

States Cleared for Online Bets

Alexandra Berzon, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in Voices on December 27, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Some state lotteries are likely to take steps toward online gambling after a new opinion by the Justice Department that gives states a green light.

Copiers vs. Innovators

What’s happening is that we might, in fact, be at a time in our history where we’re being domesticated by these great big societal things, such as Facebook and the Internet. We’re being domesticated by them, because fewer and fewer and fewer of us have to be innovators to get by. And so, in the cold calculus of evolution by natural selection, at no greater time in history than ever before, copiers are probably doing better than innovators. Because innovation is extraordinarily hard.

– Mark Pagel, fellow of the Royal Society and professor of evolutionary biology, in conversation with Edge.org

An Open Letter From Internet Engineers to the U.S. Congress

The US government has regularly claimed that it supports a free and open Internet, both domestically and abroad. We cannot have a free and open Internet unless its naming and routing systems sit above the political concerns and objectives of any one government or industry.

– From an open letter to Congress signed by 83 Internet engineers expressing their opposition to SOPA and PIPA

Bill Aims to Curb Tech Firms’ Exports

Steve Stecklow, Reporter, The Wall Street Journal in News on December 9, 2011 at 5:00 am PT

Pressure mounted Thursday on U.S. and Western companies that sell censorship and surveillance technology to repressive regimes, with a congressman introducing a bill that would restrict such exports.