8 posts and columns on Superman

Nvidia’s Jen-Hsun Huang on Superman Quad-Core Chip, Microsoft and Apple: The Full AsiaD Interview (Video)

in AsiaD on November 22, 2011 at 12:12 pm PT

Look, up in the sky, it’s a processor that can leap tall tablets in a single bound.
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“Superman” by Walter Isaacson (Comic)

in Voices on November 14, 2011 at 4:20 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.
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Superman vs. Google+ (Comic)

in Voices on August 31, 2011 at 4:59 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. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

News Byte

Gates Foundation Offers $20 Million in Education Tech Grants

in News on October 11, 2010 at 12:05 pm PT

Bill Gates may not be the Superman everyone’s waiting for, but he regularly uses what powers he has in the service of education. In the latest episode, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation announced today it will put up as much as $20 million in funding for projects responding to the first in a series of Next Generation Learning Challenges. This set of grants will focus on supporting new technology that leverages online learning and interactivity to improve college readiness and graduation rates in the U.S. New sets of challenges will be issued every 6-12 months.

Teeny-Tiny Pixi Phone From Palm Tries Killing Giant Hype for Apple Event Today

in News on September 9, 2009 at 1:53 am PT

Oh, BoomTown fears this is not going to end well for the weensy little smart phone Palm is debuting today on–what an amazing coincidence!–the very same day Apple is throwing its big product bash in San Francisco, at which Mac fanboys fervently hope that Supreme Leader Steve Jobs might even appear. You don’t step on Superman of Silicon Valley’s cape, of course, but the device with the aggressively cute name of Pixi is apparently attempting just that. Thus, this fairytale might have a not-so-happy ending.
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Can an Old Superman Sell Microsoft’s New Browser?

in Media on June 11, 2009 at 3:00 am PT

Microsoft is throwing a ton of money into an ad campaign for its Bing search engine, hoping to claw back some share from Google. But I don’t think it’s sinking quite as much into the new ads it’s running for its newish version of Internet Explorer.
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Apple Wrecks Superman's Life

in News on February 13, 2009 at 2:24 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. (Click on the image to see a bigger version.)

Here's the Google Chrome Browser Comic Book: Hey Microsoft, Kaa-POW!!!

in News on September 1, 2008 at 12:05 pm PT

Here is Google’s entire comic book–BoomTown’s not going to say the search giant is juvenile, but a comic book?–that it is using to explain the technical details of its new browser called Chrome. Sources told me definitively Google will launch the browser–which is its most blatant attack on Microsoft yet–as early as tomorrow for download by consumers.