Despite the advantages and growing popularity of smartphones, there remain compelling reasons to have and use a digital camera. The Merc’s Troy Wolverton writes that he uses both his iPhone and a standalone camera for his photography needs.
Larry Magid writes: Facebook’s new Graph Search is making it possible for us to analyze that little piece of big data that constitutes our own social graph — the people who populate our lives.
Facebook has agreed to pay Menlo Park $1.5 million over the next 10 years as part of a deal to expand into a ‘West Campus’ across the Bayfront Expressway from its headquarters.
Mike Cassidy writes: I had never been a robot before, so I thought I’d give it a try. The idea came from Robert de Neve, the CEO of a Santa Clara company that provides many manufacturing services for companies, including robots to help them keep tabs on global suppliers. If I couldn’t find the time to come take a tour of E Systems Technology, he said, why not stay put and tour the place via telepresence robot?
Samsung Semiconductor’s plans to expand the company’s north San Jose research and development site, which Gov. Jerry Brown announced in August at City Hall, are taking shape with submitted designs depicting a cube-like building with open, plant-filled floors and extensive greenery around the campus.
At The Intersection, a conference held Saturday at Google headquarters for innovators from Silicon Valley and the greater tech archipelago, the big social issues of our time were met head-on for a day, discussed and, whenever possible, resolved in time for dinner.
Besides reacting poorly to Intel’s recent drop in profit and tepid sales outlook for 2013, some Wall Street analysts Friday were deeply troubled by the company’s plan to spend about $13 billion on its chip manufacturing operations this year.
Attempting to avoid a second consecutive earnings report embarrassment, search giant Google told Wall Street in a Friday blog post that analysts were expecting too much revenue in the final three months of 2012 because of the company’s sale of its Motorola Home unit. Google reports earnings Tuesday.
Mercury News interview: Leander Kahney, editor and publisher of the Cult of Mac, one of the more popular of the many blogs focused on Apple products.
Apple has posted a job listing for a creative writer who can help “enrich” the personality of Siri, its popular virtual personal assistant.
Despite recurring reports that his board has been looking for a buyer, the new CEO at Brocade Communications Systems said Friday that he’ll pursue a software-based strategy to challenge networking giant Cisco Systems and other commercial tech rivals.
Former San Jose State University football player Kariem McFarlin was sentenced this week to seven years in state prison for burglarizing several Bay Area homes, including one that belonged to the late Apple cofounder Steve Jobs.
The Bay Area economy in 2012 powered to its strongest job performance since the dot-com boom, a state government report showed Friday, a clear indication that the region has emerged from the Great Recession.
Mineta San Jose and Oakland international airports on Friday said they will soon be removing the Bay Area’s last remaining scanners that allow security agents to peek under your clothes. By June, they’ll be replaced by similar scanners that provide only a generic stick-figurelike outline, or avatar, along with a picture of any items that you may be stowing away under your clothes.
