Nintendo’s tablet-esque Wii U controller raised a few questions when it was announced at E3. Questions like, “What kind of crazy games are going to use that thing,” and “How much will a second controller cost me?” The latter, at least, has been answered… Tweet This Post

In one of his most candid interviews ever, Microsoft founder Bill Gates (the world’s second-richest man) revealed personal details never heard before, along with a little tidbit that he was probably supposed to keep secret… Tweet This Post

Microsoft asked us to drop by at E3 to chat up a generically identified “Xbox executive,” imagine our surprise when we found Kudo Tsunoda hiding behind door number six. Wearing his signature shades, Kudo gave us a brief primer on what makes Kinect great, or at least a heavy endorsement of Kinect Fun Labs… Tweet [...]

We don’t envy AT&T Mobility CEO Ralph de la Vega’s job one bit, nor the amount of time he spends on the hotseat. We do, however, admire his willingness to open his mouth and reveal interesting tidbits… Tweet This Post

Think about all the websites you visit each day. Think about all the blog posts and articles you read, all the videos you watch and the pictures you view. Now think about how you find all that stuff. Some of it is probably recommended by friends, some of it you find directly by visiting sites [...]

A central figure in the famous Wikileaks/Manning “cablegate” case from last year is Adrian Lamo, the “homeless hacker” who ratted out Manning to the feds and led to the latter’s imprisonment. I first met Lamo about ten years ago, when he surprisingly took me up on an offer to spend the night in my New [...]

Judy Estrin is a serial entrepreneur, having started seven tech companies since 1981. She was the former CTO of Cisco Systems from 1998-2000, and is on the boards of Disney and Packet Design and was a board member at Sun and FedEx for many years… Tweet This Post

First the ASUS Padfone, then the CMIT TransPhone, and now a third phone-docking tablet but with a little extra spice. Our latest contender comes from a Taiwan-based startup dubbed ICE Computer, who has just announced its partnership with ECS over its Trinity concept, a mobile display that lets you dock either a PC module or [...]

In 2010, Google estimated the number of unique books published in the whole of recorded history at just under 130 million. Josh Koppel, the founder of New York’s ScrollMotion, would love for every one of those volumes to be republished on the new digital platforms made possible by the iPad and other tablets… Tweet This [...]

The aftermath of Microsoft’s announcement that it’ll buy Skype for $8.5 billion was filled with speculation about why the price was so high, who Microsoft was bidding against, and who inside Redmond was the driving force behind such a large expenditure… Tweet This Post

Having recently published his autobiography, “Idea Man,” co-founder of Microsoft and billionaire Paul Allen sat down with Leslie Stahl in an interview aired last night on 60 minutes. In the interview — as in the memoir — the 58-year-old billionaire attempted to tell his side of the story of the founding of Microsoft, perhaps still [...]

Paul Allen doesn’t give many interviews, but Microsoft’s famously eclectic co-founder recently decided to sit down with 60 Minutes’ Lesley Stahl, to discuss his juicy new memoir, The Idea Man. It’s a book peppered with old stories of Allen’s early days as a programmer, when he and Bill Gates would spend their days searching for [...]