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Tuesday, January 8, 2008

CES: Dude, Where’s My Driverless Car?

So General Motors Chairman and CEO Rick Wagoner says the company expects to have driverless cars on the road by 2018.
Now, I know the autonomous Chevrolet Tahoe SUV that GM developed with Carnegie Mellon University (pictured above) did win the Urban Challenge competition held last fall by the U.S. Defense Department’s research agency. And I [...]

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Tuesday, September 4, 2007

Apple: Meet the Beatles?

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This Ought to Make for an Uncomfortable Moment at the APEC Summit

“A-Space,” the Central Intelligence Agency’s social network for agents and analysts, may have seemed a grand idea when it was first announced. A tool that would improve the sharing of information across the traditionally stove-piped intelligence community. A SpySpace.
Doesn’t seem so ingenious now, though. Not when a “View All Friends” command might reveal People’s [...]

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Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Defense Department Budget Also Calls for Nearly $11 billion in Geek Squad Support

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Monday, May 14, 2007

I Dunno, Maybe the Second Life Pentagon Wasn’t Such a Good Idea After All

What was it former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld once said? You go to war with the bandwidth you have, not the bandwidth you want? A Department of Defense policy that went into effect today bans military access worldwide to MySpace, YouTube, Photobucket and eight other popular Web sites because of the strain they place on its network.

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About John

John Paczkowski has been poking fun at the tech industry and the personalities that drive it since 1997. From 1999 to 2007, he wrote the award-winning tech news Web log Good Morning Silicon Valley for the San Jose Mercury News, Silicon Valley's daily newspaper.

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Ethics Statement

Here is a statement of my ethics and coverage policies. It is more than most of you want to know, but, in the age of suspicion of the media, I am laying it all out.

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