"Everything affects everything else in one way or another. Whether you are aware of that or not does not change the fact that this is what is happening.”
-John Woods

Networks and end-systems alike are built on technologies that have improved at Moore’s Law rates for
three decades. In the articles below, HighTech Forum contributors strive to stay ahead of the technology curve, or at least abreast of it, discussing emerging systems and technologies that shape the systems that networks enable as well as the improvements in networks themselves. Which technology and communications innovations are likely to succeed, and which will go the way of the Betamax?

The Evolution of the WinTel PC to be Revealed

The next evolution of the Personal Computer (PC) running Windows and Intel Architecture (WinTel) will likely be shown this week at Microsoft’s “Build” conference for software developers.  If reports are [...]

The Steve Jobs Story

You may have noticed that Steve Jobs stepped down as Apple’s official CEO last week. There’s been an awful lot written about the man and his contributions to the tech [...]

Stranger than Fiction

Jean Louis Gassée is one of the more intriguing former Apple managers. During Steve Jobs’ exile in the 1980s, Gassée served as head of Macintosh development, Steve’s old job. John [...]

Apple’s Secret Sauce

Why is Apple able to create totally new platforms for computing and networking year after year while other high tech companies are more like one-trick ponies? Part of the answer [...]

This is what your desktop may look like in a few years

Linux Kernel Improvements

Code bloat is prominent in the dark side of software that’s successful over the long term; every application that we use becomes more feature-rich and in some sense larger and [...]

Jailbreak Freedom Not All That

The Library of Congress’ rule on jailbreaks isn’t as big a deal as many people think, according to Jonathan Zittrain: He says the DMCA exemption is a key, symbolic victory [...]