Bill Atkinson, who made computers easier to use, dies at 74Atkinson is credited with inventing many of the key aspects of graphical computing, such as "pull-down" menus and the "double-click" gestur...
08 Jun, 2025, 12.09 PM IST
Computing networking pioneer Metcalfe wins top industry prizeThe Association for Computing Machinery credited Metcalfe, 76, with the Ethernet's "invention, standardization, and commercialization" in c...
22 Mar, 2023, 04.44 PM IST
Founder of Adobe and developer of PDFs Charles Geschke dies at age 81"This is a huge loss for the entire Adobe community and the technology industry, for whom he has been a guide and hero for decades," Adobe ...
18 Apr, 2021, 08.27 AM IST
Obit: A look back at the life of Larry Tesler, the man who created most indispensable shortcut for keyboard warriorsTesler was born in New York in 1945.
20 Feb, 2020, 05.03 PM IST
Silicon Valley inventor of 'cut, copy and paste' diesBronx-born Lawrence "Larry" Tesler, a pioneering computer scientist whose accomplishments included inventing the widely relied on "cut, cop...
20 Feb, 2020, 09.49 AM IST
Love in the age of digital transformation: What a Xerox-HP merger tells us about the printing industryFounded in 1939 by two Stanford graduates at a garage in Palo Alto, HP Inc. was once the envy of Silicon Valley.
22 Nov, 2019, 12.37 PM IST
Infosys Labs being modelled on the lines of legendary Xerox PARC and Bell LabsThe move is a part of a strategy that comes weeks after the organisational reshuffle that resulted in the wing being realigned to the compa...
08 Apr, 2015, 01.35 AM IST
Welcome to 'Powai Valley', India's new start-up hubWhat is brewing in Powai Valley, a moniker given by VCs, is unlike Bangalore and the NCR, largely because most of the start-ups in Powai ar...
21 Jan, 2014, 10.17 AM IST
Innovation, productivity, new markets essential for sustainable growthWithout improvements in agricultural technology, it will be difficult to feed a population approaching 10 billion.
07 Sep, 2013, 04.02 AM IST
1976-model Apple-1 system, conceived by Steve Jobs and crafted by Steve Wozniak, to be auctionedChristie’s is offering a rare collectible: Apple-1, serial number 22, sourced from the estate of Joe Copson, a former Apple Computer Compan...
01 Sep, 2012, 11.01 AM IST
Xerox spends $1.8 b on new ideas every year: VandebroekMs Vandebroek discusses new innovations at Xerox, its research model and the ideas that the company is chasing. Excerpts:
01 Jul, 2010, 01.46 AM IST
- Xerox fights brand misuse, aims to diversify
A Google and a Xerox may have become generic terms for web searches and photocopying, but not every copycat has nine lives on a shelf. Spee...
03 Jun, 2008, 03.25 AM IST
- Kodak seeks digital foothold in photography
The boom in digital photography triggered a series of aftershocks at Eastman Kodak as one after another of its aged factories was dynamited.
31 Jan, 2008, 03.38 AM IST
'India's S&T talent pool is just top-notch'Innovation at Xerox is about the unfettered intellectual and experimental daring of scientists to try and go beyond the current frontiers o...
30 Oct, 2007, 05.54 AM IST
- Search startup takes on Google with natural-language technology
Powerset, is pursuing a particularly challenging goal: It is aiming to outshine the Internet's brightest star with a new search engine buil...
17 Sep, 2007, 10.29 PM IST
- There’s history & money in retro PCs
Growing band of collectors considers old computers as important relics & even good investment
13 Apr, 2007, 12.10 AM IST
- When leaders steer their cos right into an abyss
Here are some simple thumb rules to help CEOs guard against corporate blunders.
07 Dec, 2006, 10.15 AM IST