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NSA Snooping is Hurting US Tech Businesses 29 Jul 2013 | 07:37 pm
I recently wrote an article for the Washington Post that warned of the dangers of CALEA – an existing statute that the FBI is trying to transmogrify to force software developers to build in backdoors ...
Don’t Let the FBI Wiretap Your SmartPhone Apps 29 Jul 2013 | 07:27 pm
As the White House mulls it over, quietly winding its way through the interagency review process in Washington is a nondescript proposal known as CALEA II. This dangerous proposed set of new rules, de...
Has Apple Fallen? 26 Jul 2013 | 09:40 pm
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on April 24, 2013.] Apple reported a year-over-year earnings decline for the first time in a decade. Its stock has corrected severely, giving b...
Health Care Costs: End Of The Phony War? 18 Jul 2013 | 05:31 pm
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on March 20, 2013.] Steven Brill has received a lot of attention for an article published recently, Bitter Pill: Why Medical Bills Are Killing ...
The Re, Reinvention of Search 18 Jul 2013 | 05:14 pm
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on February 7, 2013.] Twice now I have casually thought that the battle for control of the Internet search market was done, won, and over. Way ...
Two-Tier Health Care 8 Jul 2013 | 04:46 pm
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on August 8, 2012.] Massachusetts, the canary in the health care reform coal mine, is starting to have a two tier health care system. That mean...
The Consumerization of Everything 28 Jun 2013 | 02:09 am
Sometimes you have to take a step back to appreciate the frantic pace of change in consumer technology that we take for granted. The ipad didn’t exist before 2009, but it is basically the tool I know...
ObamaCare’s Silver Lining 27 Jun 2013 | 07:58 pm
Most agree that big changes are coming to your health care as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), otherwise known as “ObamaCare.” But the best, unintended consequence of the ACA is quietly brew...
The End Of Microsoft … As We Know It 26 Jun 2013 | 12:45 am
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on 7/1/2012.] Steve Ballmer’s announcement of the Windows Surface tablet seemed to channel Steve Jobs: dressed in a dark shirt, a CEO making a ...
Why It Stinks To Be A Healthcare Entrepreneur 17 Jun 2013 | 06:36 pm
[This post first appeared at blogs.forbes.com/toddhixon on March 27, 2013.] This is the title [paraphrased] of a keynote given last week by Jonathon Bush, the CEO of AthenaHealth, at the Xconomy Mobil...
