Nobody Checks the Resume Until Someone Wants To
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson got caught claiming a computer science degree he never earned, and it says more about how loosely tech credentials get checked than about him specifically.
Yahoo's CEO Padded His Resume and Nobody Checked for a Decade
Yahoo's new CEO Scott Thompson has a fabricated computer science degree on his official bio, and it sat there unchallenged for a decade. The real story isn't the lie, it's that nobody ever checked.
The Galaxy S III Looks Great, That Launch Video Did Not
Samsung unveiled the Galaxy S III in London last week, and the phone looks solid — but that cheesy pre-show skit video is what I can't stop thinking about.
Nobody at Yahoo Checked This Guy's Diploma?
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompsons resume claims a computer science degree he apparently never earned, and a hedge fund manager just called him out on it in writing.
Yahoo's CEO and the Degree That Wasn't There
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson's bio claims a computer science degree he never earned. A look at why that one line matters more than it should, and what it says about how nobody checks anything.
UK ISPs Now Have to Block The Pirate Bay (For What It's Worth)
A UK court just ordered BT, Sky, and four other big ISPs to block The Pirate Bay. Here's why I think that changes almost nothing.
35 Million iPhones and a Bill Nobody's Talking About
Apple posted a record-smashing quarter this week (35.1 million iPhones sold), and CISPA quietly passed the House while everyone was looking at the stock price.
Renting Photoshop
Adobe wants me to rent Photoshop now, plus thoughts on the DOJ's ebook price-fixing suit and Greenpeace showing up outside Microsoft and Amazon over coal-powered clouds.
Apple, Nokia, and a Watch on Kickstarter, All in One Week
Apple posts a record quarter, Nokia posts a brutal one, and a Kickstarter watch project I backed keeps climbing by the thousands every time I refresh the page.
Watching Pebble Break Kickstarter
The Pebble smartwatch blew past its Kickstarter goal in two hours and a million dollars in a day. Some thoughts on watching a crowdfunding campaign spiral in real time.
Pebble Just Keeps Making Money
The Pebble smartwatch Kickstarter has blown past $5 million in under two weeks, and I backed one myself even though I havent worn a watch since high school.
A Billion Dollars for the Filter App
Some thoughts on Facebook buying Instagram for a billion dollars two weeks after I finally got the app on Android, plus a little schadenfreude about the Mac malware going around.