Wade Roush
Wade is Chief Correspondent for Xconomy. He is a veteran science and technology writer focused on digital media and Internet culture, with a special interest in mobile, social, and location-aware computing and the creative applications of Web and mobile tools.
As a staff member at MIT’s
Technology Review from 2001 to 2006, Wade served as senior editor, San Francisco bureau chief, and executive editor of TechnologyReview.com, and helped lead the magazine to a nomination as National Magazine Award finalist in 2006. Before joining
TR, he was the Boston bureau reporter for
Science, managing editor of supercomputing publications at NASA Ames Research Center, and Web editor at e-book pioneer NuvoMedia.
Wade graduated Magna cum Laude in the history of science from Harvard College in 1989 and earned a PhD in the history and social study of science and technology from MIT in 1994. His work has appeared in
Science,
Technology Review,
IEEE Spectrum,
Encyclopaedia Brittanica,
Technology and Culture,
Alaska Airlines Magazine, and
World Business, and he has been a guest of CNN, CNBC, NECN, WGBH and NPR.
Wade is the author of
Pixel Nation: 80 Weeks of World Wide Wade, an e-book compilation of essays from his weekly Xconomy column,
World Wide Wade; you can download the e-book as a
free PDF or a
$4.99 Kindle edition. You can also read Wade's personal blog at
Travels with Rhody, or follow his Twitter stream at
http://twitter.com/wroush. You can reach him by e-mail at wroush@xconomy.com or by phone at (617) 252-7323.
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Three Silicon Valley standbys—HP, Apple, and Google—captured most of the tech news headlines last week. But VMware and Intel were busy too.
—Hewlett-Packard won its bidding war with Dell for Fremont,... Read more »
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With each new product that Apple announces, including the revamped Apple TV and the new Ping social network, Steve Jobs reveals a little bit more of his plan to dominate the... Read more »
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Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ) announced today that it will acquire Fremont, CA-based storage virtualization company 3Par (NYSE: PAR) for for about $2.35 billion. That’s more than twice the price originally... Read more »
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Kate Imbach, long the vice president of marketing for Skyhook Wireless in Boston and a key leader of the Mobile Monday movement in the United States, is departing Skyhook to take... Read more »
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Palo Alto, CA-based Inflection has launched a new consumer-oriented people search engine called PeopleSmart with features designed to protect privacy, according to an announcement today. Also the creator of the Archives.com... Read more »
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Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory, or MRAM, promises to change everything about how our computing devices work. It’s as fast as classical static RAM at the core of today’s microprocessors, but it... Read more »
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The World Economic Forum—the body behind the exclusive annual gathering in Davos, Switzerland—today released its “Technology Pioneers” list for 2011. An unusually large number of the companies on the list... Read more »
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The “two guys in a garage” story of how technology companies get started is a powerful one in Silicon Valley. And it does happen: there really was a garage at Hewlett-Packard... Read more »
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The latest addition to the budding Google social-and-gaming empire is SocialDeck, the maker of cross-platform social games such as Color Connect, Pet Hero MD, and Shake & Spell. The Waterloo,... Read more »
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Palo Alto, CA-based VMLogix, which makes systems that virtualize large software lifecycle management and quality assurance programs, will be acquired by Fort Lauderdale, FL-based Citrix Systems (NASDAQ: CTXS), the... Read more »
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Aptus Endosystems in Sunnyvale, CA, which makes devices for endovascular surgery to repair aortic aneurysms, said in a statement yesterday that it has raised $15 million in “Series AA” funding. U.S.... Read more »
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Institutional Venture Partners in Menlo Park, CA, said today that it has finished raising limited-partner investments for its 13th fund, Institutional Venture Partner XIII, at $750 million. That’s significantly larger than... Read more »
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Great teachers prepare their students to be lifelong learners, even after they leave the classroom. And judging from the $9 billion that Americans spend each year on “casual learning” products—that is,... Read more »
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There’s something odd about the patent infringement lawsuit that Paul Allen’s holding company Interval Licensing filed last week against an array of high-profile Silicon Valley and e-commerce companies. The organization, which... Read more »
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EndoGastric Solutions in Redwood City, CA, said today that it has raised $30 million in Series F financing to support development and marketing of its devices for incisionless surgery to treat... Read more »
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Hot on the heels of a controversial purchase of McAfee two weeks ago, Intel in Santa Clara said today that it has agreed to buy the wireless services business of Neubiberg,... Read more »
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Tiny startups emerging into the public eye last week vied for attention with acquisitive giants like Hewlett-Packard, Cisco, and Google.
—An as-yet-unresolved bidding war between Dell and Hewlett-Packard drove the proposed... Read more »
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It’s almost like watching the bids on eBay. Dell (NASDAQ: DELL) in Round Rock, TX, and Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett Packard (NYSE: HPQ) continue to issue dueling takeover offers... Read more »
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Palo Alto, CA-based Hewlett-Packard said today that it has acquired Stratavia, a Denver, CO, company that automates the deployment and maintenance of databases. Terms of the purchase were not revealed.... Read more »
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The reports of the Web’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Wired has been getting a lot of attention this month for its “The Web Is Dead” cover piece. But,... Read more »
