It's almost 500 and counting for David Manners, Senior Components Editor for Electronics Weekly, and his posts for the Mannerisms blog.
We'll be making a big fuss of the landmark when David hits it in the next month or so, but if you haven't already, check out his ruminations on the chip and tech industries. Challenging, funny, informative, but never dull - you shouldn't miss out on the irreverent but authoritative postings.
Here's my own personal Top Ten Mannerisms...
3G Operators Strangling Free WiFi
Autumn means the business travelling season starts up again, and it is becoming painfully clear that free WiFi access is becoming, like Alice’s Cheshire cat, a vanishing phenomenon.
The Dark Heart of Private Equity
Freescale Semiconductor’s private equity owners, a consortium lead by Blackstone, are causing great distress to the 900 workers at the East Kilbride fab by refusing to answer any questions about their future.
Intel Killing WiMAX
It looks as if Intel is trying to kill WiMAX by positioning it as an alternative to cable, 3G and DSL.
The Ten Sexiest Electronics Products
For a product to be sexy...
iWoz
Until the weather turned, it was very good to sit in the garden reading a book wittily entitled iWoz, by a great and generous-hearted man, Steve Wozniak co-founder of Apple.
Ten Best Microprocessors
Here are the ten greatest microprocessors ever built...
Sex with a Zillionaire
Sex with a zillionaire is not all it’s cracked up to be, according to a novel written by zillionaire Tom Perkins, co-founder of Silicon Valley’s premier venture capital company, Kleiner, Perkins, Caufield and Byers.
Wake Up, You Wall Street Journal Guys!
It’s very odd to see the Wall Street Journal today complaining about the EC’s application of anti-trust law to Intel. After all the WSJ is the organ of American business, and America pretty much invented modern anti-trust law with the Sherman Act of 1890.
Ten Best Quotes
The electronics industry's ten best quotes span 150 years. They are as follows:
Ten Best High-Tech Industry Books
This is a tricky one. These are not the ten best written or most entertaining books, or most authoritative or most insightful books on the industry, but each possesses one, or more, of those qualities. Some are by insiders, some by outsiders like academics and journalists.
