Monday was a great day for Dave Karp, the founder and patriarch of a mini-empire of San Francisco hardware stores. Karp turned 96 that day and spent it visiting the family-owned Cole Hardware stores ...

The other day, I got a note from a longtime reader (I won’t reveal their name as it might be embarrassing for them) about a hardware upgrade to a NetWare server. In a large network, with many servers, ...

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After over two decades working in product development, I can say with confidence the hardest lessons are rarely learned in textbooks, project plans or postmortems. Instead, they are learned the ...

When we profiled Vancouver-based Neurio’s Kickstarter campaign, which ended up raising over $250,000, exceeding its goal in just 9 days, we said that the smart home product could help “define the ...

Buying and configuring a new wireless router can be a mind-numbing exercise. You might not need much hand-holding if you’re pretty confident in your geeky skills, but there are plenty of people who ...

Computer vision projects rarely go exactly as planned, and this one was no exception. The idea was simple: Build a model that could look at a photo of a laptop and identify any physical damage — ...

Sometimes you just know that you have the best ever idea for a hardware product, to the point that you’re willing to quit your job and make said product a reality. If only you can get the product and ...