Defining the nature of progress is a never-ending debate. Some, like Ray “Mature Male Seeking Singularity” Kurzweil, believe that progress is an accelerating, logarithmic constant. Others see stair-step progressions with highlights like the 19th century followed by CB radio. Some map progress to network effects: create the printing press, bake 250 years and experience the [...]
Conspiracy nuts, pay attention: George Soros is teaming up with Cathy Zoi, a formerly high-placed Washington official, and the guys who made a fortune through a complex financial transaction involving Seagate to invest in green technology. The Silver Lake Kraftwerk fund will invest in energy and resource companies. Soros is a strategic partner; Adam Grosser, [...]
The Koch Brothers and their energy company, Koch Industries, have emerged as public enemy number one to many in the renewable energy and environmental communities. The two have put financial and organizational muscle behind efforts to discredit climate change science and renewable power standards. Now it appears they are trying to profit from Wisconsin’s woes, [...]
Computers used to be vaunted thinking machines that helped scientists crack the secrets of physics or predict the weather. Now, most of them just serve up emails or pictures of kittens. That stark shift, however, has created the opportunity to rethink computer architecture and curb power consumption at the same time, says Andrew Feldman, CEO [...]
With the Oscars 2011 awards broadcast only hours away (it’s tonight at 8 p.m. Eastern, 5 p.m. Pacific on ABC), we can’t wait another minute — we’d like to know who’s going to win, and we want to know now. Here’s an exclusive infographic that could give us a hint or two. However, according to [...]
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: Social Printshop Quick Pitch: Social Printshop is an early-stage startup working to significantly alter the web’s relationship with the physical [...]
Say goodbye to the Share button because the Like button is taking over. After months of updates to its Like button, Facebook has released an update that fundamentally changes the button’s functionality to that of a Share button. Now after hitting the Like button, a full story with a headline, blurb and thumbnail will be [...]
The 83rd Annual Academy Awards are rapidly drawing near, and the question on everyone’s (in the tech realm) mind is: Can a movie about Facebook win the Oscar? The Social Network, the Aaron Sorkin-penned, David Fincher-directed, black horse of 2010, has trod a long road to the Oscars. While it’s now nominated for numerous awards [...]
Vans keeps its service simple with just four shoe types to customize, one of which is its now-classic slip-on number in both white and black. As you’d expect from the brand, as well as colors, there’s a wide range of contemporary patterns to choose from, and in the case of the slip-on shoe, you can [...]
Tonight’s the big night when the Oscars 2011 awards ceremony broadcasts on ABC starting at 8 p.m. Eastern time. But that’s just the ceremony itself — there’s a lot more to see online. If you’re looking to watch the whole broadcast online, there’s Oscar All Access from Oscar.com, a new premium experience that will cost [...]
Tonight is Oscar night and that means that Twitter and Facebook streams will soon be filled with quips about who is wearing what, the jokes that bomb or land, and of course, who is taking home the big awards. Like the Grammy Awards and the Golden Globes, Oscar is finding his way into the 21st [...]
A Facebook-only news organization? It was only a matter of time. The Rockville Central, a community news site in the Washington, D.C., area, will move all its operations and news coverage to its Facebook Page starting on March 1. This risky move by the site’s editor, Cindy Cotte Griffiths, highlights Facebook’s growing role as a [...]
If advertisers have their way, a lot of the Oscar buzz this year will have nothing to do with the best picture nominees. As with the Super Bowl, advertisers during the second-biggest advertising night of the year (the Academy Awards are known in the industry as the “Super Bowl for Women,”) are trying to inject [...]
Is Jonathan Ive, Apple‘s senior vice president of industrial design, packing his bags and moving back to the UK? Worse, did Apple tell him if he moves back to England he can’t keep working for Apple? That’s what the Times of London is reporting. According to the Times (behind a paywall) and the Daily Mail, [...]
From Wikipedia: The Big Bang was the event which led to the formation of the universe. Based on the best available measurements as of 2010, the original state of the universe existed around 13.7 billion years ago, which is often referred to as the time when the Big Bang occurred. The theory is the most [...]
The Spark of Genius Series highlights a unique feature of startups and is made possible by Microsoft BizSpark. If you would like to have your startup considered for inclusion, please see the details here. Name: ReadyForZero Quick Pitch: ReadyForZero is a free online financial tool that lets you track credit card debt, explore options, and [...]
NASA researchers discover that a regional conflict on the level of 100 Hiroshima bombs could have dramatic effects on ongoing global warming concerns, though with grave consequences. Even in the post-Cold War age, the nuclear threat remains a very real one. Leaders around the globe recognize the inherent dangers for us all in launching such [...]
Singtel is undoubtedly Singapore’s largest telecom company. It is dominating on every front – mobile, cable TV and broadband services. From an investor’s point of view, it is a great company. But its sky-high profit is achieved at the expense of customer experience. From a consumer’s point of view, Singtel is brutally hungry for sales [...]
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Bringing about significant change in a company isn’t easy. I know this from having recently left Hewlett-Packard, where I led an ambitious, new program starting in late 2009 to help drive the giant technology company’s social media activity across its Enterprise operations. It was an interesting ride. I managed a team of editors and project [...]
Posted 28 February 2011 13:27pm by Patricio Robles with 1 comment Tweet If you have a new business and plan to spend money on customer acquisition, are you making a huge mistake? Venture capitalist Fred Wilson thinks you just might be. In a blog post that sparked an interesting discussion, and some heated debate, Wilson [...]
28/02/2011 Next Post » Guest post by Debleena Bose. How to enhance your online brand indentity? There goes an adage “It is not the strongest species that survive nor the most intelligent that survives … it is the one that is most adaptable to change – Charles Darwin”. This is true when it comes to branding. [...]
Rumors and pictures are spreading around that white iPad 2 is coming out which expected release date is late March. We have seen such pictures of white iPhone before too and they look very authentic like the ones below. But then again, Apple did not release the white iPhone 4 because home button color did [...]
I love the caption on this flickr photo from arkworld. Practice, Practice, Practice. I love reading online. It’s become a habit of mine on Sunday nights as I write a post or two for the week ahead and get my mind and momentum rolling after a day or two of downtime. I also love reading [...]
MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold Raytheon unveils updated exoskeleton robotics suit Related News OnChip’s $1.8M funding aids search for new hires, new office [February 25, 2011] Middlebury College selling old courthouse to Vt. incubator [February 25, 2011] Open Mile adds $6M to its online freight brokering biz [February 24, 2011] BuyWithMe [...]
MHT’s Galen Moore: Mass. companies building to be sold Raytheon unveils updated exoskeleton robotics suit Related News GT Solar lands $41.6M furnace order [February 28, 2011] CHiL Semiconductor sells for a cool $75M [February 28, 2011] OnChip’s $1.8M funding aids search for new hires, new office [February 25, 2011] Acme Packet bought Newfound Communications [February [...]
Related News GT Solar lands $41.6M furnace order [February 28, 2011] Xenith gets $10.5M to stop NFL concussions [February 28, 2011] OnChip’s $1.8M funding aids search for new hires, new office [February 25, 2011] Acme Packet bought Newfound Communications [February 25, 2011] Aircuity brings in $3.5M financing [February 25, 2011] Tewksbury-based CHiL Semiconductor Corp. has [...]
Related News CHiL Semiconductor sells for a cool $75M [February 28, 2011] Xenith gets $10.5M to stop NFL concussions [February 28, 2011] OnChip’s $1.8M funding aids search for new hires, new office [February 25, 2011] Acme Packet bought Newfound Communications [February 25, 2011] Middlebury College selling old courthouse to Vt. incubator [February 25, 2011] GT [...]
As I pointed out in a recent App Smart column, all-purpose weather apps fall far short when it comes to offering weather alerts. But thankfully the march of mobile software only moves forward – at least for iPhone and Android users. PinPoint Lightning 2011 (for iPhone) and WeatherBug (for Android and iPhone) are good examples. [...]
Facebook keeps changing its look, and I just recently noticed I am not seeing updates from certain friends in my News Feed. Is there a reason why? Facebook does tend to move things around on a regular basis, but it is probably just a setting that needs to be adjusted. At the top of your [...]
Maybe — or maybe not. If you are currently employed, be very wary about setting up a Web site that announces you are job hunting. If your employer happens to find out about it, you could be dismissed, says Kim Isaacs, director of ResumePower, a résumé-writing service in Doylestown, Pa. To some job seekers, a [...]
When I was 14, I began caddying at the Dayton Country Club. Like three of my siblings, I went to college on an Evans Scholarship, which was set up by the golfer Chick Evans to help students in financial need. While attending Ohio State, I helped start a number of student organizations, including the student [...]
Step back from the details and what emerges is a huge challenge in innovation design. What role should government have? What is the right mix of top-down and bottom-up efforts? Driving change through the system will involve shifts in technology, economic incentives and the culture of health care. “This is a big social project, not [...]
That’s because Bubblegum is an app for a nascent market: people whose smartphones have the new Windows Phone 7 software inside. The phones have been on the market for only a few months in the United States. (Four models, including the Samsung Focus, the HTC Surround and the LG Quantum, are each $100 at the [...]
For two years, all the denizens of Webosaurs, an online virtual world for children 5 to 12, could customize their dinosaur avatars with leather armor and other whimsical outfits. Recently, though, the Webosaurs founder, Jacques Panis, decided that leather armor should be available only to premium members, who pay about $6 a month. Players with [...]
With the huge and varied number of tablets arriving fresh on the market each and every month, it is helpful to know just a little of which tablet does what, and why. Every tablet Computers have their own distinctive functions that is design comply with every users requirements. When choosing a tablet it’s important to [...]
Canon is one of the most popular brands of cameras in market. They have various models that sell from under $ 100 to several thousand dollars. With most of the models under $ 300, and some of them under $ 150, of course, if you’re willing to go used with your digital camera purchase, then [...]
We have come across growing trends that people are replacing their computers with the tablets. The tablet pc market is one of the fast emerging and we can see an exponential growth in this market in the coming years. Majority of the tablet pc market is still dominated by iPad), however we have seen a [...]
Recently, the use of digital cameras has increased a lot. Not only because they are easy to carry around but also because that they are easier to use and easier to handle and come with a lot more features than the older film based cameras. The rising use of digital cameras has led to a [...]
Google’s latest search trick is recognizing recipes in search results, and showing you a quick overview of a recipe before you even click through. Thanks to some XML tricks, you’ll soon be able to see ingredients, ratings and thumbnail images for recipes right in your search results. Google’s recipe search also has some advanced options [...]
Facebook’s Android app has some serious security issues, according to a computer science professor at Rice University. Professor Dan Wallach and his students set up simple sniffers using freely-available software (including Wireshark and Mallory) and found that Facebook for Android sends a lot of data in the clear. That means it’s possible — easy, even [...]
DAR.fm is a new startup that aims to become the DVR for radio. It works on the same basic principle, and DAR even stands for Digital Audio Recorder. DAR.fm has been created by Michael Robertson, previously the founder of MP3.com. Just like DVR allows you to record your favorite television shows, DAR.fm lets you schedule [...]
There were some interesting discoveries noted when the Android Market website went live recently. Specific URLs behaved differently than the categories listed on the site — they ended with books, music, and movies. Now, TechCrunch reports that the Books subsection is active. Right now, however, the Books tab will only appear for users who access [...]
On-demand music streaming service Rdio, the offspring of Skype (and Kazaa, let’s not forget) founders Janus Friis and Niklas Zennström, has now sauntered into your living room. Rdio is available as a channel on Roku boxes, marking the first time that Rdio is to be found on anything other than a website or mobile platform. [...]
For those of you longing for the long lost days of NES RPGs, NEStalgia brings the classic 8-bit action into the 21st century — with a few added perks here and there. Dubbed by its own developers as “Dragon Warrior 3 meets World of Warcraft,” NEStalgia lets you wage turn-based battles using a multiplayer system [...]
Microsoft may have jumped the gun when it displayed an Angry Birds icon at the launch of Windows Phone 7, but it turns out that the hit game will be coming to Microsoft’s newest mobile platform, and soon. According to a Microsoft blog post on the matter, Angry Birds and well as five other well-known [...]
Microsoft recently delivered a patch for its malware and antivirus tools, including Security Essentials, Windows Defender, MSRT, and Forefront — its enterprise antivirus solution. The patch addresses a flaw in Microsoft’s scanning engine which could allow an attacker who had a valid username and password to gain elevated rights on a system. As is often [...]
Ubuntu’s new Unity interface already drew some raised eyebrows because of its looks, which are arguably similar to the Windows 7 taskbar. Now, the Ask Ubuntu site has posted a list of Unity keyboard shortcuts — and those take a cue from Windows 7 as well. The super key, which typically refers to the Windows [...]
Mozilla, proving just how mind-numbingly torturous public beta testing can be, has just released the final beta of Firefox 4, beta 12. If you’re already running Firefox 4 beta, head to Help About Firefox to update; or download it directly. Other than increased stability and performance when viewing Flash content, and some tweaks to hardware [...]
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