Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Crunching the numbers: iPads vs texbooks

8 hours ago by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Some day in the (very) near future, we may no longer need a traditional backpack at school. Rather than carrying around a laptop and textbooks, we will be consolidating the various components of school gear down to a single device that fits nicely within our hands: an iPad. Many schools are already more »

Ericsson's vision of a networked society expands with "Thinking Cities"

Feb 21 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

When we first covered Ericsson’s Networked Society Project, we called it beautiful and terrifying. Their latest video shows that beauty can prevail when technology inserts itself into our lives with positive motives in mind. The concept centers around Information and Communication Technology (ICT). As cities continue to grow more »

iGEM makes science cool for students

Feb 20 by Connor Livingston | add comment

For nearly a decade, the International Genetically Engineered Machine competition has put the sharpest minds in high school and undergraduate institutions around the world into competitive and creative mode to find the next great mad scientist genius inventor. Students work during the summer more »

Why Windows web browsing market share drop means very little to Microsoft

Feb 18 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

If you torture numbers long enough, you can make them say anything. In this case, it’s Chitika, Techcrunch, and others who are raising alarms about something that’s relatively meaningless, particularly to Microsoft. The title of the Chitika post is “Demise of the PC? Windows Web Browsing Market Share Declines by more »

A comprehensive comparison of online video players

Feb 15 by Connor Livingston | 1 comment

The online video world is dominated by YouTube with others such as Vimeo and Metacafe picking up the scraps. They are free, convenient, and practical for most website owners to use. Those who need more flexibility or something proprietary turn to self-hosted video players to fill their websites more »

Tim Cook is the Michael Corleone of Apple

Feb 14 by JD Rucker | add comment

It has been just over 4 months since Steve Jobs died. Since then, Apple continues to head in the right direction financially and has seen very little in the way of slowing down its development of products. Tim Cook, the CEO, has not had many public appearances since then and the ones he has had have more »

Is 4G enough to end the high-end tablet war for iPad?

Feb 14 by Lorie Wimble | 3 comments

The over-$500 tablet war was, for all intents and purposes, over once the iPad 2 came out with a front- and rear-facing camera. It was the missing feature that kept some people from buying the original iPad and pushed sales of the sequel to a higher level than many thought possible. Still, there were more »

Pinterest may be changing the social commerce game, but why?

Feb 13 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Pinterest is starting to enter into the social media in ways that most sites only dream about. Other than Google+, it’s the fastest growing social site in the last year with 329% growth in the last 4 months of 2011 alone. We get more questions on our social media podcast about Pinterest the last month more »

Is online banking as safe as people think?

Feb 11 by Connor Livingston | 5 comments

More US adults bank online than use social networks (for now, at least). It has become such a common activity that despite the risks of identity theft, hacking, and phishing, most of us are still convinced that the transactions are secure. For the most part, they are. For the most part. The banking community more »

Is this creepy android mannequin the future of retail merchandising?

Feb 11 by Rocco Penn | 1 comment

If this is the future of retail, I’ll be shopping online more often. Takashimaya, a department store in Tokyo, is working with Dr. Hiroshi Ishiguro from Osaka University to demonstrate their concept of the next generation of retail merchandising. The timing couldn’t be better – the female mannequin is pushing their more »

Tesla's electric Model X adds sexy to the minivan

Feb 10 by Lorie Wimble | add comment

When one thinks of Tesla, they think of high-end electric vehicle performance. The company is known for putting out some of the best-performing, visually stunning vehicles available in the market. Now, Tesla is going for the family market with a minivan that goes 0-60 mph in 4.4 seconds. According more »

As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise

Feb 8 by Lorie Wimble | 2 comments

As more offices become virtual and more employees work from home or on the go, the logistics of keeping devices and computers secure can be a nightmare for any IT pro. Cybercriminals are rampant looking for targets who are accessing their data from low-security connections. Businesses are at more »

Super insulated foam torched in man's hand (right before he eats it)

Feb 7 by Connor Livingston | add comment

It’s one thing to take a handful of foam into one’s hand and apply a 7,000-degree torch to it for 20 seconds. It’s another thing to then take a large spoonful of the foam and eat it. The demonstration by the Aarmourtherm Foundation is both crazy and fantastic. The possibilities of having a bio-degradable insulated foam like more »

Amazon Irony: The chain store "killer" to launch a chain of physical stores

Feb 7 by Sal McCloskey | add comment

The company that many blame in part for the downfall of many large and small retail stores around the world is going to try its hand at the very thing they helped to weaken: retail store chains. Within the next few months, Amazon plans to launch retail store in their home town of Seattle that will focus on their emerging Amazon more »