Archive for the ‘Technology’ Category

Coachella’s Tupac hologram: creepy or innovative?

Apr 21 by Eileen McGovern | 1 comment

As many of you might have heard by now, this past Sunday night at the Coachella music festival, Tupac Shakur was resurrected via holographic technology. He took the stage in front of an estimated audience of a hundred thousand people. The company more »

Are we ready for enterprise tablets?

Apr 21 by JD Rucker | 1 comment

Small kids can use them just fine. They are more portable than a laptop, more powerful than a smartphone, and perform nearly every duty that a business person needs (especially when an external keyboard is added, which sort of defeats the purpose more »

Can Gawker reinvent blog commenting?

Apr 21 by Sal McCloskey | 1 comment

For years, the Gawker network, which includes Gizmodo, io9, and Kotaku, has fought a battle against commenters, particularly trolls. The huge blog network is driven in many ways by the comments on the site and founder Nick Denton doesn’t like it. He went so far as to call more »

Space Shuttle Discover travels to its final resting place in style

Apr 21 by Connor Livingston | add comment

It isn’t often that aircraft fly over the National Mall in Washington DC at low altitudes. Any aircraft that attempts to do so without permission would be blown out of the sky before making. NASA and the Smithsonian’s National Air and Space Museum more »

Chinese tech counterfeiting, visualized

Apr 21 by Rocco Penn | add comment

It’s hard to tell the difference sometimes. At other times, it’s comically easy. Apple and other companies have fallen victim to many counterfeit technology stores and products in China for years, but it seems as if there has been an influx more »

A whimsical look at the future of the IT help desk

Apr 20 by Scarlett Madison | add comment

Tech help desks have a stigma that surrounds them. Long waits. Frustrations. Failures. Calling them is rarely a pleasant activity. Things will be changing. It isn’t necessarily the people that will change but the way that tech support is delivered more »

What are some of the most exciting social media developments that came out of SXSWi?

Apr 19 by Francis Santos | add comment

SXSWi is growing to be one of the most anticipated parts of the annual event known as South by Southwest. In addition to being a networker’s dream, the interactive portion of the gathering serves as a platform where cutting edge technology more »

A valid question about bank transfers

Apr 18 by Rocco Penn | add comment

There are certain financial events that seem to happen online instantaneously. When we buy something with a credit or debit card, it comes out of our balance immediately. When we purchase something with PayPal, it comes out of our balance within more »

Why startups should look more like Instagram and less like Tabasco

Apr 17 by Sal McCloskey | add comment

Hope can be a great thing. False hope can destroy lives. Such is the case with what an esteemed colleague wrote on Fast Company about how startups should build the next Tabasco rather than shoot for the next Instagram. The idea is simple: build something that will last. Don’t shoot more »

The ins and outs of hybrid technology

Apr 17 by Connor Livingston | add comment

We know it works. We know it gets us better gas mileage than other types of vehicles. We know that it’s quiet, then gets louder as we accelerate. For many of us, we simply don’t know how it does what it does. The hybrid engine is a mystery to most. It more »

Path may be the next startup to go huge after $30 million round of funding

Apr 17 by Sal McCloskey | 2 comments

Everyone has startup fever again after Facebook’s huge purchase of Instagram last week, perfect timing for Path to announce a $30 million round of funding led by Redpoint. “We are delighted to announce that last week we closed a significant round of funding with a new set of investor partners,” CEO Dave Morin. “It is more »

The 1950 that 1925 envisioned would have been nice

Apr 16 by Rocco Penn | add comment

Aircraft landing fields on top of buildings. Zeppelins taking people too and fro. Self-reliant building communities with schools and businesses intermixed with housing. Multiple levels of transportation streets. The vision that Popular more »

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