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Is US space dominance officially over?

Is US space dominance officially over?

When the final space shuttle lands next week at Kennedy Space Center, it will begin a long stretch when the...

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio to get first Fisker plug-in car

Actor Leonardo DiCaprio to get first Fisker plug-in car

After numerous delays, the 2012 Fisker Karma plug-in electric performance car will finally be heading to showrooms by the end...

New plans, pricing for Netflix cuts regulation problems off at the pass

New plans, pricing for Netflix cuts regulation problems off at the pass

Those who have watched the evolution of Netflix over the years are probably aware that the company has done an...

More brilliant Apple marketing: appealing to iPad and Mac owners for the iPhone

More brilliant Apple marketing: appealing to iPad and Mac owners for the iPhone

As if they didn't do a great job already of marketing each individual product they put out, Apple has stepped...

A timeline of the social buying universe

A timeline of the social buying universe

In many ways, social buying was inevitable. Once eCommerce started really taking off last decade followed by the growth of...

The biggest challenge facing Google+ (that nobody is talking about)

The biggest challenge facing Google+ (that nobody is talking about)

Google+ faces dozens of major challenges as it tries to break into the social networking world. Facebook is a fierce...

Winners and losers in the tech talent war

Winners and losers in the tech talent war

The amount of available talent in several technology industries is not keeping up with the demand in recent years. As...

Games, weather, and social media top mobile app downloads

Games, weather, and social media top mobile app downloads

Our mobile devices have many uses to us, well beyond the talk and text functionality of the past. Millions of...

TeamWox Review: Making your company more efficient

TeamWox Review: Making your company more efficient

Though there are myriad software and services for managing various aspects of a company, they are often divided into components:...

Online shopping is soaring (as if you didn’t know)

Online shopping is soaring (as if you didn’t know)

Brick and mortar stores are closing on nearly a daily basis. We have all seen companies like Blockbuster and Circuit...

Augmented Grocery Shopping: How a Korean grocer moved virtual shopping to the subway

Augmented Grocery Shopping: How a Korean grocer moved virtual shopping to the subway

It's the kind of experiment that seems like it was hatched for a satirical spoof video, but the results were...

Twitter buys social analytics company BackType

Twitter buys social analytics company BackType

Just weeks after snapping up TweetDeck, Twitter has acquired social analytics start-up BackType. The company’s main product, BackTweets, has helped...

Michael Bay caught recycling footage from The Island for Transformers 3

Michael Bay caught recycling footage from The Island for Transformers 3

There's nothing wrong with reusing old material on new projects. It's done all the time in Hollywood. Heck, the Wilhelm...

South Korean schools to be paper-free by 2015

South Korean schools to be paper-free by 2015

There are two potential winners in South Korea's recent announcement that they would be moving to a completely-digital curriculum model...

Is a combination of Huxley’s and Orwell’s future coming true? (#killswitch)

Is a combination of Huxley’s and Orwell’s future coming true? (#killswitch)

It was once hard to imagine a world like either of the ones described in 1984 or Brave New World....

The Org Charts of 6 Tech Companies

The Org Charts of 6 Tech Companies

Every now and then, people nail it. This is one of those cases as Manu Cornet from Bonkersworld breaks down...

Forget San Fran: New York is turning into a startup mecca

Forget San Fran: New York is turning into a startup mecca

Everyone in the tech industry has heard of Silicon Valley, but how many have heard of Silicon Alley? New York...

Facebook gets literal

Facebook gets literal

Word on the tubes is that Facebook is about to drop live, in-browser video chat next week. According to Zuck,...

7 Cool Twitter Infographics

7 Cool Twitter Infographics

Twitter is a polarizing force. Most people, particularly those who are tech-savvy, either love the 140-character-social-networking-microbloggy-thingy or they despise it...

Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about

Five things about Google+ Facebook should worry about

For a company that has had trouble understanding social, the response to Google+, the company's new social network platform, has...