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Inspiration highlights innovative initiatives and people influencing the tech industry while narrating the tales behind the ideas. It’s a place to honor originality, tenacity, and ground-breaking concepts that encourage others to pursue their dreams and make them a reality.
Twitter and Facebook may be more addictive than alcohol or cigarettes
Has Western culture grown too attached to their social networks? It's possible, according to a recent study led by Wilhelm...
As the workforce goes mobile, security concerns rise
As more offices become virtual and more employees work from home or on the go, the logistics of keeping devices...
The Harry Potter series in 15 epic minutes
The Potter-era may be over in Hollywood, but those who want to reminisce without sitting through 16 hours of film...
Super insulated foam torched in man’s hand (right before he eats it)
It's one thing to take a handful of foam into one's hand and apply a 7,000-degree torch to it for...
Amazon Irony: The chain store “killer” to launch a chain of physical stores
The company that many blame in part for the downfall of many large and small retail stores around the world...
The growing reach of social media’s election impact
Social media and the internet in general had dramatic effects on the election in 2008. This year is proving to...
Corning expands its vision of a glass future
Nearly a year ago, Corning put out a video called "A Day Made of Glass." In it, they showed a...
2012 technology to highlight NADA conference in Las Vegas
Gadgets and gizmos are top of mind when people start talking about technology. It's in the phones that we carry....
Autonomous nano quadrotors amaze (and terrify) with complicated formation runs
Quadrotor technology developed at the General Robotics, Automation, Sensing and Perception (GRASP) lab at the University of Pennsylvania is able...
Not Rated Shoes: Taking on the juggernauts through social media
In a great economy, it's hard to start a retail company and get attention in industries where the major players...
What Twitter’s horrific recruitment video says about the state of Silicon Valley
As much as it deserves a tirade about professional recruiting, brand positioning, and using human relations as a public relations...
Making the internet more open… in education
Over the past few decades starting with the computer revolution and continuing through the digital age, the Massachusetts Institute of...
Note to Startups: If you’re going to steal from others… well, just don’t steal from others
The internet is rife with theft. People take content and concepts from others on a regular basis and pawn it...
Favo.rs brings accountability to business relationships
LinkedIn and Facebook may have the market cornered for building relationships between business professionals, many startups are starting to pop...
What Gingrich, Santorum, and Romney should learn from Paul (and Obama) about the internet
Today is a different world when it comes to political campaigns. A decade or two ago given the same candidates...
The Silicon Valleys… of the world
Just as movies are made outside of Hollywood and cars are built outside of Detroit, entrepreneurs, startups, and venture capitalists...
Predators versus prey in the startup ecosystem
The "Startup Sea" is broad and loaded with life. There are those who are considered predators, which means someone has...
SOPA and PIPA: Everything you need to know
Today is SOPA Blackout Day to oppose the bills currently being proposed in Congress, Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and...
The SOPA blackout is the most American thing we’ve done all day
The Tea Party movement was intended for Americans to harken to the revolutions of the past when tyranny and taxation...
Netflix woes continue, this time from angry investors with a class-action suit
The terrible summer and fall that Netflix had in 2011 seemed to have turned as poor decisions were reversed, new...