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The Interaction section examines user interfaces, intuitive systems, and UX/UI design with the goal of improving human-computer collaboration. It discusses methods and ideas that put accessibility and usability first, guaranteeing that technology works for its users in a stylish and efficient manner.
Your smartphone is busier than you think when it’s doing “nothing”
It's just sitting there in your pocket. No noise. No vibration. The smartphone that's doing "nothing" is probably a whole...
Is Google finally learning to focus on what matters?
"Spring cleaning" is a code word for shuttering old, unused products, services, and experiments by Google. CEO Larry Page has...
Path may be the next startup to go huge after $30 million round of funding
Everyone has startup fever again after Facebook's huge purchase of Instagram last week, perfect timing for Path to announce a...
Google blinks in battle with Microsoft to focus their gaze on Facebook
There has been a conspicuous lack of news about Google Apps, their cloud-based business software division, over the past few...
$40.5 million startup Color still failing a year later
Things didn't look good for Bill Nguyen's latest startup, Color. They announced their funding on March 23rd of last year...
Google adds “discussions” to get in on the presentation discussion
Microsoft may be trying (and failing) to slow Google's emergence into business productivity with their Google Apps for Business, but...
Smartphones on pace to near 1 billion by 2015
The mobile-device explosion may be getting fueled in recent months by Kindle Fires and iPads, but smartphones continue to be...
MadPad helps make music… even at the hardware store
With about a million iPad apps and a billion iPhone apps available, finding good ones isn't hard. Finding ones that...
Mobile commerce is finally hitting stride as apps invade our daily lives
It's no secret that mobile devices like smartphones and tablets have exploded in popularity over the last 3 years. Apple...
How businesses are using apps
You don't have to be a tech geek to know about apps. Just about anyone with a smartphone or a...
Google+ becomes the fastest growing social network
Since its launch in late June, Google+ has attracted 25 million unique global visitors. That ascent has far outpaced the...
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...
App use surpasses web browsing
For the first time, we're spending more time in mobile applications than surfing the web via desktop or mobile browsers,...
Skype for iPad coming soon?
If the insinuation of this leaked video can be believed, Skype will soon be launching its very own iPad app....
How apps are affecting big business
In the enterprise, technology often moves slowly. It's not what most would expect - big business was once the first...
Why businesses do (or do not) need their own app
The question often gets asked by businesses to their marketing firms, "Do we need an app?" The rise in popularity...
The current state of mobile apps
Is your "app"etite getting quenched? Apparently not, as the growing world of mobile app development is creating a tremendous need...
360 Web Browser Review
The Web browser has been a standard feature included with operating systems for years. Most of them look and act...
Capture Your Entire Life With Your iPhone (Seriously)
Lifelapse is an application for your iPhone that will take snap shots every 30 seconds, and, in turn, will give...
Angry Birds Birthday Cake Will Put Someone’s Eye Out
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-hwVRzaQNkA Perhaps you have a cell phone. Perhaps you've heard of Angry Birds. With appeal untold, Angry Birds has somehow...