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Back in October when HealthCare.gov launched and then promptly became an enormous shit show, the Obama administration imposed December 1st as their deadline for getting the site’s act together. And today’s the day! So how’s stuff going? The HealthCare.gov website works “smoothly” f
Following the growing trend of bringing Chinese smartphones to the West, Lenovo is planning to expand its smartphone presence in Europe by bringing its smartphones to Europe’s largest economy, Germany, next year. Chinese manufacturer Lenovo is quite popular in its home country and even the entire re
Even though it is a pretty populated world already, Quechua wasn’t going to let that interrupt the (rugged) vision for a smartphone of its own. The company, which is known for selling mountain sports gear and equipment, has partnered with Archos to introduce the Quechua Phone, a 5-inch handset
What does becoming a social business actually entail? A practitioner in the trenches shares his top strategies and techniques for driving engagement with social tools. Motivating people to adopt social technology in the workplace isn’t always easy. Even highly resourced efforts can take years
Western Digital has unveiled the new Black Squared Dual Drive which is designed to be a high-performance drive for those with single-bay devices. WD claims the drive is exactly what upgraders, DIY folks, and enthusiasts have been asking for. Today WD is unveiling a slick 2.5″ hard drive it calls the
Useful innovation is one of the most meaningful outputs of human creativity. Today, technological aids are increasingly employed to improve and amplify the innovation process. Now new social methods, especially crowdsourcing, have fundamentally altered how innovation is achieved and even who does it
While big media corporations were able to survive the coming of the internet, independent media in developing countries fared significantly worse. Fortunately, a webisite called IndieVoic.es is working to change that. The Internet wasn’t kind to media. Huge media corporations have managed to t
Many people had hoped that social media might liberalize China’s free speech policies and blow open the door to broader public discourse. However, in the last year China has launched a massive campaign to control online speech and so far the country has succeeded. Earlier this year, the Chines
Samsung only just recently announced the Galaxy Grand 2 and now it seems like they have a Galaxy Grand Lite in the works as well. The device will reportedly be released early next year. It was only last week that Samsung announced the Galaxy Grand 2, the successor to last year’s Galaxy Grand handset
Seeing faces in random objects is called pareidolia, a term for giving random or unrelated stimuli (mostly vision or sound) meaning. Many theorize that pareidolia is a hard-wired mental feature that has helped us quickly recognize and identify human faces and make sense of the world around us. You k
China’s space program will be launching a six-wheeled rover called “Jade Rabbit” to the moon on Sunday. Should they succeed, China will become the third nation to land an object on the the Moon. China is set to become the third Earth nation to successfully land an object on the sur
Both Samsung and Mozilla are in the process of developing their own mobile operating systems to compete with Android. According to Samsung’s Chief Secretary, Wonsuk Lee, the company has expressed interest in teaming up with Mozilla to bring Firefox OS and Tizen closer together. It is safe to say tha
