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iFive: iPad Sales Anticipated, Intel's India Investment, YouTube Hires Staff,...
The magnitude 8.9 earthquake that hit Japan just a few hours ago has elicited a fast response from Google, with a person finder app identical to the one used in New Zealand recently. Japan's...
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Please Mr. Scandinavian Postman: Text Me!
    Snail mail is about to get a lot more convenient in northern Europe. Soon, the residents of Denmark and Sweden will be able replace stamps with a hand-written code (that is sent via text) on the...
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Google, Local Platforms Respond to Japan's 8.9 Earthquake Crisis
An earthquake with a magnitude of 8.9 hit Japan today, resulting in tsunami warnings for 20 countries, as well as California and Hawaii. Crisis mappers wasted no time responding: In under 2.5 hours...
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Deepwater Horizon: The Movie
Participant Media plans on portraying the moments leading up to the BP oil spill disaster in an upcoming film. Jeff Skoll's social film company, Participant Media, has picked up the rights to adapt the...
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Google's Looming Antitrust Inquiry
In the clearest language to date, Democratic Senator Herb Kohl of Wisconsin signaled heavy scrutiny of Google coming in 2011. An antitrust showdown between the U.S. government and Google appears...
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Instapaper 3.0 Means Social Sharing Your Favorite Stories
Instapaper is already a very popular service on mobile devices, and it's just had a big social sharing makeover that improves its offerings significantly. Best of all--and following current trends--a...
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Toxic Chemicals, Pollution Killing Bees Around the World: Report
This past December, a leaked EPA document revealed that the agency allowed the widespread use of pesticide known to be toxic to honeybees, despite warnings from EPA scientists. The hive-killing...
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Is This the iPhone 5?
It may be iPad 2 day, but that doesn't stop the Apple news mill from grinding--now there's a fresh leak from China that hints what the iPhone 5 may look like. It's convincing.The images are of a...
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Robokind Robots: They're Just Like Us!
First came Geminoid, now there's Robokind. The diminutive educational robot coated with Frubber, a semi-convincing kind of synthetic robot skin, can replicate a great variety of human expressions. But...
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Tell All Your Friends! GroupMe Texting Service Takes SXSW
One day last summer Jared Hecht’s fiancée was complaining that she had no good way to coordinate her friends in real time at a Red Rocks music festival. “I called up my friend Steve and said, how do we...
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Firefox VP: Say Goodbye to Flash
By now you've probably heard of HTML5, the platform that every browser maker from Microsoft to Mozilla to Google can't stop heralding as the savior of the Internet. Buzzwords aside, developers are...
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How Smart Design Made a Home-Energy Device Simple Enough for Your Grandma to Use
It's not easy to design a home energy monitoring device that people actually want to use and pay for. As evidenced by Tendril's recent decision to nix its IDEO-designed dashboard, not even slick...
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Debunking the "Supermoon" Theory of Japan's Earthquake and Tsunami
Did the upcoming "supermoon" cause the massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake near Japan and subsequent deadly tsunami? No, it didn't; here's why. This morning’s massive 8.9-magnitude earthquake and deadly...
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Leadership Hall of Fame: Tom Peters, Author of "In Search of Excellence"
We continue our examination of the business book In Search of Excellence with an interview of author Tom Peters. Why was it so successful, what is the book's legacy and what does a restaurant owner in...
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Miami the Flirtiest City in the U.S., Says Badoo
The self-appointed social scientists at Badoo, the social networking site, have invented a new index of flirtiness, that may or may not be so accurate. As a promotional stunt, it's working.Do you want...
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How Japan's Atomic Emergency Should Inform Our Nuclear-Powered Future
The 8.9-magnitude earthquake that struck Japan this week didn't just trigger a massive tsunami. It also caused an atomic-power emergency at the the Fukushima No. 1 plant in Fukushima Prefecture, where...
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SXSW Housing Crunch a Boon for Crowdsourced Hosting...if It Works
Residents offering free and paid space have become a viable alternative for the packed conference.The annual South by Southwest conference has become a networking treasure drove for technology...
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Google Amps Up 3-D Digital London to Delight Royal Wedding Watchers
This may be the first step toward the Matrix, wrapped in white ribbons for the Royal Wedding: Google's tricked-out its Google Earth version of London with super-real 3-D representations of buildings...
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Bloggers, Rejoice: Flattr Uses Social Media To Reward Content Creators
Could Flattr be the future of making a living doing what you love? When you sign up for Flattr, a social micropayments service, you dedicate a flat fee per month to the site. As you're surfing the...
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What Happens When David & Goliath Team Up
The Internet age has been a story Davids and Goliaths: small, scrappy startups overtaking established industrial titans. Recognizing that innovation often favors startups, PepsiCo decided to outsource...
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