Tuesday, May 01, 2012 11:45 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Airports and airlines offer what seems to be the perfect confluence of poorly implemented technology and really bad business processes. Case in point: The day before boarding a recent flight from Newark to Portland, Ore., I received...
Thursday, April 19, 2012 4:07 PM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Last year, Apple sold more than 40 million iPads. In fact, the total number of iOS devices in use (iPhone, IPod Touches and iPads) is now somewhere north of 156 million. At this point, you would think...
Monday, April 09, 2012 10:04 AM/EST
By Sam Greengard You would think that by now we would know how to use email. Nope! Here are some of the most common and annoying gaffes, glitches and breakdowns: 1. Unsigned, sealed and delivered. Sending business email without a...
Friday, March 09, 2012 9:55 AM/EST
By Tim Moran Look out, because autonomous agile aerial robots are taking to the sky! At least, they did at a recent TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design) conference, where Vijay Kumar, deputy dean for Education in the School of Engineering and...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012 10:19 AM/EST
By the end of 2012, the number of mobile-connected devices will exceed the number of people on earth, and by 2016 there will be 1.4 mobile devices per capita, Cisco predicts.
Monday, February 13, 2012 12:13 PM/EST
It's nothing short of a paradox that the smarter we build computers and the better we build technology the dumber we seem to get.
Thursday, February 09, 2012 12:55 PM/EST
Researchers are only beginning to understand how virtual possessions--photos, music, books, game badges, online friends and other digital booty--change our thinking and behavior.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012 11:14 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Apple sent ripples through the education and publishing worlds when it announced that it was looking to redefine the modern textbook. iBook Author could revolutionize the way schools and students use books. It could modernize learning and,...
Wednesday, January 11, 2012 1:42 PM/EST
By Samuel Greengard I'm sitting in a Starbucks in my hometown of West Linn Oregon typing out this blog. There's nothing remarkable about that. These days, we're all wired in from everywhere. I've posted to Facebook from Galway, Ireland and...
Tuesday, January 03, 2012 4:30 PM/EST
by Samuel Greengard In late December, Verizon Wireless decided to institute a $2 "convenience" fee for one-time payments made online or over the phone. The company said that the fee was necessary to offset costs related to processing payments "through...
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