Monday, May 14, 2012 3:32 PM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Optical scanning technology has come a long way in recent years. Flatbed and portable scanners, along with smartphone apps that snap pictures and convert the images to PDFs, have made it increasingly easy to crumple the paper...
Monday, May 07, 2012 9:07 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard Digital technology is shredding the publishing industry. Newspapers are bleeding red ink, and book and magazine publishers are scrambling to find new ways to connect to readers and earn a profit. Remarkably, the publishing industry is following...
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...
Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:59 AM/EST
By Eileen Feretic Why aren't Fortune 500 businesses hiring more staff when many of them are hoarding vast quantities of cash? That was a key issue raised at a recent Harvey Nash Leadership Lecture Series. The answer? They don't have...
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...
Friday, February 24, 2012 11:23 AM/EST
Transistors and integrated circuits, while not thought of daily in the enterprise, nevertheless have a profound and direct effect on what can be accomplished with computing technology.
Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:28 AM/EST
By Eileen Feretic The ever-growing revelations involving the phone-hacking scandal of Rupert Murdoch's News of the World--which go back at least as far as 2005--are appalling on many levels. The misdeeds have robbed hundreds, possibly thousands, of people of their...
Wednesday, January 12, 2011 10:40 AM/EST
by Tim Moran People have been cleaning their clothes in washing machines for 100 years, give or take. It's a simple process, really, and at the core it has not changed much in all that time. Wikipedia explains: "To clean...
Wednesday, September 15, 2010 11:18 AM/EST
By Samuel Greengard I just spent the last three days in Colombia. No, I wasn't kidnapped and I didn't meet Juan Valdez or the world's shortest man. I did spend a lot of time talking to corporate executives and touring...