This City Doesn't Want You
By Tim Moran Why would anyone build a new city covering about 15 square miles in the southeast corner of New Mexico, but not want anyone to live there? Pegasus Global Holdings, that's who. This private in....
By Tim Moran Why would anyone build a new city covering about 15 square miles in the southeast corner of New Mexico, but not want anyone to live there? Pegasus Global Holdings, that's who. This private in....
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 ....
By Samuel Greengard Right now, social media is all the buzz--and for good reason. It connects people in new and profoundly different ways, and it allows a fundamentally different type of interaction: bott....
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 ear....
By Tim Moran It's all in the eye of the beholder. A recent story from NYDailyNews.com covered Symantec's annual "Internet Security Threat Report." Clearly, this kind of report is not something Daily News ....
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....
By Samuel Greengard Social media is an amazing thing. Unfortunately, too many people and companies use Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn and other services in an ineffective or obnoxious way. Here are some of t....
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,....
By Tim Moran IT has always been in a position of power, in the sense that those employed within its ranks often have access to the most sensitive company data. This isn't a problem when things are going w....
By Sam Greengard A few weeks ago, my four-year-old laptop went DOA and, after much deliberation, I decided to buy the new iPad with a Bluetooth keyboard. When the unit arrived and I began installing apps,....
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. Sendin....
By Samuel Greengard If the Internet has proved one thing about human nature, it's that it's possible to hold a megaphone up to stupidity. Peruse discussion boards and reader comments at news sites, and yo....
By Samuel Greengard It's disturbing--and creepy--to learn that a growing number of employers are asking job applicants for their personal passwords to social media sites such as Facebook and LinkedIn. The....
By Samuel Greengard Take a poll of your 10 closest friends and I'm willing to wager that, if they're working, they will complain about working way too much. Twenty years ago, we were reading about how tec....
By Tim Moran November 17, 2011: A quartet of unmanned ocean vehicles, called Wave Gliders, were launched from San Francisco's St. Francis Yacht Club by Liquid Robotics, an ocean-data services provider and....