Five Greentech Startups...

The busy green tech industry is teeming with companies focused on alternative energy. Some of the biggest new sources of energy they are trying to tap into include solar, wind, hydroelectric, geothermal, biomass and fuel cells. More:  Five Greentech Startups Thinking Outside The...

Celebrating A Year Of A...

My, how quickly things change. It wasn’t much more than a year ago that Apple and Google were happy partners — at least from the public’s perspective — working in tandem to push technology forward at a clip pace. Google’s search and various apps complimented the...

Crowdsourcing Disaster ...

This article was written by Lukas Biewald , CEO of CrowdFlower and Leila Janah , CEO of Samasource . Original post: Crowdsourcing Disaster...

Nicholas Negroponte: Th...

Today at the Techonomy conference in Lake Tahoe, CA, CNBC’s Maria Bartiromo sat down with a panel including Bill Joy, Kevin Kelly, Nicholas Negroponte, and 
Willie Smits. The topic was basically the future of technology. More here: Nicholas Negroponte: The Physical Book Is...

In Colombia, One Laptop...

In this week’s episode of Too Long; Didn’t Watch , we talk to Maureen Orth . An award winning journalist, Special Correspondent for Vanity Fair Magazine, former correspondent for NBC and author of two best-selling books, Orth’s career as a journalist spans four decades....

Netflix Edges Past Hulu...

As the great race to become America’s favorite source of full-length TV and movie streams gets underway, two of the favorites in that race are Hulu and Netflix. Hulu has a fairly large headstart. It is the No. Original post:  Netflix Edges Past Hulu In Total U.S. Traffic...

Pew: More Americans Acc...

The Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project is releasing the results of a May survey that evaluates the mobile internet use of Americans. The report found that six in ten American adults now go online wirelessly using either a mobile phone or a laptop with a wireless...

IBM Acquires Enterprise...

IBM is making another acquisition today, buying up computer security software company BigFix. Terms of the deal were not disclosed Read the rest here:  IBM Acquires Enterprise Data Security Software Company...

U.S. Open Golf Site Dra...

Mobile Web usage continues to grow by leaps and bounds as smartphones with large touch screens become the new normal. One quick data point comes from the United States Golf Association and IBM, which runs its Websites. Read more:  U.S. Open Golf Site Draws 518 Percent Increase In...

NNSFW: A Column Written...

“Billy is spastic in time, has no control over where he is going next, and the trips aren’t necessarily fun. He is in a constant state of stage fright, he says, because he never knows what part of his life he is going to have to act in next.” – Kurt Vonnegut Jr,...