Here's Why Wired's Former Editor Thinks 3D Printing Is More Than Just A Fad
The following is an excerpt from Chris Anderson's upcoming book "Makers," and appears here with permission, Copyright (c) Chris Anderson, 2012. Published by Crown Business, an imprint of the Crown...
View ArticleTwitter Is Going To Add Instagram Style Filters For Its Photos By Year End
One of the things that makes Instagram so popular is its filters that can turn a boring photo in a beautiful piece of art. (That is, "art," in the Instagrammer's mind, at least.)Now Twitter is going...
View ArticleThese Simple Business Lessons From 'Casablanca' Could Save The American Economy
One mistake many companies make is emphasizing short-term profit at the expense of long-term value.In squeezing every dollar out of a business today, the companies often reduce much greater value they...
View ArticleBII REPORT: Why Mobile Video Is Set To Explode
Mobile video has historically been held back by a single factor: bandwidth. But 4G LTE is changing that, and mobile video is already more popular on the faster wireless networks. Mobile video is...
View ArticleTim Cook: Here's Why Jony Ive Won The Battle To Lead Apple Into The Future...
Apple CEO Tim Cook revealed why he decided to give Jony Ive responsibility for much of the future success of Apple in his interview with Bloomberg BusinessWeek.Ive had only been in charge of Apple's...
View ArticleJust The Latest Example Of Why Amazon Is One Of The Most Successful Companies...
Way back in the ancient days of the 1990s, a few thousand ecommerce startups were vying to take over the world.One of them, Amazon, grabbed an early lead.And it has maintained that lead right through...
View ArticleApparently, You Could Learn Any Of These Two Dozen Technical Skills By The...
Over on question and answer site Quora, a student with a long winter break ahead of him wants to know: "What are some useful technical skills I can learn within a day?"How very Benjamin Franklin of...
View ArticleVIDEO: Gene Munster's Big Presentation On The Future Of Apple (AAPL)
We've already published the slides of Gene Munster's big presentation on the future of Apple at our IGNITION conference. If you want to see the presentation straight from the man himself, here's the...
View ArticleTwo Reasons Apple Will Make A Television, Not Just A Little Apple TV Box (AAPL)
The most recent round of reporting on Apple's television project centered on the idea that it would just make a suped-up version of the current Apple TV.Jessica Vascellaro and Shalini Ramachandran at...
View ArticleLinkedIn's Incredible 2012 (LNKD)
It was a big year for LinkedIn.While it seems like the stock of newly public tech companies such as Groupon, Zynga, and Facebook have been stagnant or falling, LinkedIn's stock has been on a tear.Add...
View ArticleHere's A Homemade Tank Using A Playstation Controller To Fire At Assad's Troops
A good friend in the Explosive Ordnance Disposal business once told me how I could use a Glade Plug-In as the trigger on a victim-operated Improvised Explosive Device, so it comes as no surprise when I...
View ArticleHow Can Apple Afford To Replace A Smashed iPhone 5 For Just $229? (AAPL)
Well, it finally happened.After four years of owing an iPhone, Ishattered the screen for the first time.It fell out of my jacket pocket as I started to ascend the Manhattan Bridge on my bike. One...
View ArticleInstagram Will No Longer Let You See Photos In Twitter (FB)
Earlier today, Instagram pulled the plug on Twitter and will no longer let you display your photos in your Twitter stream.TechCrunch was the first to notice the change and AllThingsD confirmed it with...
View ArticleWhy In The World Should Instagram Allow Twitter To Scrape Its Photos? (FB,...
It used to be that when an Instagram user took a photo and then shared it with Twitter, that photo would show up in the Twitter user's tweet on Twitter.com and Twitter's various apps.Then, last week,...
View ArticleREPORT: Bloomberg Considering A Bid For The Financial Times
Chatter about either Bloomberg or Reuters purchasing British financial newspaper The Financial Times has been growing for awhile.Now from Amy Chozick and Michael Barbaro at The New York Times, the most...
View ArticleThe Joke Twitter Feed Of The Day Is Modern Seinfeld
The joke twitter feed of the day is Modern Seinfeld, which imagines Seinfeld plot lines if the show was still on the air.Read it now before they run out of ideas and it gets bad.Here's a sample of the...
View ArticleTHE END OF SMARTPHONES: Here's A Computer Screen On A Contact Lens (GOOG,...
Over in Belgium, scientists have finally taken a crucial step toward building screens into contact lenses.Jelle De Smet and a team of researchers at Ghent University built an LCD screen in a curved...
View ArticleREVIEW: Twitterrific 5, The Twitter App Everyone Is Going On About
Ever since Twitterruined its iPhone app last year, I've been on the hunt for a replacement.I've tested Echofon, Osfoora, Twitterrific and Tweetbot. Of that bunch, Twitterrific was the best looking, but...
View ArticleTim Armstrong On Spinning Off AOL From The Most Disastrous Merger Ever
AOL spun off from Time Warner three years ago with new, first-time CEO Tim Armstrong at the helm.The company has gone through its ups and downs since then, but it has seen a tremendous growth this year...
View ArticleBII MOBILE INSIGHTS: Mobile-First Isn't A Strategy
Mobile Insights is a daily newsletter from BI Intelligence delivered first thing every morning exclusively to BI Intelligence subscribers. Sign up for a free trial of BI Intelligence today.Forget...
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