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In a modern update of the telethon fundraiser so often seen on TV stations like PBS, two Portland technology bloggers will be livestreaming for 30 hou...
Theodore Bergquist | Posted 11.13.2009 | Entertainment
The online retail marketplace for video games was recently shaken by the fact that the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 comes included with third-party technology that includes a virtual storefront.
Posted 11.13.2009 | Business
Job seekers take heed, the best cities to find work may be in Texas. The Milken Institute, a nonpartisan economic think tank, released its annual Best...
washingtonpost.com | Monica Hesse | Posted 11.12.2009 | Technology
But the increasing popularity of laptops and handheld devices, and the prevalence of wireless Internet access, means there's a greater chance of becom...
Tanja Aitamurto | Posted 11.11.2009 | Technology
What happens when a city releases public data for anybody to use? The city becomes a better place to live.
Los Angeles Times | Posted 11.10.2009 | Technology
Today the French company behind the scale, Withings, announced it has added Twitter capability to the scale, enabling the user to automatically tweet ...
Ben Berkon | Posted 11.09.2009 | Comedy
In technology news, the worlds of overbearing parents and their slutty offspring have finally collided with the release of the iSlut. The iSlut is an...
Tom Vander Ark | Posted 11.07.2009 | Technology
Weak improvement incentives and strong bureaucracy in education have created a lousy marketplace for products and ideas. I'm betting on social learning platforms as a lever for improvement at scale.
David D. Burstein | Posted 11.05.2009 | Technology
Finland and France have declared internet access a legal right for all citizens. Here's why I hope the United States and all other countries will follow their and grant internet access as a human right.
Peter Brantley | Posted 11.03.2009 | Books
The only way this book digitization effort makes business sense for Google is if it can amass control over a sizeable swath of rights and can monetize those rights at will in future business models.
Stephanie Pierson and Barbara Harrison | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology
We've become so dependent on the GPS that some of us won't back out of our own driveway without its help finding the street at the end.
Wall Street Journal | Suzanne Sataline | Posted 11.03.2009 | Technology
By making new suits with polyurethane and neoprene, materials more buoyant and less porous than traditional spandex, swimsuit companies touched off th...
Paula Crossfield | Posted 11.03.2009 | Green
A year after Obama's election, advocates hoping for deep improvements in our food system can point to only a few successes, while other policies that could lead to food insecurity are brewing in back rooms.
John Farr | Posted 11.04.2009 | Entertainment
Even as today's high school and college students are pushed harder in school, they cannot write an essay or use descriptive language nearly as fluently as their parents and grandparents could.
Subhash Ghimire | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
With few exceptions, Nepalese business and political leaders often dismiss young people when they come up with ambitious ideas. Unless they change their attitude, Nepal's future remains gloomy.
Bruce Kluger | Posted 11.04.2009 | Technology
Permit me to share a wonderful piece by legendary writer-producer-director Bill Persky on modern technology. It appears in the today's edition of USA Today.
NY Daily News | Posted 11.02.2009 | Technology
Sales of Wii machines around the world fell 43% to 5.75 million from 10 million in the six months ending on Sept. 30. ...
Jessica Rovello | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
This Tuesday banner ads turned 15 and Advertising Age did a nice write-up of the first campaigns. Birthdays are always a good time to reflect on w...
Dr. Jim Taylor | Posted 10.30.2009 | Technology
Have you ever thought about how far we've come in our ability to connect with others and how far we'll go? I've been thinking a lot about connectivity recently and have always found that looking back to where we came from can help us better understand where we are today and, more importantly, where we may be going in the future.
Rep. Ed Markey | Posted 10.30.2009 | Politics
Since its earliest days, the Internet has been guided by the principles of non-discrimination and freedom. And as it continues to evolve, we are now faced with a choice.
Ron Ashkenas | Posted 10.29.2009 | Business
People want uncomplicated products, straightforward guidance, and things that work quickly and simply the first time, without lots of extra effort.
HuffingtonPost.com | Jason Linkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Media
John McCain hates him some "net neutrality." So he's introducing the "Internet Freedom Act" to give telecoms the "freedom" to turn the "internet" into a confounding ordeal that would suck, into infinity.
Jesse Jenkins | Posted 10.29.2009 | Green
Reid and the Senate now have the responsibility to ensure that long-term clean energy R&D efforts are given the funding they desperately need to secure America's leadership in clean energy innovation.
Chris Weigant | Posted 10.29.2009 | Technology
Technology has grown by such leaps and bounds since 1969 that it's hard to conceive how things were before we all had access to computers.
CNET Blogs | Posted 10.28.2009 | Technology
Hooray! We finally have the Motorola Droid in our hands. Though it's much too early to offer a full critique, we can report that Verizon's first Googl...
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Posted 11.12.2009 | Impact