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The battle over "platforms" is as frenzied and vital as a presidential campaign. .caption {color:#666;font-size:11px;"} .caption img {padding-bottom:2px;} Illustration by I Love Dust It has become impossible to escape the smartphone wars

In this Q&A with Inc.com, SBA chief Karen Mills talks about loan levels, a $1 billion injection of capital in small business--and numbers-centric leadership. As head of the U.S. Small Business Administration, Karen Mills focuses on fueling the economy through small business growth.

Don't like the government telling you to buy a CFL? There's no need to take up arms

A debt deal may have been reached, but experts from all over the political spectrum say small businesses are unlikely to see benefits anytime soon. After weeks of heated debate , Congress and the White House have finally reached a debt deal to save the United States from defaulting. But according to experts, the deal—and the political bickering that came with it—will do little to help small businesses.

NASA and DARPA are combining forces to create a program that will have humans traveling to Alpha Centauri in 100 years.

As Congress gears up for another budget fight, environmental protections--from endangered species to clean water to pollution rules for power plants--are all on the chopping block. Once the debt ceiling debate is settled, Congress is going to have to re-focus on the budget that almost shut down the government a few months ago

Obama's speech on the debt ceiling, choosing the right office space, Branson's underwater expedition, and more. Obama warns country of risk of default. Last night, millions of Americans watched President Obama deliver his plea to Congress to raise the debt ceiling

NASA chief Charlie Bolden went to bat for the agency's imperiled next-generation space telescope Tuesday (July 12), telling members of Congress that the instrument has greater potential for discovery than the iconic Hubble Space Telescope. A proposed congressional budget bill announced last week would terminate NASA's James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), an ambitious instrument with a history of delays and cost overruns

A top Department of Homeland Security official has admitted to Congress that imported software and hardware components are being purposely spiked with security-compromising attack tools by unknown foreign parties.

U.S. nukes are safe! As they can be...

The British Library is making 250,000 texts available through Google's Books system, which is an admirable way to make historic books useful to the world again. Could this actually help shape the future of publishing? Last week the British Library was lauded for its impressive (and graphically extremely polished) effort at bringing 60,000 digital copies of historic books to the general public as a free iPad app.

A new service from the Library of Congress lets you build maps, graphs, timelines, and trees from the collective digital and digitized history of an entire nation. As digital tools move on, standards change, and interoperability fails, we lose access to older information. As our history becomes harder to access, only the newest information rises to the top, leaving us with a collective digital memory that is foggy on anything but the most recent past

Eating healthy food isn't always cheap, and some conservatives in Congress are concerned that the Obama administration's effort to make school lunches more nutritious is a luxury the nation can't afford.

Two of the oldest and rarest bottles of wine in the world will be sold on June 3 at Alandica Culture and Congress Center in Finland’s

On Saturday morning we fly to Guam, an island about one fifth the size of Rhode Island. Guam is part of the United States, although as a territory it lacks voting representation in Congress or a say in presidential elections. Location is primary in real estate speculation, but it is also central to military strategy and ecosystem management