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We pronounced the netbook phenomenon all but over last year--they're now merely another class of laptop one can buy, at the cheap end.
Read More »Game Developers Accuse Amazon Of Ripping Them Off With Unfair Terms
Amazon's bid to earn money by making an Apple -like curated version of the Android Marketplace seems clever, if controversial , and a potential winner for Android users. But according to some, Amazon may be applying unfair restrictions to its software partners.
Read More »Feed Your Mind
When we launched Scientific American Mind as a new publication in 2004, it seemed like a great opportunity to give readers more stories about popular areas of mind and brain research--which, fortuitously, were also booming because of imaging and other advances. What I didn’t realize at the time, but probably should have, is how often the findings in our pages would shake loose what I thought I knew about how our gray matter works
Read More »Would You Lie to a Customer?
Most restaurants try to accommodate special requests : Omitting chopped peanuts on a sundae for the allergic, or swapping out blue cheese for cheddar if a diner would prefer a less pungent burger topping is not only good customer service, but expected. Which is why it was so appalling when a former Tavern on the Green chef boasted on his Facebook page that he purposely served high-gluten pasta to diners who requested a gluten-free entr
Read More »iFive: Rebels Hack Libya Phones, AMD Gets USB 3.0, Duolingo’s Clever Translation, Bing Streetside Hits Europe, Grammys for Games
1. As the military battle for Libya goes on, a different battle has been won behind the scenes: Rebel forces have successfully hacked Gadhafi's mobile network, and have used it to establish their own communications grid. Gadhafi shut the networks and Internet down weeks ago, to confound the rebels
Read More »How Mint Exec’s New Company Will Teach All Employees to Teach Others
Training has traditionally been part of centralized departments—and the bane of everyone else.
Read More »When Writing a Business Plan Is a Waste of Time
Walk into any bank in the country and ask for a loan to start a business and the knee jerk reaction of the banker behind the desk will be to ask you to write a business plan—even though they themselves have likely never written one and will not base their lending decision on its content. The problem with writing a business plan as a start-up is that it will be based on one assumption on top of another. If your first assumption is flawed, then the whole thing is useless.
Read More »Dropped-Call Rage May Abate Thanks to Cellphone Signal Advances From MIT
By using the host of position-relating sensors in modern smartphones, scientists at MIT think they could make the phones and network perform better so your calls don't drop when you're on the move. When you're strolling or rolling through a crowded city chatting on your cellphone, there are a number of things that can get in the way of your call working properly. A primary culprit is handoff between different cell towers.
Read More »The Big Thirst: How Is Japan’s Fukushima Nuclear Plant Making “Radioactive” Water?
In this installment, "The Big Thirst" author and Fast Company writer explores how water, which technically can't be made radioactive, could be the least threatening byproduct of the hobbled Fukushima plant. FACT: Nothing is thirstier than nuclear power plants. They use water deep inside the reactor core, and they use rivers of water for cooling
Read More »Letters From Sea: A Recap of This Weekend’s Summit at Sea Conference
Three days. One boat.
Read More »Why Timberland Failed to Meet Its CO2 Emissions Reduction Targets (and You Might Too)
Timberland is being refreshingly honest about not hitting its greenhouse gas-reduction goals. "We have to fix our business process fundamentally," CEO Jeff Swartz tells us. If they can't do it, though, how can anyone
Read More »Small Businesses On Facebook: Helpful?
According to a new survey put out by Merchant Circle , 70% of all small businesses now market themselves on Facebook. This seems like a no-brainer
Read More »New hope for preventing pre-term births
It’s one of the great frustrations of obstetric medicine: humans have been reproducing for hundreds of thousands of years, and yet doctors still haven't unraveled the mystery of why some women give birth well before their babies have fully developed in the womb. Despite researchers' and physicians' best efforts, the rate of preterm births--defined as babies born before 37 weeks of gestation--climbed 30 percent from 1981 through 2006.
Read More »Get ’em While They’re Young: Apple to Sell iPads at Toys "R" Us
Toys "R" Us will soon be selling iPads alongside G.I. Joes, PlayStation games, and Legos
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