Months ago, European lawmakers deemed that Microsoft was abusing its monopoly position (along with other murky shenanigans) to push its browser tech onto the public. Microsoft proposed a compromise. And just now the E.U. has ...READ»
Artist and architect Maya Lin is perhaps best known for her memorials--a series that includes the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. and the Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama. Her latest memorial, a multi-sited, ...READ»
Since news broke of Google's own Android-powered smartphone, the Nexus One, the Net's gone wild for the phone. Some enterprising fellows have even taken apart a leaked ROM and worked out what's inside it: Good stuff, that's what.READ»
You wouldn't buy a book without knowing its author. Why wear a perfume without knowing its designer? A new store in New York now reveals the noses behind the names.READ»
I'm a home inspector, and I'm looking for ideas on how to generate more business and outflank my competitor who has copied me (flattered?) in so many ways. Two of my competitors (partners) promote themselves like this: "Why hire one ...READ»
If the world is going to hell in a handbasket, why not make some money in the process? That seems to be the thinking behind Irish bookmaker Paddy Power's plan to take bets on the global polar bear population on December 31, 2011.READ»
Predictions about how industries will progress are two a penny, but when they come from Venture Capitalists rather than analysts, and concern the multi-billion dollar cell phone industry, they tend to land with a splash. Early-stage ...READ»
Wal-Mart shoppers on the outskirts of Chicago can now order online and pick up their merchandise at a drive-through without even getting out of the car.READ»
Architecture firm Diller Scofidio + Renfro returns to its roots with a big, bold, experimental design. But inflatable architecture isn't exactly new, as these eight projects prove.READ»
Devastating news for the design world: After 55 years in
publication, I.D. Magazine, America's foremost design publication, has
folded. I.D. was the oldest design magazine in the country, and
was the one-time employer of many ...READ»
Fifteen percent of teens in a new Pew Internet survey of 800 say they've received sexually suggestive or nude images or videos from others. But far fewer say they’ve sent them.READ»
Uh oh. Looks like another case of a corporate behemoth ripping off the little guy. It's mean and nasty Microsoft again, seemingly victimizing microblogger service Plurk. The murky bit is that it's happening in China, where respect ...READ»
Your next flight might be powered by coke--coal and petroleum coke, that is. Airlines including American, Delta, Lufthansa, and US Airways have signed a deal with alternative energy company Rentech to buy 500,000 barrels of jet fuel ...READ»
Let's play word association: intern + texting = ____. Setting up a date? Skipping out on work? Sexting? At IBM, how about saving millions of lives?
A new initiative called SMS for Life, born from the minds of a group of IBM's Extreme ...READ»
Earlier this year, NASA and Cisco announced the launch of Planetary Skin, an ambitious global monitoring system of environmental conditions that uses a worldwide network of sensors to analyze, well, everything happening on the ...READ»
Can you solve these typographic riddles from Bruce Pearce's Typographic Conundrums? Decipher the conundrums (they're common phrases) and you can be eligible to win a Nook e-reader from Barnes & Noble.
