If a significant climate deal is struck at this month's UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen--and that's a big "if"--world economies will pay the price. The bill has been tallied: $10 trillion in investments in energy ...READ»
Facebook turned on the adjustments to its privacy settings today, as promised. Some are good. But others seem ill-considered. Last week I teased Facebook for not delivering quite the service customers wanted. When will Facebook ...READ»
Hello baby! Spun off from Time Warner today, AOL takes its first breaths as a brand-new company with the ability to swap out your homepage theme like a car air freshener. How do we get newborn baby flavor?READ»
A record 11 companies made the "nice" list--nearly four times the number that made the list in 2006. With that track record, we can expect at least some of the "naughty" companies to fess up to their catalog crimes next year.READ»
Why stilted? Whatever their actual environmental benefit might be, stilts express a culture-wide desire to tread lightly on the land. They’re also a throwback to the virtuously simple tropical huts and the early days of prefab. READ»
Billboards seem so last-century don't they, with their huge paper posters and badly-glued peeling corners? You've obviously not been keeping up with the times then: Digital interactivity is the new trend, and it's just the ...READ»
Anyone can use an iPhone to find the nearest doctor's office or hospital, but without contacting each medical facility, you'll never know if it accepts your particular health-care plan. And if you're sick--or just lazy--that extra ...READ»
News coming out of the Le Web conference in Paris this week has prompted me to look at Apps and App Stores in a new light: In the future we can expect pretty much everything to have apps, and apps that'll do almost ...READ»
Music-video megasite Vevo launched today (sort of, read on). And bloggers and users alike are breathlessly dubbing it "the Hulu for music videos." But here's the thing: It's not.
I mean, sure, there are similarities. Both sites ...READ»
Sure, you could buy a fierce-looking sound system for your iPod or invest in some slick ceramic speakers. But where's the fun in that? Dean Brown's $30 Audio Can uses a simple baked bean can to house a loudspeaker. amplifier, and ...READ»
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