Meet Douglas Merrill, Google's former Chief Information Officer, whose loan-giving startup ZestCash makes FICO scores seem straight outta the Stone Age. "All data is credit data," he says--and the insight is helping America's "underbanked" legions.READ»
Free.fr is offering an all-but-free cell phone service that promises truly unlimited data, voice, and SMS monthly tariffs. Americans shouldn't hold their breath for the same sort of innovation any time soon--the existing carriers would strangle it.READ»
Aristotle delivers valuable (and detailed!) data to candidates about potential supporters. In fact, don't be surprised if the candidates know more about you than you do about them.READ»
Want to make really smart decisions for your company? It's simple as looking into the future and assessing the data--a service that a few young companies dealing in "predictive analytics" are selling.READ»
Execs from two of the web's leading names in making data interesting and accessible, OkCupid and FlowingData, give candid advice on how to make your own presentations and graphics more appealing.READ»
295 Exabytes. It sounds like a lot of data. It IS a lot of data. It is the estimated amount of data stored across the world from 1986 through 2007. To understand how much data that is, let's take a look at some facts.READ»
On this day in history, Galileo was forced to recant his Sun-centric theory, Pluto's moon Charon was discovered, and Virgin Atlantic flew its first transatlantic flight. What's today's news? Read on:READ»
Discovery Channel is getting into the question-and-answers website game today with Curiosity.com. It's glossy, media-rich, curated rather than crowdsourced. And possibly doomed.READ»
Two new reports show that Internet traffic will quadruple by 2015--and that an explosion of users in Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East will likely make the world's web look quite different.READ»
Klout team members are in talks with major news labels and media companies to use Klout scores as a way of spreading brand messaging and information, says CEO Joe Fernandez.READ»
When it comes to infographics, we thought we'd seen it all. But Annika Syrjamaki makes infofabrics. Her Daily Pattern project uses the same online data sources that many information designers take advantage of, but instead of ...READ»
Interface: what a weird word. But all it really means is "a means of letting you do something." When you come home, you don't "interface with your house," you open the door. When you want to curl up with a novel, you don't "access ...READ»
Something tech fans have been desperate for for years may actually be about to happen: Most of your computer wires may soon be replaced with a single, simple standard. It could change everything, right down to device design and manufacturing.READ»
Android phones have many good qualities, but privacy protection and personal-data security aren't high on the list. A new app that enables a privacy mode is coming to the rescue. READ»
Several academic institutions are teaming up in an effort organized by the U.S. Geological Survey to help turn satellite imagery into actionable data in Japan.READ»
The website features something like a full-body scan of 55 major cities, drawing its data from many varied sources. Want to know about traffic patterns in New York? Living costs in Tokyo? Consumer spending trends in Chicago? It's all there.READ»
