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Technology Designer Gadi Amit on What's Wrong With Green Design

Gadi Amit shares his own politically incorrect formula for sustainability: products that are beautiful, touch people emotionally—and don’t rust.READ»

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MyFry: Stephen Fry Reinvents the Autobiography for the iPad, iPhone

Stephen Fry owned what was possibly the first Apple Mac in Britain (Douglas Adams had the other) so it's fitting that his new autobiography is published as a fully interactive iDevice app that hints at the future of e-biographies by letting you read it however you prefer.READ»

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Extreme Corporate Narrative Makeover: Why Your Company Needs a New Bedtime Story

You hear the word "narrative" a lot these days. That's because we're looking for personal relationships--dialogue, shared experience, a bedtime story. READ»

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The Importance of Strategic Compass in Demand Flow & Innovation

A Note to Our Readers: In this installment, my Quantum Leaders colleague, Gregg Gallagher, contributes another post from our Quantum Thinking blog which continues our "Strategic Planning is Dead" dialogue. Gregg talks more about the ...READ»

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Facebook Getting in Your Face

Facebook is ticking off a lot of people with their lack of sincerity regarding our privacy, but are 400 million of us willing to go "cold turkey" and give up our drugs?READ»

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The Young App-rentices: Five App Developers Ages 16 and Under [UPDATE]

Meet four minor App developers with major ideas. All age 16 or younger, they're part of a generation raised with multi-touch and social media, and they're cranking out profitable ideas for new devices and platforms as fast as manufacturers let them.READ»

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Smart Design's iPad ... Circa 1989

As we wait to get our hands on the iPad, Tom Dair remembers the challenges of designing an Apple tablet--20 years ago.READ»

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A reflection on Information and Communications milestone made by USA! How long can America hold grip as an IT leader?

United States of America is generally believed to be among the most technologically advanced country in the world. While other advanced countries have been able to catch up with USA in some field of technology, they have failed short of trailing this great nation when it comes to information technology innovation. READ»

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Improvisation and the Jaws of Life

Improvising and being creative in real time under pressure is a skill that we appreciate in the arts such as music and theatre. We also admire athletes who develop an ability to ‘read the game’- especially a fast paced sport such as basketball or hockey. However, when I started researching improvisation for business applications I came across applications of its use in other professions as well.READ»

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Apple Names New Security Chief as Flash Named Chief Nuisance for Internet Security

Former Mozilla security chief Window Snyder has come on board as Senior Security Product Manager at Apple. Snyder, who left Mozilla in December 2008 after firming up the Firefox browser, started at Cupertino yesterday, although it is ...READ»

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Fire, Agriculture, Design: How Human Creativity Built Society

A new TV series flips the paradigm for art as an accessory to culture, proving that our need to create is actually what drives society's success.READ»

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Adman Guy Day Dies, Revolutionized Super Bowl Advertising

The co-founder of Los Angeles-based Chiat\Day died on Saturday, on the eve of the Super Bowl ad-xtravaganza he helped to invent.READ»

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Undead Tech: The All-Terrain Bike

So much depends upon a reddish-brown bicycle: namely, the comfort of your ass on a rough trail. So how do modern mountain bikes take the grunt out of backwoods biking? If we're talking about the Bionicon Supershuttle, above, the ...READ»

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Undead Tech: The Hooked-Up Luxury Car

In the run-up to the Detroit Auto Show, there have been a lot of new hoopties sneak-peeked by luxury car companies, but perhaps none as truly hooked up as the new Audi A8. The A8 is arguably this year's torch-bearer for ...READ»

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Undead Tech: the Ultra-Thin Notebook

Since time immemorial, gadget buyers have been discarding their most prized gizmos for newer, thinner, sleeker gizmos, often at the expense of practicality, durability, and stupendous amounts of money. But in the last few years, ...READ»

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Undead Tech: E-Ink and Readers

All of the sudden, we have three majorly cool e-book readers to choose from this holiday season: the Amazon Kindle 2, the B&N Nook, and Sony's Reader. And there are even more on the way: devices from like the Que and the Readius ...READ»

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Undead Tech: Space Tourism

Recently, Virgin mogul Richard Branson unveiled the SpaceShipTwo, the world's first commercial space-plane. With three bodies, five hybrid rocket engines, and (apparently) zero room for spaces in its title, the SpaceShipTwo will ...READ»

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Five Ways to Put the I in I.T.

When you work from home, the person in the Geek Squad overalls bent over a pile of cable spaghetti, reading aloud the same sentence three times from the instruction manual, well, that's you.READ»

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A reflection on Information and Communications milestone made by USA! How long can America hold grip as an IT leader?

For more than five decades, America has continued to pioneer and lead the rest of the world in Information technology innovation. America’s lead in information technology spans across all specialization in IT fields; from super-computing to parallel computing and the now popular distributed and client-server computing.READ»

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Apple Countersues Nokia, Claims 13 Patent Infringements

"Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours," said Bruce Sewell, Apple's General Counsel and senior vice president.READ»

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Undead Tech: The Smart Printer

An installment in a series tracking the evolution of some of the most exciting tech toys and tools of 2009.READ»

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Making sense of Design Thinking: Three definitions, two problems and one big question.

 It won’t surprise anyone who read this blog that I am not an admirer of the Design Thinking phenomenon. I will call myself a skeptic observer. However I am not directly oppose to it. If you wonder how come, you should consider ...READ»

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What Happens If Apple Grows Too Fast?

CNBC is predicting that Apple may top Microsoft as computing's most valuable firm. But that kind of success might be self-defeating. As CNBC rightly acknowledges, Apple has a long way to go before it can dethrone Redmond, but ...READ»

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Spyware Blockers and Spyware Removers Best Practices and Uses.

Discover leading spyware blockers and spyware removers.READ»

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Apple Magic Mouse Hands On

Apple's Magic Mouse is an aluminum base topped off with a curvy, white multitouch surface. You point; you gesture with fingers. It's a little weird to use but leagues ahead of the mighty mouse. I may go back to mice. The ...READ»