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Alice for iPad Co-Creator Chris Stevens on Risk and Rabbit Holes

Londoner Chris Stevens, founder of creative iPad app design firm Atomic Antelope found the idea for Alice for iPad at the bottom of a pitch black rabbit hole. It was a little more than a year ago. He and his partner had trotted out a ...READ»

The Great App Bubble

When I recently received my new iPhone 4, I took great delight in organizing my apps into folders. Then I used it for a couple of days and realized, not counting pre-loaded Apple software, I only use five apps. Why am I wasting time collecting and organizing all these apps? We're in an app bubble.READ»

iFive: Mobile Video Wars, Facebook's Geo-location, Swine Flu 2 (Infectious Boogaloo), Malaria Nexus, U.K.'s Green Truck Stop

While you were sleeping, innovation resigned in a truly innovative way: It wrote a letter to its boss, and sent it snail mail.1. A couple of "cool new mobile features" are to be unveiled by Google on Thursday for Android phones. It's ...READ»

Scaling Startups

How can startups develop a distinctive culture, and sustain it as they grow? Are the characteristics that define today's high potential technology startups the same as five or ten years ago? And does the current environment of low-cost infrastructure and open information sharing give new companies an advantage?READ»

How Netflix Scores Top Movies and TV for Streaming

Netflix is focusing on streaming video, the company's obvious future. But stories of resistance from movie studios are well known. How is Netflix dealing with this problem?READ»

Greylock Partners on Why You Shouldn't Start a Company in... Boston

"It will take time to change, but Boston must have its Google," said Henry McCance in an interview with Xconomy. McCance is chairman emeritus of Greylock Partners, one of the world's leading venture capital firms, with investments ...READ»

MOG's All-You-Can-Download Music Service Launches on iPhone and Android

Spotify, iTunes, Zune, Rhapsody: Watch out. MOG is finally available on iPhone and Android, and it's pretty great, with a big catalog and nice features like high-quality downloading.READ»

AT&T Defends iPad Email Address Hack

After the disastrous (though perhaps unfair) PR of the iPad user email address security breach, AT&T finally responded last night. Their explanation is, understandably, very defensive.READ»

The Man Behind @BPGlobalPR Speaks (Maybe) on His Motives and How Pranking Fuels Charity

Keep a bowl of salt beside you while reading this, just in case, but a man claiming to be behind the hilarious and cutting @BPGlobalPR Twitter account has written an article describing his motives and how @BPGlobalPR is helping out monetarily.READ»

SolarMagic Raises Solar Panel Efficiency by 20%

Solar panels suffer from being an imperfect tech, and differences between the quality of each individual cell can even affect how efficiently the whole thing works. Enter National Semiconductor, with smart solar optimizer chips.The ...READ»

Google's Minnie Ingersoll Talks Fiber, Workplace Perks, and Surfing

Ingersoll and Google's Alternate Access team are working on creating next-generation broadband networks -- featuring speeds up to 100 times today's standard -- to spur the coming wave of online innovation.READ»

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Microsoft's Project Pink Social Networking Phones Coming Monday

A slip of the tongue from memory card maker SanDisk revealed that Microsoft's Monday announcement will, in fact, be its Project Pink phones. So what do we know about them?READ»

Social Media Getting a Bit Too Up-Close, Personal, Erroneous

Is it just me, or is social media getting a little creepy? This week I came across a couple of Web sites that, as well as being cute, funny, and a little bit different from the usual Facebook and Twitter offshoots. The first, ...READ»

China Behind Yesterday's YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Outage

While the World is pondering the complex final moves in the cultural conflict between Google and China's censors, the story has has taken a completely bizarre twist: For some reason, China's censorship firewall went briefly ...READ»

Xtravo Explorer 3.5 successor is 3.9.

Xtravo Explorer 3.5 was released under immediate release after Xtravo OS was discontinued. Jawoco.Com Xtravo 3OS was downloaded massively more when it was released but later downloading went down and people preferred Xtravo 2.8 ...READ»

Why the Bipartisan Proposal for Biometric ID Cards Will Probably Fail

A pair of senators, one red, one blue, have today proposed a biometric ID system to "mend" immigration. It's part of a bipartisan immigration bill backed by President Obama, and proposes to replace everyone's social security cards ...READ»

AT&T's Suspiciously Great Zero Charger Turns Itself Off

The Zero Charger is a so-called "smart" charger, meaning it senses when the device is charged and shuts itself off.READ»

Digital Lumens Cuts Lighting Costs With Networked LEDs

Oh, LEDs--so promising, yet so expensive. Digital Lumens, a LED lighting startup based in Boston, thinks it has a solution for commercial customers with a system of networked LED lights that communicate with each other via an ...READ»

MIT Media Lab Unwraps Its New Digs

The building will now host MIT's most storied hothouse for interactive design innovation.READ»

Google's Prototype Mirror Could Cut Costs of Solar Thermal Plant Construction

Google continues its quest to revolutionize the energy industry with a new type of mirror that could cut the cost of building a solar thermal plant in half. The Internet giant is remaining mostly mum about the mirror technology, but ...READ»

Spotify Users Buy 13% Less Music? Not So Says Spotify [UPDATED]

Spotify, the successful European company (and our #15 most innovative company of the year), which plans to enter the U.S. market this year, offers up free streaming of music--great for users, but it’s not helping the industry, ...READ»

Is the Bloom Box Energy Server the Future of Plug and Play Electricity?

After 8 years in stealth mode, Bloom Energy has finally revealed all about its Bloom Box fuel cell device (AKA the Bloom Energy Server).READ»

It's Official: Google Can Buy and Sell Energy

In December, Google formed an energy subsidiary with the creative moniker of Google Energy. Last month, Google quietly put in a request to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission to buy and sell electricity on wholesale markets. ...READ»

Four iPhone Apps to Shut Up Climate Change-Doubters

If you've got a friend, relative, or famous radio personality who makes a point of doubting the effects or even the existence of climate change--especially if that person cites a snowstorm as evidence--we've got a few apps that'll ...READ»

Nissan Leaf EV to Hit the Streets Later This Year

Early adopters, get ready: Nissan is reportedly gearing up to take reservations for the all-electric Leaf in April. The company will take orders in August, and deliveries of the affordable ($25,000 to $35,000) sedan will begin in ...READ»