Last week, a jury smacked Apple with a $625 million bill in a lawsuit over Cover Flow. Alexander Poltorak, CEO of General Patent Corporation, explains why the damages could go down by two thirds -- or even increase.READ»
CoverFlow is how Mac users view documents, music, videos--most every type of file on its laptops and mobile devices. Now a judge says the company swiped it from Mirror Worlds LLC. READ»
My story has occasioned a healthy amount of reaction around the web, including from TED and Chris Anderson himself.First, the snark: Maura at The Awl (a commentary site run by ex-Gawkers) calls the story "breathless" and TEDsters ...READ»
What makes a college environmentally friendly? Does it need scores of rooftop solar panels and LEED-certified buildings or will a PETA-approved cafeteria menu suffice?READ»
As Little Italy drowned its sorrows with buckets of grappa and espresso chasers, innovation was poking fun at oil giants, skittering around on its bionic paws and playing Hunt the New Facebook Employee in the corridors of the White ...READ»
A new sustainability certification system for products has just been unveiled by Cradle to Cradle guru William McDonough and endorsed by California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Is it the change we've been looking for? READ»
Key business lessons can come from unlikely places. One man found them by spending six years on a bench in his back yard.
Michael O'Malley, Ph.D. says that beehives are the "original sustainable enterprises" that go back millennia, ...READ»
The wonderful work-life world of designer/inventor Steven M. Johnson. From his days at Honda, to his musings on office life, we look at a career of daydream creation.READ»
After a weekend of Apple selling its newest offering in the order of $150 million in revenue, I was inspired to ask, "What do these other players — IBM, Warner Brothers, and Microsoft have in common — that we can all learn from?"READ»
Lisa Lapin
Director of University Communications
Stanford University
Palo Alto, California
Lapin, 45, helped start Futurity, a Web site that aggregates highlights of the latest research from more than 55 universities, from ...READ»
You'd think a college campus would be thrilled about switching from a proprietary email system to Gmail--but Yale has delayed that very switch over a variety of mostly ridiculous fears.READ»
Elizabeth Stark is cofounder of Open Video Alliance, visiting fellow at the Yale Information Society Project, and lecturer in Computer Science at Yale University. FastCompany.com spoke to her about the need to keep online videos from becoming just like television.READ»
Valerie Casey recaps her Designers Accord keynote from last week's SXSW Interactive festival, and includes some suggestions for action designers can take today.READ»
A new documentary profiles the late Samuel Mockbee, founder of Auburn University's Rural Studio--which taught students by building houses in rural Alabama.READ»
This blog is part of our Inspired Ethonomics series. It's co-authored by Second Nature President Anthony Cortese and Senior Fellow Georges Dyer.
Tell me and I will forget. Show me and I may remember. Involve me and I will ...READ»
The aughts were all about aught-onomy...but that's so last decade. Entrepreneurs need to stop overextending their firms by trying to do everything and start coming up with better ways to work together.READ»
Measurement, accountability, human rights, self-improvement, and more. Responses from leaders in business, philanthropy, and the social sector ran the gamut, and included a poem and an inspirational tale. See others in Part I, already ...READ»
