Happy birthday, America! A 233-year-old needs a lot of candles, and for the fireworks industry, July 4 is Christmas. Over the past decade, the sector has almost tripled to nearly $1 billion in yearly revenue. But not everyone wants ...READ»
After the January earthquake that rocked Haiti, satellite maps -- a discussion topic at this D.C. meetup -- enabled scientists to find and act on topographical changes more quickly than ever. They integrated their observations with ...READ»
Casual gaming has ruled the past year, so much so that the GDC in San Francisco has added a Social and Online Games Summit to talk all things Facebook and iPhone. Part of the growth comes from the startling number of young gamers: 82% ...READ»
Fewer than 10 million people donate blood each year, meaning every drop counts. But the method used to thaw frozen blood bags is surprisingly unscientific: Docs take a stab at how much red stuff they might need that day, thaw it ...READ»
Closet wars! Companies like California Closets have long fed
America's appetite for ever more elaborate storage spaces. Enter
cabinet makers. "When the housing market was overheated, the cabinet
market was too," says Rich ...READ»
A few years ago, E3 made a mistake. It went invitation-only, lost the hot booth babes dressed as Lara Croft and Jill Valentine, and killed the buzz. Now E3 is once again open to the public -- or "qualified computer- and ...READ»
Six high-rise towers by eight renowned architects. Sixty-seven acres on the Vegas strip. Casinos, hotels, condos, theaters, galleries, and a shopping mall. It sounds worthy of once-booming Dubai, and for good reason: Dubai World, the ...READ»
Bingo may seem like old news for old people, but when Alabama governor (and lifelong gambling opponent) Bob Riley sent state troopers to shut down more than 30 electronic bingo parlors earlier this year, he brought new life to the ...READ»
On the 291st birthday of John Montagu, fourth Earl of Sandwich, we honor the classic combo named after the British aristocrat who, according to legend, ordered a piece of meat tucked between two pieces of bread. Others soon requested ...READ»
No eating bugs. No "you're fired." This is a different side of renowned
television producer Mark Burnett, the man behind Survivor and The
Apprentice. In TNT's new reality series Wedding Day, nuptial planner to
the stars Diann ...READ»
On just one day during last year's Summer Olympics, beijing2008.cn--the official 2008 Games Web site-- racked up nearly 200 million hits. That's a potential bonanza for the host that emerges from the pack of four 2016 finalists ...READ»
"We had to create these 3-D avatars that to the world say the Beatles," says Harmonix creative director Josh Randall, who led the team that produced the new game The Beatles: Rock Band. "We were like, we cannot screw this up." To get ...READ»
To help ease that transition in big corporations, Scrupski founded the 2.0 Adoption Council last June at the Enterprise 2.0 conference (of which she also sits on the board).READ»
When astronomer Jill Tarter was awarded the TED Prize in 2009, she was given the opportunity to make a wish big enough to change the world, and she did: "I wish that you would empower Earthlings everywhere to become active participants in the ultimate search for cosmic company." Now Tarter is laying the groundwork to make her own wish come true.READ»
Under her Twitter handle @Pistachio, Fitton found her niche as Twitter's expert marketer and started her company, Pistachio Consulting, later popping out a little book called "Twitter for Dummies." Now she's flexing her tech-trend-spotting skills once more by founding OneForty, an app store for Twitter.READ»
Groklaw, set up in 2003 at the beginning of the SCO-Linux controversies, quickly became a go-to resource for tracking legal issues surrounding open source and the Web.READ»
