Seth Godin: The single best term I’ve learned this year - “Yak Shaving”. This was apparently turned into a computer term by the MIT media lab five years ago.

Women today are in positions of greater power, in a wider variety of fields, than ever before. Here are 10 American women who are shaping the world today.

Wal-Mart is trying a new tactic to skirt
local ordinances limiting the size of its stores.
The company now plans to build two stores side-by-side at a site
in Calvert County, MD where plans for a single big store were thwarted
by a size limit adopted last year.

Samsung Electronics has developed an 82-inch-thin film transistor-liquid crystal display which the company claims is the largest in the world.

A rechargeable battery that can be fully charged in just 6 minutes, lasts 10 times as long as today’s rechargeables and can provide bursts of electricity up to three times more powerful is showing promise in a Nevada lab.

The police dogs in Northumbria, in the northeast of England have their own protective footwear and also wear miniature cameras during building searches, which send back images off site to police officers.