Nationwide, vehicle thefts dropped by 3.3 percent in 2011 compared with the previous year.
It’s tough to be a car thief these days. The technology that makes cars harder to steal and that has armed police with better tools has reduced vehicle theft to its lowest level since Lyndon B. Johnson was president.
Mobile raises the showrooming threat to a new level.
The practice of “showrooming,” or viewing an item in a retail store and then buying it online, has brought the e-commerce threat directly to bricks-and-mortar retailers.
Continue reading… “Major retailers that are most threatened by mobile”
In developed nations people are living longer. There are increases in life expectancy at birth ranging from 2.7 years in Greece to 5.1 years in Ireland, between 1990 and 2010.This longevity rise has been attributed to improving health factors, better lifestyles and medical advances. This is giving us reasons to celebrate, but what are the challenges of living longer?
Continue reading… “Top 3 challenges of longevity”
Colorado wildfire
Colorado wildfires that are still raging and have devastated tens of thousands of acres and destroyed hundreds of homes, bringing calls for the marshaling of local, state and federal resources to combat the infernos.
Continue reading… “FireWatch – wildfire early warning possible with space sensors”
You can adopt learning strategies that will improve your ability to acquire, retain, and apply knowledge.
Many people mistakenly believe that IQ is something that is fixed at birth. In fact, the brain is highly malleable and there are steps that you can take in order to increase your IQ.
Continue reading… “Top 14 ways to increase your IQ”
Chrome is the green. Internet Explorer is blue. Firefox is the orange-ish color. Any red or green you see in the map would be Opera and Safari. Having Chrome at the top of most country’s usage list according to Statcounter is certainly a lot better than the alternatives ruling the world.
Continue reading… “The top web browser in each country in the world”
Abraham Lincoln
According to a new poll released by The Atlantic and The Aspen Institute Americans consider themselves to be members of a divided nation. As Bob Cohnnotes, “Every day we hear about how society is splitting apart — a polarized Congress, a fragmented media market, a persistent schism among Americans over social issues.” There is, however, one question from the poll that showed a certain kind of unity among Americans that I found surprising and heartening.
Continue reading… “Abraham Lincoln was the most unifying president in U.S. history: Poll”
Some believe that social media conversations held in 140 characters lack depth and thoughtfulness. But Twitter CEO Dick Costolo sees this kind of communication as a new art form. He argued that short bursts of information like tweets open up new avenues for creativity during an interview at the Aspen Ideas Festival on Saturday. Of course, the CEO of Twitter would think this, but he raises an interesting point: Just like a sonnet tells a story differently than a limerick, do social media platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Vine deserve their own category of communication?
Continue reading… “Is Twitter the new haiku?”
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One hundred and forty two countries are ranked on their innovation capabilities by INSEAD-WIPO-Cornell University. The sixth annual index reshuffles the top ten and shows gap widening between rich and poor countries.
Continue reading… “Global Innovation Index 2013 ranks the world’s most innovative countries”
“Younger Americans’ reading habits and library use are still anchored by the printed page.”
Younger Americans no longer visit public libraries and have all but abandoned paper books in favor of digital media has been the stereotype for a while. But in reality, young Americans are actually more likely than older Americans to have read a printed book in the past year and are more likely than their elders to use a library.
Continue reading… “Younger Americans are reading books and visiting libraries after all: Study”
How young people behave now is what’s going to be normal in a few years.
Just about everyone is carrying a smartphone these days and we wanted to look at how etiquette is going to evolve. Checking the phone at dinner time was total no-no for some of us. But since almost all of us carry phones around, is that still true?
Continue reading… “How 18 to 29 year olds use their phones totally differently from older people”
Pebble Smartwatch
The adoption of smartphone in the U.S. continues to grow. It now accounts for 57 percent of the mobile market according to comScore. Rollout of in-store mobile payments has been slow and fragmented. Some experts attribute it to infrastructure challenges or hesitancy on behalf of consumers due to security risks. Others suspect the market just isn’t ready.
Continue reading… “Smartwatches are the future of mobile payments”
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