Major online retailers are finding early success in the mobile shopping market, but don’t count out brick-and-mortar stores yet.
According to a new report from Nielsen, mobile commerce, with mobile shopping in particular, continues to skyrocket, but major brands continue to dominate the scene.
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As smartphones explode in popularity, augmented reality is starting to move from novelty to utility.
Yelp quietly added a feature to its iPhone app in 2009 that blurred the line between the real and the virtual. If you held your handset up and looked at the world through its screen, you’d see little floating tags containing the names, user ratings, and other details of businesses around you.
Count Apple co-founder and tech icon Steve Wozniak among the skeptics on cloud computing.
Cloud computing is here to stay, but not all of us like the idea of putting our personal data onto what is essentially a shared resource beyond our control. No less a tech icon than Apple co-founder Steve Wozniak expressed his reservations on this topic this weekend.
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Disruptive technologies are a potential pot of gold.
If you are looking to get ahead at your current job or you are a budding entrepreneur, just keep your eyes on these four technologies to help put you ahead of the curve.
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Where do small business owners get the money to expand their businesses? Many entrepreneurs, policy makers, and academics have wondered about that same question but thanks to the efforts of researchers at the Census Bureau, we know the answer.
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Drop the trash into a pneumatic tube and the pneumatic garbage removal system sucks it to a central processing facility.
Songdo, South Korea is the city of the future.
When you’re building a new city, there’s plenty of technology and features to consider that either didn’t exist or weren’t practical in the past. These range from in-building technology to the municipal systems, from private perks to public services.
An agronomist measures and records corn growth and other processes.
Many U.S. colleges see a boom in enrollment for agriculture as students flock to study subjects they feel offer a clear path to a job on graduation.
Continue reading… “U.S. colleges see increased demand for degrees in agriculture”
Chemotherapy works by inhibiting reproduction of fast-dividing cells such as those found in tumors.
A new study that came out Sunday has found that cancer-busting chemotherapy can cause damage to healthy cells which triggers them to secrete a protein that sustains tumor growth and resistance to further treatment.
Continue reading… “Chemotherapy can backfire and cause cancer to grow”
Twitter has the opportunity to become extraordinarily aligned with their best users.
Advertisers are the actual customer of the TV networks – not the viewers. Both of these groups had similar goals for a long time. Viewers wanted shows they wanted to watch and advertisers wanted lots of viewers to watch these shows. So the TV networks used ratings as a proxy for advertiser happiness and there wasn’t much of a problem.
If you had a choice of flying from Boston to San Diego in a plane piloted by a single machine or the combined intelligence of 3,000 people, which would you choose?
Legs just don’t grow on trees!
Quote of the Day: “If opportunity doesn’t knock, build a door.” – Milton Berle
DirecTV revealed its first ever quarterly customer losses, with some 52,000 homes dropping the service in the second quarter.
High unemployment, a weak housing market ombined with a mature business prone to regular programming blackouts has seen more than 400,000 American homes drop their pay-TV service since the start of the year.
Continue reading… “Americans dropping pay-TV services in record numbers”