4 Ways Video Conferencing Can Benefit Small Businesses
June Bower is vice president in Cisco’s online collaboration software group. Find out more at webex.com. More and more small companies and individuals are adopting video conferencing and collaboration platforms as a way to stay connected. As working from home becomes more common and prices for videoconferencing come down, the compelling reasons for utilizing video [...]
MTV Launches Tumblr As Part of Digital Expansion
MTV has just added another social media tool to its roster in the form of a new Tumblr blog featuring original and reblogged content. In an ongoing effort to expand its platform into all areas of the digital sphere — the most recent push being the introduction of its new digital music awards show, the [...]
Alaska Airlines Replaces Flight Manuals With iPads
First it was schools and universities, and now airlines are substituting iPads for sizeable amounts of paper documents. Last week, Alaska Airlines announced its intentions to replace pilots’ 25-pound paper flight manuals with iPads by mid-June. Alaska Airlines is the first major domestic airline to do so. The initiative will “enhance flight safety, improve efficiency [...]
New Samsung Galaxy Tab and Galaxy S Are Coming Sooner than You Think
Looking forward to buying the upcoming Galaxy Tab 10.1? That device might become obsolete sooner than you think: Samsung plans to launch a 4G LTE-equipped version of the Galaxy Tab in 2011. Samsung’s J.K. Shin revealed details about the upcoming tablet in an interview with Dow Jones Newswires. Shin also says the successor of Samsung’s [...]
Money-Shredding Alarm Clock Is Completely Unforgiving [PICS]
This design concept might be more sight gag than real product, but it’s clever nonetheless. Bringing new meaning to the phase “you snooze, you lose,” when you place this unforgiving clock across the room from your bed, if you don’t get up when the alarm sounds, it’s going to cost you. Might we suggest at [...]
This Week in Politics & Digital: The Online Influence Issue
Online influence is the golden fleece for politicians. Control of the digital world is becoming just as important as control of the offline world. This week we saw former Minnesota Gov. Tim Pawlenty announce his presidential bid online, a breakdown of online Klout for presidential candidates, Twitter’s CEO announced as part of a White House [...]
Happy Little Checkins: Bob Ross on Social Media [INFOGRAPHIC]
Have you ever wondered how iconic painter/television personality Bob Ross would portray Facebook or Instagram? You haven’t? Well, we have a handy chart for you on that subject, anyhow. So get your iPad and your paintbrush stylus, and get ready to follow along. On the canvases of Bob Ross, Facebook is a mega mountain with [...]
How Social Media and Game Theory Can Motivate Students
Patrick Supanc is the President of College and Career Readiness at Pearson, where he focuses on new market development, digital innovation and product strategy. He has been a teacher in Indonesia, an education policy adviser at the World Bank and UN, and led K-12 market development at Blackboard. Social media and online games have the [...]
The Eating Habits of Conservatives Versus Liberals [INFOGRAPHIC]
Did you know a political conservative is more likely to prefer McDonald’s French fries than his liberal counterpart? He’s also more likely to qualify Chinese takeout as “exotic ethnic food.” On the other hand, self-identified left-leaners are more likely to drink wine with meals at home (conservatives go for juice or milk), and they’re also [...]
Tesla Coils + Doctor Who + Mythbuster’s Adam Savage = Music To Our Ears [VIDEO]
What do you get when you combine Mythbusters, Tesla coils and Doctor Who? The answer is one charged-up performance. ArcAttack is a performance art group that has rocked audiences with its custom-built Singing Tesla Coils since 2005. The plasma speakers produce musical tones by modulating spark output, a phenomenon that was featured in the Nicholas [...]
Foursquare Is Facebook’s Equal on Super-Social INQ Phones
The “Facebook Phone” cometh! So the media lauded in a not-so-distant past that has since been rewritten in the truth: INQ Mobile, a device maker with a social penchant, worked with Facebook to release INQ Cloud Touch, an Android smartphone with rich Facebook integration. Monday, INQ Mobile and Foursquare announced that they were collaborating on [...]
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Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series)
Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship (Harvard Business Review Paperback Series) Beginning with the basics of writing a business plan, this wide-ranging resource moves on to cover sophisticated topics such as how to navigate the world of venture capital funding and strategies for turning technological innovations into successful marketplace realities. Harvard Business Review on Entrepreneurship offers [...]
Did Twitter Acquire TweetDeck for $40M? [REPORT]
The seemingly indefatigable Twitter/TweetDeck rumor mill has begun its familiar grind once again. This time, CNN has reported that the third-party Twitter client TweetDeck has officially been nabbed by Twitter to the tune of $ 40 million. We’ve heard no official word on whether or not this report is true; given the history of the [...]
Asus Plans to Break the Rules With New Tablet
Computex trade show is still a week away, but some manufacturers have already started leaking little bits of info about the devices they plan to present there. Case in point: Asus, which launched a little Facebook campaign called “Break the Rules: Pad or Phone”, sporting only a very mystical image of a new tablet device. [...]
