Animal magnetism [I.D. Magazine]
A technology conference takes cues from nature. Read full story
A technology conference takes cues from nature. Read full story
“So how do you feel about e-mail?” asks Simon Roberts, a social anthropologist. “How has it changed your workload?” This is not what social anthropologists are usually expected to ask: they observe courtship rituals, try to interpret ancient chants,…
Cell phones. Memory chips. Plasma TVs. How Samsung made Korea a consumer electronics superpower. Read full story
Between 15 and 20 years into the future, Korean people’s long-time wish of living longer and healthier lives will come true and Korea will enter an era of space travel by completing the development of manned spaceship. Such predictions came…
The Industrial Technology Research Institute thinks it has a way to turn the country into an innovator, rather than just an improver. Read full story
Consumer-electronics giants are using their music, TV and game savvy to build hot new models. Read full story
Samsung’s new phone for Sprint can take two-megapixel photos, scan in business cards, record 90-minute videos, play TV shows and even transcribe dictated speech. But how well? Read full story
Interesting essay by Paul Graham on why setting up a company is now better than getting a job in a big company. Read full story
The Social Computing Symposium 2005, sponsored by Microsoft Research, will take place April 24-26 in Redmond, Washington. The goal for this event is to foster an awareness of research and innovation in social technologies, and create new lines of communication…
First we experienced the digital revolution in computation. Then we experienced it in communications. And now, according to Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, the digital revolution is moving into surprising new territory: the world of…
On the heels of the biggest management shake-up in Sony history, the president of Sony Europe has vowed that the company will bolster its reputation as a consumer technology and electronics trendsetter, backed by a €1 billion European marketing drive…
Bruce Chizen, the boss of Adobe Systems, wants to end bureaucracy as we know it. Read full story
Larry Azlin, a software engineer in El Cerrito, Calif., considers himself one of the lucky ones. His aging clamshell cellphone, a Motorola V60, seems to work just fine. But once he gives it some thought, it occurs to him…
Many wireless industry executives want the European Union to get serious about the future. Read full story
Handling its own design work is one reason for best-sellers like the iPod and Shuffle. Steve Jobs is the other. Read full story
“In the Vodafone Future Vision website you can explore what we think that future might look like, experience some of the changes we believe will happen, and tell us what you think of them.” Go to website
The digital video recording service’s Comcast deal delivers 21.5 million potential new users and transforms a faltering player into the industry’s star. Read full story
Public transport users in Tyne and Wear may soon be able to use their mobile phone as a bus or train ticket. Read full story
In 1997, Sony took little notice of Samsung. Less than a decade later, Samsung has twice the market capitalisation of Sony. Read full story
A proposal to create a European technology institute modeled on the Massachusetts Institute of Technology faces serious questions about financing and academic support, lawmakers say. Read full story