Kids always seem to be ahead of trends, and marketers realize the importance of new products and services taking off with the younger set. A new study in the Journal of Consumer Research helps identify which children might be the trendsetters of their generation.
The companies are pairing Cisco’s mobile WiMax infrastructure with Clearwire’s ecosystem of partners to deploy mobile broadband.
There’s a disconnect between some video-streaming applications approved for 3G use in Apple’s App Store and those, like SlingPlayer Mobile, which are limited to Wi-Fi access only. While Apple has certainly not been shy about exercising its veto power over App Store applications–just ask Trent Reznor, for example–it’s unclear why Sling’s…
The Attorneys General from Illinois, Connecticut, and Missouri have apparently talked Craigslist into making some significant changes to its Erotic Services section—like closing it down and opening a new adult section of the site that will be closely monitored. It’s going to be tough to stop prostitutes from scuttling off to less-moderate
Artist Dylan Roscover did this amazing job recreating a famous Steve Jobs picture using Apple’s classic typefaces, used since its beginning in the 70s.
The few bits I’ve managed to glean about Office 2010 so far have made it seem that SharePoint 2010 is the family member most likely to be tweaked the most. (The rest of the Office 2010 (”Office 14″) suite sounds like it will be getting relatively minor updates.)
We’ve been hearing more about card skimmers on ATMs throughout America. Reports now say that it has gotten to the point that M has already been stolen via card-skimming in New York alone.
Dante_J writes “In the Australian Federal budget presented last night, as well as big national infrastructure spending, an amount of .6 million over four years was allocated for an “Australian Space Science Program”. Normally a Space Program is managed by a Space Agency. Does this now mean that Australian will follow the recommendations of the Senate Space Science report and give up it’s rather inadequate title of the only top 20 GDP nation not to have one? With nations like Vietnam, Bangladesh and Bulgaria forming or maintaining Space Agencies, this government infrastructure is obviously not limited to G-20 nations. Discussions to combine Australian and New Zealand airspace have been undertaken, should that translate to aerospace too, and both nations form an ANZAC Space Agency together?”
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