Parenting In The Age Of Apps: Is That iPad Help Or Harm?
hide captionWith tablet technology still relatively new, pediatricians are trying to understand how interactive media affects children. iStockphoto.com With tablet technology still relatively new, pediatricians are trying to understand how interactive media affects children. iStockphoto.com When it comes to media, parents all want to know: How much is…
How Foursquare’s Wacky Friday&Afternoon Art Hour Helps Employees Think …
Every Friday at 5 p.m., 15 or so Foursquare engineers, designers, and researchers step away from their computers for mandatory art time. Each week, a different person proposes a creative exercise: Create an object that helps people deal with sorrow, or design the elevator control panel for a 1,000-story building, It…
Jenny McCarthy criticized for vaccination beliefs on Twitter
November 18, 2012. Jenny McCarthy arrives at the 40th American Music Awards in Los Angeles, California. An innocuous question Jenny McCarthy posed on Twitter took an unexpected turn when she was barraged with criticism regarding her views on vaccination reports Us magazine. “What is the most important personality trait you for in…
Are the Hopes for a Future Apple HDTV really Toast?
In December 2013, NBC’s Brian Williams interviewed Apple’s CEO Tim Cook. Williams asked Cook, “What can you do for television watching what do you know that’s going to change the game that we don’t know yet. Cook’s response: It’s a market we see that’s been left behind.” He further noted Today,…
BlackBerry Sells U.S. Real Estate As Restructuring Picks Up Pace
As part of its restructuring plans, BlackBerry has sold its U.S. headquarters in Irving, Texas to Brookfield Property Group for an undisclosed sum. The company will not move out of the campus, but will leaseback about 37% of the property instead. The fact that BlackBerry is looking to make do…
Surgeon Simulator Touch out on iPad for $6
The gruesome, hilarious Surgeon Simulator is out now on the iTunes App Store for $6/ 3.99. Just as in the PC version, in Surgeon Simulator Touch you’ll play as the terribly inept surgeon Nigel Burke, badly performing all kinds of surgeries to save the life of poor patient Bob. The most important…
Struggling BlackBerry sells its US office
Faced with mounting losses and unsold inventory, struggling smartphone maker BlackBerry has sold its US office in Texas to Brookfield Property Group as it seeks to rationalise costs. Financial details of the transaction were not disclosed. “We can confirm that Brookfield Property Group has purchased BlackBerry’s Irving, Texas campus property….
Apple, HP, Intel may be hit by slowdown in growth of smartphone sales
The smartphone business has generated staggering wealth for companies such as Apple and triggered a recent scramble by Hewlett-Packard and Intel to try for a piece of the action. But it now looks like its best days may be behind it, a troubling trend for companies here and elsewhere that…
Secusmart puts its BlackBerry encryption chip to work on the desktop
At around 2,000 (US$2800) each, the secure smartphones that SecuSmart showed at Cebit last year were out of reach of many businessesalthough three governments have since bought them to secure mobile phone calls between senior officials, according to CEO Hans-Christoph Quelle. Now the company has developed a less expensive and The…
Six area robotics teams advance to world competition
Six teams from the Kansas City area will be moving on to compete in the world robotics championship competition in St. Louis after winners of this weekend’s Greater Kansas City Regional FIRST Robotics competition were announced Saturday night. The competition’s top award went to the UP Next Community Team, comprised…
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