The 45 Places to Go in 2012
1. Panama Go for the canal. Stay for everything else. It’s been 12 years since Panama regained control of its canal, and the country’s economy is booming. Cranes stalk the skyline of the capital, Panama…
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Google TV Honeycomb Update Rolling Out to Logitech Revue
Logitech said Wednesday that its Google TV device, the Logitech Revue, will be upgraded to Honeycomb this week, providing access to the Android Market. Android 3.1 will be delivered via a software update, Ashish Arora,…
Google TV will Dominate, Android Will Win Devs in 2012
Google finally upgrades When Google TV first came out we had high hopes that Google Inc. (GOOG) would deliver a dynamic product like Android. Instead, the project imploded leading one partner to ditch the fledgling…
Trampoline Safety Alert
Consumer Product Safety Alert FROM THE U.S. CONSUMER PRODUCT SAFETY COMMISSION, WASHINGTON, D.C. 20207 Trampoline Safety Alert The U. S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) wants you and your family to be safe when using…
Shoppers Are Staying Home and Logging On This Season
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER As stores lure shoppers with Black Friday deals as early as Thanksgiving Day, many shoppers are planning to stay on their couches and shop online. Online sales will increase 15 percent…
Smartphone Apps Send Holiday Greetings
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Does the idea of buying holiday cards, gathering the mailing addresses for friends and family, writing personal notes by hand, buying stamps, addressing envelopes and carting them to the post office…
A Look at Apple’s Spot-the-Shopper Technology
By BRIAN X. CHEN A Black Friday visit to the Apple Store in Palo Alto, Calif., offered a glimpse of the new technology Apple is using to speed purchases. A store employee, Diego Aguirre, demonstrated…
Voice Messaging Services Aimed at the Masses
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP SINGAPORE — Amitabh Bachchan, one of Bollywood’s biggest movie stars, writes a blog and is widely followed on social media. The Big B, as he is affectionately called, started blogging in 2008…
Pushing On-the-Go Gadgets, Google Makes Its Pitch in Mobile
By STUART ELLIOTT THE song “Blues in the Night” includes a line that begins, “From Natchez to Mobile, from Memphis to St. Joe.” Now, marketers are studying the results of a campaign that extends from…
Quietly, Google Puts History Online
By ERIC PFANNER PARIS — When the Israel Museum in Jerusalem, home to the Dead Sea Scrolls, reopened last year after an extensive renovation, it attracted a million visitors in the first 12 months. When…
Mixed Results as Google Enters Microsoft’s Turf
By QUENTIN HARDY MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Michael O’Brien, vice president for information technology at Journal Communications, would prefer not to have the employees of the Milwaukee media company use Microsoft’s Office software any more….
Patent Office Highlights Jobs’s Innovations
By BRIAN X. CHEN The United States Patent and Trademark Office in Alexandria, Va., recently unveiled an exhibit of 30 giant iPhone-like models honoring the inventions of the late Steve Jobs. Each iPhone model displays…
As Investors Flee Groupon, Outlook for I.P.O.’s Darkens
BY EVELYN M. RUSLI Unable to break a three-day slide, shares of Groupon tumbled again on Wednesday, as more investors dumped shares. For the first time since it went public earlier this month, Groupon broke…
With Apps, Wealth Management Goes Mobile
By SONIA KOLESNIKOV-JESSOP As stock markets continue on their roller-coaster ride, even investors who profess to be buy-and-hold types have become eager users of mobile technology that allows them to track their portfolios almost on…
Steve Jobs Passes Away (1955-2011)
Steven Paul Jobs, 56, died earlier today at his home with his family. The co-founder and, until last August, the CEO of Apple, Inc., was the most celebrated person in technology and business on the…
Costco Urges Stricter Safety Measures on Cantaloupes
By WILLIAM NEUMAN As the death toll rose this week in a devastating listeria outbreak linked to cantaloupes, a national food retailer said that cantaloupe farmers and shippers must confront a history of food safety problems and…
Tech Blogger to Invest in Start-Ups
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER SAN FRANCISCO — Michael Arrington, whose influentialTechCrunch blog covers Silicon Valley, has started a venture capitalfund to invest in start-ups, including some that he and his staff write about. The $20 million CrunchFund is…
Why Facebook Works for All, Twitter for Some
By NICK BILTON It finally makes sense to me. On Friday evening I was in Los Angeles visiting my sister. We were at a restaurant, chatting away about life, when my sister ebulliently announced that she wanted to “Tweet about…
Amazon’s Tablet Leads to Its Store
By JENNA WORTHAM and DAVID STREITFELD With a glossy 7-inch color touch screen and a dual-core processor, the Kindle Fire, a new mobile device introduced by Amazon on Wednesday, sure looks like a tablet, and one not so…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest…
Avenged Sevenfold Bump Eminem From Billboard #1
Last week, we wondered how long Eminem’s Recovery could hold on to the pole position on the Billboard 200, predicting that it might run the board until Katy Perry’s Teenage Dream drops on August 24….
Reimagining Auto Retail for Electric Cars
For independent electric car companies, it’s so long, automobile row. Some electric vehicle manufacturers have jettisoned the old model of franchise auto dealerships in an effort to change not only how we drive, but also…
Another Try by Google to Take On Facebook
Remember Google Buzz? What about Orkut, or Google Wave? Google has tried several times, without much success, to take on Facebook and master social networking. Now it is making its biggest effort yet. On Tuesday,…
Motorola Xoom review
As we put rubber to road on our Motorola Xoom review, it’s important to note that it was only a matter of time before the Android army delivered a proper iPad competitor. Moto’s partnership with…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon’ defines summer moviemaking
With “Transformers,” the third time is apparently the charm. Not that there’s much that’s actually charming about “Transformers: Dark of the Moon.” It is the same sort of deafening mayhem celebration as its two absolutely…
Transformers: Dark of the Moon (2011)
The Autobots learn of a Cybertronian spacecraft hidden on the Moon, and race against the Decepticons to reach it and to learn its secrets Director: Michael Bay Writer: Ehren Kruger Stars: Shia LaBeouf, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley…
Wal-Mart Shifts Strategy to Promote Healthy Foods
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG Published: January 20, 2011 WASHINGTON — Wal-Mart, the nation’s largest retailer, will announce a five-year plan on Thursday to make thousands of its packaged foods lower in unhealthy salts, fats and…
The 10 Best BlackBerry Apps
By BOB TEDESCHI BlackBerry owners aren’t voracious app users. They can’t be. With only about 15,000 (often uninspired) apps to choose from in BlackBerry’s App World, the selection simply isn’t deep or broad enough to…
Tech Show Surprises, and the Stale
By DAVID POGUE Published: January 12, 2011 The star of this year’s Consumer Electronics Show wasn’t even there. That might sound like an odd remark, but it’s true. Look, summing up the major trends of…
Wireless, but Leashed
By JOSHUA BRUSTEIN Published: January 15, 2011 Americans were liberated from AT&T last week. The news that Apple was ending its exclusive relationship with AT&T and would begin selling the iPhone 4 on Verizon’s network…
Verizon Deal May Expose iPhone Flaws
By JOE NOCERA January 14, 2011 With this week’s announcement that Verizon Wireless is going to begin selling the iPhone — something its customers have been panting for ever since AT&T got that first, exclusive…
Franchise Trade Secrets
Written by Garth Snider on October 22nd, 2010 There has been a lot of ink spilled recently about the plight of the small businessman in the recession. In particular, there has been a great deal of…
10 Ways to Get the Most Out of Technology
By SAM GROBART Published: December 29, 2010 Your gadgets and computers, your software and sites — they are not working as well as they should. You need to make some tweaks. But the tech industry…
Phys Ed: The Benefits of Exercising Before Breakfast
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS The holiday season brings many joys and, unfortunately, many countervailing dietary pitfalls. Even the fittest and most disciplined of us can succumb, indulging in more fat and calories than at any other time…
Google Fashion Shopping Site Makes Debut
By CATHY HORYN YOU know how remote and strange the fashion world is when you go to Google’s headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. For one thing, employees are zipping around the sprawling campus on scooters…
Las Vegas Casinos Are a Last Bastion for Smokers
By ADAM NAGOURNEY LAS VEGAS — The notice on the door to the hotel-casino was emphatic. “The Westin Casuarina is a Smoke Free Environment. Thank you for not smoking.” Just beyond, four people were hunched…
Assessing Franchising Opportunities
By KERMIT PATTISON Jim Denney faced a common choice: buy a franchise or start an independent company? He was an experienced business owner in Scotia, N.Y., near Albany, who had spent a year investigating a…
Facebook to Start an E-Mail Service
By MIGUEL HELFT Facebook has more than 500 million users around the world. And Americans spend more of their time online with Facebook than with any other Internet company, including Google and Yahoo. Now the…
The Trampoline – Sports Science
The trampoline is a gymnastics device, constructed from a very strong, tightly stretched material, attached with springs to a frame. The trampoline was invented by American George Nissen in the period after 1930, when as…
Trampoline Exercise Tips
A trampoline workout is a simple, low-impact way to get some cardiovascular exercise. Choose a trampoline model that works well for your situation. For example, if you want to work out inside your home, a…
Trampoline Bouncing Benefits
Bouncing on a trampoline is a lot of fun. You only have to hear the laughing and shrieking that accompanies children on a trampoline to know that it is something they enjoy a lot. What…
Trampoline
A trampoline is a device consisting of a piece of taut, strong fabric stretched over a steel frame using many coiled springs. People bounce on trampolines for recreational and competitive purposes. The fabric on which…
Google, Facebook battle for ‘future of the Web’
Sharon Gaudin Microsoft advanced its partnership with Facebook this week, a move that could be the biggest threat to Google’s search standing yet. Microsoft and Facebook announced that they’re teaming up to make Internet searching more…
Does Stretching Before Running Prevent Injuries?
By GRETCHEN REYNOLDS Should you stretch before a run? That question, which has prompted countless academic studies, debates and inter-running-partner squabbles, is now at the heart of a notable new study published in August on the Web…
Google Promotes Susan Wojcicki, Advertising Executive
By CLAIRE CAIN MILLER Susan Wojcicki, the Google executive who oversees advertising and who also supplied the garage where Google was founded, has been given a promotion. Ms. Wojcicki has been named a senior vice president, Eric E….
Toshiba will launch the first 3D TV without glasses
By Barbara Hodapp TVs GL1 Series Regza line of the Japanese manufacturer, whose screens are high definition LCD, will be available in versions 12 and 20 inches diagonally in Japan. They are compatible with Blu-Ray 3D….
New Way to Help Chickens Cross to Other Side
By WILLIAM NEUMAN Shoppers in the supermarket today can buy chicken free of nearly everything but adjectives. It comes free-range, cage-free, antibiotic-free, raised on vegetarian feed, organic, even air-chilled. Coming soon: stress-free? Two premium chicken producers, Bell…
eBay acquires StumbleUpon
Jun. 6, 2007 eBay has reportedly acquired community-based Web search tool StumbleUpon for US $75 million. The online auction company is once again reaching outside its core competency for a strategic acquisition; one that straddles…
www.StumbleUpon.com – Startups to Watch
Launched in 2002 by three 20-somethings in a Calgary, Alberta, apartment,StumbleUpon now has 2 million registered users drawn by its knack for finding websites that match their interests and those of others with similar tastes…
The Entertaining Future of Search
By: Tim Bajarin Sites like StumbleUpon add a dimension of entertainment to the art of searching. A lot of guys are flippers, taking command of the TV remote and cycling through the channels to find out what’s…