Daily Archives: October 26, 2012

Stores Are About To Make These Radical Changes To Compete With Online

October 26, 2012
Stores Are About To Make These Radical Changes To Compete With Online

Aeropostale See Also Amazon May Have Had A Bad Earnings Miss, But It’s Still Revolutionizing Retail Puma’s Profits Got Crushed Because Of Its Huge Restructuring Plan It Costs A Fortune For Kate Middleton To Look So Gorgeous Brick-and-mortar retailers are making some big changes to prepare for competition from online in the next year.  ...

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These New Robots Will Fill The US Military Of The Future

October 26, 2012
These New Robots Will Fill The US Military Of The Future

Email More via Howe and Howe Like it or not, robots are swiftly making their way deeper and deeper into battlefield operations. Though the airborne drone seems to take precedent, both in combat operations as well as media coverage, there are a few robots bubbling beneath the public consciousness that hardly anyone talks about....

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Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery In San Francisco (GOOG)

October 26, 2012
Google Is Testing Same-Day Delivery In San Francisco (GOOG)

Al Hasan via Flickr See Also A New Version Of Google Wallet Is ‘Coming Soon’ Why Apple Is Releasing The iPad Mini Google Is Spending More Than Ever On Lobbying While An FTC Fight Looms We scoffed when we heard Google was thinking about getting into the same-day delivery business. But now the New...

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Google testing same-day delivery service, taking on Amazon, others

October 26, 2012

If you work for Google, or have a friend who does, you may currently have access to a new service from the company: same day delivery in San Francisco. According to the New York Times, Google is currently testing a service by which a customer can order an item on either a phone or...

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Ekso Bionics’ exoskeleton receives a standing ovation at Wired 2012

October 26, 2012
Ekso Bionics’ exoskeleton receives a standing ovation at Wired 2012

The Wired 2012 event took place over the past two days in London and was host to a number of great inventors, creators and entertainers. One particular talk brought home a real sense of why technology can be so exciting and inspiring. Robotics is a field that can inspire all manner of reactions due to...

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Hands on with Instacart, the delivery service that wants to make grocery shopping a snap

October 26, 2012
Hands on with Instacart, the delivery service that wants to make grocery shopping a snap

Let’s be realistic: you have too many things to do. By the time you’ve rousted yourself out of bed, worked a good nine or ten hours, the amount of energy you have left to select a recipe, hit the store, go home, cook, and then – at last – eat, is nil. If you...

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Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal [Updated]

October 26, 2012
Facebook Tries To Silence Blogger To Cover Up User Data Scandal [Updated]

The Bulgarian blogger and digital rights activist who made headlines on Tuesday when he reported acquiring more than one million Facebook data entries for just $5, said Friday he is cooperating with Facebook as it conducts an internal investigation, but won’t comply with the company’s request to remove blog posts or not talk about the...

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The Evolution Of The Smartphone [Infographic]

October 26, 2012
The Evolution Of The Smartphone [Infographic]

This is an interesting walk through the history of the smartphone from HTC’s perspective. It points out key products, moments and announcements from the companies that pioneered the mobile computer. As the timeline enters the age of ubiquitous mobility, it brings in key stats about mobile usage in terms of data, time, and people....

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Tim Cook: About That iPad Number…

October 26, 2012
Tim Cook: About That iPad Number…

The weak spot on Apple’s September quarterly earnings report was the iPad sales number: 14 million shipments, down from 17 million in the June quarter. That’s almost three times as many as the number of Macs Apple shipped during the quarter, but it reflects only 26% growth from last year and 18% fewer iPads than the...

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What Tumblr can tell us about the future of media

October 26, 2012
What Tumblr can tell us about the future of media

If there was any doubt left that Tumblr is trying to become more of a mainstream media entity, albeit with its own odd twist, it was removed recently when the service hired bloggers to cover the Republican and Democratic national conventions in a kind of Tumblr-style stab at political journalism. But that’s just one...

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