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Offline Apps: The Next Big Market?
July 6, 2011, No Comments

Offline apps may become the next big investment opportunity for savvy developers and profit-hungry investors. Consider t ...

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Chromebook vs. Reality
June 25, 2011, No Comments

Google’s Chromebook has only been on the market for a few days, but it already feels outdated. The idea that people wo ...

Data Visualization
Data Visualization’s Code of Ethics
September 27, 2010, 1 Comment

What is data visualization? As our discussion a few weeks ago with the World Bank revealed, governments and organization ...

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Social Networking: The Work/Life Balance
September 20, 2010, 3 Comments

How do we balance work and life, or is there such a thing as ‘balance’ in the new economy? Two items come to mind: a ...

Privacy, Age, and Open Communication
August 12, 2010, No Comments

What is privacy, and how does it impact the attempts to foster open communication? As we mentioned last week, the U.A.E. ...

The U.A.E. and the End of Secrecy
August 3, 2010, No Comments

As technology becomes more sophisticated, governments and organizations have the choice of either harnessing its potenti ...

Geolocation
July 8, 2010, No Comments

According to recent news reports, jobs related to the field of geolocation have risen substantially with the release of ...

The Linguistic Impact of Mobile Devices
June 16, 2010, No Comments

Since the majority of our interpersonal communications have become mediated through mobile devices, there has been a mea ...

Finding History in Open Data Trends
June 15, 2010, No Comments

The Renaissance of the late 15th and 16th centuries has been attributed in part to the invention of the printing press b ...

Limiting Open Source
June 14, 2010, No Comments

Once an unrestricted forum for harnessing the creativity and inventiveness of software developers worldwide, open source ...