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Wal-Mart is actually good for our economy. You may not get that perspective if you ask someone off the sidewalk what they think of the Low Price giant. Nearly a quarter of Americans believe they’re hurting our financial status even more (despite the fact that almost every person in this country lives within 15 miles […]

Maybe it’s the constant stream of spam to your Inbox. Or the automatic music that seems to play every time you look at someone’s account. Speaking of profiles, how is it possible that MySpace pages are so ugly? Not everyone is happy with MySpace. Especially this guy who instigated an International Day to commission the […]

We all need to derive encouragement from somewhere. Maybe you look up to successful entrepreneurs, or emulate successful companies. Check out these 40 Quotes About Business to see what the greatest minds of our time (and beyond) have said about life, success, and accomplishments. As you can see, not all great business quotes are made […]

Ever heard of the term cyberpunk? It’s kind of a science fiction spinoff of culture that exhibits technological, or cybernetic, elements in the design. For example, Christopher Conte literally brings these designs to life in a gallery of work seen here. The set of unique pictures includes steam-powered insects, robotic arms, even unmanned attack chopper. […]

If you follow the Internet giant Google even a little bit, you may have heard about how they are gunning for bid on America’s last chunk of broadcast spectrum. If not, then you probably didn’t understand that last sentence. In case you identify with the latter, RobertCringely has written an incredibly thorough column entitled “Everything […]

With the Dow opening nearly 190 points down, investors are trying to decide whether to stay in the fight, or take flight. It’s a scary time to be a stock trader, but not all is doomed. As this Business Week article suggests, now may be the moment to strike for rock bottom bargains on Wall […]

Wal-Mart, the behemoth of retail, is axing print media in droves by cleaning house on a thousand magazine titles including The Economist, BusinessWeek and Forbes. This could signal another nail in the coffin for print media, which struggles day in and day out to compete with the Internet for readership. Facts are facts, and they […]

Declines on Wall Street may send shivers up your spine, but some people believe we are headed for something a lot worse than a recession of the 1990’s. It’s pretty obvious that the situation is complex with no single economic panacea, but where do the answers lie? Stock markets overseas are feeling the burn as […]

Who in the world wouldn’t want to follow a How-To describing the process behind “a vision-guided fireball-throwing catapult out of an ordinary industrial robot”? Sign me up. These guys are the most talented robot hackers I’ve ever seen. What they’ve done is constructed a medieval weapon from modern technology. This thing is even equipped with […]

Here we are at the quiet moments before departure after an eventful week at Macworld. We came, we saw, and we waited in line… Now the conference comes to a close for us, but not before we unveil the gizmo that we couldn’t live without. It’s not the MacBook Air. It’s not the iPod, nor […]

We woke up at the crack of dawn this morning to try and secure the best possible seats for the Stevenote. Rolling in at 4am with bloodshot eyes, we took our respective spots… at roughly 200th place. By the time 5:30 rolled around, people who had the luxury of sleeping late filled the gaps where […]

It’s a bird, it’s a plane… no it’s a fresh round of rumor mongering around the web! San Francisco is plastered with Apple ads, among them these thought-provoking “air” banners seen around the Moscone Center. People are indicating (and by that I mean purely speculating) that this may be tied to a new MacBook Air […]

Want to cancel telephone services and you keep running into a brick wall with the customer service department? What about your Wall Street Journal subscription you keep trying to cancel, but they keep delivering it and keep billing you too? How about a zealous relative who just will not take no for an answer from […]

Ah, the fresh feeling of a new year. Nothing says “Happy 2008!” like talk of financial decisions to come. You know what they say… Only two things are inevitable: death, and taxes. So with that in mind, here are a handful of things to watch out for when that wonderful time of the year rolls […]