SpareOne may be the world's most useful emergency cell phone. It debuted today at the World Mobile Congress in Barcelona and runs on a single AA battery, providing up to 10 hours of talk time and 15…

88% see WiFi as a commodity that should be available everywhere but it should be super secure and it should be free.  They don't care who provides it, just like water or electricity.  Is…

For innovative and high-tech startups that need financing, a worldwide drought is in the offing. Coming shortage of equity investmentThe Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports a surge in early-stage…

Could someone be stealing your unpublished data? It is more likely than you might think, especially if you ever travel to other countries. Before you dismiss this as paranoia, read on. When I was a…

Mendeley, the citation sharing tool, and the Columbia University Libraries have agreed to jointly develop a graphical and user-friendly Citation Style Language editor, which will enable academic…

Rightly or wrongly, the marketing campaign for organic food has worked.  People have demonstrated that they will overpay for organic food despite their being no difference in nutritional value,…

A latest report on the Internet shows that the number of internet subscriptions in Kenya reached 4.7 million in the quarter from October to December 2010, as compared to 3.2 million at the end…

MANY TIMES I THOUGHT THAT WHAT IS THE MOST FASTEST MODE OF DATA COMMUNICATION.IS IT THE ONLY WAY TO COMMUNICATE IN BINARY UNIT. NO. FASTEST MODE OF COMMUNICATION IS TIME INTERVAL SO I AM  DOING…

If someone talks about WikiLeaks and admires transparency and accountability but talks about ClimateGate and talks about how the emails were illegally obtained and stresses the researchers were…

As I sit here with a Cesária Évora CD on in the house, I have an update to the car AV system issue, wherein it couldn’t stop playing Bob Dylan. That is, I found out why it’s playing a…