An interesting paradox in the technology world is that there is both a shortage and a surplus of engineers in the United States. Talk to those working at any Silicon Valley company, and they will tell you how hard it is to find qualified talent. But... 

Geoff Livingston co-founded Zoetica to focus on cause-related work, and released an award-winning book on new media Now is Gone in 2007. Augmented reality promises a new level of interaction between people and data. Now, even the newest for-profit applications... 

Mozilla has just released the Fennec 2.0 Alpha for Nokia N900 and Android 2.0+ devices. Fennec is the code name for Firefox mobile and includes the ability to install browser add-ons and sync with the desktop version of Firefox. The new version comes... 

Google has acquired Ångströ, a service for delivering intelligent search results about a person’s professional network. It has also hired its founder, likely in an effort to build a legitimate competitor to Facebook . “With the help of... 

London-based fashion company CuteCircuit has just upped the ante in the Little Black Dress category. The company recently released images and a few details about its forthcoming M-Dress , a dark, richly textured, form-fitting silk jersey dress that also... 

Facebook has posted its highly-polished promotional video for Facebook Places online; it’s a glimpse into how the company hopes users will utilize its new location service. The world’s largest social network first played the two-and-a-half... 

Google has acquired visual search and price comparison engine Like.com, according to an open letter posted on Like.com’s website. “Since 2006, Like.com has been moving the frontiers of eCommerce forward one step at a time,” said Munjal... 

This post was written by guest contributor Leila Janah , the CEO of the nonprofit outsourced services firm Samasource . Leila continues to argue with me over whether or not pure capitalism can solve what ails us. I tend to take a Randian view of the... 

If Apple really wanted to silence critics, they have a place to do so. I’ve now seen it with my own eyes. Inside Apple’s headquarters in Cupertino, CA, there are a collection of rooms that house 17 giant anechoic chambers . Basically, they’re... 

It looks like the job of mob goons is going to get much harder in the future. MIT has recently developed an experimental fabric that is capable of sensing and playing sound. The fabric is crafted from a conductive plastic ordinarily used for microphones....