Thursday, October 15, 2009
Using Cellphones to Change the World
It’s an unlikely medical device: a sleek smartphone more suited to a nightclub than a rural health clinic.
Monday, September 21, 2009
Project “Gaydar”
Two students partnered up to take on the latest Internet fad: the online social networks that were exploding into the mainstream. With people signing up in droves to reconnect with classmates and old crushes from high school, and even becoming online “friends” with their family members, the two wondered what the online masses were unknowingly telling the world about themselves.
Tuesday, July 7, 2009
Municipal Complaint? There’s An App For That
Boston City Hall, a drab concrete monument to 1960s Brutalism run by a self-described urban mechanic who despises voice mail, isn’t exactly known as a hotbed of technological innovation.
Wednesday, December 31, 2008
The Unsung Story of Quest for Fame
Legendary blues guitarist B.B. King had a point when he sang “Never Make Your Move Too Soon.” Just ask Mike Fritz, a Framingham man who helped develop a billion-dollar idea 11 years before its time.
Tuesday, December 30, 2008
HP Printers: Big in Iran?
There’s lots of talk in the tech industry these days about capitalizing on growth in “emerging markets,” countries like China, Vietnam and Brazil where people are rapidly buying computers and printers.
A story in Monday’s Boston Globe says Hewlett-Packard Co. is taking that strategy one step further: Its printers, writes Farah Stockman, “have become a top seller” in Iran–a country whose economy the U.S. government wants to prevent from emerging.
Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Aggregation, Aggravation, Litigation
There’s a fresh dust-up over news headline aggregation going on now in Massachusetts as yet another publisher, in a misguided effort to keep its content in a silo, tries to buck the very nature of the Web. GateHouse Media, which owns 125 local papers across the state, is suing the New York Times Co., parent of the Boston Globe, over the links to GateHouse stories from the Globe’s Web sites.
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
Depression 2009: What Would It Look Like?
Over the past few months, Americans have been hearing the word “depression” with unfamiliar and alarming regularity. The financial crisis tearing through Wall Street is routinely described as the worst since the Great Depression, and the recession into which we are sinking looks deep enough, financial commentators warn, that a few poor policy decisions could put us in a depression of our own.
Friday, June 20, 2008
The Meaning of the Butterfly
Some scientists see their work make headlines. But MIT meteorologist Edward Lorenz watched his work become a catch phrase. Lorenz, who died in April, created one of the most beguiling and evocative notions ever to leap from the lab into popular culture: the “butterfly effect,” the concept that small events can have large, widespread consequences.
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Can the Smallest State Be a High-Tech Hub?
Lee Hower lived the quintessential Internet start-up life as an early employee at PayPal and part of the founding team of LinkedIn, the social network for professionals. But three years ago, Hower left Silicon Valley’s heady entrepreneurial scene for what might seem the outer reaches of the tech universe. Last week, when Hower–now a venture capitalist–mingled with entrepreneurs hatching new Web sites, tech company founders looking to hire and about 100 self-identified geeks, he wasn’t in Palo Alto, Calif., or even Boston–he was in an art gallery in downtown Providence, Rhode Island.
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