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From CNN: Internet users can give Web sites a thumbs up or thumbs down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a study by Canadian researchers. In just a brief one-twentieth of a second — less than half the time it takes to blink — people make aesthetic judgments that influence the …
From InternetNews: In a wistful moment during his keynote at Macworld this week, Steve Jobs reminded attendees that April 1 will mark the 30th anniversary of the dawn of Apple. “I just wanted to point it out,” said Jobs. “You know, Apple was founded on April Fools day in 1976. We thought that was funny …
From CNN: Nikon Corp., which helped popularize the 35mm camera five decades ago, will stop making most of its film cameras to concentrate on digital models. The Japanese company said it wanted to focus on “business categories that continue to demonstrate the strongest growth” as film cameras sales keep shrinking. Nikon will discontinue seven film-camera …
From TBO.com: Andy Steele lives just a few blocks from the campus of Black Hills State University in Spearfish, S.D., so commuting to class isn’t the problem. But he doesn’t like lectures much, isn’t a morning person, and wants time during the day to restore motorcycles. So Steele, a full-time senior business major, has been …
From MSNBC: Winning a medal at next month’s Winter Olympics in Turin, Italy, could be the memory of a lifetime for some 2,500 athletes from around the world. But before a single skate hits ice, thousands of technology specialists will have spent much of the past few years designing, building and testing a computing and …
From USA Today: Teenagers have some seemingly high expectations about what technology might bring over the next decade, according to a new Massachusetts Institute of Technology study. For example, 33% of teens predicted that gasoline-powered cars will go the way of the horse and buggy by 2015. Just 16% of adults agreed. Meanwhile, 22% of …
From the New York Times: And on the seventh day, online retailers rested. At least some of them. Consumers have grown to expect around-the-clock pampering from Internet merchants, who have been pushed by rivals to offer customer service even on weekends and to remedy site glitches immediately, no matter when they happen. But this trend …
From the New York Times: The average American household now owns some 25 consumer electronics products – televisions and stereos and high-tech gimcracks of every imaginable flavor. That statistic brings that industry’s annual convention in Las Vegas last week into stark relief. Some 130,000 people moved around a noisy, pulsing display space, with thousands of …
From TechRepublic: Microsoft has some catching up to do. It’s not a phrase you hear every day. But whether it’s Apple Computer’s iTunes-iPod combo or Google’s advertising engine, the software maker’s top executives readily admit that they are coming from behind. In a rare joint interview ahead of the Consumer Electronics Show here, Microsoft Chairman …
From Baseline Magazine: Megachurches like the 25,000-member World Changers of Atlanta can teach corporations the true meaning of customer relationship management. How? Not only do they manage the logistics of having thousands of members show up on a single day and still go home singing their praises, they also manage the information about those members …