Social Networking Meets Personal Finance
Web-based startups offer social features that help people make better financial decisions.
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Kate Greene
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I’m a freelance science and technology journalist based in San Francisco. I was the information technology editor at MIT’s Technology Review from 2005 to 2009, where I wrote more than 350 stories about emerging technologies in areas that include computers, mobile devices, displays, communication networks, Internet startups, and more.
I was an integral part of a technology trend-spotting team, highlighting early work in reality mining, plasmonics, adaptable networks, and racetrack memory. I’ve contributed to The Economist, U.S News & World Report, Gizmodo, New Scientist, Science News, and SELF, among other publications. And I’m currently working on a book with Nathan Eagle called Reality Mining: Using Big Data to Engineer a Better World (MIT Press).
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Long-Distance Wi-Fi
Intel has found a way to stretch a Wi-Fi signal from one antenna to another located more than 60 miles away.
Web Mashups Made Easy
Software being developed at Intel makes it easy for people with no programming experience to combine data from different Web pages.
TR10: Reality Mining
Sandy Pentland is using data gathered by cell phones to learn about human behavior.
Rethinking the Cell Phone
An Israeli startup has made a modular mobile phone that can work on its own or slip into other electronic devices. Will it catch on?
Smart Badges Track Human Behavior
MIT researchers used conference badges to collect data on people's interactions and visualize the social network.
Yahoo's Plan for a Smarter In-Box
Its e-mail program will trade data with social-networking sites.
What Your Phone Knows About You
MIT's Sandy Pentland finds surprising implications in patterns of cell-phone use.
Finding Yourself without GPS
Google's new technology could enable location-finding services on cell phones that lack GPS.
Searching Video Lectures
A tool from MIT finds keywords so that students can efficiently review lectures.
