Software Makes Multiple Screens Less Distracting
Diff Displays reduces distraction by visually highlighting what’s changed on your screen since you last looked.
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Predictive Smartphone Assistant Gives You a Heads-Up
Startup Sherpa’s predictive intelligence offers valuable insights when and where you need them.
A Former Walmart Exec Wants to Help You Buy Less
An unlikely team comes together with a startup that aims to change retail by becoming the marketplace for the “sharing economy.”
New 3-D Display Could Let Phones and Tablets Produce Holograms
Optical trickery lets a modified LCD produce hologram-like still images and videos.
No Map? No GPS? No Problem
Startup Navisens says it can find people indoors using motion sensors and math.
Google Searches Beyond AdWords
Personalized and interactive advertising experiences are becoming a lot more important than just simple banner ads.
Facebook Gets More Visual to Keep Its Users Engaged
The social network is adapting to the popularity of image sharing and mobile devices.
Facebook and Google Create Walled Gardens for Web Newcomers Overseas
In some countries, “the Internet” is confined to certain sites as part of a strategy to help wireless carriers offer starter packages.
Microsoft’s Bing Now Can Find Local Businesses That Aren’t Too Crowded
Using smartphone microphones, the crowdsourcing tool could deduce the current atmosphere at bars and eateries.
A Nanofabrication Technique Doubles Hard Drive Capacity
Laboratory advance shows that nano-imprinting could help the hard drive industry meet its long-term goals for data storage capacity.
