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4 Photo Apps Optimized for New iPad’s Retina Display

The new reality ushered in by the shiny, new third-generation iPad, with its improved camera boasting a pixel-loaded retina display in the palm of your hands, is inspiring developers in the mobile space.  Many are now optimizing their iPad applications as users grow fonder of the increased pixel density. Fotopedia More than a month after ...

HOW TO: Mobilize Your Website, from Design to Monetization

There are three times more smartphone activations every minute than human births, according to a recent report. This exponential growth has created 6.6 billion mobile connections and 3.6 billion subscribers globally in 2011, outnumbering the current world population.  To add to this is the growing number of people connected to the internet, like in India where some ...

AI Horizon Weekly: On Passing Turing Test, Ubiquity, Big Data, and More

Will the computers know everything eventually? Is the “Turing Test” within reach for artificial intelligence? With Turing turning a century-old this year, would he be happy or disappointed on how AI development has paced since he breathed life into a test that will scale machines’ capability to think like humans? AI on the Brink of ...

How To: Go Green with Clean Tech for Earth Day

There are several things that organization leaders could conjure up when we talk of the path to sustainability. They could take a look into 401(K) or retirement plans, review company benefits and compensation and develop sustainability policies concerning environment, health and safety.  So in celebration of Earth Day, we are putting together a few ideas ...

Pastebin Starts Policing Hackers’ Posts, Says They’re Not Against Anonymous

Pastebin reinforces the responsibility that comes along with the freedom of speech on the web. The platform allows uploading of snippets of text for public viewing is hiring more hands to start screening the site for “sensitive information” posts. Over the last few months, Pastebin has turned out to be the favorite avenue for hackers ...

Artificial Intelligence On the Rise: Big Data, Mobility, and Search Step Up

The coiner of the term artificial intelligence (AI) passed away last year, but the dream lives on. But, how close are we to that AI goal?  Is there a goal to begin with? Or, are we looking at sky’s the limit and one day we’d be able to sit beside a human-like robot in a ...

500 Startups Gets $50M Round – How You Can Get In on the Fun

Incubator programs are great for getting startups on the right track.  500 Startups, one of the up and coming incubators, has just landed a $50 million funding round to aid its bevy of entrepreneurs, proving that despite economic dismay there’s still hope in the future. The hunger for progress coupled with man’s limitless imagination has fueled ...

Your Guide to Choosing a Business Intelligence Tool

Business intelligence is fast becoming a significant contribution towards advertising strategies, crunching internal and external data to turn it into a propeller of the company’s marketing engine.  As a branch of the big data market, BI aims to turn analytics into strategies, and eventually more revenue.  But beyond mere analytics, BI serves several functions that include reporting, data ...

Anonymous “Operation Blackout” That Didn’t Happen but What-Could-Have Been

I slept last March 30th wondering if Internet will would there when I woke up. Good thing, it is unharmed. The recent threat to the internet and national infrastructure seemingly failed as “Operation Blackout” did not materialize. It was reported that Anonymous will try to take down the web last March 31st as a sign ...

Six Years In the Making: Can Google Drive Compete with Dropbox?

Like many other stealth projects from the search giant, Google Drive has summoned a great deal of attention even before its official launch date is announced. It was reported that in a few weeks time, the public will be able to access this cloud storage service—Google’s answer to the unprecedented growth of internet-connected devices like ...