wordpress-seo domain was triggered too early. This is usually an indicator for some code in the plugin or theme running too early. Translations should be loaded at the init action or later. Please see Debugging in WordPress for more information. (This message was added in version 6.7.0.) in /var/www/wp-includes/functions.php on line 6114Technology that derives personality traits from Twitter updates is being tested to help target promotions and personalize customer service.
Trying to derive a person’s wants and needs—conscious or otherwise—from online browsing and buying habits has become crucial to companies of all kinds.
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What are the roles of instinct, experience, and gut in a data-driven innovation culture?
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Amazon’s massive investments in technology shape the future for retailers everywhere.
Why do some stores succeed while others fail? Retailers constantly struggle with this question, battling one another in ways that change with each generation. In the late 1800s, architects ruled. Successful merchants like Marshall Field created palaces of commerce that were so gorgeous shoppers rushed to come inside. In the early 1900s, mail order became the “killer app,” with Sears Roebuck leading the way. Toward the end of the 20th century, ultra-efficient suburban discounters like Target and Walmart conquered all.
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Facing a declining market for e-readers, E Ink’s new R&D facility is trying out some different ideas.
When Amazon launched its Kindle e-reader shortly before Christmas in 2007, it was a breakout moment for E Ink, the company that made the device’s black-and-white display. E Ink’s technology—based on microcapsules containing black and white flecks that flip back and forth with the application of an electric current—made the displays readable in bright sunlight and used very little power. It was perfect for a suddenly popular product category.
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Hard-drive maker HGST has tamed the manufacturing challenges to bringing high-capacity, energy-efficient helium-filled drives to market.
Data-storage company HGST has begun making a six-terabyte helium hard drive that has a 50 percent greater storage capacity and uses about 20 percent less power than conventional hard drives. The secret to this leap forward in performance? Pumping the drives full of helium.
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E-commerce is an idea whose time has come and gone. Here’s why.
When you think of Macy’s, you probably picture Santa Claus, a Thanksgiving Day parade, or its eleven-story, 2.2-million-square-foot flagship location in Manhattan, once known as the world’s largest store.
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A 3-D gesture-recognition chip could make it a lot easier to use smart watches and head-mounted computers.
If just thinking about using a tiny touch screen on a smart watch has your fingers cramping up, researchers at the University of California at Berkeley and Davis may soon offer some relief: they’re developing a tiny chip that uses ultrasound waves to detect a slew of gestures in three dimensions. The chip could be implanted in wearable gadgets.
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In five years, what new models of work and collaboration will we see?
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Despite limitations, the Firefox OS-running ZTE Open shows promise for low-cost smartphones.
While the word “smartphone” usually evokes images of pricey iPhones and Android handsets, plenty of inexpensive smartphones are also hitting the market—ripe for the millions of cell phone owners who want a smartphone, but can’t (or don’t want to) pay hundreds of dollars for one.
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A Stanford startup’s new radio can send and receive information on the same frequency—an advance that could double the speed of wireless networks.
A startup spun out of Stanford says it has solved an age-old problem in radio communications with a new circuit and algorithm that allow data to be sent and received on the same radio frequency—thus doubling wireless capacity, at least in theory.
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A technology for reading emotions on faces can help companies sell candy. Now its creators hope it also can take on bigger problems.
Last year more than 1,000 people in four countries sat down and watched 115 television ads, such as one featuring anthropomorphized M&M candies boogying in a bar. All the while, webcams pointed at their faces and streamed images of their expressions to a server in Waltham, Massachusetts.
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