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Are Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Coming to a Neighborhood Near You?
Posted on April 23, 2013 | 1 CommentBy Rudy Tardin Anticipating the package of your latest online purchase, your eager self awaits for its arrival on the scheduled delivery date. Expecting a knock on the door or a ring of the doorbell, you instead hear an unfamiliar buzzing noise approaching your home. As the fluttering grows louder, you next hear a light thud outside of the front door. You open the door, and look out to see your package has arrived. However, looking around, there are no brown or white delivery trucks in sight. No delivery persons... -
Are E-Commerce Flash Sales the Beginning of the End for Retail Stores?
Posted on April 4, 2013 | 1 CommentBy Melanie Appleby Remember when your grandpa used to nag you, and say something like, “When I was a kid, we didn’t have computers. We went to the library to use the dictionary and encyclopedia to do research.” Well, guess what? You are going to be doing the same thing when it comes to watching movies, except your story may go something like this, “When I was a kid, we used to have to go to the video store to get a movie. Now you don’t even need to get... -
From Discs to Digital Streaming: The Changing World of Anime Distribution
Posted on March 22, 2013 | 4 CommentsBy Bobby Miller Anime has always been a niche market in America. With its unique sense of humor and Japanese style of storytelling, anime rarely reaches mainstream viewers. The exceptions tend to be shows geared toward younger audiences, such as “Pokémon.” For those of us craving more mature entertainment, however, it can be difficult to get our hands on translated anime. For years, many anime could be legally acquired only through DVD box sets. People who were not afraid to pirate anime often relied on BitTorrent clients to get anime... -
Textbooks and other Publications Go Digital with the Help of Yudu Media
Posted on March 21, 2013 | No CommentsBy Michael Cleland Yudu Media, a multi-platform publishing company, has made it simple for publishers to digitize their books by allowing them to publish directly on Yudu Media’s platform. Books, magazines, catalogues, brochures, and business publications can be accessed on the web, mobile phone, or tablet. “The Yudu Cloud Publishing Platform was launched in 2007 and has since published over half a million publications for some of the largest brands and publishing houses in the world,” according to the Yudu Media website. Some of Yudu’s clients include Reader’s Digest, Time... -
Students Take Charge of Renewable Energy Technology with Windfree
Posted on March 14, 2013 | No CommentsBy Rudy Tardin Many middle schools and high schools share similar outdoor features around campus. Grammar schools have playgrounds for the youngsters and high schools have track and fields. Both may have walking paths, basketball courts and eating areas, yet some Chicago-area schools have been adding different features to its campuses—wind turbines and solar panels visible on roofs and freestanding poles. However, these modern pieces of architecture have not come to fruition from the minds of progressive thinking school officials. These are student-developed projects. The company behind the installation of... -
Is it Safe to Drill? “Fracking” America for Energy
Posted on March 8, 2013 | No CommentsBy Carolina Luna The notion that there is an abundance of shale gas and other forms of unconventional gas in the United States, Asia, Europe, and elsewhere has prompted a global rush to explore and extract this energy source. In the United States, natural gas is booming as a result of horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, and the rising of natural gas prices. Between 2006 and 2011 the annual shale gas production in the United States increased from 1 to 4.8 trillion cubic feet. Shale gas is viewed by many policymakers... -
BitTorrent’s New Year’s Resolution: File-Sharing Giant Plans to go Legal in 2013
Posted on February 27, 2013 | No CommentsBy Alison K. Lanier With the advent of Spotify and Netflix, piracy as an adolescent pastime is becoming more and more outdated as content becomes available online through legitimate channels. In the spirit of the times, one of these quasi-legal, peer-to-peer file sharing services—BitTorrent—has declared a surprising but timely resolution for 2013—to go legal and distribute music and movies as a legitimate partner with the music industry, instead of an extra legal thorn in their side. What is BitTorrent? Based in San Francisco, Cali., BitTorrent is a massive file-sharing service... -
The Next Multi-Billion Dollar Industry Is Just Starting To Bloom
Posted on January 30, 2013 | No CommentsBy Melanie Appleby Ashutosh Garg and Raj De Datta met at the right time. Garg, working at Google on their search engine quality team, recognized that the consumer’s experience using web searches could be improved upon if the web businesses would provide better quality data on their products, services and content on their website. When the consumer searches the Internet with the intention to buy something in particular, Google tries to make the search as easy as possible. On the flip side, businesses selling their products on the Internet have... -
Guys Save Money on Neckties with KnotFriends
Posted on January 17, 2013 | No CommentsBy Jen Heller Meservey One day a group of college guys started summer internships and discovered it was pretty expensive to keep up their new corporate wardrobes. They now had to wear neckties to work every day but, being college students, they didn’t have the cash to build up their tie collections. Their solution was KnotFriends, a website designed to help professional guys save money on ties by swapping them with each other. “After all,” said co-founder and owner Ben Flury, “women swap clothes to save money and have a... -
Blip Helps Put Your Original Web Series on the Map
Posted on January 4, 2013 | No CommentsBy Jen Heller Meservey Welcome to the year 2012, when people have thousands of videos at their fingertips on laptops, netbooks, tablets, and even cell phones. Traditional television and DVDs are quickly being replaced by websites like Netflix, Hulu and YouTube. These days, all you need is a digital video camera and a YouTube account to create your own original web series and start racking up views. Many web series have exploded in popularity, earning thousands in ad revenue and instant fame for their producers. Who hasn’t heard of Fred,...