Pew Research: 70% of Americans Have Broadband 27 Aug 2013 | 12:30 am

A new Pew Research study has been released that indicates 70% of Americans have broadband access at home. Economic factors seem to be the greatest determinants of likelihood to subscribe to broadband ...

Parse.ly Does Intelligent Tagging 26 Aug 2013 | 10:36 pm

Web analytics startup Parse.ly does natural language processing to enhance the effectiveness of digital media publications.  It extracts semantic data and compares it to standing data pools to determi...

Facebook Shuts Down Physical Gifts 26 Aug 2013 | 10:17 pm

The social network’s gifting service, Facebook Gifts, is officially pivoting away from physical gifts in the interest of providing entirely digital offerings. The service was initially introduced as a...

Is Chromecast As Open As Advertised? 26 Aug 2013 | 09:39 pm

Google’s Chromecast made waves because it’s cheap, and actually does what it promises to do. It also comes with its own apps and development tools, meaning that the utilizations for the device could b...

ChargeAll Builds Mobile Charging Kiosks 26 Aug 2013 | 08:28 pm

Soon, if ChargeAll succeeds, there will be charging stations that are ubiquitous as ATMs. Jeffrey Manganis, the founder of ChargeAll, has designed kiosks that hold mobile devices and charge them, with...

Why Are TV Channels Still Numbered, Anyway? 26 Aug 2013 | 05:15 pm

In the on-demand, programmatically-bought future, fitting content into numbered slots will seem antiquated and superfluous. Our great-grandchildren will hardly believed we ever did things this way. W...

The Trigger: 8/23/13 23 Aug 2013 | 09:37 pm

iWork For iCloud Beta Goes Public 23 Aug 2013 | 08:13 pm

Apple announced that its iWork Beta in the iCloud is publicly available. Initially, only developers had access for the service, but now any user with an Apple ID can test iWork ahead of the official f...

MakerBot Releases Digitizer 3D Scanner 23 Aug 2013 | 07:28 pm

MakerBot is now taking pre-orders for its MakerBot Digitizer Desktop 3D Scanner, a laser-equipped 3D scanner that allows users to convert objects into digital 3D models. The device was initially annou...

Are All Screens Created Equal? : A Research Study by the IPG Media Lab 23 Aug 2013 | 03:26 am

IPG Media Lab and YuMe partnered on a media trial to answer the following questions: 1) Does device/screen have an impact on the effectiveness of video ads? 2) Do other variables play a role in vide...