News - Powered by Yahoo NewsThe 'Pixar of the iPad Age' Goes to the Academy Awards With Its Short Fil
Moonbot Studios has been turning heads with its imaginative and exquisitely crafted iPad applications for kids, and now a spinoff of one of these apps, a short animated film, has been nominated for an ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 09:48:15 -0800 -
Facebook: The Last Great Company of the Desktop Age, Playing Catch-Up In a Mobile Worl
Facebook may be the last great company of the desktop age. It's beaten back Friendster, MySpace and a half-dozen other pretenders, and ? at least so far ? is successfully holding off both Twitter and Google+. Its desktop display advertisements make the company billions of dollars in revenue. But that's not nearly enough. Now, Zuckerberg has to further capitalize on the growth of mobile to extend ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:40:06 -0800 -
Swedish PM wants people to work until age 7
Swedish Prime Minister Fredrik Reinfeldt wants Swedes to consider working until the age of 75 and to be ready to switch careers after 50, he said in an interview published in daily Dagens Nyheter on Tuesday.His ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:00:39 -0800 -
Colorado: Possible Answers to Questions about Enigmatic Little Ice Ag
A new international study may answer contentious questions about the onset and persistence of Earth's Little Ice Age, a period of widespread cooling that lasted for hundreds of years until the late 19th century.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 05:33:17 -0800 -
Your Odds Of Living A Long Life Just Got Wors
Research just published by a team of demographers at the social science research organization NORC at the University of Chicago contradicts a long-held belief that the mortality rate of Americans flattens out above age 80. It also explains why there are only half as many people in the U.S. age 100 and above than the Census Bureau predicted there would be as recently as six years ago. The ...
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 10:10:06 -0800 -
Velvet Rope Customs Adds Safety And Convenience To The iPhone With DoorMetrics Ap
Velvet Rope Customs, LLC announced today a major update to their iPhone application that allows users to check and verify the age of customers
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 04:42:32 -0800 -
Male smokers lose brain function faster as they ag
LONDON (Reuters) - Men who smoke suffer a more rapid decline in brain function as they age than their non-smoking counterparts, with their cognitive decline as rapid as someone 10 years older but who shuns tobacco, scientists said on Monday. In a large, long-term study, British researchers found that while there seems to be no link between cognitive decline and smoking in women, in men, the ...
Mon, 06 Feb 2012 13:14:12 -0800 -
The 5-Hour Super Bowl Ad, or, the Event in the Age of YouTub
Before you watch the Super Bowl tonight, you could, should you be so inclined, head over to YouTube and watch a preview of an ad Kia will be airing during the game. The spot features the Victoria's Secret ...
Sun, 05 Feb 2012 06:09:32 -0800 -
Young CEOs offer risks and reward
The average age of incoming CEOs at S&P 500 companies has been on the decline ? it was 52.9 in 2010, down from 54.7 in 2006, according to the WSJ. And technology and Internet companies have certainly played a large role in lowering that average age.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:49:44 -0800 -
Last Briton to serve in WWI dies at 11
Florence Green, Britain's last veteran of World War I, has died at the age of 110.
Tue, 07 Feb 2012 06:36:37 -0800 -