Global Tech
What's Behind Apple's iPhone Deal with China Mobile?
Last week will go down in the history books as the week when China finally entered the high-speed telecoms era with its granting of 4G licenses after years of waiting. But China still has the...
Kirkpatrick: Internet.org Aims for Global Connectivity
From the perspective of hyper-connected countries like the U.S., South Korea, or Sweden, it might shock us to learn that some 5 billion people around the globe are still without Internet access. Yet the Internet...
By Ann Babe
Understanding Zuckerberg's Push for Global Access
In Indonesia, a typical weekend for a typical poor twenty-something frequently begins with a trip to a local store to buy some prepaid data access for his or her cellphone. The rest of the weekend...
Why the Internet of Everything Includes the Internet of You
When the tech industry talks about the Internet of Everything (IoE), it sounds so huge it's almost intimidating. Executives toss around numbers like 50 billion connected devices by 2015 and hundred-billion-dollar opportunities. But at the...
By Kevin Maney
How Big Companies Are Feeling Their Way into the Internet of Everything
The big players in technology seem to agree that the Internet of Everything (IoE) is a huge transition that will have an impact on many aspects of life, though they still see the shift from...
Why an Internet of Everything Event? "It's the World Waking Up"
What inefficiencies frustrate you in your day-to-day life? What could work better about your home and the things that surround you—your car, your commute, your job, your health care, your aging parent's physical situation, or...
Everything Changes with the Internet of Everything
If you get lost, your sneakers could help find you. The coming age of the Internet of everything promises radical shifts in how we live, how we solve problems, and how we recover from difficulty....
Augmented Reality Intensifies Nature on Middle School Field Trips
The annual field trip to the local pond has gone high-tech for some Massachusetts and New York middle-school students. Harvard education researchers are giving the kids smartphones loaded with augmented reality software to see how...
By Sarah Evelyn Harvey
Detroit-based Startup Quikly Rewards Nimble Bargain Hunters
In anticipation of the Techonomy Detroit conference on September 12, we're profiling six Detroit tech startups that are driving the city's re-emergence as a center of innovation. Quikkly was founded in Philadelphia, but moved to...