If you're new here, you may want to subscribe to our RSS feed. Thanks for visiting! Guest Post by Taggart White: Two years ago, no one, including the creators, would have thought that a simple game called Angry Birds would be so popular. The game was born out of nothing more than a still sketch design of the birds themselves. They had no action, no goal, no mission, no animation, and no purpose until swine flu came along. Swine flu was big...

Hackathons are open team competitions where motivated developers can come to compete, all to develop applications for the hosting organization that they wouldn’t otherwise have the resources to do themselves. Wikimedia has hosted hackathons in cities around the world to develop open-source applications that run on top of Wikipedia itself and other sites. Here’s how you can host your own hackathon and attract talented developers in your...

Guest Post: It’s 2012, and much to the chagrin of early science fiction writers everywhere, mankind is still rooted to Earth with no plans for space colonies, flying cars, or robot butlers. While we’ve failed our ambitious forebears in the colonizing department, their visions for the 21st century are not entirely off base; in fact, technological advances through the coming decade could reduce fantasies like Star Trek replicators, Deus...

After my post on Apple’s new iAuthor software and targeting textbooks, I got an email from another company that specializes in e-books for education and business, BookBoon. I was intrigued, as much by their not-so-subtle boasting of having more downloads than Apple’s service as by the concept of free e-books, so I checked them out. The company has been publishing e-books exclusively since 2005, with a goal to offer free textbooks,...

Most modern businesses are completely reliant on their communications solutions and network systems to stay competitive in their industries. This means that if they maintain the necessary infrastructure on site, they will also require educated and experienced people who can deal with any problems as they come up. IT certification is becoming more and more important. Even though there are more IT positions now than there ever have been, it...