The Independent on Sunday writes that, according to retail price comparison service InvisibleHand, Apple’s unveiling of its iPad has piqued the interest of British shoppers. It found that on the day that Apple presented the iPad – which has many of the functions of a laptop as well as the iPhone – to the world’s press, 5 per cent of total internet searches in the UK for retail goods were for the new product.
“Anticipation over the iPad has been building up for months and our data
shows that people were not …

I happened to read an article about the ‘10 coolest green innovations’ by by Jay Akasie (Trends magazine). The eco-friendly designs were presented on a show at last week’s World Future Energy Summit 2010 in Abu Dhabi. I thought it’d be cool to share it with you as I found then quite fun!
So, here we go (“”comments by Jay Akasie):
Driverless taxis:
“Manufactured by the Netherlands-based 2getthere, run on electric power and will operate 24 hours a day within the six-square kilometer city.
Passengers select their destination automatically via a touchscreen; the cars …

So Tim Weber, a business editor in BBC wrote an article of a study that proved that money does make us happier. I know that a lot of people won’t agree with this,  and I am not sure if I do. I would want to stress that we are talking about happier and not happy.
So the study says that money does make us happier but there’s just one problem: while millionaires and billionaires have a good stab at looking very happy (bankers are excluded as they were apparently always unhappy …

Well, most of us probably know that Poland is one of the very few countries that do not do *very* bad in the financial crisis. Today, I happened to read a very shocking article about how Polish companies do not seem to take advantage of Internet… and eBusiness technologies.
Namely, Polish newspaper ‘Gazeta Wyborcza’ published research results that say the following : ‘71% of firms in Poland use email for business purposes, 80% uses the internet and only 47% has their own www sites. It has also revealed that only 45% …

We have all heard the issues of copyrights in the Internet. Everything is available for everybody and very easily copyable. Who hasn’t listened to a song or watched a video on YouTube? It is obvious that the old systems and copyright laws do not work very well anymore.
Washington Internet Daily published an article about the issue. Quoting the article: “Companies are developing new business models for distributing content in an online world, industry executives said Wednesday at a U.S. Chamber of Commerce event.“  The main point seems to have brought …