Like many teenagers, my son spends a ton of time on his computer. His passion is designing icons to personalize a desktop or iPhone interface. He posts sets of these icons online for people to download. He doesn't get paid for any of this. But he loves ...
EnlargeStaff writer Anya Kamenetz takes on both environmental icons and the utilities. | Photograph by Jayd Gardina When staff writer Anya Kamenetz and her husband, an engineer at Google, went on their honeymoon, they set aside a week to volunteer at ...
EnlargeCreative Encounter: Pharrell Williams, No. 36 on our list, with Senior editor Mark Borden's daughter, Clementine A delegation of Scottish CEOs came by our offices recently. They were on a four-day tour of U.S. companies -- Apple, Cisco, and so ...
When my father was a kid, his family had the first television on the block. Neighbors would come by just to watch the transmission signal. I was reminded of this family lore by Sony exec Steve Haber's comments about e-books in the Fast Talk section ...
You won't find Bernie Madoff in these pages. Or talk of another Great Depression. You won't find unemployment statistics or the word "bailout." We may discuss those topics in another issue, but this month, we pass. It's not that we have our heads in ...
I sometimes look up at an airplane flying overhead and envision what its occupants would look like if the fuselage were see-through: Hundreds of people, sitting in straight rows of cushioned seats, watching movies, typing on computers, eating and ...
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