A California-start-up is hoping to harness the power of the sun to energize Africa's burgeoning cell phone market. The ReadySet from Fenix is an affordable new charging station with an equally innovative business model. Plus, the phenomenon behind Kickstarter, the hugely successful site for creative professionals to find millions of financial supporters for their projects.
'Inside Apple' is a new book that purportedly reveals some of the management secrets behind the tech company's remarkable success over the past 20 years. Author Adam Lashinky describes a truly distinctive corporate culture that emphasizes discipline, costs and creativity. But even as it racks up one success after another, can the company avoid the inevitable pitfalls ahead?
Twitter users around the world defied the French government's ban on publishing exit polls and preliminary results from Sunday's first round presidential election. Drawing on the spirit of Charles de Gaulle's coded broadcasts from London during WWII, the hashtag 'radiolondres' became the forum to distribute coded messages Sunday with the results.
The last French voters went to the polls in 2007 to elect their president, the Internet played an inconsequential role. Today, the situation is totally different. Voters across the country are participating via micro-blogs, social networks and search engines prompting the leading campaigns to develop comprehensive online strategies.
Google unveiled a new feature on its French edition that aggregates news and political information surrounding the upcoming presidential race. The company unveiled the new section on Wednesday with a debate on the political impact of the internet.
Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey paid a visit to Paris where he stepped right in the middle of the ongoing presidential race. The 'Tweet in Chief' made a high profile visit to Elysée Palace where he met with president Nicolas Sarkozy and then stopped by a pair of rival campaigns. Dorsey's visit caused quite a buzz across the web but most notably on, well, Twitter.
The world's largest tech companies are waging a fierce battle for control of the mobile operating system market. Google, Apple, Microsoft and Nokia among others are spending billions to be the platform of choice in the new era of mobile computing and communications.
Dozens of countries have signed on to the Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement, or ACTA, in a bid to comba intellectual property rights violations. While the pact may have noble intentions to crack down on piracy, it is sparking widespread opposition around the world for its tough penalties and that the agreement is largely being negotiated in secret.
After years of disappointing profits, ho hum technology releases and a series of devastating hack attacks on its Playstation network, Sony is now trying to get back in the game with this week's release of the PS Vita, its new portable game system. In this week's Tech 24, hosts Rebecca Bowring and Eric Olander explain why this is by far the best portable game console on the market but it probably won't solve Sony's larger problems.
Hollywood and Silicon Valley erupted into all-out war over competing visions of intellectual property rights law. The dispute centered on the controversial legislation known as "SOPA" that would introduce dramatic new laws designed to punish those who illegally share copyrighted files.
