Spotlight Features

Do you wonder if technology has given us more information than needed? Perhaps, but sometimes it is very helpful, if not invaluable. There is so much good, solid data on the Internet that today, researchers can use it with great comfort and assurance. The days when academics were stuck in libraries ...

Once considered the dark horse in solar's current race to the rooftop, solar concentrators are making a major comeback. Solar investment veterans RockPort Capital Partners and Nth Power recently led a US$8 million Series A round for Practical Instruments. The company plans to use the funds to launch...

Opening up an online high-yield savings account for Jeff Dennis, 57, of Brighton, Mass., was a no brainer. "I deposited $200 into an account and got a $25 bonus at a time when interest rates were in the basement," he told the E-Commerce Times. That was three years ago. Interest rates on savings are ...

Gone are the days when laptop computers were well-traveled -- but temporary -- replacements for a more powerful desktop computer. Currently, buyers are hard-pressed to narrow their purchasing options to just a few choices. Powerful alternatives abound, making this time of year one of the best for up...

In the retail world, Black Friday has long been a red-letter day on the calendar. The Friday after Thanksgiving, while not always the busiest shopping day of the year, is notable for kicking off the mad-dash toward the finish line of the holiday season. In the world of e-commerce, Cyber Monday has q...

Virtual reality has been a rich vein of computer science for fiction writers and movie makers, but its less heralded cousin, augmented reality, may have a greater influence over how we lead our daily lives in the future. What's AR? It's overlaying the virtual world on the real world in real time. Wh...

Labor market analysis needs to be part of the decision process on whether or where to locate or terminate operations around the globe. Managers of globalized or labor-intensive operations such as software development, customer service and back office support should be able to guide labor market ana...

When the Internet burst upon the scene in the early 1990s, the concept of software as a service seemed an idea whose time had come. It got hyped along with everything else about the Internet and reached a massive peak of inflated expectations in early 2000, as venture capitalists funded dozens of ne...

The holiday shopping predictions are in. Forester Research reports online retail sales this holiday season will reach US$27 billion in the United States alone. JupiterResearch is a little more optimistic, adding $5 billion more to that cheery figure. Jupiter further predicts that a record 114 millio...

An explosion of musical and technological innovation is resulting in a profusion of new, cross-cultural musical styles and influences. Digital music technology is the "core enabler" changing the face of the music industry -- as well as the habits and preferences of musicians and listeners around the...