Apple Patents Steering Wheel Remote Control For Safer ‘Hands-Free’ Driving
As smartphones and tablets become more ubiquitous in our ever more mobile world, driving becomes an increasingly dangerous activity. Local and federal governments are trying to enact “hands-free” laws to keep people’s attention on the road, and devices and technologies like Bluetooth are doing their parts to keep drivers safe. Apple has created ways to [...]
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TrackIT launches Corporate Asset Tracking Solution on Cloud
EnTrackAsset is targeted at businesses, facing difficulty in tracking their fixed assets, which may be in a single location or distributed in multiple locations. It delivers the business benefits of effective asset tracking, without the burden of heavy infrastructure and capital investments. Mr. Soma Sekhar Vedantam, CEO of TrackIT Solutions FZ LLC, said, “The application [...]
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NATO invites Pakistan to summit in Chicago
NATO on Tuesday invited Pakistan’s president to the upcoming Chicago summit on Afghanistan, the strongest sign yet that Islamabad is ready to reopen its western border to U.S. and NATO military supplies heading to the war in the neighboring country. Pakistan blocked the routes in November after American airstrikes killed 24 of its troops on [...]
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Geofeedia helps journalists locate real-time photos
There are three challenges in using social media content for reporting, as Storyful’s Mark Little has written: finding it, verifying it, and figuring out the best way to publish it. In breaking news situations, reporters often rely on text searches — names of places, keywords like “crash” or “fire,” and hashtags. They look for users [...]
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Stressed sellers, smart buyers
When Meir (not his real name ) and his wife bought a garden apartment in Kfar Sava, they were not concerned about paying NIS 2 million. Meir assessed the value of the 4-room apartment he was selling in Herzliya at NIS 1.7 million, and planned to cover the difference with a mortgage. “Prior to purchasing [...]
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Technology drives move from mob-based to individual animal performance
Imagine having detailed individual animal performance on a herd of 600,000 cattle under one owner’s control. The breakneck pace of technology improvement is delivering a new frontier of cattle management opportunity within the Australian Agricultural Company’s far-flung northern cattle breeding and growing properties. Fundamental to the operation of the project is the use of NLIS [...]
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Rothko Leads a Record Contemporary Art Sale
In a surge of bidding unprecedented in art market history, Christie’s Tuesday evening sale of contemporary art took in $388.5 million, the highest amount ever in that field. A world auction record was set for a work of contemporary art when Mark Rothko’s “Orange, Red, Yellow” painted in 1961 sold for just under $87 million. [...]
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Hertz Counts on Self-Service Kiosks to Spur Growth
When Hertz reported a narrower-than-expected first quarter loss May 2, its CEO Mark Frissora made sure to single out the company’s 122 video kiosks for allowing the car rental company to take advantage of higher demand among business travelers in the U.S. The kiosks, which customers can use either to pick up existing rentals or [...]
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Paperworks opens Thursday at Flinn Gallery
Paper holds a powerful place in the history of human interaction, marking milestones with birth certificates, marriage licenses and diplomas, maintaining our collective memory through diaries, historic documents and books and managing our financial exchanges as currency. This May and June, the Flinn Gallery at the Greenwich Public Library, 101 West Putnam Avenue, in collaboration [...]
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Santigold ‘Master of My Make-Believe’ album review
Santigold’s second set “Master of My Make-Believe” is varied, entertaining, produced well and feels firm, very final. The artist herself is unfortunately still lumped into this gob of musicians that began making their mark about six years ago, known for their vaguely or overtly “ethnic sounds,” from M.I.A. and her frequent collaborator Diplo, to the [...]
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