Apple Geek Brains = Religious Brains Recently, a neuroscientist scanned the brains of an Apple devotee with an MRI machine. What he found was that each time the Apple logo was flashed onto the screen, this acolyte's brain lit up in exactly the same region that lights up when a religious person is shown an icon of their faith. Alex Riley, in his documentary, "Secrets of the… Science Curt Hopkins View comments
Twitter Twitter Acquires Ad Platform AdGrok Rumors surfaced over the holiday weekend that Twitter was in talks to acquire AdGrok, and the startup has just confirmed the news on its blog. A Y Combinator alum, AdGrok offers a platform to help businesses manage their Google Adwords. The company built a number of tools to make the process easier for businesses to be able to gauge the… Social Audrey Watters View comments
Blogging Where the Boys Are (Reading Tech Blogs, Apparently) Men outnumber women in the tech industry. This isn't particularly newsworthy, although it continues to be quite disheartening. Figures released today from web monitoring company Royal Pingdom highlight another repercussion of the skewed gender representation in tech - namely, the overwhelming predominance of male visitors to technology… Audrey Watters View comments
Apple iWorks Available for iPhone Apple is extending it suite of productivity apps further down its mobile device chain today, announcing that its iWorks applications will be available for the iPhone and iPod Touch. That means that Keynote, Pages and Numbers are now available to a huge number of users outside of Mac and iPad owners. At $9.99 each and available through the App… Dan Rowinski View comments
enterprise Top 5 Online IT Business Apps IT professionals need to wear a lot of hats. It is not just enough to be the "server expert" or the "mobile expert." IT departments are often stretched thin by the amount of work that is necessary to get every employee in the business working at optimum efficiency. That means being the server expert, mobile expert, cloud, virtualization, unified… Dan Rowinski View comments