A company can be so cool that people forget financial realities and start dreaming, though some may not be off the mark. First there were rumors that Apple should buy Palm to get a toehold in the handheld market, especially since Apple is tuning up its...

Firefox, the open-source browser has now a 10% share of the browser market but it is finding it hard to make significant inroads into the corporate user-base. Fidelity has now deployed Firefox in its IT department after 1 year of pilot testing. Boeing...

The February edition of the Springwise trend-watching newsletter reports on a a successful business in Japan that ignores Chris Anderson’s idea of the Long Tail. Retailer ranKing ranQueen rank-orders consumer products on its shelves and makes...

Cory Doctorow takes a detailed look at the objections of book publishers against Google’s Book Search Plans. One Interesting argument, They argue that GBS should pay some money to publishers because anyone who makes money off a book should kick...

The Patent has been assigned to DuPont senior researcher John P. O’Brien for Novel Fibers. A brief Timeline of all Million Road Marks from the USPTO website: Patent No. 1 million was issued on August 8, 1911, for a tubeless vehicle tire. ...

Phil Wainewright at Zdnet had analyzed Microsft’s Office Live and he comes out disenchanted. As we suspected, Microsft seems to be out of tune with the Web 2.0 - tuned world. Phil Wainewright says Microsft’s problems is that it...

Slate might claim that Blogging is on the wane and others might crow the same but no one denies that blogging has made publishing within the reach of every layman. This is much, much better than the web page mania during Geocities’ heydays. To...

Adventure Alliance in Georgetown, Texas claim to operate the world’s biggest BBQ I the world. BBQreport estimates that the grill is the size of a tanker trunk and it is hauled by a semi. It is 55 feet long and can cook 2000 pounds of barbecue, 200...

Retrojunk has come out with a list of top 10 robots from the 80s decade. Take a one look at the photos and you can’t help feel how lame things were then. But then again, 20 years from now people will call the Aibo lame, too.

On Feb. 10 in Frankfurt, Germany, the Plagiarius Awards were given out to the best knockoffs of the year. The awards are given by Aktion Plagiarius and were created around 30 years ago Rido Busse, a German Design Professor. Businessweek has a special...