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The Business of Gaming | REACH Games Event Recap

Tech Zulu Event

The purpose of REACH is to explore, educate, and evaluate the future of tech, as well as experience new gadgets first hand. Verizon Wireless displayed a slew of new innovative technologies such as the VGO Robotic Telepresence. Inside Sony had a “booth” showing off their latest Vaio products for people to test and preview.

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INNOVATION - A Scientist's Perspective

AeA Los Angeles Council

Approximately 50 executives from the worlds of technology & venture capital piled into the dining hall on June 30th to listen to Dr. Mark Drapeau speak about "innovation" and its sister topic, "STEM education." Innovation – and its sister topic, STEM education, is a topic that easily falls through the cracks. government.

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What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

But AOL brought online services, email, chat and discussion boards to the masses and thus educated a generation that paved the way for others. Pundits are mixed on whether FourSquare represents a major technology trend or a fad but undoubtedly it has captured the zeitgeist of the technology elite at this moment in time.