Category Archives: Technology news

Numbers Game

If you want to buy or lease real estate, find a broker. But if you just want to get a full picture of the real estate in a specific geographic area, then find the census enumerator that worked the block. … Continue reading

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Human Unpredictability

Humans aren’t rational. So why should financial theories assume that they are? That’s the question writer Chelsea Wald posed in Crazy Money, in the Dec. 12, 2008 issue of Science. It’s a reasonable question, she explains. Even the experts seem bewildered by the current … Continue reading

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Stopping Mobile Spam

Commercial real estate professionals love their smartphones…and so, apparently, do spammers. Continue reading

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A Glimpse of the Future

“This is not science fiction, nor is it Hollywood imagineering. Every single thing here is something that could be real.” Continue reading

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30 years, 30 Life-changing Innovations

Public Broadcasting’s Nightly Business Report and the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania just ranked the top 30 innovations of the past 30 years. The list includes the Internet, of course, along with personal computers, mobile phones and e-mail. … Continue reading

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The Fall

I have a degree in journalism, not economics. So while that makes me potentially qualified to run for vice president, it doesn’t make me an expert on the banking crisis. But I know enough to know this: Technology wasn’t the … Continue reading

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