AKTA Design Studio Chicago

The Psychology Of Design: John Roa Shares A Look Inside AKTA

“The cruel truth is that I’m not even a designer today,” said John Roa, founder of AKTA design studio. But if he was never a designer, then what made AKTA one of Chicago’s most sought-after design studios, and Roa one of Chicago’s most influential entrepreneurs? Roa’s journey was riddled with successes, failures and a carefully [...]... Read More

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    Google & Historypin Honor The Queen’s 60th Anniversary

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    Google announced yesterday that the web giant will partner with Historypin to debut an educational online gallery to commemorate Queen Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee, which marks the 60th anniversary of her reign in the United Kingdom. The partnership will use Historypin’s tools for pinning user-generated content to locations on Google Maps to draw attention to Elizabeth [...]

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    Google Chrome Hacked at Pwn2Own 2012

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    Only a week after Google began offering cash for exploits in its Chrome browser, French security group VUPEN was able to take down the  browser within the first five minutes of this year’s Pwn2Own hacker competition.  The competition takes place within CanSecWest, a security conference held annually in Vancouver. Google decided to hold its hacker [...]

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    Charge Your Gadgets With A Creepy Cyborg Mask? (Spoiler: Probably Not)

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    Electrical power which, with contemporary technology, generally means batteries“ is a perennial challenge for mobile technology.

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    Rhode Island Startup BuildingLayer Helps You Navigate Indoors

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      THE GIST: BuildingLayer is a mapping tool that allows anyone to create maps for indoor spaces. BuildingLayer’s mapping tools use an overlay to create a useful contextual map. Plot out furniture, doors, and routes through sensitive non-public indoor spaces. FOUNDERS: Nick Such, CEO; Brian Raney, COO; John Kiffmeyer, Chief Scientist and Software Engineer THE [...]

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    Google Paying Hackers To Exploit Chrome

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    Google recently put a post on its Chromium blog offering hackers prizes up to $1 million to find and submit exploits in their Chrome browser. The prize amount differs across each category of exploit, depending on severity. Each full exploit submitted will net hackers $60,000, with partial and peripheral exploits awarded with $40,000 and $20,000 [...]

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    Google’s Mysterious Experiments

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    Below is a guest post by Jerry Toga. It seems increasingly likely that, in the next few months, Google will begin secret experiments in its hometown of Mountain View, as well as LA and New York. Google has applied for permission to trial a mysterious new device. Rumor has it that the device will allow users [...]

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  • Google has agreed to adopt the Do Not Track policy

    Google Reverses Course On Do Not Track; White House Pushes Privacy

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    Search giant Google has reversed course and agreed to install a “Do Not Track” button on the Chrome browser in the near future. Do Not Track is a proposed policy, already adopted by major browsers including Firefox, Internet Explorer and Safari, that allows users to opt out of being tracked by web sites they do [...]

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  • Android app downloads are poised to overtake iOS

    Android To Beat iOS In U.S. App Downloads

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    Android is poised to outstrip competitor operating system iOS in U.S. app downloads, according to data from mobile researcher Xyologic, in a trend that could change the dynamics of the smartphone wars. In parts of Europe, users are already downloading more apps for Android than iOS, according to the analysis, and Google set to take [...]

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    Google Science Fair: $50,000 scholarships, Galapagos Trips, & Legos

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    Google is partnering with companies like Lego and National Geographic to host a world science fair for the second year in a row. Anyone from anywhere between the ages of 13 and 18 is eligible to enter. The contest takes place online, where contestants must register (with parental consent) and build a website detailing their [...]

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    The Banality of “Don’t Be Evil”: Google Slapped With Class-Action Cookie Monster Suit

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    Google may face a class-action suit over the revelation that the company was bypassing default privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser to illicitly gather user information. Attorneys representing an Illinois man named Matthew Soble have filed a complaint against the company on behalf of affected Safari users. The complaint alleges that “Google’s willful and knowing [...]

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    Google HUD Glasses Could Bring Terminator Vision To Mass Market

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    In a story that could easily turn out to be wild speculation, it is being reported that Google intends to market a wearable, glasses-like computing device this year, potentially realizing a human-computer interface henceforth confined primarily to science fiction. The rumored HUD is being developed at Google’s semi-secret development laboratory known as Google X, according [...]

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    Chrome Extension Applies NSA-Class Encryption to Facebook

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    Social networking sites play a growing role in activist and revolutionary organization around the globe, including the Occupy Wall Street and the Arab Spring movements during the past year. At the same time, there is increasing concern among activists at the possibility of surveillance of those networks at the hands of political enemies or hostile [...]

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    This Book Printing Robot Likes Your New Novel

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    It’s now even safer to assume that the Harvard Book Store has the most expansive selection on any campus. Recently Google teamed up with the university to provide an on-demand book printing machine, named Paige M. Gutenborg, that has access to almost five million titles in the public domain, including many out of print books. [...]

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    DuckDuckGo Hits 1,000,000 Direct Searches Milestone

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    The slick search engine received over 1,000,000 direct searches for the first time in the Company’s history on February 13,2012.

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    Turn Anything Into A Cell Phone Signal Booster With Spray-On Antenna

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    Even on a camping getaway, I don’t really want to get away from my wired life, well completely. Basking in the evergreen-glory is wonderful, but so is having full bars on my iPhone. And now thanks to Utah-based startup Chamtech you don’t have to sacrifice one for the other. In fact, using their newly-introduced ‘spray-on [...]

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    A History Of Online Privacy Concerns #Infographic

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    Google’s recent announcement of a privacy policy change that will combine user data across its platform’s many services has proved more than a little controversial, with even the U.S. Congress voicing concerns. The controversial policy change made headlines and raised Internet users’ attention to how other companies are managing their personal data. This infographic by [...]

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    Hate Google’s New Search? Try DuckDuckGo Instead.

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    With the rapid transformation of Google’s search and privacy settings, some users are seeking out different ways to make searches on the Web.

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    Bing Should Have Googled ‘Bing’ In Chinese

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    There’s a reason why American companies can’t seem to grasp Asian markets. Why? Culture. Startups and established companies need to understand that simply throwing a branch down in a random Asian country is probably going to result in an embarrassing and costly mistake.  The Asian markets vary too much in complexity and culture from the [...]

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    Remember: When Google Made Us Stupid?

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    It was a seminal piece. “Is Google Making Us Stupid?” (The Atlantic ).  I remember when it came out. With the lightning fast, never ending stream of bits, bytes, text, and now video, our brains were turning to mush.  No need for the rigors of memorization when you could just plug a finger into the [...]

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    A Look Back: Top Tech Trends of 2011

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    2011 was a monumental year for the technology industry. We saw the rise of mobile with more users browsing mobile apps than the web, Google entering the social game with Google+, group buying explode with hundreds of startup clones and spin-offs following, and the world mourning the passing of one of the greatest innovators of [...]

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    Google To Donate $11.5M To Fight Modern Slavery

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    SAN FRANCISCO – Google.org – the philanthropy arm of the Silicon Valley search engine, announced today they will be contributing what is likely the largest-ever corporate grant devoted to the advocacy, intervention and rescue of the estimated 27 million people around the world forced to work or have sex against their will. Google’s $11.5M donation will go [...]

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    Who’s Using Google+ Infographic

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    So Google+ has been live for a few months now, but who’s actually using it? Over the last several months Google has been integrating Google+ branding and design across the entire Google product lineup. They’ve also been killing off some of their unused products such as Google Buzz, Gears, and Wave. Although Google has been creative [...]

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    Google Announces YouTube Analytics

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    Google announced in a blog post earlier today they are releasing the next generation of Insights called  ”YouTube Analytics” which will be rolled out over the course of the day. Youtube Analytics is replacing a pervious Youtube feature  called ‘Insights ‘ which had enabled channel creators to track who watched their videos and where those vistors came from. [...]

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    Google, Cisco Systems and VMware Invest in Portland Startup Puppet Labs

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    Puppet Labs announced Google, Cisco Systems and VMware have invested $8.5 million in their network management software.

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    10 Technologies to Help Run Your Startup

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    In any startup or small business there is more to do as an owner than most people have time for, including accounting, inventory, product development, operations, team management, and recruiting — just to name a few. The good news is that there is a plethora of software that has been built to automate tedious tasks and/or [...]

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