In today’s sluggish economy, the pressure to invent new products and file as many patent applications as possible is greater than ever—both for individual companies and for entire countries, which reap benefits from their citizens’ business success. What does it mean for a country to be innovative, and which nations rank at the top of the list? Via Good.
We tend to use a lot more electricity in the wintertime - holiday lights, cooking, washing, drying, heating your home and playing with electronics and watching TV. This infographic from CreditSesame looks at the average monthly in each state? Where exactly do those kilowatts go?
Several tech companies and online communities have come out against the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA), a recently proposed piece of legislation that many feel will bring unnecessary censorship to the web. But much less attention has been given to how the bill will affect the overall landscape of business and innovation.
The bill, introduced by Rep. Lamar Smith in late October, gives both the U.S. government and copyright holders the authority to seek court orders against websites associated with infringing, pirating and/or counterfeiting intellectual property. So for example, a website that provides a collection of links to sites that illegally stream copyrighted video content could get shut down and taken to court under SOPA, despite the fact that the site isn’t streaming the content itself.
If the government had the sole responsibility of policing websites that violated copyrighted intellectual property, it would be a much different scenario. However, because the copyright holders also get to enforce the law (under SOPA), it allows them to push around anyone who may compete with them under the guise of upholding the law. Giant media companies — music labels, television networks and movie studios in particular — could easily take advantage of this situation.
The U.S. House of Representatives is scheduled to debate changes to SOPA Dec. 15. The infographic above illustrates how SOPA came into existence and what it could mean if passed.
A recent survey from TechTarget shows that while only 9% of companies currently have a mobile BI solution, that number is projected to grow to 48% in the next year. So what, really, is the ROI of mobile business intelligence? The above infographic investigates.
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Every 60 seconds Apple sells 925 iPhone 4s and 85 iPads, according to an infographic produced by Go-Gulf.
Social media has affected many industries, not least of all advertising. Here’s a look at how the practice has changed customers, priorities, spending and metrics, from MDG Advertising.
