Despite a widely-reported recent edict from Yahoo's new boss requiring employees to work in the office, the trend towards flex-time and working from home is going strong. As is usual, when we see a trend and ask where it is heading, the answer is usually that the trend will go even further. Trends have inertia and once they get going they are hard...

Do you live across the bay or river from your workplace? Millions of commuters do, in places like San Francisco and New York, who travel to work each day by subway, car, bus or bicycle. But what if you could simply bike across the water, just as you would on land? That is the challenge that Judah Schiller undertook when inventing the BayCycle to...

Now that the NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden has let everyone know that everything they upload to cloud-based storage systems is not private and accessible to America's National Security Agency (and, perhaps to anyone else who has cracked the codes or has a key to the "backdoor"), will this effect consumer behavior? Companies that rely on cloud...

Crowdsourcing, the practice of obtaining needed services, ideas, or content by soliciting contributions from the online community, is a major trend that has grown as the world has become more wired and more connected. Many companies have adopted the model to create new products, even books and films and other creative endeavors have been fulfilled...