Solving problems while sitting in your office lends itself to coming up with solutions as boring and routine as your office walls have become. Get out and adventure—across the city, the state, even the world—to solve problems creatively and effectively. Photo by David Paul Ohmer. Looking at the same problems from the same location with [...]

Cisco is launching a new Hosted Collaboration platform today, which allows partners to provide a wide range of Cisco collaboration applications, such as WebEx, an enterprise focused messaging platform, a contact center and more, to their customers via the cloud. The Cisco Hosted Collaboration Solution gives customers the ability to deploy multiple collaboration applications on [...]

If you’re the type who gets a little nervous connecting jumper cables to your Accord after you forgot and left the trunk open overnight (again), this is one military gadget you will probably not be coveting. It’s called RAPS: the Remote Auxiliary Power System. US Air Force Spec Ops personnel requested “something like Batman” that [...]

If you love the idea of using social networking to unite your far flung relatives but aren’t too excited about using a wide-open network like Facebook, Chattertree offers private and feature-rich social networks for families. You'll find all the things you expect from a larger, Facebook-like social networking tool in Chattertree. Messaging, birthday alerts, group [...]

Networking equipment maker Cisco intends to build a sustainable city in Portugal. The company will work with Living PlanIT, a startup focused on developing large-scale sustainable technologies for construction projects and cities. What will this city look like? For one thing, it’ll be wired with tens of millions of sensors providing real-time data to help [...]

After months of testing, today Google News is unveiling “the biggest redesign since the beta launch in 2002,” says director of product management Ben Ling. The main new elements of the page include new navigation by trending topics in the left pane, a personalized news stream in the middle pane, and localized news and weather [...]

Timesheets aren’t the most enjoyable way to keep track of how many hours you’ve worked, but Lifehacker reader Seeräuber Jenny has a Gmail tracking system that saves all the important details without the added edge and stress. I work on a freelance/consultant basis a lot. At the end of a project, I have to submit [...]

Sometimes, it’s hard to find what you need from just your immediate neighbors. Free web service NeighborGoods is a site that lets you lend items out to the local community, and connects you with other people who have items you need. NeighborGoods isn’t all that different from sites like Craigslist, except perhaps a bit more [...]

We can’t say there’s a ton of surprises here, but, if you’re curious to know exactly where Google stands on the whole HTML5 / Flash debate, the company has now laid out its position in a post on its official YouTube API Blog. The short of it is that while Google says it has been [...]

Well, it took a bit longer than other iPhone apps that aren’t, you know, the most downloaded apps of all time, but Facebook has finally today updated its iPhone app to be iOS 4-compatible. A couple weeks ago, I ripped Facebook for releasing an update without this support (and a broken UI to boot). Competitors [...]