Unlike the popular image of corporations as unfeeling centers of greed that exploit workers to enrich their CEOs, leading academic and industry organizations counter that the most successful enterprises are those that enforce strict ethical principles. - Corporate business ethics might sound like a contradiction in terms to the quot;Occupy Wall Street quot; mavens, but the Business Ethics Alliance maintains that abuses are an aberration and that in reality corporate success in integrally tied to good ethics practices. This week the Business Ethics...

 The 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, held earlier this month in Las Vegas, was the funeral marking the end of the TV remote as we know it. - Couch potatoes of the world knew this day would eventually come: The TV remote control we have known and loved has outlived its usefulness and needs to be put out to pasture. At least thats the impression you get considering recent news. In a way, the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show, ...

 "If you can't beat them, join them" is the mantra at MIT, where a massive multiplayer online game is slated to teach science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM). - A $3 million grant from the Bill amp; Melinda Gates Foundation is funding MIT's first massively multiplayer online game--a three-year effort with the goal of attracting 10,000 students whose avatars interact during the game. Gaming is usually a distraction from education, soaking up hours of a stu...

 At CES 2012, companies will be unveiling all kinds of innovations from the bizarre to the brilliant. One of our favorites is a new video system that converts any image to 3D. - This week, representatives from companies around the world have gathered at the 2012 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES) to share ideas and innovations. This years show promises to be a coming-out party for the latest products and tools. One creation were looking most forward to is no-...

 A new vending machine from Kraft Foods targets customers by age. People within the targeted audience can receive free samples, but those outside of it are denied food. This tool is likely just the start of an analysis-based era of marketing. - We recently wrote about new data mining technology that can accurately estimate the age of a person in a photograph. Now, Kraft, with the help of Intel, has built a similar tool into a vending machine to help market products by age group. Called iSample, Krafts vending machine dispenses free sample...

 Slowly but surely, some states adopt the Internet and tablets to simplify Election Day.
 - They may have difficulty deciding whom to vote for but election officials in several states are simplifying the process through the integration of new and consumer technologies. During a November 2011 special election, Oregon allowed people with disabilities to vote using iPads, a practice it pl...

 Light-field cameras capture images in all possible focal planes simultaneously, allowing users to refocus them after they have been taken, albeit at the cost of lower resolution. - Light-field cameras capture not only light, but also the direction it came from. This permits the user to take the photo first and focus it later. The photographer can also create 3D images from that single shot, using after-the-fact software conversions, which deduce perspective from the distance t...

 Madison Avenue aims to highjack the social-media craze, retargeting print- and television-advertising campaigns toward viral crowd-sourcing, product placements and guerrilla promotions. - The era of quot;big advertising quot; is over, with most traditional placements aiming instead to leverage social-media online to create buzz in the real world--from flash mobs to sticker bombs to corporate-sponsored graffiti. Madison Avenue's major advertising campaigns used to include full-page ...

 Its only few days into the new year, and if youre like most people, you are already struggling to keep your New Years resolutions. Need help? Theres an app for that. - Procrastinators get a reprieve once a year when New Year's resolutions get reset and their progress since last year gets measured (at least by those who can remember their resolutions from last year). To help you remember your resolutions and to foster incremental improvements (a technique that has ...