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...future. Some of these firms are already using Twitter, but their efforts are in the earliest stages of development. 24/7 Wall St. evaluated other sensible and potentially highly profitable ways Twitter's real-time, multiplatform presence is likely to be exploited - in the best use of that word - to expand businesses both large and small...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Future of Twitter | 5/27/2009 | See Source »

...where they're like adults, but they're not adults, and they don't have a game face, so it's fun to watch them. You can read the storms, watch the sun come out - you can see all that on their faces when they get a word...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...although you can't recognize me, they put so much makeup on me. [Laughs.] That film had a great message too, that you should study the history of words and foreign languages and the meaning of words more so than just memorizing them. If you're an Indiana boy with German ancestry and you get a Hawaiian word, the only way you're going to get it right is if you had studied the patterns of the language itself. Hawaiian is an amazing language because it has very few sounds and the spelling is pretty systematic...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Spelling Bee Pronouncer Jacques Bailly | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

...delay in replacing satellites may impede "the level of GPS service that the U.S. government commits to." But given the world's growing dependence on the space-age compasses, the military scrambled to quell any concerns. "The issue is under control. We are working hard to get out the word," Air Force Col. Dave Buckman wrote to worried questioners on a military Twitter account May 20. "GPS isn't falling...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GPS | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

Thousands of German toddlers are being turned away from nursery school today as their teachers hold a national strike over working conditions. With coloring books uncolored and ABCs unlearned, the country that invented the word kindergarten (literally "children's garden") suddenly finds its preschool education system under scrutiny...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Germany's Kindergarten Teachers Strike | 5/26/2009 | See Source »

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