With the discontinuation of the low-end white MacBook and the agressive $999 pricing of the new MacBook Air, Apple has taken its most aggressive stance in the thin-and-light notebook category. This may pose some problems for manufacturers trying to produce competitive hardware using Intel’s Ultrabook specifications, reportsDigitimes. TheUltrabook specificationwas designed by Intel to move the notebook industry into the MacBook Air’s super-thin space. The specs call for the devices to adopt a non-replaceable battery, metal heat-dissapating chassis, solid state storage and soldered-in components in order to minimize size and weight....

Agile marketing tips to grow your startup even faster Don’t wait — implement agile marketing today. What is agile marketing? Before diving into how to go about adopting it, let’s start by defining what agile marketing means. Agile marketing is a strategy that you can use to find, test, and implement focused marketing projects. In general, agile strategies involve breaking projects down into component pieces and working on those pieces insprints(set time periods)....

Agility of small businesses during COVID-19 puts big pressure on corporates It’s time the big players pay attention. Agility wins As people value the convenience and personalization that so many small businesses — as well as fast-on-its-feet larger ones like Amazon and Instacart — are offering during this stressful time, they will increasingly expect to feel similar emotions from all the companies they deal with, now and forever. After seeing what these businesses have been able to pull off under the most trying circumstances, we’ll have no patience for a lousy experience with, say, a large bank....

Here’s a brilliantly simple idea.Agorais a service built on the Foursquare API, designed to match you up with likeminded folk when you check in at a location. Let’s say you arrive at a bar where twenty others are checked in. Agora will work its magic in the background, using the Twitter API to analyse who you share similar interests with. The service will then send out a tweet telling you and the others similar to you that you should meet, giving them scores based on their similarity to you....

Agriculture on Mars: Can it be done? Farming on Mars will bring agriculture to new worlds. But, Martian soil isn’t known for growing plants. A new study aims to change that. Red acres is the place to be… Plans are underway atNASAto place the first humans on Mars sometime in the mid 2030’s, but this crew would return to Earth as soon as possible. This group of explorers would be able to bring all the food needed with them for the journey....