By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The Qualcomm incubator will launch ideas for the mobile market. Enter Qualcomm Services Lab, bringing you the next generation mobile service and apps supposedly.

“Powerful new mobile devices and high-speed networks today make it possible to introduce entirely new categories of…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

A mattress, old books, stacks of newspapers, 44 years of stuff have been baking outside my apartment building in the summer heat. The smell is so bad, I hold my breath every time I walked by this portable landfill.

The large open brown…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Amazon launches their fourth annual startup challenge. As long as you haven’t made more than $10 million USD in gross annual revenue or have taken any outside funding.

Companies around the world compete for the $100,000 in cash, plus other services.

“Traditionally, start-ups

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Hello, there. I was just testing out Xtranormal.com, the text-to-movie service. I put together some random bits of news today.

I hope you like it. Please let me know what you think.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I think I found the next David at the dentist. Except this kid has his brother and grandmother here to enjoy the hot dogs with him.

I spoke to Max Adler, the operations manager for Good to Go organics. They set up shop…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The Vintage Maker app takes crisp iPhone footage and gives it a vintage makeover. It turns the videos into 20’s Movie and 60’s Home Video videos of your liking and slaps on a piano tune or soundtrack of your choice.

There have…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I spoke with Stephanie Agresta at the BlogHer ‘10 conference at the Hilton in New York City. Agresta is the global director of digital strategy at Porter Novelli — and was just named one of PRWeek’s 40 Under 40.…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

AT&T,  Verizon, and T-Mobile are developing a way to replace credit cards with smart phones. This is not surprising, since investors predict we will all be paying with our cellphones in the future.

Bloomberg reports:

“This is definitely a game-changer,” said

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By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Literary agent Andrew Wylie plans on producing e-book editions of his clients’ books that are not owned by old school publishers. And by doing that he’s backstabbing Random House by dealing straight with Amazon.

Everyone is mad and acting like a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

One of America’s most influential psychologists Philip Zimbardo talks about how your time perspective influences your decisions.

Zimbardo is talking about psychological time (subjective time), not the objective time dictated by the clocks on our phones. Time perspective influences human behavior and…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Here are some powerful women entrepreneurs: Arianna Huffington of The Huffington Post and Caterina Fake of Flickr and Hunch.

But Tim Berry at The Business Insider tries to figure out 5 reasons for the gender gap in the startup culture.

Berry…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Danny Boome of Crash Bang Boome Productions says if you are working for someone else, you should make sure your work is up to your standards.

Would you be happy with what you’ve done? And then ask yourself if your boss would…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I gave Animoto a go and mashed together photos and put it onto a classical soundtrack. I just made this one.

The free version of Animoto cuts you off at 30 seconds, but for a yearly subscription you can shoot…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Out of the blue, the app market has become a multimillion dollar industry. Apple still hogs 90 percent of it. But imagine how big the industry would be if other smartphones platforms began producing apps at similar rates.

According to an analysis…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Ideally, the Flipboard will highlight all the good stuff your social network is sharing. In reality, there might be a lot of social news you don’t care about.

It’s ironic how magazines have all gone online, but have been slow to reinvent…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Startup activity this year has been the lowest on record, as the shaky economy appears to be discouraging entrepreneurs from starting their own businesses.

According to a survey by global outplacement and executive coaching firm Challenger, Gray & Christmas, startup…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

Google and Facebook make bank off our personal data. Needless to say, what advertisers know about us is creepy.

That’s the way startup Bynamite sees it. Their tag line is “Internet by the People.” They want to give you back…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

The mentor tip of the week comes from Mark Malkoff. Be passionate and original. But Malkoff says it best: Don’t have a back-up plan.

Watch here:

The REAL interview will be posted in two segments over the weekend.

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

After I interviewed Mark Malkoff, I wanted to see if people knew who he was.

So I asked Malkoff to hold the camera, while I asked people walking by if they knew the guy who lived in Ikea for a…

By Staff Writer – Boonsri Dickinson (@boonspoon)

I usually don’t cross blog, but I am really intrigued by this chemical engineering Purdue researcher who gave a good analysis of how to apply the laws of thermodynamics to CEO pay.

Any small business owner can surely relate to…