It doesn’t take much for a photovoltaic cell to not work quite as well as it used to. Sure, a big hail storm or the like will do a number on your megabucks rooftop installation, but the sun itself, the very thing those cells are designed to capture, gradually damages their internals, reducing efficiency.

In most businesses, not knowing how well a particular product is performing would be almost unthinkable. But newspapers have always been a peculiar business, one that has stubbornly, proudly clung to a sense that focusing too much on the bottom line can lead nowhere good.

Mark Hurd, who resigned as Hewlett Packard’s chief executive officer last month after sexual harassment allegations, has been talking about a senior post with Oracle, according to The Wall Street Journal

Toshiba has announced the voluntary recall of about 41,000 notebook computers worldwide at risk of overheating and burning users.

3D Movies. Multitouch screens. iPads. Everywhere you look, consumers increasingly demand more of an “experience” when engaging with their content, be it a book, a movie or their computers. This change in expectations has put pressure on the print world to deliver a similar experience in that medium. In a crowded and frenetic market, brands need to find more compelling ways to grab the attention of their customers beyond the static print advertisement or billboard.