Articles by Vivian Wagner

Cookbooks have always been about sharing recipes, connecting with others and figuring out what to make for dinner. Now, however, digital cookbooks, apps and other new formats are bringing these activities into the 21st century Chefs and cookbook authors are starting to recognize that cookbooks -- and along with them, how we think about food -- are ...

This story was originally published on Aug. 24, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1...

This story was originally published on Aug. 24, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1...

This story was originally published on Aug. 23, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office...

This story was originally published on Aug. 23, 2011, and is brought to you today as part of our Best of ECT News series. Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office...

Turkey hotlines revolutionized the way home cooks dealt with kitchen emergencies during Thanksgiving. Now, hotlines are being joined by social media, videos, apps and other twenty-first century ways of solving bird problems ...

Managing personal finances once involved lots of paper. Then computer programs came along that helped simplify the process. Now a multitude of mobile apps are available to help people attend to money matters on the go ...

Green IT is not one industry. Instead, it refers to a number of interrelated fields that focus on designing, manufacturing, installing, using and recycling computers, data centers, electronics and other parts and pieces of information systems. And because of its broad reach, it means the possibility of many different kinds of jobs ...

It might not be as glamorous as some industries, but recycling is booming. The industry supports more than 450,000 jobs for Americans and generates US$10.3 billion in revenue for federal, state and local governments -- making it larger than the forestry and fishing industries combined, according to a recent study released by the Institute of Scrap...

When consumers in California visit the Dunkin' Donuts website hoping to order a bag of their favorite java, they are met with the following message: "Important Notice: We are temporarily suspending the shipment of orders to California while we work to comply with Proposition 65 with the State of California. We apologize for any inconvenience." Blog...

Compared to solar and wind, geothermal energy is still a small fraction of the renewable energy market. It's holding its own, however, and it's likely to become a much bigger player in the not-so-distant future "The resource is enormous," Karl Gawell, executive director of the Geothermal Energy Association (GEA), told the E-Commerce Times. "We're l...

Like other renewable energy resources, wind energy is taking off ...

Solar is no longer on the back burner; it's right there at the front of the stove, demanding that economists and job seekers alike take notice "It's a tough environment, but I think it will continue to grow," Gerald Kelly, communications director for Third Sun Solar, told the E-Commerce Times. "As we move forward as a nation, more people will see t...

3D marketing is powerful -- and even more so, when it's delivered to the palm of your hand. Mobile 3D is becoming an increasingly common way of grabbing, holding, and entertaining consumers From using current mobile technologies to create a sense of 3D, to creating actual images that seem to pop off the screen and into the air, mobile marketers are...

You might not care about your friend's innumerable Foursquare updates detailing his stops at a bank, a bookstore, and finally a local Italian restaurant, where he's having spaghetti and meatballs for dinner You can bet, however, that marketers do. After all, the more businesses know about where their potential customers are, the more they can sen...

You might have seen them without knowing what they are: little black and white boxes with squiggles and lines in the corner of a magazine advertisement, on a band's poster in a coffee shop, or even on a T-shirt Those things, called "QR codes" or "quick response codes," are part of a whole new way of connecting with consumers via their smartphones....

Thanks to a variety of mobile payment systems, buying and selling goods and services has never been easier. Increasingly, mobile devices are becoming both credit-card readers and stand-ins for the cards themselves It might not mean the end of cash just yet, but we're moving in that direction....

Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1 In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless.

Rewards for Recycling: Q&A With Gazelle CEO Israel Ganot, Part 1 In the fast-moving world of consumer electronics, last year's gaming system and smartphone are old news. Luckily, however, they're not entirely worthless.

Gazelle takes your old cellphones, laptops, digital cameras, camcorders, GPS devices, game systems, calculators, e-readers, LCD monitors, tablets, and any other out-of-date electronic equipment cluttering up your home or office, and turns it all into cash. First launched as "Second Rotation" in 2006 and rebranded as "Gazelle" in 2008, the U.S.' la...