Continuum and PepsiCo announce a new Innovation Fellowship Program for Fall 2010. Six graduate student fellows, Continuum team, 24 Pepsi leaders, one day a week for 8 weeks, $4000 stipend, and a workshop process of creating transformative products and services. Would be great to have some designers win these fellowships. 9/15 deadline. [WD] […]

PACT: the socially aware underwear, launches their new line today. The new line features six fun new prints all designed in collaboration with Creative Growth Art Center, an arts initiative for people with disabilities. We love these, they also make a great gift. [JSC] […]

Design Observer's Job Board has new jobs in NYC, Dulles, Philadelphia, Singapore, LA, Louisville, Dallas, Chicago, Cleveland and Boston. Companies hiring include New York Media, Shiseido, Gap Inc., Apple, E*Trade, Columbia College, GadLight, Inc., Leap Frog and Natural History Museum of LA. Post your job today. [JSC] […]

AfriGadget's coverage of Maker Faire Africa 2010. Go here for interview with MFA's founder, Emeka Okafor. [JL] […]

Google is celebrating the second birthday of its Chrome web browser with the release of a new, improved version. Chrome 6 arrives with an updated user interface, better syncing tools that include support for web form data and extensions, and — as should be expected with every new browser release these days — increased speed and [...] […]

With all the attention being paid to HTML5’s tag, few have clued in to what is perhaps the most useful magical pixie dust hidden inside the web’s next markup language: the new semantic tags. Rather than using tags to wrap your page sections, HTML5 offers much more sensible elements like , , , , [...] […]

We all want our websites to load faster, but speeding things up can be tricky. There are numerous tried and true tricks we all use to keep page load times down, but once you’ve done a few rounds of optimization, you tend to hit a plateau where it’s tough to squeeze any more speed out [...] […]

Word is out that Firefox 4, when it ships at the end of October or thereabouts, will probably not include support for older, non-Intel Macs. Mozilla’s director of Firefox Mike Beltzner hinted at the change on a Mozilla developer mailing list last week: “I am gathering data on the number of PPC users we have, but [...] […]