Battery Vampire Save Power It's a little known fact that when most people throw away alkaline batteries they still have half their power left inside of them. Couple that with the fact that billions and billions of batteries are thrown away every year and you have enough power to charge up over one billion iPhones [...]
Multiple news outlets reported on Friday that Google's enormous pile of cash could eclipse $100 billion dollars by the end of 2016. While that may seem far away to some, it's barely over two years, which in the tech world can move very quickly. Google's cash reserve is earning less than 1 per cent a [...]
DRIVE Hands Free There seems to be a big debate when it comes to using your phone in the car. People have been trying to develop the safest way to interact with a smartphone in the car outside of abstaining from using it at all. There have been devices that will only let you use [...]
On Thursday, Lenovo finalized the $2.91 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google. The deal has been in the works for some time, it was first announced way back on January 29 of this year.Larry Page, Official Google Blog, "Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility," 29 January 2014 It is important to note, however, that Larry [...]
When you think media discovery you think aggregators, iTunes, Amazon etc. You may get info from one or two reviews websites and then by word of mouth. It seems that during the past few years, anything new with media discovery was just realigning API's from services currently available. Those new startups would get a "oh [...]
On Wednesday, reddit - "The front page of the internet" - launched a new project, in hopes that it, "will enhance your experience on reddit, create stronger subreddit communities, allow redditors to collaborate and support each other, and empower redditors to make a difference."u/highshelfofsteam, r/modnews, "Announcing redditmade, a new way to celebrate your subreddit communities," [...]
There are a ton of different health and fitness tracking devices available. These devices range from simple pedometers, to complex devices that track all sorts of fitness data. These devices are great and all, but if you want to track different data, or hack together your own device, there are not many options out there. That [...]
Network security is a major expense for large companies. I must preface this by saying that I know very little about maintaining a secure network. That said, the team from AuditShark has built an incredibly simple auditing tool that can be used to programmatically determine the overall security posture of your servers. In fact it [...]
Let's face it, no matter what you actually believe, people are busier than they've ever been and they move 10x faster than they ever have. The generation of young adults out there now is the first substantial group of people who are part of the "multi-task" generation. It makes being in and sustaining a relationship [...]
After a little more than 4 months into the Amazon Fire experiment, it is safe to say that it has been a major disaster. According to CNET, Amazon has more than $83 million in unsold Fire Phones. Further, the company spent well over $170 million to develop the device: Chief Financial Officer Tom Szkutak disclosed on [...]
