T-Mobile was the first American carrier to implement the installment payment on devices. Now, both AT&T and Verizon have followed suit, but not nearly as good as the T-Mobile deals. "Well qualified" customers can pay a monthly payment (often under $29 a month) towards their device for 24 months. At anytime during the "financing" period [...]
Stephen Wolfram shed some light on his remarkable vision for the future of computation. His new programming language - Wolfram Language - could completely alter everything we know about computing.
Wondering where retailers will get content to drive their 3D printing services? As I’ve mentioned previously, content would likely come from at least three sources. Retailers could crowdsource content directly from designers, animators, engineers, inventors, and makers. 3D scanning is also likely to be a source. In fact, with the advancements being made every day [...]
Why would a semiconductor company exhibit at the Consumer Electronics Show? This question comes up whenever I tell friends and family that I will be working at CES in January. A semiconductor company makes chips that go inside different devices that no consumer ever will see, so why spend money to display at CES? Although [...]
Freelance marketplace Fiverr has been around connecting freelancers to customers around the world since 2011. Now we're talking graphic artists, comedians, marketers, gift designers and creators, not handymen and plumbers. With Fiverr if you're looking to spoof a friend with a voice mail message from Sean Connery, or you need an infographic based on your data [...]
IKEA has just expanded its product line beyond just amazing meatballs, furniture and drapery as they now have begun carrying select Android phones as well. In what seems like an extremely odd business move IKEA has started offering select handsets from Verizon and Sprint for free with a new two year contract from their website. [...]
Omar Khan launches Samsung into the Galaxy at the original Galaxy S launch in 2010 (photo: K. Sandler) In the earlier years of the Android operating system it appeared that there was going to be some fierce competition as far as manufacturers were concerned. The Motorola Droid came out of the gate like [...]
(photo: Mashable) We're not sure if a carpool app that also allows users to track how much CO2 they are saving, would be story worthy, but in the case of Leo Grand it absolutely is. Grand is the homeless man turned coder thanks to the help of Noodle employee Patrick McConlogue. McConlogue,made tech [...]
To say that Tesla CEO Elon Musk has some wild dreams would be an understatement, but Musk has already brought some really great technology to the table already. Tesla is most well known for its electric Model S vehicle, but Musk is one of the brains behind the Hyperloop idea and now they look to [...]
Mobile app developers are finding more and more ways to become one with the user. Some mobile apps are using wearable technology like Google Glass and wrist wearables to stimulate users in ways that we couldn't imagine just a few short years ago. By putting vibrators in to smart watches and fitness monitors, game and [...]
