The United States, and to a degree Canada, are the only countries in the world that offer outrageous phone subsidies to stay with a certain cell phone carrier. Overseas things are done a lot differently. In Europe, Asia, and even the Middle East you buy your cell phone, or smartphone, from a phone retailer not [...]
Just last week we reported that Facebook was opening up a satellite engineering office at the Cambridge Innovation Center building in Kendall Square. The Cambridge Innovation Center serves as part incubator, part co-working space, part educational space, part startup space and part accelerator. Twitter has now also taken up residency at a similar space in [...]
“I think of this app as a 21st century record album.” that's what Michael Epstein told The Wall Street Journal about the app he directed with digital artist Mark Thompson. That app, "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes" was built around four hours worth of demo recordings, interviews, and interactive features all surrounding a trip that Lennon [...]
On Wednesday, Quirky announced that it had closed a Series D Round worth a whopping $79 M. Quirky is a company that makes invention accessible by bringing new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform.
Remember the good old days when you would go watch a cool band at the local watering hole and there would be a tip jar up by the guitar stand? Bands need money from merch and tips just to survive and a new app from Nashville software company DevDigital is making it easier to give [...]
This holiday season put a little style and flair into your iPad Air or iPad Mini, or even your iPad Mini with Retina Display. X-Doria, a maker of fashion-forward accessories for mobile lifestyles, announces the availability of its new designs for the iPad mini and iPad Air. These X-Doria cases are especially made for the iPad [...]
As expected video game sales slowed in October in anticipation of the next gen consoles from Microsoft and Sony. NPD just released their data on video game sales for October. September was a hot month thanks to the edition of Grand Theft Auto Five and two new Pokemon titles for the Nintendo DS. According to [...]
SolarWinds recently conducted a survey of network administrators to determine the biggest drivers of network complexity, and asked the group to look to the future, and predict which skills IT pros will need in the next five years. This infographic examines the results.
I gave up the good ole #FF on Twitter a few years ago but that doesn't mean we still can't have Follow Friday. Check out this great list of 10 techies to follow on Twitter for our first TechFaster Follow Friday: Myriam Joirie (@TnkGirl) Many of you know Myriam or Tank Girl from her Engadget [...]
At first glance you might think that a service that allows you to record, download and save all of your favorite movies and shows from the likes of Hulu, HBO Go and Netflix, would be illegal. But it's not. My good friend KT Bradford turned me onto PlayLater after she dissected the service over at [...]
