In April of this year, The Round House - The Startup Space in Opelika Alabama - is hosting what looks te be an awesome conference. #Hcon, from April 14th-16th 2015, already features an impressive lineup of speakers. While there are still more than 20 speakers to be announced, the list already includes: Nolan Bushnell - Founder of [...]
There were a lot of great companies and products at this years FETC. That said, for the most part, these products and companies weren't really showing off any groundbreaking new products. That is, except for C.A.R.E. - Core Augmented Reality Education. C.A.R.E. has built an awesome set of augmented reality challenges and lessons: C.A.R.E.‘s product suite [...]
In 1998, the total amount spent on video games was $2.6 billion. In 2014, that figure topped $24 billion. That figure is more than double the amount spent on movies (approximately $10 billion) per year. Not only does the amount spent on video games continue to rise, so does the popularity of video games [...]
For the second year in a row one of Cleveland's coolest companies, Lightning Grader, is exhibiting at the Florida Educational Technology Conference in Orlando Florida. The Florida Educational Technology Conference is the second largest (depending on who you talk to) educational technology conference in the country, only behind ISTE and to most, tied with TCEA. [...]
Growth hacking has been one of the trendier titles over the past few years. There are some good ones out there, but can a bootstrapped startup or small business really afford to pay the best? Well, we just came across an interesting new company that wants to help startup and SMBs grow, without breaking the [...]
On Wednesday, Microsoft announced a new product, and essentially, a whole new product segment: Microsoft HoloLens. The HoloLens is a head-set that is powered by Windows 10. Though it has the look of a Google Glass Oculus Rift hybrid, the HoloLens is a completely different sort of machine: It is, perhaps, easier to describe the new [...]
On Tuesday, SpaceX - the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk - announced a new billion dollar round of funding. Google, one of the two investors in this round has a major vested interest in the low-cost space flight that SpaceX offers to the like of NASA. The funding round was announces in [...]
We're off to the races here in Orlando Florida at the start of the 35th annual Florida Educational Technology Conference. The FETC is it's affectionately known, is the second largest ed tech conference in the country, tied with the TCEA. The annual ISTE show is the largest of it's kind and will happen this summer [...]
On Monday, January 19, Google officially ended its Google Glass Explorers program, and halted sales of the $1500 eye-ware. This is not the end of Google Glass, however, just the end of Glass as we know it right now. The end of the Explorers program comes as Google graduates the Glass program from Google X labs. [...]
Sprint, through it's prepaid subsidiary, Virgin Mobile, has been playing with the family plan concept at Walmart. While family plans have always been targeted to "on contract" customers, Walmart has the largest population of prepaid customers in the United States and Sprint is taking advantage of that with Virgin Mobile. Previously, the nation's third largest [...]
