We just came across a really interesting product from Copertura. The German company makes a line of heated jackets. There are already a few companies making heated jackets, but they are mostly aimed at construction workers, and at other professions that require a lot of time out in freezing cold weather. Copertura makes what [...]
In 1946 a young man with an entrepreneurial spirit and a love for music, in the city of Philadelphia, embarked on a journey which would eventually fuel the world of independent musicians for decades to come. Ivin Ballen created the Ballen record company. You may have never heard of his record company but you probably [...]
Personal Secure Line JackPair This isn't 007, Jack Bauer or 24. It's real life America in 2014 and citizens everywhere are worried about who can monitor your phone calls. While there's great debate on whether government agencies are monitoring entire calls of US citizens or they're just taking some of the information from calls, either [...]
Samsung Galaxy Avant T-Mobile The line between high end Android phones and mid-range phones continues to get blurrier and blurrier. Just three years ago getting a medium range Android meant horrible buttons, horrible lag and horrible graphics. Those days are gone. Now, today's midrange phones carry yesterday's high end specs and with the amount of [...]
David Song spent most of his career working for Samsung as an engineer in their mobile division. Throughout his career he worked with the latest and greatest from Samsung and dealt daily with things like accelerometers, control surfaces and human interaction with electronics. All the while his children took a keen interest in what it [...]
On Tuesday, EA made a huge announcement. Beginning on Tuesday, EA and Microsoft are rolling out a new feature to the Xbox One: EA Access. Essentially, EA Access is a sort-of Netflix for games. Here is a bit of EA's official statement: We have partnered with Microsoft to deliver EA Access, an all-new monthly (or [...]
One of the most important things that a company can do is landing page optimization. However, this is often a strenuous task, especially if you have to outsource it, that can cost thousands of dollars. We just came across a company that takes a lot of the the stress and cost out of this [...]
On Tuesday, Flipkart - who raised on of the largest rounds in 2013 - announced that the company had raised a new round of funding valued at $1 billion. Flipkart's $1 billion round comes in as the largest ever funding round for an Indian company, and the second largest round globally, just behind Uber's recent $1.2 [...]
Over the coming week or so, Facebook will discontinue messaging within its main Android, iOS, and Windows Phone apps. If users want to send messages through Facebook, they will now have to do so through the company's standalone Messenger app. This move has been in the works for a few months, and has already been [...]
Uber for business is really a no-brainer. Uber has started Uber for business a new feature that allows companies to sign up for Uber. This new service allows companies to have a "corporate" account with their company payment information on file. Now, those Uber customers who's companies are participating can affiliate themselves with that company [...]
