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Indian Phonemaker Karbonn Releases $44 Android Device

It's no secret that Indian phone manufacturers are pumping out incredibly affordable smartphones, including a proposed $25 Firefox OS phone. However, one company, Karbonn, just released what is India's cheapest smartphone: The A50S: While the specs aren't going to blow anyone away, they are much better than what you imagine a $44 phone having. The Karbonn [...]

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Pro-2 Lives Up To The Hype For Cyclists, Hockey Players And Football Players

For athletes in some of the most rigorous sports, breathing training is as important as strength and conditioning. In fact the two go hand in hand. Training the way you breathe helps improve your endurance and thus your performance as well. A new device, the Pro2, currently on Kickstarter is an easy to use tool [...]

Zillow And Trulia Become One

In what initially came as a shocker to most, Zillow has announced an acquisition of Trulia for $3.5 billion dollars. The acquisition is an all stock deal, for the benefit of Trulia shareholders according to Trulia executive Peter Flint. The New York Times reported on Monday that Zillow and their Chief Executive Spencer Rascoff had [...]

By |Apps, News|0 Comments

Students And Teacher’s Love Edsby So Much They Wrote A Song About It [EdTech]

We know that edtech is becoming insanely popular. More and more schools, districts and state-wide school systems are replacing old systems with new technology platforms. Sure edtech games and curriculum delivery systems can be interesting. New technology in the classroom can be fun, but schoolwide systems typically run on the boring side. So it's exciting [...]

Google Fights Back With Showers

Most of the technology world knows about Google's recent squabbles with residents in San Francisco. People living in San Francisco had a problem with Google using public bus routes and stops without paying for them, in order to pick up Google workers and shuttle them to their Mountain View campus. The people of San Francisco [...]

16 Year Old Google Science Fair Finalist Takes TALK AAC Device To The Masses

16 year old Arsh Shah Dilbagi believes that everyone has the right to talk. That's why he came up with a new device called TALK for the Google Science Fair. The Google Science Fair is a science and technology competition open to students worldwide ages 13-18.  As with most of Google's social initiatives the science [...]

Amazon Launches 3D Printed Products Store

Today, Amazon announced a new category of products in its ever expanding ecommerce platform: a 3D Printed Products store. The "3D Printed Products store, [is] a marketplace that gives customers access to more than 200 unique print on-demand products, many that can be customized by material, size, styles and color variations, and personalized with text [...]

By |3d, Amazon, Editors' Picks, News|1 Comment

PhotoHive To Offer New Upload And Sharing Experience

Is there a really good solution to group photo sharing and uploading around an event? Sure several companies have tried but the problem seems to be ease of use. When you're celebrating at a friend's or family memnber's wedding, or heck even your own, you want to be able to share all the photos. By [...]

By |Apps, Crowdfunding|0 Comments

Apple Stores Prepare Carrier Upgrade Programs Ahead Of iPhone 6

The iPhone 6 continues to draw near. Most of us in the tech media know that Apple is most likely to debut the iPhone 6 at a press event in mid September and then make it available either the last Thursday or Friday of the month. With all that in mind Apple continues to prepare [...]

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EdTech: Educational MMORPG, Tyto Online, Heating Up On Kickstarter

There are so many companies out there that will tell you the quickest way to captivate a young students mind is through gaming.That's true to a degree, but that's not what Lindsey Tropf and Florida based Immersed Games are all about. Immersed Games first came on the scene two years ago at the One Spark [...]