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Findster: A New Take on the GPS Tracking Ecosystem

Findster GPS Tracking Lately, we have seen a huge rush on the GPS tracking devices on both Indiegogo and Kickstarter. However, these devices, though interesting and useful, often have one major downfall: a monthly service charge. That needn't be the case, or so argues Findster: Findster is a new and innovative GPS tracking system working towards the [...]

Gmail API: Google Opens up Gmail to Developers

Gmail API, Google Opens Gmail To Developers On Thursday at Google I/O, the Mountain View company made a huge announcement concerning Gmail. Google announced a new Gmail API. For years, the only way that developers have been able to access the huge amounts of data within Gmail was via IMAP. However, the only thing that [...]

DOH! World Cup Password Leaked Worldwide

World Cup Wifi Password Leaked If you're lucky enough to be in Brazil attending the 2014 World Cup and you need internet access, you may have had your chance to jump on the official World Cup Wifi. Geek.com reported on Thursday that a little photography faux pas resulted in the internal wifi password for the [...]

EdTech: Fablevision Puts Creativity At The Forefront Of The Classroom [ISTE]

      EdTech Fablevision ISTE As Fablevision enters graduation age, they've seen a lot of changes in the classroom and specifically technology in the classroom. Common core standards, reading, writing and arithmetic, and standardized testing are all an important part of a students education, but the backbone of a well rounded student at the [...]

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Samsung Gets In On The Test Drive Action

Samsung Test Drive Earlier this month the ever so progressive fourth largest carrier in the country T-Mobile, unveiled a new marketing idea aimed to get customers to try out their network. In their test drive program, potential customers can test drive an iPhone 5S for a 7 day period no questions asked. The company hopes [...]

Google I/O: Day 1 Highlights

Day one of Google I/O is in the books. The Mountain View company made some major announcements during the first day of their annual developers conference. Taken as a whole, you can see some trends starting to emerge. One of these trends is uniformity. Google has altered its thinking as far as devices. Rather than [...]

Android Wear: Samsung and LG Debut new Smartwatches at Google I/O

On Wednesday at Google I/O, the company discussed Android Wear quite a bit. We have already told you a good bit about Android Wear here and here, but in a nutshell, the OS is just an extension of Android: Enter Android Wear, which extends Android, and its ecosystem of apps, to that most familiar spot for [...]

Atomic Learning: Educational Content Repository [ISTE]

  We’re gearing up for the International Society for Technology in Education 2014 Conference (ISTE) coming up on June 28th. We have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Atomic Learning. Atomic Learning is a content repository of sorts, offering training and learning resources. We had a chance to ask the Atomic Learning Team [...]

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AndroidTV: Google’s Solution to the Fragmented Smart TV OS

Via Pete Cashmore As part of Google's major push to become device agnostic, the company announced that there is now one Android SDK that covers all form factors - phones, tablets, and TVs. For the purposes of this article, we will focus on the TV part. AndroidTV is a long-time coming. Google TV [...]

EdTech: TiloTag Is A Great Tool To Preserve And Recall History

TiloTag is an exciting new app who's slogan is "leave messages in their place". What that means is, using the Tilotag app the a users message is geotagged and then it can be virtually left there in the place it was recorded, uploaded or left. A message can then be left for the public to [...]