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Google Glass Didn’t Even Sit At The Kids Table [Google I/O]

Google's world wide developer event, Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Our very own Ashley Allen covered most of the three hour keynote in summary earlier today. This is our fifth year at Google I/O and it seems to get better and better. Google has really come [...]

Material Design: Google’s Massive Overhaul of The Android UI

Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning. There is a lot to get to, so we will just jump right in. Google dropped some major bombs during the keynote address. The most important of which was the announcement of a new mobile OS, or Android L, as the company called it. This new version of [...]

Verizon To Begin Throttling October 1st

Verizon Throttle October For the better part of the last three years Verizon Wireless has been segueing customers away from unlimited data plans. Those plans are no longer available however a system malfunction earlier this year allows some unlimited customers to renew. Customers with unlimited data who never formerly renewed their contracts and have simply [...]

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Soundslates: A Network to Connect Musicians

There is not really a social type network for finding music collaborators. Sure there is SoundCloud and Facebook, but there is not really a niche network to find people to play with. However, we just came across an interesting project: Soundslates. Soundslates is in the midst of an Indiegogo Campaign to fund their network. We [...]

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Microsoft Wants To Buy Your Macbook Air

Microsoft's been toying with the idea that a tablet can replace a laptop. They first tried to drive home that theme when they released the original Surface Pro tablets two years ago. With the Surface Pro 2 they mildly suggested that you could perhaps replace your laptop with a tablet. Now, with the Surface Pro [...]

EdTech: Boundless Is Re-imagining Educational Material

   There is no question that the traditional textbook will soon be a thing of the past. They are, simply put, outdated. A science textbook from 2009 is filled with information that has since been proven wrong, or has since been updated to a significant degree. It does not make sense to keep using such [...]

How Did We Ever Entertain Ourselves Before YouTube? [INFOGRAPHIC]

You know those lists that come out every year which highlight things that students graduating high school never experienced? They're all done in an effort to make the adults feel older. Well there's going to come a time in the not so distant future when kids graduating high school won't remember life before YouTube. For [...]

Epson’s New Brightlink Pro Series Has The Boardroom And The Classroom Covered

Epson, the number one selling projector brand worldwide, made some major noise at Infocomm in Las Vegas last week, just ahead of ISTE next week in Atlanta. The company revealed several new projectors and refreshed several of their projector lines. One of the most exciting announcements is the new BrightLink Pro series projectors. With the [...]

The Wolfram Programming Cloud is Live: 1st Chance to use Wolfram Language

On Monday, June 24, on the 26th anniversary of the launch of Mathematica, Stephen Wolfram announced the launch of the Wolfram Programming Cloud. The Wolfram Programming Cloud is the first of a huge number of products centered around the Wolfram Language. The Wolfram Language is a new approach to programming, one that Wolfram calls a "knowledge [...]

Microsoft launches Nokia X2: V2 of the Android Experiment

One of the biggest questions surrounding the Microsoft acquisition of Nokia's device business concerned Nokia's Android devices. The popular thought was that Microsoft would begin phasing out the Android devices, in favor of its own Windows Phone OS. However, it seems that Microsoft will continue Nokia's Android push, at least for the time being. On [...]