On Thursday, May 29, General Motors acknowledged the threat that Google poses to traditional automakers. According to Mark Reuss, product-development chief at GM, "Google could become a “serious competitive threat” to the auto industry if it continues to push its self-driving cars."Tim Higgins, Bloomberg Tech, "GM Executive Says Google Could Be ‘Competitive Threat’," 29 May 2014 This comes [...]
Railway app gives travelers insight into schedules and routes MyRailApp has earned appsbar.com’s App of the Day award as an example of how ordinary citizens are utilizing the DIY app builder at appsbar.com to create functional, dynamic apps to serve a multitude of purposes. The mobile app is designed specifically for rail travelers in Indian [...]
$3 billion dollars could be you Beats Music and Beats by Dre headphones, but $2 billion could by you the Los Angeles Clippers. As we speculated earlier this week former Microsoft CEO, Steve "sweaty pits" Ballmer has emerged victorious in his bid for the Los Angeles Clippers. The tenured, computer executive is actually good for [...]
Right now we are all being inundated with more and more smart watches. Just yesterday we reported that Samsung is working on a stand alone smart watch capable of working without being tethered to a phone. But as many have pointed out it could be too late in the cycle of already released Galaxy Gear [...]
We have seen some pretty adventurous crowdfunding campaigns before, but most of these are destined to fail. However, we just came across an Indiegogo campaign that is both adventurous, and has the possibility to succeed. The project in question has/had a chance to succeed without Indiegogo. Anyhow, Space IL is looking to raise $240,000 to [...]
Social media has come to dominate nearly everything. Children are rapidly becoming the most active participants on social media. However, there is no real introduction to the various platforms, no real awareness of the norms. There is no real way to prepare kids for what they might encounter, or how they should act [...]
On Tuesday, Google made a pretty sizable announcement. The Mountain View company noted in a blog post that they had begun building prototypes of they "Self-driving Car." While the driverless car has been in the works for some time, the prototype design is unlike anything we have imagined. Most notably, there are no gas or [...]
When Walt Mossberg, Kara Swisher and the entire AllThingsD crew left the Wall Street Journal you weren't thinking those hot seat interviews were dead, were you? Well new Blacbkerry CEO John Chen was in the hot seat on Wednesday at the inaugural re/code Code Conference the new conference starring the former AllThingsD team. Re/Code co-founders [...]
As ayone who has ever used Blackboard can attest, there is much to be desired in such a platform. It is a pain to navigate, nearly impossible to keep up with, and is just an overall bad experience. Using mobile? Forget about checking blackboard. Thankfully, alternatives are beginning to sprout up. One such [...]
Dashcams are becoming more and more popular in the United States. While law enforcement, taxi drivers and even fleet management companies have been using dash cams for years, the public use of dashcams became more and more popular overseas over the last few years. Now dashcams are making their way to the United States. Obviously [...]
