On Thursday, Snapchat announced two brand new feature to their app. The company announced, in a blog post fittingly entitled "Putting the Chat Into Snapchat," their new features: Chat. Chat is really two features in one. It allows users to send self deleting text messages, as well as have video calls with one another. This [...]
With all the advancements in the 'Internet of Things,' there has been a real lack of focus on things for the public good. Sure, you can shut your blinds, or turn on your oven from your phone but what good does that really do? For this reason, we are really excited to share the Flood [...]
76% of twitter users access the social network via mobile phone, according to the social network. That means that even in environments where there is no pc or laptop to connect to the internet Twitter is still available, and it's proven time and time again that Twitter encompasses a wide variety of demographics. That's why [...]
On Thursday, BGR published a leaked rendering of the upcoming 3D Amazon phone.Zach Epstein, BGR, "Unmasked: The world’s first clear look at Amazon’s smartphone," 1 May 2014 The image "is the first to reveal the design of Amazon’s debut smartphone. Multiple trusted sources have verified the authenticity of the image, which was created for internal [...]
After Donald Sterling's horribly racist remarks over the weekend, NBA Commissioner Adam Silver expelled Sterling from the league indefinitely and fined him $2.5 million dollars, the largest amount that he could fine Sterling according to the charter in the NBA's private constitution. Silver also said he's going to encourage the forcing of the sale to [...]
We just came across a pretty interesting developer tool, Keystok. Keystok is a service for developers that stores encrypted secrets in the cloud and gives you a central place to manage, share and revoke them. Christian Fruehwirth, a member of the Keystok team, told us a bit more about the service in an email: App configs contain a [...]
All the talk in the consumer wireless world this year has been about T-Mobile and their crazy un-carrier antics. Earlier this week we reported that T-Mobile's CEO John Legere made more than both the CEO of Verizon Wireless and AT&T, and for good reason. Their positioning as the "uncarrier" continues to add subscribers to the [...]
Nintendo has had a rough year and it all actually started in 2012. Nintendo decided that they would unveil their newest console system, the Wii U, in time for the 2012 holiday season a whole year before we saw the Xbox One and PS4 hit the street. The system was relatively innovative with it's game [...]
While everyone is talking about Marissa Mayer and the fact that she's made $214 million dollars in just 15 months at Yahoo, what are they going to do about it? They're going to rock out with Live Nation. Yahoo announced at their "Digital Content New Front" on Monday in New York that they've entered into [...]
We just came across one of the most inventive Crowdfunding campaigns yet: the Trinity portable wind turbine. The Trinity is a portable wind turbine that charges any USB device like your smart phone or tablet. The Trinity Kickstarter campaign was launched by the Skajaquoda Group. The Trinity has three blades that harness wind-power to generate power. This [...]
