We cover an awful lot of crowdufinding campaigns, but we have just come across what may be the boldest one yet. A Russian company, Yaliny, is crowdfunding 135 satellites. Yes, satellites. Yaliny wants to help users circumvent the traditional wireless providers by offering an absurdly cheap alternative: This company was founded because like you, we have a [...]
Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella and VP of Microsoft Devices Group Stephen Elop On Friday, Microsoft completed the acquisition of Nokia Devices and Services business. This acquisition brings several key components from Nokia into Microsoft: "Microsoft acquires Nokia’s smartphone and mobile phone businesses, its design team, most of its manufacturing and assembly facilities and [...]
On Thursday, April 24, Facebook announced a new feature. FB Newswire brings a new news discovery component to Facebook: Today, we’re excited to announce FB Newswire, a resource that will make it easier for journalists and newsrooms to find, share and embed newsworthy content from Facebook in the media they produce. Powered by Storyful, the leader [...]
On Wednesday, April 23, Microsoft and HP made a major bet on India. The two companies, in a move targeting technical and management students, "announced an HP tablet with Windows 8.1 with embedded Pearson educational content."Microsoft India News Center, "MSFT, HP and Pearson launch Windows tablets for higher education in India," 23 April 2014. [...]
Everyone has been to a Q&A session before. Whether at some conference, or in a classroom, or at a meeting. Most of the time, these session are lacking. Whether from the quality, or lack thereof, of the questions, lack of audience participation, or whatever the case may be. However, a new company just launched out of [...]
It seems there is a buzz about high quality audio these days. We wrote about Neil Young's PonoPlayer a few days ago. Today, we had a chance to hear about a different approach to Hi-Fi audio. Rather than a portable player, Voxtok has built a a complete commercial, hi-fi system including an audiophile-grade device (VXK Capsule), an [...]
As anyone who has learned to ride a bike, or has taught someone to ride a bike can attest, it is downright nerve wracking. When teaching young children to ride, the uneasiness is multiplied tenfold. However, a new Indiegogo campaign can help relieve some of the stress caused by teaching a child how to ride a [...]
Microsoft is expanding their Bing in the classroom program. The company is hoping to improve their market share against rivals Google and Yahoo and as we've seen time and time again, the classroom can be a very lucrative place to do that. The new Bing in the Classroom program actually has some really great points [...]
On Wednesday, April 23, Amazon launched a new service aimed at competing directly with Sams Club, Costco, and other wholesales. The new service, Amazon Prime Pantry, allows Prime members to shop for popular household items in a wide range of categories. This new service has been long rumored. The new service offers Prime members, "exclusive access [...]
There has been a huge push to expose more students to coding and development. One of the biggest contributors to the gender gap in Silicon Valley and in the tech space across the country, is education. Seattle based code.org continues to find ways to help teach as many people to code as possible. You may [...]
