For $99 Kano claims that their computer is the computer that "anyone can make". The company has taken to Kickstarter to launch their computer and coding kit for all ages. They call the computer kit, powered by a Raspberry Pi computer board "as easy as lego". Once the user finishes building the computer, Kano then [...]
Breaking your iPhone can be a pain in the ass. If you don't have any insurance on the device you could be faced with a $500 broken piece of junk. Well now Chris Koerner has taken to Kickstarter to help breathe new life into those broken iPhones. Mashable reports that while Koerner was working for [...]
Tero Mennander's, a former engineer at Finland based Nokia, worked for five years on a now patented piece of technology called "beat to beat" heart rate measurement, reports Business Insider. He's now spun the company PulseOn out of Nokia where he is going full steam ahead on this new technology. At one point in time, [...]
Unfortunately this headline is not uncommon. Blackberry continues to go through changes. As we reported earlier this month, Blackberry's "innovative" CEO Thorstein Heins is out after the latest failed attempt for the company to sell itself. In his place, Fairfax, Blackberry's biggest investor, has installed former CEO of Sybase, John Chen in his place. Now [...]
(photo: K. Sandler) While Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google, he made a few key appearances during the early rise of Android. He was on hand at the Motorola Droid and Droid X release on Verizon Wireless. He keynoted Mobile World Congress talking about Android and he was an overall cheerleader for [...]
Reports were running rampant late last week that Katie Couric, the once favorite face of the Today Show, may be abandoning network television for Yahoo. AdvAge reported on Saturday that a deal bringing Couric to Yahoo could be announced before Thanksgiving. Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, has been working diligently on making Yahoo a [...]
If you have a biker on your list (the pedal kind not the motorcycle kind) then the RFKLT+ Smart Bike Computer by Atlanta based Wahoo Fitness may be the perfect gift. This affordable bike computer is powered by ANT+ and Bluetooth technology through your iPhone. The RFLKT+ (“REFLECT PLUS”) adds the functionality of connecting directly [...]
Are you a Microsoft lover? Are you planning on heading to your neighborhood Microsoft store instead of an Apple store or Best Buy on Black Friday? Well if that's the case, here are the Black Friday deals going on at the Microsoft store. Now unlike the big boxes, Microsoft is at least waiting until midnight [...]
Coin, a new tech company that is allowing users to sync all of their credit, debit and reward cards to one physical card with a magnetic stripe, is the talk of the town. They've done a successful crowdfunding campaign, they've been all over Facebook and even Google has launched a product to compete. Early backers [...]
