A good friend of ours has been a Sprint customer for nearly two decades. Their service began back in the Pin Drop and Sprint PCS days. Back then Sprint offered a great value for the money as well as a digital network while other carriers were struggling with keeping up with the latest in technology. [...]
Most teachers get into the profession because they have a wholehearted desire to teach kids the skills, lessons and content they need to know to be successful. However a lot of the traditional teaching methods are broken. It's not that they aren't effective or students are lazy it's just the original concept of teaching only [...]
In the current era, it is quite clear that innovation is not confined to any one geographic location; it is worldwide. From bustling Indian software companies, to U.S. semi-conductor and hardware companies, to South Korean automobile manufacturers, innovation is truly global in scale.
We just came across an incredibly cool Indiegogo campaign: The Body Dryer. The Body Dryer is a replacement for the towel. Although that sounds a bit crazy, replacing the towel, this device looks like it could do just that.
With One Spark beginning next Wednesday, now seems an appropriate time to do a quick rundown of all the creator projects that we are looking forward to seeing.
Ryan Whitman created Join The Effort, a Jacksonville non-profit in 2011. The initial idea was to create a platform of sorts that helped recruit and encourage people to volunteer at various events, causes and other non-profits across Jacksonville. As an example, Join The Effort partnered with last year's OneSpark winner Re-Threaded. In that effort, a [...]
"Project Ara is designed to make upgrading your smartphone’s guts as easy as putting together a LEGO set. (Think sleeker). Instead of having to splurge for a new handset if you want the fastest CPU, strongest battery or loudest speakers, the idea behind Ara would allow you to acquire those individual pieces and snap it onto your device."
So it is no secret that Apple retail stores are incredibly successful. Currently, Apple has north of 360 retail locations, with each one generating around $49 million annually. That is a crazy number. $49 million per store. Further, all Apple Stores combine for around $18 billion in-store revenue each year.What's even more, Apple stores took more revenue per square foot than any other retailer in the world.
On Friday, April 4th, Nest - the company behind the smart thermostat, which was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion - halted the sales of their latest product: Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm. One of the features of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm, Nest Wave, could be accidentally activated, thus causing a delay in the alarm.
Numbers don't lie they say, and map's don't either, (unless of course you're Verizon says T-mobile CEO John LeGere). In this case a story has surfaced this morning courtesy of our friends at Business Insider, that when we saw the initial headline it was shocking; These Maps Show That Android Is For People With Less [...]
