Microsoft Introduces The World To Cortana

If Cortana sounds like a familiar name to you that must mean you play or have played Microsoft's flagship console game Halo. The artificial intelligence character in the hit game franchise is also the name that Microsoft has bestowed upon their new digital assistant, showing up with the release of Windows 8.1. With new Microsoft [...]

Amazon Releases New Fire Set Top Box & Game Controller

(photo: pocketlint.com) The rumors have been fast and furious over the last few months. One thing we knew for sure was that with Amazon's video delivery service and other media services they were planing a new set top box. This morning they released the Amazon Fire set top box and game controllers at [...]

Google ‘Indoor Maps’ Patent Revealed

Until last week, it was unclear how Google managed to create the 'Indoor Maps' feature. However, last Thursday, March 27th, Patent Bolt pointed out that Google's patent application for "for Generating an Indoor Map Model," had been posted by the U.S. Patent & Trademark office online.

NHTSA Requires All New Cars to Have Rearview Cameras by 2018

On Monday, 21 March 2014, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) announced the final rule, "requiring rear visibility technology in all new vehicles under 10,000 pounds by May 2018."

Synapp.io – Get in and Stay in Compliance With Spam Regulations [ATDC]

Synapp.io "provides deliverability solutions for businesses using email marketing by rehabilitating suspended accounts and bringing them into compliance with email service provider’s anti-spam standards."What does that even mean? Well, more-or-less, that means that Synapp.io helps their customers get out of the spam doghouse.

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T-Mobile Kills Off Employer Pricing, And This Is A Good Thing

T-Mobile has made some bold moves, and their CEO John Legere has made some even bolder statements. Most of Leger's antics, and his over the top strategically good moves have all been aimed at one thing, the T-Mobile customer, oh yeah, and the new T-Mobile customer. After taking over as CEO, Legere started pointing out some [...]

bcon The Panic Button Evolved [OneSpark Preview]

"I've fallen and I can't get up" no matter what decade you grew up in you undoubtedly remember the commercial, and if not, you may have seen the episode of the Goldbergs featuring the same First Alert device. First Alert features a pendant designed to be worn around the neck of an elderly person, which [...]

Mark Cuban Backed Egos Ventures Marries Panoramas And Selfies

Bruno Francois had a really exciting trip to the Shark Tank when he presented his company Cycloramic (Egos Ventures) to the sharks on January 31st. It doesn't happen often but Francois' technology that uses an iPhone's gyroscope, cyclometer and vibrator to make the device turn around in a 360 motion, on it's own, wowed all [...]

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The Original Instant Deals App, Five & Fifty Is Back, & Ready [OneSpark Preview]

It seems the original instant/daily deals app is back and going for a shot at standing on it's own two feet. Ben Tyson, the founder of Five & Fifty, is a serial entrepreneur, an adventurer and the youngest ever inductee into the Pipeline Entrepreneurial Fellowship for his work on Google Earth, so he has some [...]

REScour: A Much Needed Update to the Real Estate Industry

"REscour was built out of frustration with the current state of information sharing in the multi-family investment industry. Professionals were tired of listings flooding their inboxes and spending way too much time manually building an Excel spreadsheet to keep track of it all. REscour is a private online community that was specifically developed for multi-family institutional real estate investment professionals to gather, organize, track and share information."

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