MOOC's like Corsera, Khan Academy, Udacity, and edx are taking over the online educations space. As the largest of these MOOCs are free or nearly free for users, the Chronicle of Higher Education took a look at where the funding is coming from. The results are pretty astounding.
Samsung has announced two more Android devices as 2013 comes to an end. Coming in with two lower to mid range devices Samsung has announced the Galaxy Grand 2 and the Core Advance, both devices that replace models that are less than a year old. Samsung has created a habit lately of releasing updated versions [...]
To take a part time hobby and turn it into a full time job is not an easy task, but the folks at Cyanogen are hard at work to prove they can do it. After raising $7 million to start the company and get things going they have just announced that the Series B funding [...]
At the tail end of last week we were one of the earliest sites to make mention of Sprint's possible bid for T-Mobile USA. T-Mobile USA, or just T-Mobile here in the US is the United States arm of Deutsche Telekom an international leader in wireless communications. In the US though T-Mobile is firmly implanted [...]
Were you one of the tens of millions of customers that shopped at your local Target store over the Black Friday shopping weekend? Well if you were, you may want to read this and then immediately check your online banking. Reuters reported late Wednesday evening that "track data" from at least 1 million payment cards [...]
Book app touts the advantages of “who” for those looking for inspiration. Appsbar has awarded the App of the Day honor to the Power of Who mobile app for showcasing how independent artists, authors, and publishers can participate in the mobile app marketplace thanks to the DIY mobile app builder at appsbar.com. The app [...]
Last month, Drew featured Chil, a Charleston South Carolina company creating innovative, stylish accessories in our Holiday Gift Guide. Chil has a line of iPad cases, charging products and their signature Chil Box which is a bluetooth boombox type speaker that rivals the sound quality of the Beats By Dre Pill or similar speakers offered [...]
The mobile landscape has changed quite a bit over the years, first everyone wanted to get their phone as small and thin as possible, and now people seem to want just the opposite. While most phones have grown in size to feature a 4 to 5 inch display some devices have grown beyond that and [...]
While many have speculated that Apple was going to be entering the wearable space with an iWatch a new patent shows that Apple may be working on a 3D style headset similar to the Oculus Rift. The patent describes the device as personal display system for viewing content such as movies or TV shows on the [...]
Smartwatches have become quite the rage and we have seen many new devices come to the market over the past few months. Qualcomm is usually thought of in the Android world in relation to their processors but they have recently announced the Qualcomm Toq. Originally Qualcomm had created the device as a developer release but [...]
