Every now and then the fine folks at Amazon offer a great deal on the hardware that helps get their streaming media, downloads and apps into users/viewers hands. Back on Valentine's Day Amazon offered discounts on the entire Kindle Fire line. Just before the holidays Amazon started offering a payment plan for people who wanted to [...]
SpaceX has been in the news over the past month or so. Mostly, the news has been around the lawsuit it filed against the U.S. Department of Defense to block what it dubbed a monopoly within the aerospace industry. On Thursday, however, SpaceX unveiled a new spacecraft. This is the SpaceX Dragon V2, arguably the [...]
There is news coming out of Forbes that Microsoft has its eyes on a new market: wearables. According to Parmy Olsen: Microsoft is the latest technology giant preparing to jump into the wearables market, with plans to offer a sensor-rich smartwatch that measures heart rate and synchs with iPhones, Android phones and Windows Phones, Forbes has learned.Parmy Olsen, Forbes, [...]
If you've owned a computer and an internet connection that used a phone line, and welcomed you with the voice of Elwood Edwards saying "You've Got Mail" then you've also been through several iterations of high speed internet or broadband. Currently, connections with a steady downstream speed of 4 megabits per second or more, have [...]
$3 billion dollars could be you Beats Music and Beats by Dre headphones, but $2 billion could by you the Los Angeles Clippers. As we speculated earlier this week former Microsoft CEO, Steve "sweaty pits" Ballmer has emerged victorious in his bid for the Los Angeles Clippers. The tenured, computer executive is actually good for [...]
Earlier this week we were wondering if the Beats by Apple deal would really get done, and if so, what were the hold ups. After all it was back on May 8th that the humongous deal for Apple to acquire beats for $3.2 billion dollars was initially leaked. With those leaks came a promise that [...]
On Thurday, May 22, T-Mobile crossed a meaningful threshold. T-Mobile has overtaken Sprint as the number 3 Smartphone buyer in the U.S. This follows the recent line of T-Mobile's user acquisition strategy, using "aggressive discounting to add more new subscribers than any other U.S. wireless operator."Marina Lopes, Reuters, "T-Mobile overtakes Sprint as No. 3 smartphone buyer [...]
Reports have been hot and heavy that Steve Ballmer could end up the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers. Originally tipped by TMZ and then corroborated by a variety of other sites, are reports that say Shelly Sterling has been in secret discussions with Ballmer about selling the team. After the Donald Sterling racism debacle, [...]
According to a new leak from @evleaks, Fitbit is set to launch a new, upgraded version of the Fitbit Force sometime this year. Though there is really no indication when this year. The new Fitbit Force will carry on the long line of Fitbit activity/sleep trackers. The new Force will come with the usual features: step, [...]
Spotify, the marquee music streaming service, announced earlier this week that they've reached 10 million paying customers and 30 million free users per month. While that pales in comparison to the numbers of say Facebook's monthly active users, it's a huge signaling issue for the music industry and like minded streaming services The free service [...]
