While former Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer is busy tending to the hardwood courts of the NBA, his successor at Microsoft, Satya Nadella is hard at work making sure that Microsoft stays competitive with the ever evolving landscape of the internet. With that in mind Microsoft is trying to reposition itself in things that it's good [...]
On Monday, Mozilla - the company behind the popular Firefox browser - made a pretty sizable announcement. According to a post on Mozilla's blog, on November 10th, the company will release a new browser built specifically for developers. The November 10th date is also the company's 10th anniversary: It makes a lot of sense to [...]
Yes as a matter a fact Halloween was on Friday night, we rolled back the clocks on Sunday morning and now it's holiday, holiday, holiday time. Be prepared for talk of Black Friday ads and Holiday Gift Guides because the Holiday 2014 season is now in full effect. In case you missed the update over [...]
On Thursday, Lenovo finalized the $2.91 billion deal to acquire Motorola Mobility from Google. The deal has been in the works for some time, it was first announced way back on January 29 of this year.Larry Page, Official Google Blog, "Lenovo to acquire Motorola Mobility," 29 January 2014 It is important to note, however, that Larry [...]
On Monday, T-Mobile, the Un-Carrier, announced their third quarter results. In a nutshell, they were better than anyone could have reasonably predicted. The company added well over 2 million new customers: T-Mobile reported 2.3 million total net customer additions with 1.8 million total branded net customer additions for the quarter, including branded postpaid net additions [...]
If you weren't convinced that Apple Pay is the future of mobile, frictionless payments, the financial world is hoping that you'll get on board quick. Just yesterday we reported that customers trying to use Apple's new NFC payment system at Rite Aid and CVS are out of luck. Meanwhile it seems that most other financial [...]
Two of the countries biggest retail pharmacies, Rite Aid and CVS, have just told their store level employees to shut down all of their NFC enabled payment terminals. VentureBeat reported on Saturday that this directive would render both Apple Pay and Google Wallet useless at terminals for those two pharmacies. While you might immediately think [...]
Startup Opelika Round House Just a stone's throw away from Auburn Alabama sits the city of Opelika. Opelika is rich in heritage in history dating back to the mid 1800's. The city grew to prominence during the time of the civil war where Opelika served as a major depot for confederate supplies. Opelika also served [...]
On Wednesday, Google unveiled some major new products and software. After months of speculation, it was revealed the the latest Android, until Wednesday "Android L," is Android 5.0 Lollipop. On top of that, Google also revealed the newest additions to the Nexus line of smartphones and tablets: The Nexus 6 and the Nexus 9. Even [...]
When UHD TV or 4K was originally announced and started to show up at CES two years ago the pricetags were insane. Samsung even unveiled a 110 inch UHD (4K) TV that cost more than some homes at $100,000. Like all other technology, the world waited. Now Sceptre has made 4K attainable with their new [...]
