Just last week we reported that Facebook was opening up a satellite engineering office at the Cambridge Innovation Center building in Kendall Square. The Cambridge Innovation Center serves as part incubator, part co-working space, part educational space, part startup space and part accelerator. Twitter has now also taken up residency at a similar space in [...]
Admit it, when you go to your favorite sports bar or pub you get sucked into the thing that is Buzz Time. The popular game from NTN has swept the nation over the past decade. What started out as a way to play trivia in a bar has only gotten better with technology. For those [...]
The latest quarterly smartphone report from research firm IDC may be cause for celebration in Redmond Washington, home to Microsoft. Their Windows Phone operating system has been trailing both iOS and Android since it was released. IDC's report says that the Windows Phone operating system grew 150% last quarter. While for most that would be [...]
Over the weekend a story started surfacing about an Instagram account that was exposing witnesses in criminal cases in Philadelphia. The account called "rats215" exposed affidavits and photos of victims and complainants in criminal cases. "There was a lot of information there ... a lot of information that was not for public viewing," Philadelphia Police [...]
Protecting Android phones is serious business. Unlike iOS, Android devices are prone to malware and viruses similarly to the way that PCs are. Mobile security providers like NQ Mobile, LookOut and AVG are protecting millions upon millions of Android users worldwide. AVG, one of the leading providers of internet, computer and mobile security, with over [...]
Vine made an incredible splash when it was introduced last spring. The six second video service has become a destination for people that want to connect with funny or emotional videos but have the attention span of a grade school student with ADHD, which is just about all of us these days. Like many hit [...]
Black Friday ads are going to start surfacing everywhere over the next few days. Toys R Us has already leaked some of their specials as have JC Penney and now Target. Target is targeting as many shoppers as possible but this year they've made their tech/electronics deals swimmingly good. In addition to the deals they [...]
It was just last week that Dish Network announced they would shutter operations at it's Blockbuster rental stores, at least those still remaining. Well just as fast as the news came out, the world found out that this past Saturday would be the last day that you could rent movies from your neighborhood Blockbuster store. [...]
Xbox One and PS4 are all the rage this month as the debut of Sony's new console system is this Friday. Microsoft's Xbox One will debut the following Friday and then there will be an all out console war with holiday shoppers. With all this hoopla Verizon FIOS Innovation Index just polled over 900 men [...]
Amazon just made the US Postal Service have a seven day work week, and they're happy about it. Internet, web payments and email have caused the United States Postal Service to continuously cut back over the last five years. Now, in a deal announced Monday, some USPS workers will work on Sunday. Amazon will start [...]
