Over the weekend the Wall Street Journal ran an expose on Jim Vidmar a man who makes a living by helping people boost their social status on Twitter. Vidmar, who's based in Las Vegas, buys fake Twitter accounts in bulk and then uses those accounts to follow, tweet and retweet at his clients. When the [...]
For $99 Kano claims that their computer is the computer that "anyone can make". The company has taken to Kickstarter to launch their computer and coding kit for all ages. They call the computer kit, powered by a Raspberry Pi computer board "as easy as lego". Once the user finishes building the computer, Kano then [...]
Bellken Ins is the mobile application that represents Davie, FL company Bellken Insurance. The mobile app has been released at appcatch.com, the affiliated app marketplace of appsbar. The Bellken Ins app has earned appsbar’s App of the Day award for showcasing how small businesses can participate in the mobile marketing arena thanks to appsbar’s no-cost, [...]
Breaking your iPhone can be a pain in the ass. If you don't have any insurance on the device you could be faced with a $500 broken piece of junk. Well now Chris Koerner has taken to Kickstarter to help breathe new life into those broken iPhones. Mashable reports that while Koerner was working for [...]
Tero Mennander's, a former engineer at Finland based Nokia, worked for five years on a now patented piece of technology called "beat to beat" heart rate measurement, reports Business Insider. He's now spun the company PulseOn out of Nokia where he is going full steam ahead on this new technology. At one point in time, [...]
A Chinese man, Zou Bin, recently had his iPhone stolen while sharing a cab with a man . Gizmodo reports that as soon as Bin got a new iPhone he texted his old phone and demanded that the phone be returned. "I know you are the man who sat beside me. I can assure you [...]
Unfortunately this headline is not uncommon. Blackberry continues to go through changes. As we reported earlier this month, Blackberry's "innovative" CEO Thorstein Heins is out after the latest failed attempt for the company to sell itself. In his place, Fairfax, Blackberry's biggest investor, has installed former CEO of Sybase, John Chen in his place. Now [...]
(photo: K. Sandler) While Eric Schmidt was the CEO of Google, he made a few key appearances during the early rise of Android. He was on hand at the Motorola Droid and Droid X release on Verizon Wireless. He keynoted Mobile World Congress talking about Android and he was an overall cheerleader for [...]
Reports were running rampant late last week that Katie Couric, the once favorite face of the Today Show, may be abandoning network television for Yahoo. AdvAge reported on Saturday that a deal bringing Couric to Yahoo could be announced before Thanksgiving. Marissa Mayer, the CEO of Yahoo, has been working diligently on making Yahoo a [...]
