Numerous outlets reported Sunday that Apple has acquired Israeli tech company PrimeSense for $345 million. Steven Scheer, a Jerusalem based reporter for Reuters reported that this was Apple's second Israeli startup acquisition, with Anobit being it's first. Many hard core tech enthusiasts and gamers know that PrimeSense is the company behind the 3d technology found [...]
Microsoft has announced that they will officially end support of Windows Server 2003 (WS 2003) in July of 2015. However, Network Admins needn't worry, today, Microsoft announced its collaboration with AppZero - the makers of powerful application migration software - in which AppZero is the recommended migration software provider.
"Short sale" doesn't seem to be in the vocabulary of Sony Electronics these days. First day sale numbers for their next gen console the PlayStation 4 are in and they sold through every bit of 1 million units on day one. Now that also includes all pre-orders from the likes of Amazon, Best Buy, Game [...]
After five years of writing and reporting about Android some consider me an authority on platform debate. While I've never (and I'll repeat this again), in 35+ years I've never owned a PC (only Apple) I was quite the Android and Google loyalist for a long while. In fact there are some Google products that [...]
The United States, and to a degree Canada, are the only countries in the world that offer outrageous phone subsidies to stay with a certain cell phone carrier. Overseas things are done a lot differently. In Europe, Asia, and even the Middle East you buy your cell phone, or smartphone, from a phone retailer not [...]
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 [...]
“I think of this app as a 21st century record album.” that's what Michael Epstein told The Wall Street Journal about the app he directed with digital artist Mark Thompson. That app, "John Lennon: The Bermuda Tapes" was built around four hours worth of demo recordings, interviews, and interactive features all surrounding a trip that Lennon [...]
On Wednesday, Quirky announced that it had closed a Series D Round worth a whopping $79 M. Quirky is a company that makes invention accessible by bringing new product ideas to life through its online collaborative platform.
Remember the good old days when you would go watch a cool band at the local watering hole and there would be a tip jar up by the guitar stand? Bands need money from merch and tips just to survive and a new app from Nashville software company DevDigital is making it easier to give [...]
This holiday season put a little style and flair into your iPad Air or iPad Mini, or even your iPad Mini with Retina Display. X-Doria, a maker of fashion-forward accessories for mobile lifestyles, announces the availability of its new designs for the iPad mini and iPad Air. These X-Doria cases are especially made for the iPad [...]
