Oppo, the Chinese phone maker, just released its first 4G/LTE device, and it looks to be one of the best Android powered phones on the market: the Find 7. Well, actually Oppo is releasing two phones, the Find 7 and the Find 7a. The difference between the 7 and the 7a is only in screen resolution. [...]
Typing. It is a skill that everyone needs. Yet it is one of the most gut-wrenchingly boring and tedious things to learn. Back in my day, there were some pretty awful programs to teach you to type - Mario Teaches Typing is the only one I can recall off the top of my head. There [...]
While many of you know that after four years of being Thedroidguy I abandoned my Android phone for an iPhone as my daily driver, I was and still am pretty much a Google user. I use Google docs, Google analytics, Google Maps, a Chromebook on occasion and Chrome as my default browser. Actually I typically [...]
If you said Kickstarter you would be correct. Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler has been on a bit of a conference and press run lately. Just a few weeks ago he was in Charleston South Carolina for the Dig South festival, sharing a stage with TechCrunch East Coast Editor, John Biggs. Monday, he was also with [...]
TechCrunch Disrupt New York kicked off Monday. There were a ton of great sessions and talks yesterday. That said, the talk from Hosain Rahman, the founder and CEO of Jawbone really stood out, for a few different reasons. Rahman went through many different aspects of Jawbone, being a CEO and more broadly being an entrepreneur, as [...]
There are tons of crowdfunding platforms out there.The great majority of these platforms are just general, in terms of scope - think of the Kickstarters and Indiegogos. However, there are a few niche focused platforms that are incredibly interesting. One such platform is Pubslush. Pubslush is a crowdfunding platform for books. It allows authors to [...]
We're on the ground in New York City for TechCrunch Disrupt NY. Year after year TechCrunch Disrupt is one of the best events that we've covered. Disrupt connects apps, startups, and investors in three days (+2 for the hackathon) that are intense, and full of knowledge. The first part of Disrupt is the hackathon which [...]
Yesterday, MyCheck announced that they had begun a collaboration with PayPal. Through this collaboration, MyCheck's mobile payment technology will be incorporated into PayPal's mobile app. MyCheck has built a really unique mobile payment platform, aimed at restaurants and other businesses. The MyCheck platform provides users and businesses with a streamlined checkout process, allowing the users [...]
If you're a baseball fan and a customer of fourth largest national wireless carrier T-Mobile, then you're in luck T-Mobile, who is celebrating some great news this week, is often finding creative ways to reward their customers. Earlier this year, in order to get new customers from other carriers, T-Mobile went as far as to [...]
On Friday, BLU began selling its newest flagship, the Life Pure XL. If you have never heard of BLU, the Miami, FL company designs and manufactures affordable mid-range unlocked Android handsets. While the company has been known mostly for the low cost of their devices, that may soon be changing. The Life Pure XL has [...]
