One Wednesday, April 23, Google announced a new feature for Google Maps. In what is really quite remarkable, Google is allowing users to access old street view images, essentially opening up a time capsule. "Starting today," the company announced in a blog post, "you can travel to the past to see how a place has [...]
Do you remember Zynga? The gigantic social gaming company that couldn't get it's Facebook hits Farmville and Cityville to mobile fast enough? Yes the same company is now behind What's The Phrase and Words With Friends oh yeah, and Draw Something. But none of those bets could help them on Wall Street, and Wednesday we [...]
Is your child ready for kindergarten? As the school year starts to wind down, parents everywhere are preparing their 4 year olds for their last summer at home, and hopefully it's off to kindergarten. Since there's no mandate on pre-k, nursery school or preschool, kindergarteners come into school with a variety of educational backgrounds. Some [...]
If you're hip enough to be walking down your city streets with a Samsung Galaxy Gear 2, Gear Neo or even Galaxy Gear, and you have a Paypal account, then you're in for a treat. Paypal is testing a new payment method on their campus that links together Bluetooth low energy beacons and Samsung Galaxy [...]
On Tuesday, Amazon announced that they had reached content licensing agreement with HBO. The licencing agreement will give Amazon Prime members access to a massive collection of HBO original programming. HBO content will become available for Prime subscribers beginning May 21, and will include access to: All seasons of revered classics such as The Sopranos, The Wire, Deadwood, Rome and Six Feet [...]
The world is still brimming with big ideas, many of which will be fully realized in our lifetime. There is more than enough reason to be optimistic and excited about the near future. However, big ideas require small tools and ground-level construction. Before rockets are launched into space, a lot of this has to take [...]
We were just forwarded some information on a new Indiegogo campaign that kicked off today. This is the Daisy.si - Smart plant waterer. The Daisy.si Smart plant waterer is unique in a lot of ways. The Smart plant warterer is somewhat similar to the Parrot Flower Power, but it has a lot more functionality than Parrot's [...]
Heads turned earlier this year at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona. At the February event, Samsung took the wraps off the now released Samsung Galaxy S5 and the Gear 2, Gear 2 Neo and Gear Fit smart watch devices. Not only did Samsung do a reup on their original smartwatch, they decided to build the [...]
Recently, we have been digging into a ton of crowdfunding campaigns. There are a lot of really good ones, and a lot of really bad ones. However, we just came across the The World Speed Project which can really only be described as, well, strange. The fellow on the left, Ryan Beitz, is on a mission to [...]
After just over one week on the market, the Samsung Galaxy S5 flagship handset already accounts for a whopping 0.7% of all active Android smartphones worldwide.Dave Hoch, Localytics Blog, "Samsung Galaxy S5 Grabs Nearly 1% of all Android Smartphones after First Week," 22 April 2014 To break that down, roughly, comScore noted that as of [...]
