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Microsoft Launches 1st Phone without Nokia Branding

By |Editors' Picks, Microsoft, Mobile|

There have been hints and leaks trickling out that Microsoft would completely dump the Nokia branding - and to a lesser extent all Windows Phone branding. On Monday, these leaks were finally proven true, as Microsoft launched the Lumia 535. The phone itself is hardly worthy of news, as it is one of the lower end [...]

Facebook Outages Cost $20,000 Per Minute

By |News, Social Networks|

Where were you Friday morning around lunch time when Facebook had gone down for the count? There's no way of telling exactly how large it was but Facebook experienced a global outage Friday morning between 11am and 12 noon eastern time. Millions flocked to Twitter mocking their own addiction to the world's largest social network. [...]

Microsoft to Begin Phasing out Nokia Brand

By |Microsoft, News|

On Wednesday June 11, @evleaks published an internal Nokia document. This document, among other things, revealed that Microsoft will phase out all Nokia branding. Microsoft will no longer be carrying the Nokia name on any devices in the near future. The leaked document included an FAQ section. Within this section, the first FAQ really stands [...]

The Cheapest Way To Get An iPhone 5s Off Contract

By |Mobile, News|

Typically when a new and exciting smartphone gets to the six month mark you can almost always anticipate a price drop. That holds true for Android phones, Windows phones and Blackberry. Not often do you see big deals on the latest iPhone until we get really close to the end of the cycle, which usually [...]

Monolyth: Nest For Your Wall Or Window Unit AC

By |Crowdfunding, Internet Of Things, Interviews|

Nest For Window Units Monolyth A couple moths back we told you about the Sensibo, a device that turned any A/C unit into a smart unit. Today, however, we came across a similar product: Monolyth. The Monolyth was built by Entia, a Slovenian company that has already built a bunch of different smart home products. We had [...]

Samsung Unveils Gear VR at IFA 2014

By |Editors' Picks, IFA 2014|

If we are to believe Mark Zuckerberg, Virtual Reality is going to be the next great technology. Zuckerberg and Facebook made a $1 billion bet on this. If indeed VR is the next great frontier, Samsung has jumped out to an early lead. On Wednesday at IFA, Samsung announced Gear VR. The Gear VR is a [...]

Samsung adds the Note 3 to the 10 million sold club

By |Android, Editors' Picks, Featured, Mobile|

Samsung has been able to move millions of their Android devices over the years, and various devices have hit 10 million sold over the course of time. Samsung has announced that the Galaxy Note 3 will be the latest entrant into the club as the device has reached 10 million units sold in only two [...]

Can You Smell What Your Phone Is Cooking?

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things|

After missing their mark with Qblinks an extremely versatile remote control and notification center for your phone, the Qblinks team is back at it with a vengeance and a truly unique product. The iScent is a castle shaped product that's really a Bluetooth atomizer making it possible to smell your ring or notification tones. It [...]

Pledge Your Bets: Charitable Gambling [One Spark]

By |Editors' Picks, One Spark 2014|

There are tons of creative projects on display in Jacksonville right now for One Spark. Tons. Three of our favorites are here by way of Tampa Bay. Pledge Your Bets, WeVue, and Drawer are all products of the Tampa Bay Wave accelerator. We have already told you a little bit about WeVue and Drawer, but [...]

Google Files TREWGrip-like Keyboard Patent

By |News|

In yet more Google news, the Mountain View company recently filed an interesting patent application. The patent is for a new sort of keyboard to be placed on the backside of devices.

Holiday Gift Guide: The ROCCAT Kone Pure Color Phantom White Mouse

By |Gadgets & Tech, Holiday Gift Guide 2013|

ROCCAT is known around the world for their exceptional gaming accessories. They've created some awesome technology for gamers, like the ROCCAT Power-Grid app. Their Kone Pure Color mouse line now in it's fifth year is back again, this time in pure white. Like the original Kone Pure, the Color edition features a high-end 8,200 DPI [...]

Why Apple Pay Won’t Work At CVS and Rite Aid

By |Editors' Picks, Mobile Payments, News|

Two of the countries biggest retail pharmacies, Rite Aid and CVS, have just told their store level employees to shut down all of their NFC enabled payment terminals. VentureBeat reported on Saturday that this directive would render both Apple Pay and Google Wallet useless at terminals for those two pharmacies. While you might immediately think [...]

Using Twitter Favorites For Bookmarks? Try Favatron

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews, Social Networks|

Twitter came under fire last week for messing with Twitter Favorites. Since the beginning of Twitter there was no real definitive answer of how the favorite was supposed to work. For some people it was a way of showing thanks like "liking" something on Facebook. For others' it serves as a bookmark of sorts to [...]

Google in Talks to Buy Into Virgin Galactic

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

According to Sky News Google is exploring the option of buying into Virgin Galactic. According to the report: "Google is in talks with Virgin Galactic about a deal that will hand it crucial access to satellite-launch technology and an equity stake in Sir Richard Branson’s $2bn (£1.2bn) space tourism venture."Mark Kleinman, Sky News, "Google In [...]

Move Over Zboad, Marbel Is Lighter And Faster

By |Editors' Picks, One Spark 2014|

Of all the One Spark Creators we profiled in the lead up to the 'Worlds First Crowdfunding Festival,' the one that I was most looking forward to seeing in person was the Marbel Electric Skateboard. I used to skateboard constantly. I son't skate nearly as much these days, but it is still one of my [...]

Sony’s “Project Morpheus” Virtual Reality Headset Announced At GDC 2014.

By |Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Gaming|

Rumors have been floating around the interwebs for a while now that Sony has been developing a virtual reality headset similar to the popular Oculus Rift. At GDC 2014 Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide President, Shu Yoshida confirmed this with "Project Morpheus" a headset with 90 degree field of view and 1080p resolution. The Oculus Rift [...]

Facebook Ripping Off Timehop?

By |Editors' Picks, News, Social Networks|

Timehop is a nifty little app that lets you travel back in time through your social media, up to five years. Everyday your Timehop account aggregates all of your social postings from previous years so you can look back and see what you were doing that date, every year up to the last five. The [...]

Where Did All The Farmvillers Go?

By |Editors' Picks, News|

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 [...]

Happy Birthday Facebook Thanks For Screwing 53

By |Editors' Picks, Everything Else, News, Social Networks|

While everyone in the world seems to be reflecting on the last 10 years of life with Facebook, including Mark Zuckerberg, one company isn't very happy with the social networking giant, and rightfully so. Fifty Three is the developer of the highly popular app called Paper. No not the new news sharing app released by [...]

Ruffl, The Hotel Tonight For Food Grabs $1.6M Launches Dining App

By |Everything Else|

Supply and demand is a pretty simple principle going back to the earliest days of business. The smartphone and mobile device have made it even easier to solve the supply and demand issue.  In fact supply and demand has seen two evolutions one at web 1.0 and now at the mobile revolution. Priceline.com, Hotels.com and [...]