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The internet was abuzz Monday with news that Google had doubled down on robotics, specifically in the drone variety. Google acquired Titan Aerospace, a company that makes solar powered drones that can fly 65,000 feet above sea level without needing to land, reports TechCrunch. The company was reportedly in talks to be acquired by Facebook [...]
There've been rumblings about Apple possibly introducing an in-car or connected car system over the past few years. However, there have been a lot of products rumored to be coming down the pipeline for Apple as well. A new Apple TV, that's integrated into an actual TV, the iWatch and even a competitor to Google [...]
We have smartphones, smart watches, Google Glass, Fitbits, but the Fraunhofer Institute for Integrated Circuits IIS wants to usher in the next wave of smart products as early as next year. The Fraunhofer Institute's FitnessSHIRT measures and tracks vital signs and physiological signals
Apple's CEO, and the most influential Auburn University alum in the world, Tim Cook, took to the stage on Monday morning to kick off the World Wide Developers Conference. The WWDC, now in it's 25th year is an annual gathering of developers working on Apple platforms. Cook was quick to point out that the first [...]
It's hard to believe that the Big Android BBQ is going into it's 5th event. I was one of the original co-founders alongside Aaron Kasten the founder of Android Swag and several other mobile and technology related entities. The Big Android BBQ is the Android developer's version of MacWorld a fan/developer founded event for Mac [...]
If you're hardcore into tech and gaming or a game developer than you are more than familiar with GDC or the Game Developer's Conference. Unlike conventions like E3 GDC brings the best game developers from across the country and around the world together to share ideas, hear great speakers, learn and see the next generation [...]
Carol Jackson has been teaching seventh and eighth graders outside of Chicago for nearly 20 years. Over the last two years she's started to hear a lot about a Minecraft from her students. "We had a halloween party and a bunch of my students came dressed with boxes on their heads" she told us at [...]
There is no question about the importance of mobile. That said, there is a question about mobile within an education setting. For the great majority of schools and school districts, it is just not feasible to commission a mobile app. However, we just came across a company that dramatically reduces costs, and makes is [...]
Just in time for the Game Developers Conference, Google has just made a whopper of a gaming announcement, and several other lesser announcements. First and foremost, Google Play Games services will now support Android-iOS cross platform gaming
Piracy is definitely on the rise. Everywhere you turn there are more and more stories about how piracy is effecting just about every media industry in the world. Recently we ran a story about a new startup company called DemandFlicks that hopes to curb movie piracy. Back in December we reported that pop songstress Beyonce [...]
Gmail API, Google Opens Gmail To Developers On Thursday at Google I/O, the Mountain View company made a huge announcement concerning Gmail. Google announced a new Gmail API. For years, the only way that developers have been able to access the huge amounts of data within Gmail was via IMAP. However, the only thing that [...]
On Monday, Google announced a new "Google Apps Referral Program," wherein users will receive a $15 referral bonus for each new Google Apps user they refer.
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 [...]
(photo: San Jose Mercury News) It appears that Google meant no ill will when a satellite image of a San Francisco area street showed an image of a man's slain son. The Associated Press reported on Monday that Jose Barrera told KTVU-TV that he wanted Google to remove a satellite image from [...]
According to the Wall Street Journal, Google "plans to spend more than $1 billion on a fleet of satellites to extend Internet access to unwired regions of the globe, people familiar with the project said, hoping to overcome financial and technical problems that thwarted previous efforts."Alistair Barr and Andy Pasztor, The Wall Street Journal, "Google Invests in [...]
Google has been known for it's bonuses that it pays for real world hackers who find exploits in their products and services, reports them and then replicates them. Bonus payments have often ranged between $1000 and $10,000 with the $10,000 prizes being saved for what Google calls "particularly significant contributions." Google initially debuted the bug bounty [...]
San Francisco's Mission District is bustling with startups. With converted, wide open office spaces, co working spaces and incubator programs, The Mission is roaring with activity. Now, despite the outrage San Francisco residents have been showing Google's private employee buses, the company has decided to take up residence right in the mission district. According to [...]
When Kansas City became the second city in America with 1gb fiber ethernet (Chattanooga was the first), the rest of the company started chomping at the bit to hopefully get a piece of the new internet service provided by Google called Google Fiber. While some people look at Google as evil, we know that they've [...]
When Google sunset their RSS reader, Google Reader, many people didn't know what to do. Luckily for me I found that Digg's new RSS component was actually much better than Google Reader. Shortly after the announcement that they were shutting down the Google Reader service the company acquired news reader startup Wavii for around $30 [...]
Google may not have been able to get their NFC based Google Wallet off the ground due to carrier restrictions and plenty of other obstacles, but that hasn't stopped them. Instead of keeping Google Wallet as solely an on device application Google has branched it out and they are now offering Google Wallet cards, a [...]
