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The must attend conference for app developers returns to North America starting this Wednesday February 5th. Appsworld, is coming back to San Francisco's Moscone center for two days of high level insight and discussion around one of the largest growing industries in history, mobile apps. There are literally hundreds of app conferences every year now, [...]
CES has officially kicked off and we're bringing you CES faster. On Sunday afternoon I received a Tweet from Schwinn Bicycles asking me to visit them at CES. I thought for a second, what in the world could Schwinn be showing off at CES? A new electric bike? An app? Something even cooler? Well we [...]
While we often think about the us as being one of the highest ranked in many of the global economic/technological indicators, a New York Times article debunked this for a key component of innovation and technological growth. According to Edward Wyatt of The New York Times, "The United States, the country that invented the Internet, is falling dangerously behind in offering high-speed, affordable broadband service to businesses and consumers."
"Failing Gracefully" is nothing new in the startup world. While some startups come to a quick and definite stop, and then disappear off the face of the earth, others return money to investors, and wind down their companies. That, is what some consider "failing gracefully". Over the summer design focused e-commerce company Fab closed a [...]
By Andrew Hsu Technology buyers and strategists within the Fortune 500 routinely trust industry analysts — such as those at Gartner, Forrester, and several other firms — for counsel on everything from present-day best practices to long-term strategy. It’s analysts’ job to help their clients succeed and bring clarity to the challenges of digital evolution. Yet, many [...]
The other day I was reading an article on Forbes.com about new innovations that could potentially kill the sales of major household brands. It was a first in a series by Robin Lewis and he makes the argument that the sheer number of competitive offerings (including private label alternatives), plus the impact of the Internet [...]
Last week while Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella was busy doing his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge, members of the Internet Explorer developer team were participating in a reddit "Ask Me Anything". For those completely oblivious a reddit "Ask Me Anything" happens on the popular news/opinion forum and those participating as the askee are asked whatever anyone [...]
We're on the ground at OneSpark the World's Crowdfunding Festival in Jacksonville Florida soaking up the rays with at least 100,000 attendees at this event bringing Indiegogo, Kickstarter and your local startup accelerator pitch day to life in one off-line, online hybrid mashup. Check out more of our OneSpark coverage here. One of our coverage [...]
On Friday, April 4th, Nest - the company behind the smart thermostat, which was acquired by Google for $3.2 billion - halted the sales of their latest product: Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm. One of the features of the Nest Protect: Smoke + Carbon Monoxide alarm, Nest Wave, could be accidentally activated, thus causing a delay in the alarm.
If Cortana sounds like a familiar name to you that must mean you play or have played Microsoft's flagship console game Halo. The artificial intelligence character in the hit game franchise is also the name that Microsoft has bestowed upon their new digital assistant, showing up with the release of Windows 8.1. With new Microsoft [...]
SlimPort technology enables smartphones, tablets, or computers to deliver HD content - be it audio, video, or gameplay - to an external display while using little, to no battery power.
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
Hundreds of thousands of attendees, over 3,000 exhibitors and everyone who cares about technology will have all eyes on Las Vegas from January 5th through January 10th for the International CES. CES is the largest technology trade show, conference and convention in the western hemisphere. Over 10 years of coverage I've seen a lot. CES [...]
When Marissa Mayer took over the job as CEO at Yahoo she knew it was going to be an uphill climb but most in the tech community knew that she was just the person to do the job. Mayer's background is firmly entrenched in the internet and now mobile. During her lengthy time at Google [...]
Thursday and Friday of last week saw the first ever TechCocktail Celebrate. After combing the nation over the last five years looking at what the hottest startup company in each city was, Frank Gruber and the TechCocktail team decided to have a finals in Las Vegas. The event was a smashing success and is sure [...]
(image: AppleInsider.com) Siri on Mac OSX Move over little paper clip man it looks like Apple may finally be looking at bringing Siri, the iOS digital assistant to Mac OSX environments. Technobuffalo reminds us that earlier this summer at the World Wide Developer's Conference Apple introduced the world to Yosemite. Now Yosemite is [...]
Yahoo Voices Shutting Down Yahoo sent an email the other day to the members of it's nearly decade old Yahoo Contributor Network. The Yahoo Voices Contributor Network provided an outlet for bloggers, and writers across many categories like news, tech, sports and finance, with a built in audience of 600 million. The contributor network paid [...]
There are a lot of solutions out there for web filtering. Many of them are geared towards enterprise and when they realized there was a market in K-12 they opened up a new vertical with those enterprise filters. The problem is, those filters, typically blocked entire websites. It's ok to decide that your administrative assistants [...]
(photo: ISTEunplugged) The International Society for Technology in Education, more affectionately known as ISTE, is holding it's annual mega conference in less than two weeks in Atlanta Georgia at the World Congress Center. The conference is often billed as the largest educational technology conference in the world and runs from June 28th to [...]
If you've been thinking about getting a shiny new Xbox One but you've been waiting to pull the trigger than today is the day you may want to get to your neighborhood Gamestop. Tomorrow (June 9th) is the day that the new Kinect-less Xbox One hits the stores and in celebration (or to blow out [...]
