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SHOCKER! Android Seeing 25% More Downloads Than The iOS App Store

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, Mobile|

It's no secret in mere units Android is far outpacing the iPhone, simply because there are more units to choose from and the point of entry is much lower, in some cases free. Apple tried to compete on the cheap side with the iPhone 5C but when push came to shove there wasn't much value [...]

Google Turning To YouTube For Next Music Innovation?

By |Editors' Picks, News|

Google has been struggling to catch up with Apple's iTunes service. Since it's debut in January of 2001 iTunes has turned the music industry on it's head and they've responded giving iTunes the advantage of being the goto music service for most American's with a computer. Other music services have tried to catch up with [...]

This TechStars Seattle Grad Is the Perfect Video Blogging App For Google Glass

By |Apps, Editors' Picks|

Funny that you mention Google Glass, we just talked about it earlier this morning because it seems that Samsung is preparing a Google Glass like device. Google Glass has been a hot device since it's pre-beta debut a year and a half ago at Google I/O. Last year around this time Google began shipping Google [...]

Material Design: Google’s Massive Overhaul of The Android UI

By |Android, Editors' Picks, Google, Google IO|

Google I/O kicked off on Wednesday morning. There is a lot to get to, so we will just jump right in. Google dropped some major bombs during the keynote address. The most important of which was the announcement of a new mobile OS, or Android L, as the company called it. This new version of [...]

Kuff: Wearable Storage with Up to 1TB SSD

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Wearable Technology|

There are a ton of different wearables out there. Some good, and some bad. However, aside from several health and fitness trackers, and safety devices, you could make the case that the majority of these devices serve more as an extension of your cellphone than anything else. Why is the cellphone the only device getting [...]

iHeartRadio Makes It’s Way To The Wrist On The Samsung Gear 2 [MWC]

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, MWC 2014|

Clear Channel Media & Entertainment is huge in the United States, so you don't often think about them appearing a tradeshows internationally. So on the ground at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona we found it a bit odd, but comforting to a degree, to see IHEARTRADIO as part of the announcements coming from the biggest [...]

Sony to Release Google Glass Competitor at CES

By |CES 2015, Editors' Picks, Wearable Technology|

Sony just announced one of the products it will be showing off at the upcoming 2015 Consumer Electronics Show, and it is pretty surprising. Sony has made a bet on a Google Glass type wearable. But Sony's device has a little twist, it clips on to existing eye-ware. This is Sony's Single-Lens Display Module: The clip [...]

Google I/O: Day 1 Highlights

By |Editors' Picks, Google, Google IO|

Day one of Google I/O is in the books. The Mountain View company made some major announcements during the first day of their annual developers conference. Taken as a whole, you can see some trends starting to emerge. One of these trends is uniformity. Google has altered its thinking as far as devices. Rather than [...]

Google Teases Android Wear Functionality and Development

By |Android, Android Wear, Developers, Google|

  On Wednesday, a new video on the Google Developer YouTube channel gave us a new look at Android Wear. The video gives us a ton of new information about Google's foray into a wearable OS. There are a lot of things that stand out, but one of the most important takeaways - at least [...]

Truce: Apple And Google Declare A Truce Of Sorts

By |Apple, Editors' Picks, Google|

Late Friday Google and Apple issued a joint statement saying that they were ending all current lawsuits against each other, and that they would work together in some areas of patent reform. A story that was first reported by the Wall Street Journal had many tech pundits in disbelief. Many believed that Apple and Google [...]

Google Shortener Gets A New Fancy App

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

If you prefer Google's goo.gl url shortener over the recently DDoS attacked Bit.ly shortener than we've got some good news for you. Android Central reported on Sunday that a developer, Thomas Devaux, has created and released a new app to the Google Play Store that makes it a cinch to shorten url's on the go [...]

GemWhere Smart, Has Your Daily Briefing And More On Your Wrist

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Wearable Technology|

I've been using a Pebble smart watch since it was first released on Kickstarter. While I love my Pebble smartwatch I'm also a big news junkie and love to know what's going on around me. I like to know when the big things happen whether it be technology, sports or even politics. The myriad of alerts [...]

SpaceX Raises $1b Round from Google and Fidelity

By |Editors' Picks, Google, Investing, Space|

On Tuesday, SpaceX - the rocket and spacecraft company founded by Elon Musk - announced a new billion dollar round of funding. Google, one of the two investors in this round has a major vested interest in the low-cost space flight that SpaceX offers to the like of NASA. The funding round was announces in [...]

Project Ara Modular Phone Beta to be Released in Puerto Rico This Year

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

Earlier this week, Google held the second annual Project Ara Developers Conference. Project Ara, if you have not heard of it, is Google's modular smart phone project. In a nutshell, Ara is a 100% customizable smartphone hardware platform. Not only can you pick and choose what features you want on the phone, but the colors and [...]

Review: LG G3

By |Everything Else, Mobile, Reviews|

The Android super phones of 2014 have solidified: The Samsung Galaxy S5, the HTC One M8, and the LG G3. All feature somewhat larger builds, with the M8 speakers giving it more height and the G3 entering phablet territory with a 5.5” screen. The 4.95" Nexus 5 had been my daily driver since it was released [...]

Samsung to Release “Gear Glass” at IFA in September

By |News, Samsung, Wearable Technology|

According to several reports, Samsung will be rolling out a Google Glass-like device in September of this year. Business Korea cites an unnamed Samsung sources as nothing that the device, dubbed "Gear Glass," will be ready in time for IFA 2014, Sept. 5-10, in Berlin, Germany. According to the report, "Gear Glass," will be much more than a [...]

A Look at the Largest Acquisitions of the Largest Tech Companies [Infographic]

By |Editors' Picks, Infographics|

Over the past year, there have been some enormous acquisitions. Facebook acquired WhatsApp for a staggering $19 billion, and then a little more than a month later acquired Oculus for $2 billion; Microsoft just acquired Nokia Devices and Services business for $7.2 billion; Google bought Motorola in 2011 for $12.5 billion, Nest in 2014 for [...]

Is Google Going To Work On Project Loon At Moffett Federal Airfield

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

Google has leased a famous blimp hangar from NASA for a reported $2 million dollars per year and a $33 million dollar commitment to refurbish the property. Hangar One at Moffett Federal Airfield was used for many years to house the USS Macon, a very large World War I blimp, for the US navy. The [...]

Why Google App Translation Matters and Why Android Apps Will Win the App Store War

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, Google, Guest Post|

Last month Google announced that it was opening up its translation service to all Android developers enabling them to offer their apps to any customer in any language from third-party service providers. This is a big deal in the app store wars. Here’s why… More than seventy-percent of customers prefer to buy products in their [...]

Video: Microsoft Glass

By |Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Google, Microsoft|

Google Glass is the first wearable computing device that puts the power of Android right in front of your eyes. Many tech pundits, including New York venture capitalist Fred Wilson, thinks that Google Glass may be a little bit ahead of itself. Wilson recently compared it to the Apple Newton, while on stage at the [...]