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Use Your Gear To Find Paypal Locations & Pay

By |Apps, Editors' Picks, Internet Of Things, Mobile Payments, smart watch, Wearable Technology|

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 [...]

Lightning Grader: Scantron on Steroids

By |Education, FETC 2014|

Lightning Grader allows educators to easily build assessments using the multiple choice format (à la Scantron), but also allows such other formats as true/false, math equations, as well as both short answer and essay questions. What's more, the Lighting Grader assessments are printed on normal, regular printer paper, thus eliminating the need for special paper.

Samsung Beefs up The Note 4 Processor

By |News, Samsung|

Late Sunday night - Early Monday in Korea - Samsung made a pretty substantial announcement concerning the Galaxy Note 4. For the time being, this announcement will only affect the South Korean market. Anyhow, Samsung announced a new version of the Galaxy Note 4, that will include Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810 processor. While that may not seem [...]

Helpmonks: A Simple Solution to Team Emails

By |Editors' Picks, Interviews|

If you have every worked with a large, or remote team, you know what a hassle it can be. Things as simple as communication can become massive pain points. We just came across a Chicago startup that looks to ease this pain. Helpmonks has built an awesome new team-based email and workflow management platform. We [...]

Google Backs Glasses That Will Help The Blind See

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

(photo: RNIB via TechRadar) You may find it odd with Google's Google Glass experiment in such disarray, that the company would back any other kind of eyeglass technology. Well such is the case as part of Google's, Google Impact Challenge UK Techradar reported on Friday that as part of it's worldwide Impact Challenge [...]

Samsung Galaxy Avant Launches On T-Mobile With Kit Kat On Board

By |Android, Mobile, News|

Samsung Galaxy Avant T-Mobile The line between high end Android phones and mid-range phones continues to get blurrier and blurrier. Just three years ago getting a medium range Android meant horrible buttons, horrible lag and horrible graphics. Those days are gone. Now, today's midrange phones carry yesterday's high end specs and with the amount of [...]

Dig-It Games: Get Kids Learning Without Even Knowing It

By |Education, Interviews|

     There are a ton of educational games out there. Most are just that, educational games; bland and boring. However, there are a few gaming companies that really stand out. The best of which actually trick kids into learning. That is, making a game that is so fun, the educational aspect is not even noticed. [...]

EdTech: GroupMooc: Navigate the MOOC Landscape with Ease

By |Education, Interviews|

     There are countless MOOCs (Massive open online courses) out there. In fact, there are so many that it can be a pain to find one that interests you. However, we recently had a chance to ask Michael Howe a bit about how his company, GroupMooc helps users find the right one. What is GroupMooc? GroupMooc [...]

Up Down And All Around 360 Cam Is The World’s First Full HD 360° Camera

By |Crowdfunding, Editors' Picks, Photo|

We all know that crowdfunding is inspiring innovation across many sectors both technical and not so technical. We've seen some great wearable technology, mobile apps, games and even a really cool phone case or two. One sector that's really benefited from the crowdfunding explosion is photography. Just yesterday we reported on Otto a new physical [...]

Galaxy S5 Evolution and Hands-On [Video and Infographic]

By |Infographics, MWC 2014, Samsung|

A few days ago, we told you all about the new Samsung Galaxy S5. However, if you are just a casual observer, that article wont do you much good - aside from the pictures. However, Samsung just released an infographic that details how the Galaxy S has changed through the 5 iterations.

Flappy Bird Shutting Down?

By |Editors' Picks, Gaming, News|

It's hard to believe that the phenomena known as Flappy Bird may be going away, as soon as later today. Business Insider reported earlier today that the game's developer, Dong Nguyen, tweeted that in 22 hours the game would go away. Business Insider's Nicholas Carlson says that Nguyen isn't one for the limelight. Nguyen considers [...]

Genius Maps, Don’t Leave Home Without It!

By |Apps, Editors' Picks|

While the Apple maps app on iOS devices has greatly improved sine it's release, and Google Maps seems to be a main stay across all smartphone users, there's another GPS app that's worth checking out. In fact, we won't leave home without it. Genius Maps is a premium offline GPS navigation app with professional maps. [...]

Gold Samsung Galaxy Note 3 Headed To Verizon Wireless

By |News, Samsung|

Samsung has introduced some new color schemes for the Galaxy Note 3. The popular phablet will be available in various two tone color schemes on a number of international carriers, but what about the US? Well Phandroid reported earlier that highly reliable samsung source @evleaks had previously reported that the rose gold color scheme would [...]

Griffin Launches Merchant Case For Square Users At CES [VIDEO]

By |CES 2014, Editors' Picks, Gadgets & Tech, Mobile Payments|

Square, has empowered street vendors, craft fair vendors, and flea marketers with the ability to accept credit cards with a simple swipe. Square's easy to use app and card reader eliminate the risks associated with carbon paper credit card slips and taking bad checks, problems that have plagued mom and pop merchants across the globe [...]

Where Does Nest Rank In Google’s Acquisitions

By |Fast Break|

Google is notorious for their acquisitions. They've had some mega huge hits like Youtube and then some misses like Orkut. But where does't Google's latest $3.2 billion dollar acquisition of Nest fit in with the grand scheme of Google Acquisitions? Our good friend John Cook at Geekwire took a look at Nest's place in the [...]

Fred Wilson Compares Google Glass To Apple’s Newton, But That May Not Be A Bad Thing

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

(image: LeWeb) Do you remember the Apple Newton, well we do, but only mildly. The Apple Newton was a PDA device that will forever live on in history as one of Apple's biggest failures, and yes it's possible for Apple to have failures.  The Apple Newton ranks up there with the Lisa, the [...]

Samsung Weighing KitKat For Lower Level Android Phones

By |Android, News|

Traditionally, only a manufacturers high end devices would get the latest greatest version of the Android operating system. This continues to grow a problem in the Android world called fragmentation. While Apple's iOS 7 is now in 70% of iOS devices, the last two versions of Android account for only 40% of all Android devices. [...]

PayPal Now Sells and Supports Gift Cards

By |Editors' Picks, Mobile|

As gift cards are set to be the most popular gift this holiday season, PayPal just announced the creation of the new PayPal Digital Gift Store. The company also supports payments from gift cards.

Find Your Representative With Google’s Newest Service: Map Your Representative

By |Editors' Picks, Google|

The internet is putting politics back into the hands of Americans. There are several startups out there that are helping US citizens get more politically active. There are even some startups out there that are doing exactly what Google's newest service is doing, and that is, locate their representatives. TheVerge reported on Tuesday that Google [...]

Cyanogen’s Goal To Distribute To The Masses Suffers Google Play Setback

By |Android, Editors' Picks, News|

In September when it was revealed that popular Android developer Cyanogen had received a $7 million dollar funding round, the development team had big plans to release their popular version of the OS to the masses. After years of having to download CyanogenMod from the Cyanogen servers and mirror sites, and unlock the boot loader, [...]