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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 [...]
Essentially, MetroTech is a sort-of real time Waze. MetroTech has devised a platform that, "creates real-time traffic information from any video stream and stores it in a data warehouse in the cloud where it can be analyzed and published via the web to applications, mobile phones, and connected vehicles."
Before I go on I just want to say I do not go to the church of Sony, nor do I read from the book of Microsoft - I am console agnostic and I believe that both have their merits and I subscribe to the 'why not both?' way of thinking especially now in this [...]
Creativity and collaboration are two fundamental pieces in today's educational space. A new iPad app called Drawp is bridging both of those things together and at the same time making them easier Drawp features drawing, coloring and painting creativity tools on an art engine that's built for more professional applications. This means that kids can [...]
By combining both the Moverio BT-200 and the Myo armband, some incredible possibilities emerge. The release likened the combination to the film "Minority Report," which seems about right
Appsbar has recognized NextStep as the appsbar.com App of the Day for showcasing the value of mobile marketing for small businesses. By utilizing the no-cost app builder at appsbar.com, small businesses are able to engage current and potential clients directly on their smartphones and tablets. The NextStep mobile app offers training and fitness advice, photos [...]
While most of the world was in shock at the 109 yard failed field goal return by Auburn cornerback Chris Davis, in accordance with NCAA rules he won't receive any money for his Iron Bowl performance. However, the student holding up the sign in the picture above used the Iron Bowl to make $25,000 via [...]
Chris Baker, the former Creative Director at viral website Buzzfeed left his job last month in hopes to relieve headaches of millions of internet users worldwide. Baker, who also founded a site called unbaby.me, is taking the technology from unbaby.me and expanding it to an easy to use customizable interface for anyone to block anything. [...]
Samsung's popular phablet, the Samsung Galaxy Note 3, is the official smartphone of this years Winter Olympics. To commemorate the occasion the South Korean technology giant has released a special edition Samsung Galaxy Note 3, TechnoBuffalo reported. The device is being packaged in a special 2014 Winter Olympics commemorative box. The device itself is being [...]
This year while the kids are enjoying a summer off, EdTech advisors, educational IT specialists, teachers, administrators and EdTech buyers across the country are going to be busy with a handful of good EdTech conferences. Atlanta will play host to the largest EdTech conference in the US, ISTE. Texas will play host to the TCEA [...]
Among the releases at this years Mobile World Congress, the Blackphone was officially released for pre-orders. The Blackphone, made by SGP Technologies - a joint venture of Silent Circle and Geeksphone - is dubbed as "the world’s first smartphone which places privacy and control directly in the hands of its users."
There are so many companies out there that will tell you the quickest way to captivate a young students mind is through gaming.That's true to a degree, but that's not what Lindsey Tropf and Florida based Immersed Games are all about. Immersed Games first came on the scene two years ago at the One Spark [...]
Pixowl's Sandbox game is a STEAM focused virtual world builder for kids. The fun game, with infinite possibilities, drives kids with STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art and math) focused principles, to create virtual worlds. The game literally takes place in a sandbox and allows players to manipulate more than 150 physics elements. The game has [...]
High School EdTech Startup If we had a $1 for every time we heard about some college kids launching a startup we wouldn't have to work anymore, but teenagers launching a startup, that's a different story. There are a handful of great tech stories out there about teenagers that have turned an app into a [...]
While most Americans are familiar with the Target data breach that occurred from Black Friday through December 15th, what they really want to know now is how cyber thieves were able to gain access into Target's network and then into their payment system. Well Brian Krebs of Krebs On Security, the website that broke the [...]
Sadly, this is not a joke. Multiple news sources, including BetaBeat are reporting that Christmas morning wasn't a good day for the family of 18 year old Alexander Torres of Brockton Massachustts. Enterprisenews.com reported, via BetaBeat, that the 18 year old Torres, pulled a knife on his father after a family scuffle broke out because [...]
If you own an iPad big or mini, then you probably know you can get a rugged case like an Otterbox, Griffin Survivor Series or LifeProof and protect your tablet from nearly anything and everything. You also know that companies like Griffin and others make great keyboards for the same iPads. But until now you [...]
With Ponder, students tag and markup the reading by selecting from a rich menu of options to question and talk back to the text: e.g. “That's overstated.” OR “I need this broken down.” OR “What a clever example of inductive reasoning.”
The days of spending tens of thousands of dollars and days of waiting for a high tech video surveillance system are over. There are several do it yourself systems out there, but many of them require you to buy everything piece by piece and by the time you've achieved the system tat you want, [...]
Zspace Virtual Reality Classroom The ISTE (International Society for Technology in Education) Conference 2014 was full of awesome EdTech products. However, there was one product in particular that really stood out. The zSpace was far and away the most interesting thing that we, or at least I, looked at. Although the zSpace was one of the [...]
