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IDC released their Android vs Apple numbers at the end of October. It's no surprise that Android has surpassed iOS as an operating system for smartphones. BGR and several other sites report that the latest IDC number show that Android revenue from sales of tablets has finally beat the iPad. Now that fact may be [...]
To take a part time hobby and turn it into a full time job is not an easy task, but the folks at Cyanogen are hard at work to prove they can do it. After raising $7 million to start the company and get things going they have just announced that the Series B funding [...]
If you’re following any educational organization on Twitter these days, you’ve likely seen the hashtag, #PBL (Project-Based Learning). But, what’s all the buzz about? Project-Based Learning is not a new idea. In fact, it dates back to the time of Socrates. You see, humans are not wired to retain meaningless facts like a computer; we [...]
In some local news, Sovi - who we spoke with at DIG SOUTH last year - has just launched version 2.0 of their application. Whats more, the company upped and moved from Greenville, SC to San Francisco to take part in Tumml’s 2014 Winter Cohort.
Andrew Wolson (above left) presented one of the most interesting Creator Projects that we saw at One Spark. Andrew's project, "Skateboard wheel printer," is still in its infancy, as far a becoming an actual product. However, Andrew told us that he has had the idea in the back of his mind for 3+ years. Andrew [...]
Of all the One Spark Creators we profiled in the lead up to the 'Worlds First Crowdfunding Festival,' the one that I was most looking forward to seeing in person was the Marbel Electric Skateboard. I used to skateboard constantly. I son't skate nearly as much these days, but it is still one of my [...]
Yesterday, the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, powered by TechStars, held their inaugural demo day. Demo day, the culmination of the three-month intensive mentoring process, was by all accounts a great success. As a whole, the entire first batch shows great potential, but a few startups really stand out.
Happen to have $2,000 laying around for an Android device that runs an outdated version of Android? If you answered yes look no further than Gresso's newest smartphone. Carved out of a single plate of titanium each device takes Gresso 13 hours to produce. 9 hours of the time is spent for the initial assembly, [...]
Radical.FM Music App Pandora, Spotify and Beats Music are by far the most popular streaming music apps out there. They all offer a robust catalog of music and have the ability to go premium on an ad-free, interruption free model. Now, online music platform radical.fm is making it's way onto Android smartphones and tablets with [...]
Sprint has had a dismal couple of months. In February, the wireless company reported that in the Q4 of 2013 they had an operating loss of $576 million, and an annual operating loss of $1.15 billion.
There are tons of companies building technology for and innovating in the restaurant industry.Tons. My experience has been that the majority of these companies are more concerned with the consumer, building ordering apps or aggregating menus. There is very little innovation in the restaurant kitchen. However, there is a One Spark Creator - OrderUpp - looking to do just that.
Rumors have been floating around the interwebs for a while now that Sony has been developing a virtual reality headset similar to the popular Oculus Rift. At GDC 2014 Sony Computer Entertainment Worldwide President, Shu Yoshida confirmed this with "Project Morpheus" a headset with 90 degree field of view and 1080p resolution. The Oculus Rift [...]
We're at the Alabama Educational Technology Conference (AETC) this week and we have had the opportunity to speak with several exhibitors. Among these exhibitor companies is Book Systems. Book Systems is library and textbook/asset management software developer. They are used by more than 10,000 schools and libraries worldwide. We had a chance to ask the Book Systems team [...]
We just came across a pretty interesting infographic on Mozilla's 2013 year in fundraising. According to a post on Geoffrey MacDougall's [Head of Development for Mozilla] blog
Wearable technology has swept the 2014 International CES. We can't begin to tell you how many fitness trackers and monitors we saw. They come in all shapes and sizes from tags to bracelets to smart watches. A lot of them are great, some of them are junk, but such is the lay of the land [...]
Another One Spark Creator that we have been looking forward to speaking with was Join The Effort. Join The Effort is a non-profit, "philanthropic social network." Join The Effort began as a sort-of recruitment tool for charitable and other organizations to recruit volunteers. However, as the platform began to grow and rapidly expand in both [...]
New York user and password management company Tools4Ever has a solution for problems plaguing school system's administrators everywhere. Sure managing usernames and passwords can be an enormous undertaking for any enterprise but when you put into the mix school age children as users, an extra element of headache can be had for the school and [...]
Hyper iStick The annual IFA conference in Berlin Germany is like CES but actually five to seven times bigger. Picture airplane hangar sized halls filled with the top electronics that will be grazing store shelves and online shops in this upcoming holiday season. Many tech journalists, analysts and industry folks consider IFA to be the [...]
Grammaropolis NAESP Were you a child of School House Rock? Did you learn how a bill became a law by singing the School House Rock song about it? Did you learn what a conjunction was by listening to "Conjunction junction what's your function". Well creating characters, songs, videos and games about Grammar is exactly how [...]
