The rationale behind the creation of Google Glass is hands-free Internet browsing and computing, with everything on the Web accessible within the wearer’s immediate line of sight. And while this seems cool and even practical enough, the trouble with Google Glass is that its earlier versions had been too conspicuous an unusual thing to be [...]
Facebook is one of the most ubiquitous social networks around, along with Twitter, and at some point it’s going to encroach into other people’s emotions and leave either a positive or a negative impact. The influence of the social network is so pervasive that, according to Mashable, Facebook has the ability to make people feel [...]
All these years Apple has ruled Silicon Valley where its brightest minds work in a six-building main campus that houses labs, offices, a conference center, and its own Apple Company Store. In contrast, Samsung’s Silicon Valley headquarters, with its semiconductor and venture capital offices and R&D laboratory, are rather nondescript and not much of a [...]
The much-anticipated HTC One has been spotted by tech journalists about an hour before it was officially unveiled, but now that it has been formally launched, TheNextWeb has posted an in-depth review about the new HTC mobile device, expected by the company to turn its dwindling profitability around and into a more promising direction. After [...]
Facebook’s expansion in Europe is in full swing as it is set to make available 100 additional jobs in Dublin, Ireland, in addition to the 400-people team that the social network has already stationed in the country. According to Irish news company RTÉ, this recent expansion will bring the total of the Facebook workforce in [...]
CNN has just published a highly interesting story by Business Insider Steve Kovach about why Samsung, in terms of innovation, is outsmarting Apple. While Apple deserves all the world’s credit for introducing impressive and sophisticated mobile devices, it appears to have already been outrun by many of its competitors in the rat race of smartphone [...]
To the rest of the world, the fax machine used to be a communication device relied on by businesses and private homeowners before personal computers and the Internet revolutionized communication in more ways than one. But in Japan, a country known for its sophisticated technologies and scientific inventions, the fax has remained a staple in [...]
A few hours before an asteroid with the frightening size of a football field quietly passed Earth at a safe distance of 17,150 miles, a significantly smaller but highly damaging meteorite exploded over the Ural Mountains in Russia on Friday. While it’s easy to speculate on the connection between these two solar system bodies, scientists [...]
Many Kickstarter projects are extremely impressive, but this one right here could easily claim one of the best spots considering its importance and utility in the world of smartphones and tablets. The Rhino Shield screen protector is designed to make every smartphone or tablet in the world absolutely shatter-proof. Designed by PhD candidates at Cambridge [...]
Automobile enthusiasts are perpetually on the lookout for the latest updates on electric cars, but one of these cars recently attracted the most attention when a New York Times reporter, John Broder, tested the Tesla Model S and detailed how the electric sports car under performed on the road, running out of charge and ended [...]
Shortly after the search industry received surprising news of Russia’s Yandex search engine taking over the fourth spot from Microsoft, France is now introducing their own search engine, currently available in 15 languages and in 35 countries all over the globe: Qwant.com. What makes this search engine interesting is that it pools together all search [...]
Penguins have never failed to interest humans, and in an effort to capture the daily habits, struggles, and emotions of penguins in their natural environments in three different colonies – Antarctica, Falkland Islands, and Peru’s Atacama Desert – the BBC is employing robot penguins to infiltrate each colony and record everything using a special spy [...]
In the face of all the smart watch projects on Kickstarter as well as the growing popularity of wearable devices, Apple appears set to join the bandwagon very soon. According to the WSJ, Apple is currently working on a design for a future smart watch, or a watch created to carry out smartphone functionalities. A [...]
Google+ has finally realized that, in the world of social networking, people love the familiar. So, yesterday an announcement was made by Google+’s Sean Purcell that the “Circles” icon will be replaced with the “Find People” tab. However, “Circles” is not really going away for good. Although this has been renamed to “Your circles”, it [...]
It’s a pretty common occurrence for people to leave Facebook for a time, but one father succeeded in convincing his teen daughter to quit the social network for a cash reward of $200. The father, Paul Baier who, according to his blog is VP Sustainability Consulting and Research at Groom Energy Solutions in Boston, published [...]
It was more than 10 years ago when the Roomba, iRobot’s independent robotic vacuum cleaner, revolutionized floor cleaning in a huge way. Now, the concept of autonomous vacuum cleaning is no longer limited to floors and other flat surfaces. Meet the AutoMee S robot from Takara Tomy, which is a scaled-down version of the Roomba, [...]
Are you in love with your iPad ? Do you use it in the Toilet ? If yes, you will like this hands-free top-notch gadget for iPad (and paper). Priced at $44.99 on Amazon, this is a real deal. “CTA Digital’s Pedestal Stand for iPad provides a convenient way to comfortably enjoy apps, eBooks, videos [...]
Written on 10 Feb 2013 by Vincent AbrySomething unexpected has happened in the battle for supremacy among search engines: Microsoft’s Bing no longer holds the top 4 four spot for the largest search engine worldwide, as Russia’s Yandex has surprisingly hit past Bing to claim the spot next to Yahoo, Baidu, and the number one search giant, Google. These global-wide reports came [...]
After LinkedIn surprised everyone – WallStreet especially – with their fourth-quarter figures that included $303.6 million in revenue and $11.5 million in net income, CEO Jeff Weiner has revealed to investors that LinkedIn’s core plans for 2013 will be on content marketing. In a news and analysis report published over at Cnet.com, LinkedIn made significant [...]
Yahoo and Google have always been considered as the fiercest rivals for search, but where ads are concerned an agreement has already been worked out, as revealed in a recent blog post update by Yahoo. News on a possible Yahoo-Google ad alliance first cropped up in a report by AllThingsD, through unnamed sources. According to [...]
