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Google and DonorsChoose.org Ready To Send $99 Chromebooks to Schools
0By: Kevin Green | December 12th, 2012 | Business, Google, News
American technology giant Google has stated that it is starting a new program that will bring Chromebooks to financially strapped schools in a partnership with DonorsChoose.org. This holiday season teachers will have the chance to request that their class rooms get Samsung Series 5 Chrom...
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LEAK – Is This The iPhone 5S?
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Apple, News, Smartphones
It’s been too long since Apple launched its much awaited iPhone 5 for sale, but alas mere months following its release, supposed images of its successor device, thus far dubbed the iPhone 5S have already started coming to light. Adding credibility to these leaked photos are reports that the latest smartphone may have been scheduled for a...
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SoundCloud Launches New Site and Mobile Apps With Improved Features and Functionality
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Android, iOS, Mobile Apps, News
Popular online audio distributing website, SoundCloud announced on Tuesday of last week that they had introduced a revamped and updated version of their website. With this move, the latest version of SoundCloud became available to all users. This was not the first time that SoundCloud has declared changes to their site, as the audio distrib...
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Twitter Introduces Range of Instagram Style Photo Filters
By: Jeff Stewart | December 12th, 2012 | News, Social Media
It appears that the conflict between photo sharing platform Instagram and micro-blogging website Twitter is getting more intense with the passage of time, as Twitter has introduced a range of photo filters as of yesterday. Late last week it was learnt that employees of the micro-...
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Netflix Strikes a Deal With Walt Disney Co to Stream its First-Run Movies by 2016
By: Ali Raza | December 12th, 2012 | Business, News
Netflix Inc, the industry leader in streaming media on demand via the internet world round suffered a severe jolt back in February of this year when its contract with premium US channel, Starz came to an end following multiple failed attempts to renegotiate a deal. However, nine months followin...
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Sending Text Messages to 911 Will Become Available in the U.S. Come 2014 Says FCC
By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Living, News
When Superstorm Sandy hit New York, incredible amounts of traffic were experienced on phone lines as people in the city were either making calls to emergency phone numbers for help or looking to get in touch with their loved ones. Following the storm New York City Mayor, Michael Bloomberg started an emergency text messaging service to 311 to reduce the load on phone lines in the city ...
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Canadian Technology Accelerator in Boston Invites Applications from Established Small and Medium-Sized Canadian Companies
By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News, O Canada
Canadian Technology Accelerator (CTA) in Boston is offering a golden opportunity to established small and medium-sized Canadian companies engaged in IT, green technology, life sciences or health sectors to seize financial prospects, strategic partnerships and...
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VIDEO – Play Hide and Seek with this Adorable “Lamp”
By: Ali Raza | December 11th, 2012 | Gadgets, News
Aside from making progress in various fields, engineers and scientist are also taking major steps forward in the field of robotics, giving metal gadgets movements and expressions akin to a human being. In the future, people could use robots or gadgets as an obliging hand or personal assistant. In addition, with the creation of such useful robots, engineers would also be able to reduce the dependen...
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EyeVerify Introduces Eye Scanning Protection for Smartphones
By: Jeff Stewart | December 11th, 2012 | Living, News, Smartphones
To limit access to a smartphone, users commonly set different passwords on their handsets, so as to prevent other people from looking into the sensitive information on their mobile phones. However, Kansas based startup, EyeVerify has introduced a new and even better way to restrict access to a smartphone that will make the tr...
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Hackbright Academy Works To Help Women Break Into Web Development World
By: Kevin Green | December 11th, 2012 | Business, News
Hackbright Academy is looking to change the male dominated programming world with their “10 week training program designed to help women become awesome programmers.” The initiative is very young and graduated its second batch of 16 people and the results of their education are not yet clear. However, co-founder David J. Phillips,...
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