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5 must ask tech questions for 2014 : Legacy + digital asset protection
On average, there are 208,300 photos being uploaded to Facebook every minute. That’s about 350 million a day, or 2.4 billion a week, all amounting to a total of 9 billion photos per month. As staggering as those figures are, things aren’t slowing down. A recent report by Yahoo! stated that in 2014, there will ...
Ultimate wearable tech : New Quantified Self apparel
This week’s Quantified Self roundup features the ultimate in wearable technologies to measure everything you need to know about your body. Athos Base The main problem with wearable trackers is the potential for inaccurate readings because it doesn’t rest on the spot where it’s supposed to rest. It’s an issue now being addressed by ...
2014 smartphone concept designs + rumors that excite us
What’s the perfect way to end the year? A roundup of smartphone rumors and concept designs that excite us as we head into 2014. For the holidays, many of you guys received a new smartphone, probably an iPhone 5S or 5c, a Galaxy Note III, Galaxy S4 Active or Zoom, HTC One or even a ...
Smart homes for fun : Singing lights + smarter plugs
This week’s SmartHome roundup features a lightbulb that streams your favorite tunes, a smart plug, and a smart home learning system. AwoX StriimLight If you’re looking to light up your home but also want to stream music in any room without the hassle of setting up new speakers, you might want to check out ...
Google ends 2013 with a bang : Chromebook sales stronger than Apple
Back in November, Microsoft upped the ante on its “Scroogled!” campaign, bringing in Rick Harrison and his Pawn Stars crew to make fun of Google Chromebooks. According to the Gold and Silver Pawn Shop guys, Chromebooks aren’t real laptops — a wasted investment for tech savvy consumers. But it looks like the Scroogled campaign did Google ...
CES 2014 : Google’s Smart Car infotainment system battles Apple
The rivalry between Google and Apple will be taking a new route next year as the search giant enters the smart dashboard market. At the International Consumer Electronics Show 2014, Google and Audi will be announcing a collaboration to develop an infotainment system based on Android, sources familiar with the matter stated. The sources also ...
CES 2014 : LG + others launching these Smart Home apps
The Smart Home market is expected to boom in America by 2017, according to recent estimates by Parks Associates. The firm projects that in five years more than 11 million U.S. homes will have some type of smart home controller installed, a huge increase from the current two million homes equipped with an automated solution. ...
Top 10 Smart Car innovations of 2013
From electric vehicles to wireless charging stations for cars, weird concept cars to intriguing technologies that makes our cars better safer – we have seen a great deal of innovation in the automotive sector this year. With the approach of 2014, let’s take a look back at the top developments in Smart Cars these past ...
Amazon rejoices with tens of millions of Amazon Prime subscribers
The holidays have been very good to Amazon, with CEO and founder Jeff Bezos proudly announcing that Amazon Prime has “tens of millions” of members, which means big money for the company considering it charges $79 a year for a subscription. The company’s good luck began on Cyber Monday when it logged more than 36.8 ...
Nokia pulls HERE Maps off Apple App Store
Nokia has pulled its HERE Maps app from the Apple App Store for reasons not so clear. In a statement, Nokia said that Apple’s new iOS is doing more harm to the HERE Maps user experience than good, thus the app pull out. “We have made the decision to remove our HERE Maps app from ...