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CEO Series Special Edition : Powerful Women in Tech
Women today can be anything they wish. From a loving mother to a hardworking employee, a nurse, doctor, teacher, lawyer, judge, or even a CEO of a company they built and nurtured like it’s their own baby. The tech sector has been especially benefitted by the growing number of women leaders, overcoming the challenges that ...
Smart Sensors Take Over Bike Locks + 3D Scanners
This week’s SmartDevice roundup features the latest crowdfunding projects, starting with a smart lock for your bike, a mobile sensor to capture the 3D world, and a device that manages charging for various devices. BitLock Tired of always fumbling for the keys of your bike lock? With BitLock, you no longer need a key ...
HP Giving up Mobile Dreams to Focus on 3D Printers
To bolster Hewlett-Packard’s financial position, CEO Meg Whitman is said to be looking for buyers for the company’s mobile-computing patents. According to sources familiar with the matter who chose to remain anonymous as the plan has not been made public, HP has approached potential buyers regarding its mobile patent portfolio. The portfolio is said to ...
Pinterest Raises $225M, Moves to Expand Globally
Social scrapbooking service, Pinterest, has once again raked in some massive funding. According to AllThingsD, Pinterest has raised $225 million in a Series E funding round led by Fidelity Investments, with the participation of current investors Andreessen Horowitz, FirstMark Capital, Bessemer Venture Partners and Valiant Capital Management. “We hope to be a service that everyone ...
SmartCar Weekly: UK to Build its First Smart Highway + More
This week’s SmartCar roundup features the expected growth of the connected car industry, a new partnership to keep cars connected to the internet, and UK’s plan of connecting an entire highway to the internet. Connected Car market expected to reach $131.9B in 2019 In a report published by the Transparency Market Research, it was ...
Apple Sticks One Up To Microsoft With Free OS X & Productivity Apps
Few were surprised to see Apple’s new iPads yesterday because of numerous leaks over the last few weeks, but the Cupertino-based firm managed to shock attendees nonetheless, when it announced that the Mac OS X Mavericks comes as a free update. This is great news for all Mac users, as this is the first time ...
Next-Gen Tablet Wars: Nokia Lumia 2520 vs iPad Air
Apple and Nokia both came out with new tablets yesterday. For Nokia, this is its first entry in the tablet space, and probably its last since in few months it’s hardware division will be swallowed up by Microsoft. Meanwhile, Apple is quite the veteran in the tablet space, having invented the things in the first ...
Fashion-Forward Fitness Trackers : From Fitbug to RISR
This week’s Quantified Self round up features a “fitbug” that records all your activities to help you get in shape, a fitness tracker fancy enough to be a fashion accessory, and a project to help you improve your body language. Fitbug Orb A new fitness tracker is out to undercut other popular fitness trackers ...
4 BI Disruptors Pushing Data Democracy in the Workplace | #BigDataNYC
One expected byproduct of the Big Data movement is data democracy, delivering useful and consumable analytics to everyone within an enterprise organization. Though true data democracy is seemingly light years away, given the software integration and usability challenges that remain between IT and end users, there are a handful of companies addressing these obstacles, disrupting ...
4 Ways to Download Instagram Videos
Instagram remains a hot commodity for mobile users the world over, and access to the popular photo-sharing app is only broadening with news of IG prepping a Windows Phone app. News broke this morning at Nokia World with few other details – we just know to expect an Instagram app for Windows Phone in the ...