The tech community has been enamored of the Pebble Watch and its ability to raise more than $7 million on Kickstarter. The device has racked up more than 50,000 supporters who will soon be wearing it on their wrists and connecting to their iPhones. But with such success, Pebble begs an important question, which John…
We have long been awaiting the roll out of Google Drive, Google’s cloud-based file sharing and storage service, and details have been leaked today on all that Google Drive will entail. It has been expected that Google Drive would be announced sometime this week, the same week we’ve had updates from its competitors SkyDrive and…
Dropbox introduced today the ability to share your files or folders by links. In other words, the service generates links to your files and folders which can then be shared with the wider web through mediums like email. “Sharing with friends and family is easy! Once you’ve saved that video of your niece’s birthday party…
Facebook and Microsoft announced a patent agreement today in which Facebook will pay $550 million for 650 patents, plus licenses, that were recently acquired from AOL. The agreement, which was reached today, will give Facebook ownership of the 650 patents and patent applications, plus a license to the AOL patents and applications that Microsoft will…
The day of Facebook’s IPO has been set for May 17, just in time to make a bunch of millionaires for the summer. The social network initially filed to go public back in February, and it has been widely assumed that it aimed to IPO sometime in late May. According to TechCrunch, which broke the…
When Tupac took the stage posthumously at Coachella on Sunday, festival goers were dazzled by how realistic he looked. Quickly thereafter, YouTube videos of the Tupac hologram quickly began racking up hits online, and soon the rest of the world was able to share in the puzzlement: how on earth did they make the hologram…
Microsoft announced today that it would break Windows 8 into three different editions, each tailored to work for a different set of consumers or products. While we knew the next-generation operating system would come in at least two flavors, one for devices with ARM chips and one for devices with x86 architecture, we did not…
To commemorate 4sqDay, Foursquare has announced some new milestones and a new badge. The social networking check in service hit 20 million users, up from 15 million users 16 months ago. In addition, Foursquare users have checked in 2 billion times, which averages at about 100 check-ins per user. “In 2010, foursquare fans declared April…
April seems to be the month of machine-to-machine communication. First it was the Pebble Watch and now we’re finding out about Sphero, a little robotic ball that can be controlled by your tablet or smartphone. Sphero first launched back in September of 2011. It’s a little LED-lit orb that can be controlled by a number…
The Pebble e-paper watch, which interacts with smartphones, surpassed $1.8 million on Kickstarter, a web platform that lets companies and people plumb the crowd for money. When I first wrote about Pebble yesterday morning, the watch had garnered about $850 thousand on Kickstarter. In other words, the Kickstarter project raised $1 million overnight. The project…
