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According to MobileBloom, a leaked memo has been identified, stating that all Android smartphones will have to run KitKat or else Google will not endorse the handset. The Android memo is the first sign that Google is finally sorting the problem it has with fragmentation. Because Google offers hundreds of phones to... Read more
Have you ever been in a situation where you wished you could’ve had all of your friends around you right at that very moment to offer you advice? Me neither. Here’s an example: you’re on a blind date and you have no idea what you should talk about, or... Read more
Last week Facebook announced that it is acquiring the messaging company WhatsApp for an approximate total of $16 billion. Included in the deal is $4 billion in cash, $12 billion of Facebook shares and an extra $3 billion in restricted stock units which will be granted to WhatApp’s founders... Read more
Flood Hack Helps UK Flood Victims
Internet February 23, 2014
This year has seen some of the worst flooding in decades, within the UK. Many people have been getting involved with trying to find a solution to this problem. The technology community is no different. Using government data, volunteers from the tech community are trying to design and create a... Read more
Pilots Not Allowed To Use Personal Electronics in The Cockpit
Internet February 23, 2014
You might remember from a few months back that the FAA changed their policy regarding passenger’s use of personal electronics during a flight. Now, passengers are able to use their electronic devices for pretty much the entire duration of the flight, unless otherwise asked by the crew. That was... Read more
GPS Creator Wants Tougher Regulations For Satellite Jamming
Internet February 23, 2014
Almost everybody has either heard of or uses some form of GPS. The GPS has become necessary for modern daily life, forming the basis of smartphone and in-vehicle navigation systems for millions of people globally. Initially, it was controlled by the US military and was only accessible via a... Read more
Google Gives Instructions On How NOT To Be A Glasshole
Internet February 22, 2014
The term Glasshole has been defined as “someone who doesn’t use Google Glass in a socially acceptable manner.” It seems that Google is keen to quash the idea that anyone wearing Glass would be socially unacceptable and therefore has published a list of DO’s and DON’TS for people donning... Read more
The ever innovative Google, have tried their hands again at the smartphone market, this time the device is able to map the world around you using a series of sensors, the phone’s cameras and a powerful vision processor. The sensor enriched smartphone works around a 5 inch screen. The... Read more
Microsoft Office Web Apps Now Officially Office Online
InternetNewsOffice Software February 22, 2014
It’s rebranding time at Microsoft, it seems. The official statement about SkyDrive being rebranded to OneDrive has barely made the rounds, and we’re now seeing another change. This time, it’s Office Web Apps, which is now called Office Online. It’s not that this move has been kept a secret,... Read more
Woman Walks Again Thanks To 3D Printed ExoSkeleton
Internet February 22, 2014
Amanda Boxtel was told by her doctor that she would never walk again following a skiing accident in 1992, that left her paralyzed from the waist down. However, thanks to 3D Systems and Ekso Bionics, a 3D printed robotic exoskeleton has restored her ability to walk. Exoskeltons have been... Read more
CrowdtiltOpen : Crowdfund On Your Own Site
Internet February 22, 2014
CrowdtiltOpen has just launched, it provides an open source crowdfunding solution that can enable anyone to crowd fund anything on their own website. You may have heard of something like this before now and that’s because it is the refined version of Crowdhoster, the Y Combinator startup that was... Read more
Roberta Mancino Creates A Base Jumping Fashion Show
Internet February 21, 2014
The controversial and extreme sport of BASE jumping has been around for a number of decades. Normally participants leaping from either a building, antenna, span or something from Earth like a cliff, use specially designed harness and parachute containers because most jumps are done from less than 2,000 feet.... Read more
Philips Smart Lighting Assists Shoppers
Internet February 21, 2014
If you have ever spend a considerable amount of time walking around your local grocery store, looking for that really obscure ingredient which your dinner recipe calls for? It’s really frustrating isn’t it? As if you didn’t have enough on your plate, (excuse the pun) finding the best Chardonnay... Read more
The SF Chronicle has reported that Apple’s mergers and aquistion chief had a meeting with Elon Musk last Spring, adding fuel to the rumours that Apple is looking to buy Tesla. When interviewed by Bloomberg Musk said Apple making cars would be “a great idea,” and confirms that Tesla... Read more
U.S. Navy is Getting Ready To Use Star Wars Lasers in Battle
Internet February 21, 2014
We all knew that it was only a matter of time before Star Wars came to earth. Who doesn’t remember the lasers and the lightsabers? And who could forget the Death Star – especially when its green laser blew Princess Leia’s home planet of Alderaan to dust! If you’re... Read more
Scrabble Gets Updated with an Automatic Score Keeper
Internet February 20, 2014
I hate playing Scrabble. Don’t get me wrong, I actually love the idea behind the game of Scrabble, but I hate playing it because you have to keep score. And I’m not against keeping score either, but with Scrabble it is so hard to keep track of the correct... Read more
Google To Provide 10Gbps Fiber Network Sooner Than Planned
Internet February 20, 2014
Currently Google Fiber is the fastest broadband internet provider in the US, with connection speeds of 1Gbps. Yet Patrick Pichette, Chocolate Factory’s chief financial officer, has predicted that the speed could increase by up to ten times and it will reach consumers sooner than we all think. During the... Read more
CP+ Japan: Overview
InternetPhoto and Image February 20, 2014
Each year Japanese consumers gather at CP+ in Yokohama, Japan for a four-day trade show. All the big names always show off their new product lines to local audiences here and have done so for the last 50 years. Canon and Nikon still dominate the digital imaging market, closely followed by other players... Read more