When I was just a kid I asked my mother for a Dymo label maker for my birthday. I just thought it was the coolest thing and started making labels for everything in wood grain, black , and red peel-off tape with embossed lettering in white. Such a simple device but I had to figure [...]
When international banking exec, Jacques Mechelany would strap himself into a plane seat, he’d wonder about his three kids…what if this was to be his last flight? Did he say what he wanted to say? Were his affairs in order? Would his kids really know who he is? That’s when he decided to give up [...]
China’s leading app store solution provider is teaming up with one of the country’s top mobile security technology providers to tackle security issues associated with mobile apps. ASC (“App Store Connect”), the leading provider of mobile app store solutions in China, today announced its strategic partnership with Tencent Mobile Security Lab, one of the leading [...]
Maybe this is exactly what the Cosmopolitan was going for — a 21 to 30 year-old stiletto-heeled and testosterone pumped crowd. While very average-looking tourists milled around the ground floor of the 100,000 square foot casino space, their numbers grew thinner with every floor as we rose up in glass elevators and escalators. Right above [...]
There’s a new kind of remotesourcing that is offering people an opportunity to keep their job while taking care of their kids. Visit Anybot headquarters in Mountain View and you’ll most likely be greeted by a pleasant-looking robot with an even more pleasant voice belonging to Suzanne, who is actually at home with her pink fuzzy slippers and kids, and [...]
Looks like the tablets are coming out from all over the place and the big boys are aiming squarely for Apple. And today’s announcement of the Kno tablet is a very exciting one indeed, particularly for the education market. I bought a 7” Pandigital Novel tablet from the Walgreen’s web site a couple of weeks ago. Yes, [...]
ABI Research has issued a report that pegs tablet PC sales at about 11 million in 2010, with Apple iPads leading the way, of course and taking the wind out of the sails, or shall we say sales of other tablet contenders. Still, we are seeing interesting and certainly affordable tablets running Android in the [...]
Unless he’s one of those Arnold Schwarzenegger-dubbed “girlie men”, no guy in his right mind will carry around this netbook himself, but he sure might consider giving it to his Poopsie. Spotted on Shanzai.com, this rhinestone sweetheart netbook comes from China, created by the very independent Shanzai developers who keep surprising us with unusual mobile products. [...]
In the early days of the PC when we were all desk and hard disk-bound, PC manufacturers were largely concerned with two things: the keyboard and the speed. Add to that the display because if something took too long to load, one’s fist would come dangerously near to punching out the monitor. Much attention was paid [...]
The introduction of the iPad was met with dire predictions that it would be an eReader killer but is that really the case? In a recent article industry pundit, Om Malik, praises Amazon’s move to open up the Kindle to developers and its plans to issue an SDK. Question is, for what kind of applications? [...]