Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg is confident virtual reality is the nex great computing platform. In a push to bring virtual reality (VR) to the masses sooner, Zuckerberg announced on Thursday at Oculus’s “Connect” conference in San Jose, Calif. that Oculus will commit an additional $250 million to fund a range of new content, such as [...]
Messaging as a platform is one of the buzzy phrases that has risen to mainstream prominence in the last six months. With a mix of acquisitions, new startups, and incumbents looking to capitalize on existing properties, having an IM client is just the starting point. Which is why Facebook’s release of a ‘lite’ Messenger app [...]
On September 5, 2016 a new 4G LTE network launched in India and something amazing happened. Speedtest.net is a web service that allows internet users to test the speed of their mobile and fixed broadband connections. They also track internet access speeds around the world and issue regular reports of their findings. One of the [...]
Google has launched a new family of smartphones, Google Pixel, the performance and price of which, say some, labels them as the umpteenth iPhone-killer. For Google, the launch of Made by Google is certainly a very important step, and one that shows it has understood that it will never truly be able to compete without [...]
The worst thing about jumping on the bandwagon of really new tech is that, most of the time, it just doesn’t work that well. Remember the first mainstream touch screen devices of the late 90s? Or the first laptops? They were terribly clunky, unresponsive, and most important — pricey. But we do it anyway, because [...]
In this digital age, data security and password protection are a daily, even hourly, fact of life. There’s a continuous flow of news about security breaches and hacks. A company like Yahoo! couldn’t defend itself against hackers who were able steal 500 million user accounts, and even iPhones, thought to be un-hackable, have been proven [...]
Why won’t SnapChat Spectacles be another version of Google Glass? Let’s first travel back in time – to the early vision and the roll out of Google Glass. What was Google Glass? Google Glass was publicly announced in April 2012, and had its public debut at Google I/O. “Being able to share what you’re seeing [...]
October 2014: Google announces its new smartphones via a blogpost. September 2015: A small room in Google’s offices in central London is occupied by no less than 20 tech journalists. We’re shuffled in, sat down and handed a stapled together dossier – key specs and feature overviews – of everything Google is launching that day [...]
The Raspberry Pi Foundation has finally put out an official starter kit for its low cost microcomputer — offering what it dubs an “unashamedly premium” bundle for the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B, complete with optical mouse and keyboard in a very Apple-looking shade of white, plus all the cables you need to get up [...]
I’m doing my best to resist the urge to go all Andy Rooney here and complain about kids these days. You’ve heard that one before. And besides, with all of those new VR tools and Pokemon Going, kids are probably getting a better work out than they have in a generation, right? Also, let’s be [...]
