The last time I bought an all-in-one PC was back in 1997. I was a senior in high school, and it was college application time. My family’s Apple IIc was significantly underpowered and ill-equipped for things like internet and CD-ROM use. With financial help from my folks, I went out and purchased an AST 75 […]
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The Birds And The Beeps App Helps Parents Talk To Kids About Sex
Jennifer Weidemann, co-founder of GoTo Educational Technology, said, “Sex education can be intimidating for parents, even something they avoid for fear they would get it wrong. Our goal was to give them a resource that was light, fun and informative, where both the parent and child could learn in a stress free environment.” This line […]
ComiXology Accepts Blame For Saga #12 Not Being Digitally Published
News spread like wildfire yesterday about Apple banning the sale of Saga #12 due to it containing graphic imagery of gay sex, even if the images were relatively small. Now, it turns out that ComiXology is lifting the blame form Apple and putting it on itself instead. Today, ComiXology CEO David Steinberger posted the following […]
Apple Refuses To Publish Saga #12 On Any Of Its Apps Due To Sexual Content
Brian K. Vaughn, renowned writer of c0mic books such as Y: The Last Man and Ex Machina, has released a statement saying Apple is refusing to carry tomorrow’s edition of his and Fiona Staples’s Saga on any iOS device. Apparently, two small images of gay sex in the book has prompted Apple to halt digital […]
Facebook Home: The App That Thinks It’s An Android Skin
Yesterday’s leak of the HTC First gave the impression that it was going to be the much ballyhooed Facebook Phone at last. Instead, HTC and Facebook gave us something far more interesting. The HTC First is indeed a phone with strong connections to Facebook. However, the solution that powers it, Facebook Home, is more than […]
Windows Phone’s Quest For Mindshare Continues With Temple Run And Pandora
When Windows Phone 8 launched, Microsoft promised that some of the top apps for other platforms would make the transition to WP8. It took a bit, but as March is winding down, this promise has started coming true. First to arrive was Pandora, the popular online radio app. Interestingly, Pandora for Windows Phone 8 isn’t […]
Google Keep May Not Be For Keeps
This past Wednesday, Google announced Google Keep, poised to take on Evernote as an unstructured collection of digital things. Google’s announcement states that: With Keep you can quickly jot ideas down when you think of them and even include checklists and photos to keep track of what’s important to you. Your notes are safely stored […]
Hour’s Worth of New York Minutes Fit In One Internet Minute
Have you visited Facebook in the last minute? So have 276,000 other people. How about watched a YouTube video? You joined an audience of 1.3 million. Tweeted about how much you have to get done today in so little time? So have 100,000 other people using Twitter. These numbers and more come form Intel, who […]
SXSW 2013: The Highlights
South by Southwest lasts 10 days during the month of March. The festival takes place in Austin, TX. SXSW is broken up into three sections: Interactive, Film, and Music. Throughout the festival, many innovations come to light and old ideas are reinvented. Most days’ events begin with panels at 9:30 or 11 AM and end […]
SXSW: International Companies To Keep An Eye, Ear, And Brain On
Scattered in the landscape of the SXSW trade show, companies from around the world planted their flags to claim different digital plots of land as their own. Some of these companies were more successful than others and we’ll likely see them show up again as either helping to revolutionize the way we think about X […]