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Weekly Link Roundup 05/06/2013
Is Big Data Paying Off? – Many retail stores use real-time analytics of sales to make decisions. This allows them to make quicker decisions about which products they need at any given time without having to base the results on dated data. These retail stores can instantly see any purchasing shifts taken place and act [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 04/12/2013
Stand Out with Enthuse.me – Startup of the week. Yes, another online profile creator. Enthuse.me allows you to create a one-page profile to show off your expertise. This startup company is perfect for Designers, Writers, Developers, etc. Instead of sending potential employers to multiple sites to view your projects send them to one site with [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 4/5/2013
LinkMe. An LED smart bracelet that displays SMS and social media updates in text that scrolls across your wrist is the next digital convenience. LinkMe is one of the first devices that actually has an appealing design that people will want to wear. LinkMe is seeking funding of $100,000 within the next 29 days, they [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 3/29/2013
Credit Card, Cash, or Fingerprint? The bet is that fingerprints or other forms of biometric identification may be the payment method of the future. PayTango is one startup banking on this being the thing of the future. PayTango has a prototype with a fingerprint scanner and credit card reader and are partnering with universities to [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 3/22/2013
New Apple invention. This new invention detects when a mobile device is in free fall and can reposition the device while in flight and have the impact only affect a non-vital area. It could be a while before this actually goes to market seeing that the patent was filed in September 2011. Will you use [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 3/15/2013
Dropbox Buys Mailbox. Why? Perhaps the name was intriguing enough to pull the trigger on this undocumented amount of money. Rather, this is their way to expand their apps and generate a new revenue stream. Regardless of the reason why, today Dropbox indeed bought Mailbox. Full Article. Google Reader to Close [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 3/8/2013
Apple’s iWatch… Here by end of 2013? According to Bloomberg the unconfirmed device will be able to make calls, check caller ID, relay map coordinates and carry a built-in pedometer and health monitoring sensors. Full Article. Google’s Zopfli. A new open source algorithm that compresses web content. The Google engineer Lode [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 3/1/2013
February flew past in the blink of an eye and now we are on our way into March and one month closer to summer. Before we get there though, catch up on the hottest tech news in this week’s weekly link roundup. It’s a phone, it’s a tablet, no it’s the Asus FonePad. Asus has [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 2/22/2013
This was a huge week in tech news from the announcement of the HTC One to Yahoo’s homepage redesign to Google’s Chrome Pixel. Catch up on all the latest tech news now so you have more time to relax this weekend. HTC held a press event for their upcoming smartphone the HTC One. There will [...]
Weekly Link Roundup 2/15/2013
This was a busy week for news, but not to be outdone there were plenty of big headlines in tech this week too. Leave us a comment if you think we forgot something. There has been talk for years that online education would replace traditional education. A recent announcement from the California State University System [...]