Facebook is a ubiquitous social network. It seems everyone is on the service (except my wife) including your entire family, most of your neighborhood – heck even your grandparents, most likely. To go along with this, it seems the rise in smartphones and mobile devices is benefiting Facebook as well. Facebook announced today that they…
I have been on Skype for a long time, back before video and before it was a verb. I have used it to conduct business across the globe, make meeting more meaningful, and keep in touch while abroad. These same factors can be utilized to enhance education, by bringing in guest speakers without the need…
For some time here in the United States, especially in younger age ranges, trends have shown that a large portion of phone users are forgoing landlines and adopting mobile phones as a single mode of communication. It seems that the Chinese are seeing landlines as disposable as well. China is a country in which 87%…
How great would it be to utilize your mobile phone as your wallet? We’ve heard rumblings about this for years that utilize technologies such as Near Field Communications which would mean you just swipe your phone on a little machine (much like keyless entry systems to your work place) and some text messaging centered ones….
Big news out of Waterloo, Ontario this week. At the annual CTIA conference in Orlando, Florida, BlackBerry finally announced the pricing and release date of the PlayBook. The much anticipated tablet will be released on April 19 and will be priced at $499, $599 and $699 for the 16GB, 32GB and 64GB models, respectively. The…
I love the Apple ads titled “If you don’t have an iPhone” which show that basically the iPhone is the only smartphone worth it’s lick. An Android fan, presumably in the UK, has countered with an excellent video showing the usefulness and extent of the Android platform. I try not to get sucked into fanboy…
Apple is promoting a new donation program that gives you the opportunity to donate an old iPad to an educator. If you have an original iPad and are updating to an iPad 2, consider donating your old iPad to the Teach for America Program. What is Teach for America? The program takes well-trained teachers or…
A few weeks ago, some numbers came out from Canalys saying that Android was now the number one market share for smartphones in the United States. I didn’t buy into it as I find that firms numbers to be suspect all around. However, comScore has released its figures recently and affirmed the results. In the…
According to an analysis by J.D. Power and Associates of phone call quality across phone carriers in the United States, Verizon Wireless has the best network. The survey, released yesterday, measures dropped calls, status/interference, immediate notification of voicemails and SMS and echos. The survey looked at network performance in six main regions: Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, Southeast,…
PhotoRocket is a new service that debuted at DEMO Spring 2011. The service aims to make an overly-complicated process simpler: sharing photos with your friends and family. Smartphone users can share photos by uploading photos to Facebook or Twitter using apps, utilize email to send them directly to a targeted audience or other services or…