Insider reveals launch timing and specs for mysterious Amazon smartphone

After years of rumors, Amazon will finally launch an own brand smartphone within the next three to six months. So says KGI Securities analyst Ming-Chi Kuo, whose reputation for accurately revealing device vendors’ plans long before they are announced definitely precedes him. Kuo is widely known for his Apple research,…

Posted on: March 21, 2014 12:00 pm

Medium Launches Simple iPhone App That’s Just For Reading

Blogging platform Medium has released a simple app for the iPhone that allows users to read articles from the site. They’re presented as a feed that’s recommended for you automatically, though articles that have been recommended by people you follow feature their mug shot next to the title. The app…

Posted on: March 21, 2014 7:00 am

Foursquare CEO: Google and Yelp are ‘incredibly broken’

NEW YORK Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley describes his company’s product as the next generation of mobile search one that trumps services like Google and Yelp by using data that’s more relevant to your life. "You can call it recommendations, you can call it mobile search [but] let’s make this social,…

Posted on: March 21, 2014 7:00 am

WiFi in schools safe

Wifi radiofrequency fields in schools do not pose a health risk to children or staff, with exposures many thousands of times lower than the relevant standard, according to a new report from the Ministry of Health. The report, Snapshot Study: WiFi in Schools, was released by the Ministry on Thursday,…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 5:00 pm

Here’s What Facebook’s New Frank Gehry-Designed Campus Will Look Like

If you took each square foot of Facebook’s proposed expansion and laid them in one long line, the length of that line would be the equivalent of 75,400 Mark Zuckerbergs, laid head to toe (not including the 5’9 CEO’s hoodie or Adidas sandals). The new "West Campus" planned to be New…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 12:00 pm

iOS 8 Rumor Roundup (March)

While most consumers are wrapped up in Apple’s latest iOS 7 update, many others are looking ahead toward the future, at the next big update from Tim Cook and company. iOS 8 is expected to be the update that replaces iOS 7 and here, we take a look at all Most iPhone and…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 12:00 pm

Stockbridge Robotics Students Heading Back to Palau

Exactly one week from today, the Stockbridge High School Underwater Robotics Team will leave Mid-Michigan for their third trip to Palau. We’ve been following the robotics team since its first mission to the South Pacific island in 2012. Not only are the students excited, but the robotics team is a point…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 12:00 pm

Video: Here’s how Android Wear actually works

Google on Tuesday unveiled Android Wear, a clear sign that wearable devices are very important for the company, and that it certainly wants smartwatch designers to first consider Android than anything else when creating new devices. The company has already made available several Android Wear resources for interested developers and…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 12:00 pm

Stockbridge Robotics Students Heading Back to Palau

Exactly one week from today, the Stockbridge High School Underwater Robotics Team will leave Mid-Michigan for their third trip to Palau. We’ve been following the robotics team since its first mission to the South Pacific island in 2012. Not only are the students excited, but the robotics team is a point…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 12:00 pm

Shapps’ ‘condescending’ Budget tweet sends Twitter into #ToryBingo meltdown

The Tories were battling a ‘PR disaster’ thanks to an ‘ill-conceived’ and ‘condescending’ advert designed to win over the working class vote. In what many perceived to be a patronising attempt to highlight Budget measures aimed at ‘hardworking people’, the advert capitalised on Osborne’s announcement that beer duty would be…

Posted on: March 20, 2014 7:00 am