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4 MusicTech Insights From Wall Street Journal Writer Taylor Swift
When millions of people point camera-phones at you while you sing, you learn a thing about music and technology. You could laugh at pop starlet Taylor Swift for her fluffy teddy bear of a column in the Wall Street Journal today, or chide the WSJ for printing it, but there are some poignant nuggets of knowledge in there.
Swift (and her ghost writers) prefaces the whole discussion with some… Read More
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BlackBerry Explains The Passport, Its Square Tablet… Phone Thing
BlackBerry previously gave us a sneak peek at a device that’s as category-busting as the revolutionary Padfone, called the Passport. I expressed my …uncertainty regarding the wisdom of the design decisions made in creating this 4.5-inch square thing with a hardware keyboard then. But now it’s BlackBerry’s turn to articulate some of its reasoning behind the Passport, with… Read More
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Facebook Tries Being A TV Channel With New Mobile Video Player
If you watch one of a friend’s videos, Facebook will now try to get you to watch more with a new carousel of suggested videos that appears after you view one in the mobile News Feed. Reminiscent of YouTube’s Related Videos, Facebook confirms the existence of this fresh laidback experience in Facebook for iOS that I spotted over the weekend. It lets you quickly watch a series of… Read More
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Blek Comes To Android, And I Get Stuck On Level 23
Earlier this year, iOS game Blek drew critical cheers and enthusiastic reviews from gamers. Android fans who watched from the sidelines but haven’t yet actually Blekked can now try out the puzzler for themselves. The game uses a curious drawing mechanic as its only moving part basically, allowing the player to sketch a line with their finger that then becomes an animated in-game… Read More
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Adtile Raises $4.5M To Create A Marketplace For Interactive Mobile Ads
Adtile, a startup that says it’s bringing an “app store”-style approach to mobile ads, is announcing that it has raised $4.5 million in Series A funding. Earlier this year, I wrote about the company’s Motion Ads format, which asks users to interact with their ads by shaking, turning, and otherwise playing with them. For example, a coffee shop ad could ask users to… Read More
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LokLok’s New Messaging App Lets You Draw On Your Friend’s Lock Screen
Another experimentation in mobile messaging arrives today, this time from a company innovating on the Android platform first. Yes, Android. LokLok, as this latest app is called, replaces the Android phone’s lock screen with a “synchronized whiteboard” that allows you to leave notes and drawings directly on your friends’ lock screens. That means, unlike traditional… Read More
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Social Parking Startup ParkTag Pulls In $680K To Drive Its Tech Into Urban Planning
We first came across Berlin-based startup ParkTag pitching their parking space swapping community at Disrupt New York’s Startup Alley, back in 2013. Today they’re announcing a seed investment of €500,000 from German’s High-Tech Gründerfonds, and plans to grow into a technology provider helping to power smart cities. Read More
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Gartner: Device Shipments Break 2.4B Units In 2014, Tablets To Overtake PC Sales In 2015
The gradual decline of the PC industry, spurred on by the rapid rise of mobile computing, continues apace. Today the analysts at Gartner have published their latest forecasts for global PC, tablet, “ultramobile” and mobile phone shipments: they are set to break 2.4 billion units, and nearly 88 percent of that number will be attributable to mobile phones and tablets —… Read More
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Everyone Has Seen Fireworks, No One Needs Your Photos
Here’s a novel idea for watching the fireworks: use your eyes. See, the Fourth Of July is when we celebrate the birth of our nation by blowing up a small part of it. But when the urge to pull out your camera phone strikes you, instead, leave it in your pocket, throw your arm around the person next to you, and just be present in the moment. You’re never going to look at those… Read More
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LG G Watch Review: This Early Android Wear Watch Could Use A Bit More Time To Bake
LG is one of the first to market with an Android Wear smartwatch. Their hardware runs on Google’s smartwatch platform, which is pretty locked down in terms of what kind of customizations Google allows OEM to make. But there’s still plenty of room to shine – and fall short – when it comes to hardware design. LG’s watch seems to have missed the mark in some key… Read More
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