What’s the most important part of social networks? According to Noiselab‘s co-founder and Mexican digital pioneer, Hector Mijangos, the answer is simple: You. This led his music holding to develop Avatr*, a social photography app that focuses on auto-portraits, and seems to have what it take to go viral. Since its soft launch on the...
With all of the comparisons of the iPhone 5 and Galaxy S III specs floating around, you’ve probably seen a lot of Android fans boasting Samsung’s device has better hardware specs. Even Samsung is running a full-page newspaper ad that breaks it all down. But in reality, the spec sheets don’t mean much if...
A new Kickstarter project aims to offer Wi-Fi connected light bulbs to the masses and the best part is, you can change the bulb’s color with the help of a smartphone. The bulb is called LIFX and thanks to the LED technology inside, it’s an energy saver when compared to traditional or CFL bulbs....
My friend Matteo thinks I’m crazy for what I’m not carrying. “Deficiente,” the 31-year-old engineer from Parma, Italy, says. “Man, how can you not have a phone? You must be the only person in Italy without one.” I’m traveling overseas without a phone, smart or otherwise. Many would say it’s not smart. Maybe even...
A recent spate of fake online reviews is just the beginning of a trend, according to Gartner research. The book publishing world was roiled by the recent disclosure that self-published author John Locke bought Amazon reviews and author Stephen Leather used “sock puppet” accounts to build online buzz for his books, as GigaOM’s Laura Owen...
Parking Panda, the startup that lets individuals rent out their unused parking spaces and allows garages to discount their lots during slow periods, is now available as a mobile application. The app currently supports a parking finder function in 25 cities, plus parking rentals in the service’s early markets of Baltimore and Washington D.C.,...
Notifying investors and consumers that it has closed a recent $200 million Series D financing round from includes Citi Ventures, Rizvi Traverse Management and Starbucks, mobile payment processing company Square announced today it is now processing more than $8 billion in payments on an annual basis. News of Square’s recent round emerged when the company recently...
Box has announced the launch of Box Accelerator, a global data transfer network that pushes the speed, security and scale of the Box service for business and enterprise users for a faster and more streamlined service. Box Accelerator uses patent-pending, intelligent routing technology and a series of new global upload endpoints to deliver content...
Everyone knows optical storage discs are on their way out in the long run, but ironically, the the biggest, newest format of them all could become extinct before the rest. Here’s why Blu-ray might join VHS in the dustbin long before DVDs or CDs give up the ghost. The Basics In 2006, a consortium...
U.S. cable and media companies are still revving up the so-called “six-strikes” Copyright Alert system – even after a prototype model of the system is closing down in France. The Copyright Alert system, also known as the “six strikes” warning system, is designed to create a mechanism where Internet Service Providers will inform subscribers...