Kevin Smith/Business Insider MakerBot’s CEO Bre Pettis held a press conference at his company’s booth at CES today. The company is innovating in the consumer 3D printing market and unveiled the new Replicator 2X 3-D printer. The Replicator 2X makes it even easier for casual users to manufacture right at home. The new device is...
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Have you ever dropped your phone in water? If you’ve fallen victim to one of the most common smartphone mishaps, you’ll definitely be interested in HZO’s technology. HZO’s big news at CES 2013 is that now besides being immune to water, its coating is completely resistant to coffee, beer, sports drinks, soda, and other...
T-Mobile on Tuesday became the first wireless operator in the US to add nationwide HD Voice to its network, and it has also turned on iPhone-compatible 4G service in the 1900 MHz spectrum in new areas, including Denver, Los Angeles, San Diego and Virginia Beach. The carrier’s announcements were synced to its CES press...
Education technology service Udemy has launched Teach2013, a new program that seeks to encourage and empower industry experts and leaders to step up and not only create their own courses, but teach them as well. Almost a reverse of Codecademy’s “Code Year” program from 2012, Teach2013 is focused not on getting more users to...
Google has withdrawn patents claims it had previously filed against Microsoft over the company’s wish to use video compression technology with the Xbox, All Things D reports. By virtue of its $12.5 billion acquisition of Motorola, Google owns two standards-essential patents that Microsoft is looking to license in order to gain access to the technology,...
2013 is going to be a 12 full months of hype surrounding the Big Data craze, with tantalizing tales of e-commerce analytics that will move beyond predicting pregnancies to doing something really cool: like figuring out the Last Twinkie Ever Bought. As the hype continues, smug enterprise IT departments will whip out their thick...
Apple and Google have been playing the numbers game about iOS and Android for years. Apple had the headstart, of course, but Android first caught on the number of smartphones that it ships and activates every day. Apple maintained its lead when it comes to sheer volume of apps in its App Store vs...
Twitter Tuesday announced new search capabilities that give it the upper hand as a breaking news destination over basically every other news organization on the planet, from newspapers to cable networks to websites and everything in between. When a new search begins to trend on Twitter, Twitter’s new API will send the query to...
I’ll give Verizon this: it doesn’t pussy-foot around. In his CES 2013 keynote, Verizon chairman and CEO Lowell McAdam revealed that its LTE network now covers 89 percent of the U.S. population. In two years, Verizon’s 4G network had gone from nothing to 473 markets, touching 273 million people. Verizon plans to finish its...