Apps for new parents
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla As parents get used to their new babies, the little ones are settling into their routines. Thankfully, there are apps to help along the way.
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New Mobile Apps Show Every Face Counts in Fashion, Photography, Law Enforcement
ModiFace is one of the companies that is applying software algorithms to digitally analyze faces captured in digital images of almost any type.
by Lee Rickwood
OpenTable and the evolution of a great idea
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla We recently spent some time at OpenTable’s offices in San Francisco prior to the company’s acquisition by Priceline for $2.6 billion. Here’s what we learned.
With ‘Project Ion’, BlackBerry wants in on the Internet of Things
By Ted Kritsonis
The Internet of Things may be a broad term, but there is no shortage of tech companies looking to grab a piece of its action, whatever it may be. Count BlackBerry among them, with its announcement of Project Ion, a vague encompassing name that promises to take a whole lot of data and disseminate it into chunks that will make sense on the other end.
Discovering Pebble’s smartwatch and App store
By Gadjo Cardenas Sevilla Pebble’s smartwatch has a great head start in the wearables game. Not only are their devices cross-platform, users can access various apps and applications from their app store.
Android’s shadow looms over BlackBerry smartphones
By Ted Kritsonis
BlackBerry’s troubles have been covered extensively, and one of the consistent themes around the company’s current platform is the perceived lack of apps available. These complaints are usually centred around the lack of native support for popular apps users expect to have on their handsets — a hole that Android is coincidentally filling for BlackBerry.
Plex may actually transform your home entertainment setup
By Ted Kritsonis
Streaming media within the home has been a liberating feature for anyone who has adopted it and taken full advantage of the convenience the technology provides. One of the most effective programs to do that is Plex, media server software that collects your content and presents it in one of the most effective platforms currently available.
Indigo looks to take on Amazon with new mobile app
By Ted Kritsonis
Indigo has released a free mobile app for iOS and Android today that aims to help draw in more customers, as a means to fighting off the increasing competition by Amazon. The app has been designed to “simplify the shopping experience” by incorporating browsing, ordering, gifting and sales prices into it.