Google announced today a couple of updates to the commenting features in its Google Apps productivity suite. These include the launch of mobile commenting in the iOS and Android apps for Slides and Sheets. Thanks to this, the commenting experience in Google’s apps is now (almost) the same across all of its apps — whether on the web or on mobile. I’m not sure why Google… Read More
NextGenVest, a startup out of New York, is setting out to become a new kind of trustworthy financial entity. And to do that, it’s tackling a big problem. Every year in the US a staggering $2.9 billion goes unclaimed in students grants because the financial aid process has become tortuously complex. Furthermore, the ratio of guidance counselors to students is 500 to 1 nationally, with 20%… Read More
Announced today, Google will begin licensing the Myriad 2 family of VPU chips from Movidius. This tiny chip, complete with 12 cores, specializes in enabling low power, advanced computer vision processing, which will no doubt be a valuable component to “mobilizing” to Google’s growing list of products that utilize machine learning. Read More
One of the problems in the early days of the mobile app era is that it wasn’t possible to link to the pages within apps the same way you could link to pages on the open web. But technology has adapted to solve that problem over the years, both on the part of the mobile OS platform makers themselves, as well as via third parties who today provide smarter links to the content within apps… Read More
Gallop Labs, a startup that helps mobile publishers identify and make money from valuable users, has been acquired by one of its customers, Big Viking Games. In the press release announcing the acquisition, Big Viking CEO Albert Lai (previously co-founder of Kontagent and also an investor in Gallop) said the team’s “proven track record of turning data into actionable audience… Read More
Amazon Fire is what is known as a streaming media player. In other words, it will stream content from the Internet and display it on any high-definition television. It is a small box that comes with a remote control. Amazon aren’t the only makers of these streaming boxes. Google and Apple also have their versions, in this Amazon Fire TV review we see if Amazon’s TV streamer is any good.CompetitivenessBefore we delve into the more technical aspects of Amazon Fire, we need to appreciate how it stands up to some of its major competitors. First, it is priced at £79 or
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Microsoft today unveiled yet another application aimed at iOS users, with the launch of a news application that greatly resembles Apple’s own News application that comes built into iOS 9. Called “News Pro,” Microsoft’s app aims to offer readers a personalized experience by connecting them to articles that match their current interests, while also uncovering… Read More
