Victoria Lowery

Google Tries To Please Parents Again, This Time With Animal Noises

Google adds animal noises to search, becoming a more kid-friendly and educational search engine for early childhood learners. Google launched this initiative to help young learners who have difficulty learning new things during the early stages of life. Working with parents and early childhood educators, Google has provided a tool that makes learning both fun […]

8y ago

Apple iPhone Could Experience Decline In Sales In 2016

According to CNN Money, 896 million Apple iPhones have been sold since June 29, 2007, the day the very first iPhone was sold. But, the latest estimates from KGI Securities predict that Apple iPhone sales may be slowing down in 2016. The new iPhone SE received a lukewarm response from Apple iPhone users when Apple […]

8y ago

Porsche 911 Enthusiasts Get Rare Opportunity To Bid On Classic Vehicles

For more than 50 years, Stuttgart-based Porsche AG has thrilled the performance automobile market with its seminal Porsche 911 high-performance sports car. Early production models of the Porsche 911 are coveted by collectors around the world, who now have an opportunity to acquire one of the 27 vintage or late-model Porsche 911s that are going […]

8y ago

cycling|London|technology

Brompton Folding Bike Taps Into Internet Of Things

London-based bike manufacturer, Brompton, is demonstrating the real value of the Internet of Things (IoT) with an internet-connected prototype of its iconic folding bike. Brompton set out to make a smarter, safer, and more accessible folding bike while giving its users a better riding experience. Anyone who has ever driven in London, or attempted to […]

8y ago

Is Microsoft Killing The Windows Phone?

Microsoft’s Windows Phone was oddly absent at the annual Build developer conference in San Francisco. Does this imply that Microsoft is no longer making the Windows Phone a priority? The Microsoft Windows Phone mobile operating system has never been one of the company’s biggest assets. It is in third place behind Apple’s iOS and Google’s […]

8y ago

ecommerce

Amazon Buy Box Battleground: How Do Sellers Win the Buy Box War?

Every Amazon seller who wants to succeed on the e-commerce platform knows one thing: they must learn how to master winning the Amazon Buy Box. According to Marketing Land, over 70 percent of Amazon’s customers shopped using a mobile device during the 2015 holiday season. This number is up by 10 percent since the 2014 […]

8y ago

guns n roses|las vegas|motley crue

DJ Ashba Opens First Retail Store, Grand Opening In Las Vegas April 7

DJ Ashba has been part of, and contributed to, many of world’s well-known hard rock and heavy metal bands like Mötley Crüe, Guns N’ Roses, and his current group Sixx: AM. Now, Ashba is moving his successful online clothing business into the real world for the first time. Since the early 2000s, DJ Ashba, while […]

8y ago

Twitter|video

Happy Birthday Periscope: It Was A Busy Year

Today is the first anniversary of Twitter’s live-streaming video app Periscope. As an outsider looking in, it appears it’s been a very busy freshman year. Within five weeks of Periscope’s launch, presidential candidate Bernie Sanders used the new app to announce his bid for the White House. LIVE on #Periscope: Sen. Bernie Sanders is speaking […]

8y ago

google|video|youtube

YouTube Connect Arrives Late To Live Streaming Party

According to VentureBeat, YouTube is launching a new live streaming service that’s very similar to Periscope and Facebook Live. This new service is called YouTube Connect, and it would include apps on Android and iOS. Google’s entry into live streaming comes more than a year after Meerkat was released. YouTube Connect features include immediate streaming, […]

8y ago

china|Japan|snapchat|WhatsApp

Messaging Apps: Have You Replaced Your Texting with A Messaging App?

According to research by IHS Technology, a UK consultancy firm, the number of people using top messaging apps like Facebook Messenger, WeChat, and SnapChat increased by more than a billion in 2015 to a combined 4.2 billion active users. Messaging apps have effectively pushed out social networks to become the most dominant platforms and apps […]

8y ago

Gaming|nintendo|smartphones

Nintendo Miitomo App Is Immediate Success: 1 Million Downloads in 72 Hours

With the launch of its Miitomo app, Nintendo’s very first mobile effort has seen immediate success in the mobile gaming arena. Released on Thursday, March 17, the Nintendo Miitomo app was downloaded by more than one million registered users in less than four days. The Miitomo app is available for the iPhone, iPad, and Android […]

8y ago

FCC|T-Mobile|verizon

Improved Wireless Coverage: Your 911 Calls Are Major Concern For The FCC

Improved wireless coverage is a major concern for the FCC and cellular service providers. According to the Pew Research Center, two-thirds of Americans own smart phones. And as of 2015, at least seven percent of Americans are entirely dependent on their phones for internet access because they have “neither traditional broadband service at home, nor […]

8y ago

amazon

Will Amazon Underground Change Revenue Model for App Developers?

Amazon Underground is a relatively new shopping app designed for Kindle Fire tablets and Android phones. It combines the frighteningly easy Amazon mobile shopping app with over 1,000 free versions of apps and games that would normally cost users money to download. Amazon is attempting to change the way developers sell their apps. The Amazon […]

8y ago