Amazon’s new tablet is much less kindle and a whole lot more fire. The recent announcement of the “Kindle Fire”, is proof that they’re finally ready to break out of the e-reader game and step into the ring with the big boys from Cupertino.
Amazon has been building up the needed infrastructure, from the kindle store [...]

People all seem to have the same nightmare at one point or another when grabbing a bite to eat, whether it be in a five-star restaurant, a casual cafe or a swank little happy hour spot. You sit there for upwards of ten minutes before the server even comes to the table. Your server forgets [...]

Local San Diego tech start-up ‘Deal Current’ was one of the first full-service, white label, daily deal software vendors in the world.  The success of the software has grown the company’s revenue by over 1,000% since 2008, and if you’re looking for a cool, hip, energized place to work, they’re hiring. Not too shabby for [...]

Apple, the most valuable technology company since it overtook Microsoft 15 months ago,  surpassed Exxon Mobil last week making the tech giant the world’s most valuable company at $341 billion .
At lunchtime August 9, 2011, Apple was trading at  $367 per share, giving the company a valuation of more than $341 billion, briefly surpassing what Exxon Mobil was worth [...]

According to eMarketer data compiled in January 2011, the U.S. virtual goods market is expected to generate $653 million in revenue this year, up 28% from 2010.  Virtual goods, in case you’re not a shut-in, are digital representations of goods for which one pays actual, real money. An example would be a digital sweater for your avatars girlfriend [...]

Visa has announced that it will implement the switch over to EMV contact (chips found in credit cards) and contactless chip technology in the United States and abroad for use in mobile phones. Mastercard has also partnered with Google on NFC payments with the trial launch of Google Wallet.
Visa says that the transition to these types of chip [...]

In late June Google rolled out their version of Facebook, Twitter and Skype combined, which they claim to be neither, both, and all three.  Google+ is the latest effort by one of the ‘Big Five’ (Google, Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, Linkdin)  to protect their revenue share in the online advertising market. At the very least Google [...]

Professional Social Media site LinkedIn leapfrogged MySpace last week to take the number two slot in the industry under the number one behemoth Facebook (160 million users). After a splashy public offerings debut in March the site hit 100 million users, the holy grail number for emerging social media sites. According to LinkedIn CEO Jeff [...]

In just four years the fledgling blog-site Tumblr has overtaken their predecessor and major competitor WordPress in the number of registered users by incorporating social-media features into their dashboard. By expanding on the capabilities of  the Twitter-like format to allow limitless text, simultaneous visual feed and a blog-forwarding option Tumblr is poised to become a powerful and potentially priceless format for breaking news and [...]

The next step has been taken in the voluntary immobilization of our species:  voice-activated Google-searches, yeah baby! Too tired to type? Holding the baby?  Double-fisting? Google’s got your back.
Google announced last week that voice-activated searches and quicker search time technology will increase ease and efficiency for PC users on their search engine.   Google’s big announcement [...]