Microsoft announced in February its plans to acquire the cross-platform development platform Xamarin; the deal closed about two weeks ago. Even though the ink on the contracts has barely dried, Microsoft already made Xamarin the center of attention at its annual Build developer conference today by announcing its plans to roll Xamarin into every Visual […]
I’ve spent the past month in a daze, trying to make sense of my own tasks and responsibilities while forcing myself to adhere to a system I came up with that simply doesn’t work. You can never anticipate how your “perfectly designed” task-management system can fail. It’s our own nature — we’re so sure of ourselves — […]
Mets Adds New Display Tech To Citi Field TechCrunch went out to the ballpark this week — specifically Citi Field, home of the New York Mets. Granted, it wasn’t the most tech-centric event, but the stadium has seen some changes between seasons — including the addition of a big LED Coca-Cola sign, which looms over […]
Today, the future became the present with the launch of Oculus Rift. The reviews are in, but uncertainty hangs overhead with HTC and PlayStation’s VR headsets still on the way. Here are the tough questions that will determine what you should buy, the distribution of power between the platforms and VR’s effect on our lives. Should […]
Apple releases iOS 9.3.1 In response to a bug in iOS 9.3, Apple has already released 9.3.1 that “fixes an issue that caused apps to be unresponsive after tapping on links in Safari and other apps,” according to Apple. Source: ZDNet Closing iPhone apps has no benefit Leaving one iOS app to run another sends […]
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Hardware is hard. Building a hardware startup is even harder. The good news is that the staggering amount of innovation in rapid prototyping, 3D printing and backend-as-a-service platforms has made hardware development move at Internet-development speeds. It’s not easy, but it is faster. When we started our company four years ago, we decided to bootstrap it […]
If you’re a WhatsApp user — and the chances are high since more than one billion people open the app each month — you might be interested to know that the chat app just added some neat new formatting options. Now you can use bold, italics and strikethrough in your messages with friends and family. […]
Google has reversed one of its April Fools’ Day pranks after it caused a number Gmail users to unwittingly insert GIFs into business emails and other important communications. The U.S. internet giant is usually celebrated for its creative April Fools gags — some of its others today are funny — but the Big G’s attempt to inject humor into email […]
New possibilities iPad is extremely well-received by schools and companies of all sizes as a device that can enable new possibilities. To help organizations manage these devices, Apple introduces Mobile Device Management (MDM) as a framework to apply configurations and security controls. Additionally, it introduces its Volume Purchase Program (VPP), allowing for the purchase of […]