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On a freezing, cloudless day last January in New York, Apple presented to the world its vision for the future of education. It was a clear-eyed argument for bringing tablets into classrooms, a blueprint for fusing cutting-edge technology with advanced learning techniques. But the future doesn’t get built on no-bid contracts. And slowly, steadily—especially after Continue Reading →

iTwin made some waves back in 2009 when it revealed its $99 namesake computer-connecting USB dongles at TC50, and the team has been working on ways to extend the thing’s functionality ever since. Now, the company is ready to show off the fruits of its labor with a new feature called SecureBox for the security Continue Reading →

Boxee, the New York-based start-up that introduced the irregular-shaped Boxee Box for streaming Web video to TV sets, is betting with its new box that users are going to want to DVR a lot of basic TV — that’s right, real TV. The company’s new device — simply called Boxee TV, not Boxee Box 2 Continue Reading →

Microsoft’s already opened up the floodgates with Windows 8 pre-orders, and it looks as if those still on the fence now have a sandbox to goof off in. A trio of Windows 8 notebooks were spotted at a Best Buy located in St. Cloud, Minnesota, and we actually called around to confirm with several other Continue Reading →

Digital music fans have never had more options, but the experience is more fragmented than ever. iTunes rules digital downloads, Spotify is the subscription music leader, and a slew of other services (Rhapsody, Pandora, Rdio, Amazon Cloud Player, Google Music, etc.) fill in the variety of remaining niches. Xbox Music is Microsoft’s latest entry in Continue Reading →

Dropbox has just updated its mobile site to improve the way users view images on the go, following similar changes made to the startup’s Android app, iPhone / iPad apps and desktop site. This decision makes the startup’s gallery-styled image viewer available to anyone with a mobile device, including Windows Phone users, where an official Continue Reading →

Can a 136-year-old company, with 100,000 employees in 180 countries, stay “hungry”? Despite an annual $5 billion USD R&D budget, Swedish telecom equipment-maker Ericsson saw its market share plummet in the transition from 2G to 3G. To avoid the same fate in the shift from 3G to LTE, Ericsson changed strategies – in addition to Continue Reading →

Now if you want to share files with friends via Facebook Groups, you can do so via Dropbox. “When the owner of the file makes updates, those updates will also be shared back to the group. And, just like other posts to Facebook Groups, people can like or comment on the content,” a Facebook representative Continue Reading →

Appearing soon after Zune’s end, we’ve been sent images of what Microsoft’s likely to offer in Xbox Music. Matching those early rumors, it looks like some cloud-linked features will make an appearance in the form of synchronized playlists, while the service will offer a free half-month trial alongside paid subscriptions. Prices are currently set at Continue Reading →

The Wii U launches in North America on the 18th of November, 2012. Here are the 23 games that are launching with the system, as well as those coming before March 2013. It’s a rather large launch window Nintendo has defined for the Wii U launch, giving publishers four months to make it onto this Continue Reading →