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Are You Prepared to Make Purchases With A Body Part?

Money at Your Fingertips: Supermarket Tests Biometric Payments By Scanning Fingerprints Instead of Credit Cards There is Square , Google Wallet,  and a host of others developing ways to make it easy for us to part with our money.  Of late there are apps that allow payments via our mobile phones. What if you not only didn’t [...]

Apple Warns Against Jailbreaking

Apple today has updated their knowledge database with several articles on the dangers of Jailbreaking. This update was prompted after yesterdays release of Evasi0n and fast update by users. Apple sees jailbreaking as an unauthorised modification of the device. You can view the  article here. Will this make you think twice about jailbreaking your iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch? [...]

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HTC 8X Review

Similar to the Nokia Lumia 920, I would say the HTC 8X could be considered one of the best phones on the market. In my opinion, this phone could give the Nokia Lumia 920 and any other Windows 8 phone a run for its money. HTC did a great job with this phone straight out [...]

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Would You Like To Have A Phone Always At Your Fingertip?

Phone Implant? I love gadgets but I can’t see myself having a phone implant.. though I thought it was cool when I saw it in the RECALL movie remake. It’s anybody’s guess what our interaction with computers will look like in the coming years. Will we still be poking and pinching tiny touchscreens to sort [...]

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Batman Enlists Into The Air Force

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Do Black Tech Entrepreneurs Face Institutional Bias? Soledad Obrien Chronicling the NewMe Accelerator

Soledad O’Brien is chronicling the NewMe Accelerator journey in “Black in America: The New Promised Land: Silicon Valley,” airing Sunday at 8 p.m. ET on CNN. CNN) – Wayne Sutton has been asking venture-capital investors and Silicon Valley executives a question that’s not often broached here in the epicenter of the technology industry: “Why aren’t there [...]

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RIP Steve Jobs, Creator of Many Jobs at Apple

Steve Jobs, a co-founder of Apple Inc., and master of technology and computing has passed.  Jobs died Wednesday at age 56. In a brief statement, Apple announced the death but did not say where he died. Mr. Jobs, who suffered from a rare form of pancreatic cancer and had a liver transplant in 2009, stepped down as [...]

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Future Tech Educational Conference & Expo-SA

San Antonio Convention Center Future Tech Conference October  14th   2011 8:00am to 5:30pm Room 217 Theme: “Teaching and learning through the use of technology” Our focus is K-12 Education   ____________________________________________________________________ Keynote Presentation Stage ____________________________________________________________________ 8:00 am - 8:15 am  -  Opening of the Event 8:15 am – 9:00 am  -  Thinkfinity Presented by Monica Isabel Martinez - Director of Professional Development – Texas [...]

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Coming Soon: Facebook’s Automatic “Read” Button

Techcrunch is reporting Facebook has a new automatic READ button coming soon. Their writeup is below: A few days ago, leading up to f8, we noted that we heard from a source that Facebook would soon be expanding their buttons offeringsbeyond the Like button. Specifically, we heard that “Read” “Listen” and “Watch” buttons were coming. But [...]

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Payphone in Your Pocket

No, not that payphone, the old ones that used to be found on every corner, or at corner stores.  We mean the one in your pocket…The one Google just turned into an actual payphone. You see,  MasterCard has announced that there is an over-the-air update being pushed to the Nexus S 4G that will automatically [...]

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