Exciting Technology

Still looking for last minute gifts this holiday season? If you’re looking to get one of your friends or family members a simple tablet, then this   new tablet coming out of CHUWI   should certainly be one of   the many   options on your radar. The new tablet is called the Vi8, and for its price, offers some good hardware. Among other budget Windows 10 tablets, it’s a good option. The specs are as follows: 8-inch IPS  1280×800 display Intel Cherry Trail X5 Z8300 quad-core CPU 2GB DDR3 RAM with 32GB storage, expansion via microSD 2MP front-facing and  rear camera Bluetooth 4.0/OTG/HDMI/WiFi/USB Type-C This definitely isn’t the greatest Windows 10 tablet out there. 32 GB of storage is incredibly small until you can expand with a MicroUSD, and 2GB of RAM is going to keep you restricted to the less resource intensive programs out there. Considering you can  get it right now at Geekbuying  for less than $100, however, there’s...

Telecommunications infrastructure company Ericsson just  announced  that it has reached an agreement with Apple over an ongoing patent dispute. For the next seven years, Apple will pay a fraction of its iPhone and iPad profit to Ericsson in royalties. Back in February, Ericsson filed suits in many different jurisdictions for patent infringement (the International Trade Commission, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Texas, the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California, as well as courts in the U.K., Germany and the Netherlands). According to the Swedish company, Apple has been violating 41 patents over the past few years with its iPhone and iPad, in particular patents related to GSM, UMTS and LTE technologies. As expected, the two companies have reached an agreement and Ericsson is dropping all of its lawsuits. Today’s news isn’t particularly surprising as Ericsson holds more than 35,000 patents. Many of them are related to wireles...

Many times we have all been told, ‘ there’s no such thing as a free lunch.’  That adage could not be truer than in the realm of online digital piracy. A lot of computer users turn to the hundreds of various piracy websites online to download premium software that have been cracked. Thus, would not require them to pay the owner for the use of the software, as they would if they were to get it from the legitimate vendors’ and retailers’ websites. Some of you may use ignorance in your defense, especially if everyone around you has been downloading pirated software. Well, as it turns out, these piracy websites are racking in millions of dollar annually through the adware and malware they secretly install on your local system (PC). Apparently, whenever you visit a piracy website, there are malware that get installed on your PC in sneaky ways that the average PC user cannot detect. So your PC ends up with intrusive ads, gets shady malware. How piracy websites makes money off...

When you upgraded to Windows 10, from either Windows 7 or 8.1, you must have realized that Microsoft did away with the old Windows Photo Viewer. In its place, you now get the Windows Photo App. While Windows Photo App might have its advantages like being able to edit pictures really quickly and share them online. For me, and many others, the old Windows Photo Viewer, is just straightforward, faster and we are used to it. The new Photo App takes some time getting used to, and it is just not the same as the old Windows Photo Viewer. If you upgraded from Windows 7 or 8.1 to Windows 10, you should find the Windows Photo Viewer when you right click a picture and go to the ‘Open With’ options. But if you performed a clean install of Windows 10, Microsoft has completely disabled the Windows Photo Viewer. But Geek Savanna has come across a simple hack at  Ten Forums  that will enable you to get back the Windows Photo Viewer. This hack is revealed by a guy called Edwin, wh...

Have you hired someone straight out of college in the last decade? If you have, it comes as no shock that today’s education system simply isn’t creating job-ready employees. Far from the differentiator it once was, the college diploma has become an expensive check box in the HR process. Let’s cut to the chase: You need experience to be relevant in today’s demanding job market. Period. Most graduates, regardless of their progression within higher education, are simply not presented with the opportunity to learn and exercise skills employers really need. According to a study by  McKinsey and Company , 72 percent of educational institutions believe recent graduates are ready for work. Here’s the kicker: only 42 percent of employers agree. The overwhelming majority of these employees will need to learn on their own to close the skills gap. So what can we, as business leaders, do to make sure the workforce of the future is getting what they need? It’s a matter of acknowledg...

One of Google X’s former moonshots is raising cash as it looks to disrupt the architecture design space with its specialized collaborative data exchange service. Flux Factory , Inc. announced $29 million in Series B funding co-led by   Temasek and Surbana Jurong Private Limited.  Far East Ventures, DFJ, South Park Ventures, Borealis Ventures, and Obvious Ventures also participated in the round. The company has raised $8 million to date from investors like Google Ventures and Andreessen Horowitz. Flux sees its worth in its ability to help the planet adapt. The company says that by 2050 there will be another two billion people living in cities on Earth. The company says its engineered architecture tools will help the world’s architects and builders attack problems in the most sustainable and efficient ways possible. One item that is apparent from the list of investors joining this raise, is the heavily important role Flux sees in Asian mark...

In the past few months, Tinder has been working on a feature called Super Like, which let users tell one of their matches that the situation is more serious than simply swiping right. Today, Coffee Meets Bagel has added something similar in ‘Send A Woo’, letting CMB users express higher-than-usual interest in a potential match. Coffee Meets Bagel launched in 2013 with an interesting twist on online dating. Rather than swiping through endless matches as though you’re playing a mobile version of ‘Hot or Not,’ Coffee Meets Bagel promised its users one potential match a day. Using Facebook Connect, the app could sift through friends of friends to make sure these matches were somewhat relevant. If both users liked each other, the app would then connect them in a text conversation. Since then, the app has grown up a lot, ditching Twilio as a way to start text conversations and opting for in-app Instant Messaging. Oh, and Coffee Meets Bagel also raised $7.8 million...

CellSavers  co-founder Itai Hirsch was not a fan of driving to a local repair shop after he’d broken many of his phones and tablets. So he decided to take a run at building CellSavers, an on-demand repair service that’s like an Uber for smartphone repairs. To do that, CellSavers has raised $3 million in seed funding from Sequoia Israel. CellSavers connects users with technicians that will come to them and repair a broken battery or a cracked screen. A cracked iPhone 6 screen repair, for example, costs $99. “We look at how Uber changed the way from hailing a taxi in the rain to pressing a few buttons from your mobile device, that’s how we look at the process,” Hirsch said. “It’s very limited interaction between the end-user and the technician. When you’re distressed and you break your phone it’s a low point in your day, and we try to create this positive experience. We see this as a lifeline, we want to make sure you aren’t without your device for more than 30 minutes.” The...

DoorDash, known for its on-demand food delivery service, has partnered with newly-launched retail store  b8ta . b8ta, founded by four former Nest alums, opened earlier this month in Palo Alto to sell trendy tech gadgets and offer hands-on experiences with those products to customers before they buy them. b8ta sells gadgets like the  Gi Flybike , a folding electric bicycle, and  Thync , a wearable for achieving mindfulness and boosting energy. Through the partnership with DoorDash, customers in Palo Alto and certain parts of Menlo Park will be able to order b8ta products for on-demand delivery starting today through December 31. “b8ta is all about user experience—and what could help improve the holiday shopping experience for b8ta visitors? Not having to carry, load, and unload heavy shopping bags from store to home,” b8ta CEO Vibhu Norby said in a statement. “We thought it would add to the experience of shopping at b8ta if local visitors coul...

A kerfuffle in Indonesia today illustrated the unpredictable nature of regulators and regulations when it comes to ride-sharing services in Southeast Asia, the region where smartphone ownership is rapidly growing among its collective population of 500 million plus. Less than a week after Jakarta’s governor Uber, GrabTaxi and other ride-sharing services a set of requirements in order to (finally) operate legally, ending a year of uncertainty around their status, the Indonesian government today banned (and then, less than 12 hours later, unbanned)  Go-Jek , a motorbike taxi on-demand service that claims 200,000 drivers in the city, and others in its space. Ojek (motorbike taxi) services Go-Jek, an up-and-coming startup backed by Sequoia that also offers food and package delivery, Uber-rival GrabTaxi’s GrabBike service, female-focused Lady-Jek and Blue-Jek were among those banned by Indonesia’s Ministry of Transport, which held ...