What Gets Your Inner-Fitness Going: Data or Friendship? Or Both?
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A recent study from NPD shows that one in five consumers want a fitness device that they can hook up to their PC. Today’s question is “will people have more incentive to actually buy these devices if they can use them with friends”. Striiv, a smart pedometer that caters to casual exercisers who like rewards, thinks that collaboration with a …
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Penveu Challenges Interactive Whiteboards
Interactive whiteboards in the classroom have been plagued by any number of problems. Often mis-calibrated, sometimes proprietary, always expensive – and it forces the teacher to be in front of the classroom. It’s high time for an alternative to the old “teacher stands in front of the whiteboard” trick. Enter Penveu, a very different approach to the standard teacher/whiteboard interaction. …
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Stress: What Would Arianna Do?
Arianna Huffington gets stressed out too! I don’t know why, but I take great comfort when people who look pressed and pretty all the time confess that they need to deal with stress just like the rest of us. But unlike the rest of us who keep our stress to teeth grinding or lip biting, Arianna Huffington shares her taming …
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Recharge Your Systems the Green Way
Technology and thinking green did not always go together very well. Filled with icky harmful metals and substances, never recyclable and persistent energy hogs – electronics were known for creating more environmental problems than they solved. One problem being solved in innovative ways is device recharging. Our phones, TVs, game machines and household products are electricity gobblers. Here are some …
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Kid Tested: Kinect RUSH is a Rush
Can’t decide which Pixar movie is your fav? Don’t give it a second thought. If you own a Microsoft Kinect you can grab a copy of Kinect Rush: A Disney Pixar Adventure where you’ll get a taste of all your favorites with you staring as the added attraction. It’s fantastic and tailor made for an ADD generation that loves to …
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Why Instagram Might Lose Its “Instant-ness”
Free, fun and simple – that’s what Instagram was all about. You took a photo with your mobile phone and applied some crazy effect so that your friends would never be bored with your photos again (though they might be trying to figure out what the heck it was a photo of in the first place). In a cash/stock deal, …
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RIM Should Do What it Does Best: Email
My first Blackberry and I were very much in love. It never missed an email message and I could count on timely email delivery just about anywhere in the world – without racking up extraordinary data charges. I was one of those “hike to the mountaintop” and hold my Blackberry above my head just long enough for the messages to …
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Ebooks versus Apps for Kids
What’s the difference between a kid’s app and a kid’s ebook? Oh, about $10. There are a few other differences, sure. E-books tell more of a story and have less in-book games. Apps have more interactivity and play. But just by calling something an ebook and not an app you can command a higher price. Call it an app and …
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Tax Season Jitters
There was a time when the only tax time jitter you had was getting things done in time and coughing up your dough. Now, the problems are compounded digitally. Between now and April 15, approximately 155 million people are filing tax form, making identity theft a larger concern, if only by the numbers. Add to the recipe the fact that …
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