When Google crawls your website, they’re putting less value in what you have to say about your content (i.e. metadata),and more interest in what the content itself is saying and who is talking about it. Makes sense. If our own assessment of the content of our lives were a true indicator of their worth, we’d all…
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This past week was a blur for anyone who attended this year’s Consumer Electronic Show (CES) in Las Vegas. CES means lots of oxygen-infused hotel lobbies, jostling crowds, gadgets galore and late nights rubbing shoulders with folks in the vast electronics industry that now encompasses, well, everything. If you attended this year as a CES virgin you…
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There were already a number of tablet options out in the marketplace when Sony entered the market with the Sony Table S earlier this year. Focused on creating a compelling device that would attract new users to the tablet market, the team at Sony looked to offer a superior Android experience with better design, performance…
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Coming to CES this week are Cubelets, small multicolor cubes you can snap together to create robots that move, chirp, and light up. Cubelets come with different programming, and what they do depends on how they’re combined. “Action” blocks include Drive (with wheels), Flashlight, and Speaker (which chirps). “Sense” blocks respond to environmental factors like…
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The Carlsbad, California company with a serious edge, Razer, recently launched the Razer Blade featuring portability, performance, and a unique new user interface. And we have to admit, it’s pretty sexy. Earlier this year at CES, we saw a preview of this concept called the Switchblade, and it was a highlight (and winner) of the show. Now…
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Verizon has been best known for their coast to coast wireless coverage and fewer dropped calls than competitors. And of course their commercials showing an army of network engineers ensuring they can be heard from anywhere. Did you know that in the first half of this year they will be launching 10 new 4G devices…
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Recently showcased at the Consumer Electronic Show, the BlackBerry PlayBook is set to enter the tablet market…on a yet-to-be-announced date with a yet-to-be-announced price. The PlayBook is super lightweight and very thin as it weighs less than a pound and is as thin as a CD jewel case. The device can really, truly multi-task. What…
Read MoreMove over Monster with your Beats by Dr Dre – there’s another celebrity audio brand in the house. Last month in the midst of so much CES hard plastic and neon lights, it was difficult to find anything remotely organic feeling. A few booths tried to bring in plants and soften it up, but one…
Read MoreThis past month at the Consumer Electronic Show the future of TV was a main focus as I walked around the hundreds of flashing monitors. The buzzword was “SmartTV” as many televisions where connected to the Internet. TV’s seemed to not only be smarter but also more portable by leveraging a number of different screens…
Read MoreWhen you hear the name Cisco, what do you think of? Probably routers and the set-top box from your cable company. Most people probably don’t think about sleek product design or innovative products that they would display around their home. But that’s changing. Their consumer product line is starting to better reflect their slogan, “together…
Read MoreThe Maestro tablet from Evolve III attempts to standout from the slew of tablets that are going to be hitting the market by running on multiple operating systems. That’s right, the tablet will be released later this year as a switchable device with Android, MeeGo or Windows 7 operating systems. At CES, the tablet was…
Read MoreWe took a lot of photos at the CES Tweetup since we partnered to pull together the innovation showcase at the event. So here are some more photos from the CES Tweetup, January 7th at the Las Vegas Hilton, SpaceQuest Lounge. See the original gallery. Enjoy!
Read MoreThe 2011 CES Tweetup on January 7th was a huge success with hundreds of people in attendance at the Las Vegas Hilton SpaceQuest Lounge. Startups demoed at tables around the room, free drinks were flowing courtesy of Delta Airlines, cool t-shirts were raffled off periodically, as were copies of the book The Big Book of…
Read MoreAfter spending six days at the Consumer Electronic Show in Las Vegas last week, I am still winding down from the lights, sounds and glitz of sin city. While CES offered a number of innovative tablets, smart and 3D-TVs and wired devices, we also found a few unique entrants that were on display on the…
Read MoreThis was a big year for Tech Cocktail at the 2011 Consumer Electronic Show as we teamed up with CEA on the CES Tweetup event and showcased 10 innovative companies. We also had a number of Tech Cocktail contributors on hand in Vegas taking in the sights, sounds and experiences. One of our contributors, Zach…
Read MoreThis past week at CES, I was excited to sit in on the session with FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski to see what he had to say about the past, present, and future of all things policy and FCC. I had no real preconceived notions about what we would hear, but I was curious if there…
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There are a number of startup accelerator and incubator programs in the United States. We are fans of these programs (not to be confused with... Read More
Two months after the iPad 2 debuted in March, around 40% of users surveyed said their iPad was their primary computer, up from around 30%... Read More
With our Startup Mixology Conference coming up next week followed by our classic Tech Cocktail DC Summer mixer which will showcase a handful of early-stage... Read More
Coming off of one of our biggest Tech Cocktail mixer events in Chicago this past week, which showcased 14 early-stage start-ups, we thought it would... Read More