BlackBerry Interim CEO John Chen today posted a stern and spirited open letter to all BlackBerry enterprise customers with one unifying message: BlackBerry is here to stay. The letter emphasizes the company’s mobile device management (MDM) and enterprise mobility management (EMM) services through BlackBerry Enterprise Service 10 (BES10). In other words, it is geared up […]
There are a mighty number of hurdles a set of companies must go over before they join forces and become one in the United States, especially when they’re such titans as Microsoft and Nokia. What’s been approved today by the folks at the United States Department of Justice is the pending acquisition of Nokia’s mobile […]
As it has been with essentially every major console release over the past several decades, Microsoft appeared (at first) to be having trouble keeping stock in stores with the Xbox One. What we’re seeing now, less than a month after the machine was first put out on the market, is another seemingly sudden gush of […]
This weekend Apple recognized World AIDS Day in bright red lights and red innards across the world. With their red Apple logos up front of stores turned red with red plastic filters and their (PRODUCT)RED merchandise rolling through the store, Apple made certain they were seen as one of the world’s largest supporters of the […]
I’ve recently met with the creators of PingPong, an app that is aimed at providing a higher level of interaction between teachers and students. It works by simply letting teachers create questions either on the spot (during class), or as a series or prepared questions (exam-style) that students will have to answer, possibly in a limited time.
The beauty of the app really resides in its simplicity and the fact that it is free. The user interface may appear a little Spartan, but that’s exactly why it works so well: it is extremely easy to build questions, and answering them is even easier. This means that it could work with very young children, although I don’t see why it couldn’t be used for adults. I don’t disagree that another design may work too, but the point is that function comes first here. (more…)
PingPong: Simple, Interactive, Free Q&A App For Teachers original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Mr Kang Kyong Seog, Manager of the Smart Content Center in Seoul/Korea
I have visited the Smart Content Center in the G.Square building In Seoul: it is a South Korean government-supported incubator that helps startup by providing a low-cost working space (rent is free for successful applicants) that comes equipped with a well-furnished mobile testing lab, a video-editing studio, along with logistical and marketing support. Startups are still responsible for securing enough funding to pay its employees and other expenses of course.
At the moment, the Smart Content Center is operating at near capacity with 45 startups out of a maximum of 50. Each startup gets its own space (“rooms” as they say here), which seemed enough to host between 3-4 to 7-8 people (or more), depending on the size and cubicle layout. Most of the companies that I’ve met are software or web companies, which is not surprising since these categories represent the bulk of startups worldwide. I also talked to Kang Kyong Seog, the manager of the Smart Content Center (he’s in the above photo), about how this entity works, since I wanted to know how different things were when compared to the privately held incubators that we have here in Silicon Valley. (more…)
Smart Content Center: A Government-Supported Incubator In Korea original content from Ubergizmo. 
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A report on AllThingsD this weekend made a case for Tony Bates to take outgoing Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer‘s title. Bates is currently the EVP of business development, strategy and evangelism at Microsoft and formerly oversaw the Skype division (Microsoft took over Skype in 2011.) It would appear at least a dozen Silicon Valley “tech […]
Back in March, news surfaced that Panasonic would be pulling out of the plasma TV business, something that was substantiated by sources who spoke to Reuters back in October. In line with its efforts to cut down on businesses that prove unprofitable, the company will be making some drastic changes to its digital camera division […]
Many of us in North America are used to living in relative luxury
compared to much of the world. For us, "roughing" it is camping where
there’s no plumbing or sleeping in European hostels with nothing but our
back packs. I won’t trivialize it, of course, many North Americans do
know what it is like to struggle, but most of us won’t have to live
shanties for the bulk of our lives, with no electricity, heat, or
running water.
Amazon has been the target of an undercover report that looked into working conditions for employees at its warehouse near Swansea, something that will air this evening on the BBC’s Panorama. The undercover report shows unfavorable conditions that could prove unhealthy to workers, but Amazon has spoken out against such claims, saying that it has […]
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