United & Continental Replace Flight Manuals With iPads
United Airlines announced Tuesday that it is replacing its pilots’ flight decks with iPads. Rather than carry around 38 pounds of operating manuals, charts and logbooks, the 11,000 pilots at United and Continental will use a pre-loaded iPad. United started distributing iPads to pilots earlier this month and plans to have devices to all pilots by [...]
Read MoreiPad App Creates Continuous Playlists From YouTube Videos
Scour YouTube for music and you’ll find an overwhelming collection of videos to choose from. MusicTandem, a newly-released application for iPad, engineers an easy-listening environment should you wish to sit back and let the application build out custom, personalized artist and music channels, à la Pandora, for you. Once you pay the upfront application sticker price [...]
Read MoreLack of Funding Potentially Keeping African-American Youth Out of STEM Programs
There has been a lot of talk about pushing STEM programs in youth and within the school systems across the country. Programs and other initiatives have been put in place to help bring the presence of these fields to the forefront, especially with African-Americans since they make up even less of the population who pursue [...]
Read MoreTopshop Targets Student Shoppers With Mobile Gaming App SCVNGR
UK-based retailer Topshop has partnered with location-based mobile gaming app SCVNGR to get students into stores for back-to-school shopping. Beginning September 5, anyone within a 500-meter radius of a Topshop location can play the game via SCVNGR’s apps for iPhone [iTunes link] and Android devices. Players choose the reward they want — say, a 20% in-store discount or [...]
Read MoreAffordable Smartphones Giving Africans More Access
Huawei, Kenya’s best selling smartphone, recently partnered with Nigerian CDMA operator, Starcomms to launch the smartphone in the Nigerian market. With over 90 million phone subscribers, Nigeria is a prime market in which to launch the IDEOS and help migrate current feature and low end phone users to smart phones. An Informa Telecoms Media report reveals [...]
Read MoreTech Week in Review 8-19-2011
Google Acquires Motorola Google is set to acquire Motorola Mobility for $12.5 billion. The company that has popularized the Droid brand and helped propel Android to over 150 million devices worldwide will now be protected under the Google umbrella. According to Google, they will continue to operate independently. Most see this move as a way [...]
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