A bionic arm and a nerve implant give one amputee a sense of touch
By Chris Velazco From engadget Nothing can quite undo the trauma of losing a limb, but a team of EU researchers has been trying to help by bringing sense to senseless prostheses. They’re doing pretty well at it too: they…
No, Facebook is not an infectious disease
By Lance Ulanoff From Mashable “The future suggests that Facebook will undergo a rapid decline in the coming years, losing 80% of its peak user base between 2015 and 2017.” That’s according to a pair of Princeton University researchers who…
Shadow: The app that helps you remember your dreams
From Core77 Hunter Lee Soik is no stranger to the creative process. He’s worked as a creative consultant on Jay-Z & Kanye West’s Watch The Throne tour and is now taking on the app space. Soik and co-founder Jason Carvalho…
NYT: NSA embeds radio transmitters to access offline computers from miles away
By Richard Lawler From engadget [Another] fun NSA revelation comes courtesy of the New York Times, reporting on an agency program to access and alter data on computers that aren’t connected to the internet. Cherry picked from the NSA’s tool…
CWA: Sprint buying T-Mobile would be even worse than AT&T buying T-Mobile
By Zach Epstein BGR – From Yahoo News Where there’s smoke there’s fire, and Sprint’s rumored upcoming T-Mobile takeover bid is a blazing inferno right now. Numerous reports have suggested that Sprint and its parent company, Japanese wireless carrier SoftBank,…
Portable charging device jump-starts your dead smartphone battery
By Alex Magdaleno From Mashable Van Halen has likely been on repeat in the Native Union offices after the smashing success of the Kickstarter campaign for its new product Jump. It’s an answer to the frustrating issue of the dead…
NET(net) Launches WIN(win)™
New SaaS Platform for IT Strategic Sourcing and Strategic Supplier Management GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands,/PRNewswire-iReach/ — NET(net), the world’s leading provider of comprehensive IT Investment Optimization Services, has announced the launch of WIN(win)™, the world’s only fully Technology Enabled Business…
MoneyWiz 1.5 for Mac is here – demo version, Cayman Islands Dollar
From MacMegasite Sofia, Bulgaria – SilverWiz Ltd. is thrilled to announce the release of MoneyWiz 1.5.2 for Mac OS X. The update to this personal finance software, adds more than 50 new features and is free for all existing customers….
More action needed on cybersecurity
By David Jessop, Senior Dominican Today Op-Ed contributor Two year ago I suggested in this column that few Caribbean Governments or companies were taking seriously the threat posed by cyber attack and cyber crime. This was despite evidence to suggest…
Stake on the menu: Digicel returns to table, studies Cook books
From teleGeography Pan-Caribbean and Pacific mobile operator Digicel is once again studying the possibility of buying Telecom New Zealand’s majority interest in Telecom Cook Islands (TCI), the New Zealand Herald reports. Telecom New Zealand announced shortly before Christmas that it…
