Don’t get me wrong. If you can find a good league, fantasy sports can be fun and a good way for friends or coworkers to have some carefree competition. However, for some, fantasy sports do not offer enough involvement, action, and engagement. Fanamana (which is fun to type and say) is for sports fans who want a different and more interactive fantasy sports option. Fanamana is the first mobile live-action fantasy sports game....
Just before Christmas last year, 41-year-old Chad Latham received a call from his lawyer. He had news from the President of the United States. At the time, Latham was in a 500-square-foot circle in a federal detention center on the outskirts of Sheridan, Oregon, where he’d spent the better part of the previous ten years. Latham grew up in Tacoma, Washington. While many kids his age were learning to ride a bike and play sports, Latham was all about computers....
There’s no denying that cybersecurity has become a vital aspect of the business world in recent years. Security breaches can cost businesses millions and the skills gap continues to get wider and wider as education in the space lags. The result has been that cost of these attacks has gotten much worse, with a new report noting that the cost of ransomware in 2021 nearly quadrupled since 2020. Considering ransomware makes up a substantial percentage of all cyberattacks, hitting everything from colleges and hospitals to individuals and small businesses, it’s safe to say that getting this under control is important....
1. Your Sleep Pattern Changes during the Weekend And it’s not in the way you expect. According to an article published on Mental Floss, most people don’t get enough sleep during the week, and they often try to make up for it on weekends. But sleeping in even an hour or two for just two days can confuse your body clock – and we are slaves to our body clock....
However, Comcast has made huge strides in merging the two technologies. Comcast, like everyone understands that the future of video is streaming. Fortunately, rather than fighting companies like Netflix at every turn, they’ve embraced the growing trend and made their most popular product, the X1 platform, a testament to what these two entertainment mediums can do when they work together. I sat down with Matt Strauss, the executive video president of video and entertainment services at Comcast, and he’s confident that the streaming boom is not only good for customers, it’s good for business....
The Great Value of Smart Homes Smart homes are a wonderful result of our digital world. Homeowners can control temperature, appliances, lighting, TV’s, security, and more from anywhere in the world. The technology has brought convenience, a stronger sense of security, the ability to be environmentally responsible, and certainly money savings. But because most homes do not have this technology built into them, consumers have to “retrofit” their homes with the products and systems that are now available from a variety of manufacturers....
This info came from renowned industry analyst, Ming-Chi Kuo, who, history suggests, has a proven inside track on what Apple is planning to do. Apple blogs MacRumors and 9To5Mac both reported on Kuo’s latest research notes, which showed that the company would be releasing a new iPod Touch (!), two new iPads and a new 16-inch MacBook Pro in 2019. So let’s take a look at all of the Kuo’s recent revelations and see how likely they are....
Micro-Networking Google Plus was billed as the Facebook killer some time back. But it did nothing to separate itself from Facebook. There were many people who signed up just because it was affiliated to Google, and gave up later on. The best section of the platform was reminiscent of one of the oldest parts of the net – forums. Google would call these communities, and they were much easier to find, navigate and share content....
The area’s cost of living — particularly rent prices — have made headlines for years as the worst city for affordable housing in the nation. Now there’s a new headline: Tech talent is increasingly leaving the Bay Area for more cost-friendly tech hubs, and we have the data to prove it. Up, Up, and Away As massively high-powered and well-funded tech companies have rushed into the Bay Area over the past few decades, the cost of living in the area has soared....
It’s a near-certainty that every major tech company has at least considered the same possibility. The pandemic lockdowns were an inadvertent trial period, albeit one with a lot of extra stress added to the equation. But was it a success? What kind of data can we gather from our massive global work from home experiment? Can we even draw any big conclusions here, given the unusual circumstances? As a top business communication platform, Slack is in the perfect position to weigh in....
But too much of a good thing can be bad. Tech companies large and small are guilty of moving too quickly, but sometimes it’s important to stop, take a moment and ask “do my customers even want this?” Think about it. How many devices or applications that you use have become needlessly bloated versions of their former selves? Do you remember your reaction to that new feature/UI/login/what-have-you? Was there a real need for it?...
Bryan Pisnoy, founder of ZipMobl LLC, is no stranger to sports betting, but grew frustrated with the unorganized research involved. “I had to check five different apps and multiple websites a day just to get what I needed to know,” explains Pisnoy. Pisnoy decided to take his hobby-level programming knowledge and design a new sports betting utility for all: Sports Lines. Geared for both the casual sports fan and the serious sports better, Pisnoy has high hopes for the integration of Sports Lines into the daily lives of fans everywhere....
Star has raised $770,000 to date and is on the verge of becoming the 12th African American woman ever to secure more than a million dollars in venture funding for her tech startup. Before founding, 4DHealthware, Star was at IBM for about 10 years. In this episode, you’ll learn a lot, like why Star decided to found a company after working in big business, how she landed the first partnerships in healthcare, and the power of nudging people in the right direction....
College students aren’t the only one’s benefiting from this trend. Online courses offer plenty of digestible, trustworthy teaching on everything from computer coding to foreign languages to remedial classes that can help you brush up on that Monday morning math class you always slept through in high school. And for the first time, there’s now an internet domain specifically for any educators hoping to make their materials easy to surface online....
Carrie Ferrence and Jacqueline Gjurgevich of Stockbox are approaching the problem from a different angle: what would happen if you take the wheels off? The Seattle-based startup is building mini-grocery stores out of reclaimed shipping containers and sticking them into parking lots of existing businesses – bringing fresh food to people who live in areas with limited or no access to healthy, affordable meals. As the limited hours and availability of mobile projects were often leaving customers unfulfilled, the focus here is staying power....
Now, a new survey has confirmed that employees aren’t going quietly into that good night, as a wide range of workers are planning on taking steps to improve their working lives, whether their employers are on board or not. As for why employees are planning on making a change, the survey showed that pay (71%) was a massive driver. However, other factors included job fulfillment (69%), personal authenticity (66%), and schedule flexibility (49%)....
This is especially true when it comes to a work environment, as bosses and employees are fundamentally engrained in each other’s lives, whether they like it or not. Everything from huge company meetings to small one-on-one sessions can be direly effected if bosses aren’t able to communication things like expectations, vision, and goals. Unfortunately, that is the biggest problem plaguing bosses in the US today. According to a survey conducted by Comparably, 50 percent of workers believe that bosses need to improve their communication skills more than anything else....
Researchers in the Department of Biobehavioral Health at Penn State found that stressors during the daytime can damage your sleep quality. Similarly poor sleep can damage your ability to have positive experiences in the daytime, creating a never-ending cycle of long-term negative impacts on one’s health. Even though work-life balance seems to be improving for some employees, those that have a stressful day and carry that racing mind to the pillow are getting into a bad cycle that can lead to some inescapable difficulties during the day....
That’s right, according to The Common Sense Census from Common Sense Media, more families subscribe to streaming services like Netflix and Hulu (72 percent) than actually pay for cable (65 percent), which is definitely a first. While Netflix has undeniably been the success story of the 21st century, this should still comes as a bit of a surprise. Cable TV has been a staple of the medium since it’s inception, and with rural internet connections still struggling to keep up, streaming services seem like they’d be a bit more unpredictable across the entire country....
According to a recent study from UK-based office search engine organization Office Genie, a significant percentage of experts (36 percent) believe that the use of a wearable in the office comes with many benefits, including increased productivity. The value of wearables in the workplace goes far beyond productivity. With mental health becoming a pressing issue in the entrepreneurial world, giving employees the ability to monitor their stress levels and their overall health is the best way to support a health company culture....
