Development and Apps

Weekly News Roundup: Feb. 15-21, 2015

Happy Chinese New Year everyone!  This week saw the beginning of the Year of the Sheep.  Mark Zuckerberg welcomed the new year with a video post in, what Business Insider calls, “vastly improved” Mandarin Chinese. Post by Mark Zuckerberg. Meanwhile, Tech Crunch reports that our friends at Buzzfeed have ventured further into mobile territory this […]

Preview: Moving Beyond Reality

Dr. Jason Jerald will be speaking at the panel Suspension of Disbelief in Virtual Reality at SXSWi. He will cover what is most interesting about virtual reality and augmented reality: its potential. Virtual reality is about transcending time and space by going other places and seeing and feeling other things that are wholly outside the […]

IBM's Watson

The last several years the world has been witness to a surge in technology utilizing artificial intelligence. While the public’s view of AI is heavily influenced by their experience with the popular icons in the field—asking Siri what the fox says or watching Watson beat Ken Jennings on Jeopardy—the truth of the industry’s breadth and […]

Embarrassing Bodies: Multiplatform Medical Taboos

These days, multiplatform programming is becoming more of a necessity to TV producers. Although now being adopted by more and more producers, Embarrassing Bodies is a medicial TV show in the UK that was one of the first to adopt the concept in 2007. It has been hugely successful. A quick Google search results in […]

How Overcrowded Asian Cities Inspire Innovation

When the words “overcrowded Asian cities”, images of crowded streets, polution and even chaos comes to mind. Rearly would you think “innovation” instead. However, these overcrowded cities are buzzing with new ideas and innovation primarily because of need and neccessity to overcome problems associated with maximum cities. Tara Hierbet is an Asian Trend, Innovation and Urban […]

Crushing Second Screen: The Ultimate TV Companion

When one thinks of branding and the pioneers in utilizing new media and second screen effectively to build a brand and ultimately an empire, a lot of organizations come to mind. One that probably doesnt, is the WWE. The WWE, or World Wrestling Entertainment for the uninitiated, was founded in the 1950s. It has been […]