Bryce Maddock

The tech industry is characterized by brutal competition. Ongoing patent wars, massive company acquisitions, aggressive marketing strategies, all of these in an effort to get the bigger slice of the marketplace. One recent casualty in this race for supremacy is Hewlett-Packard. Unable to keep up with the "tablet effect," HP...

It's high season for back-to-school, meaning parents and students are running around, perusing the web, and cutting coupons to try to save some extra cash. The hot-button item this year has been e-books, and how digital textbooks save cash and lighten loads. But are e-textbooks really the answer to education...

Augmented reality is seen by many as the new frontier of environmental interaction. Last year, 302 million smartphones were shipped worldwide, estimated to hit the one billion mark by 2016. Add to that the growing popularity of tablets, and that's a serious amount of computing power being lugged...

Over the past decade, the internet has rendered printed newspapers, photo albums and CDs useful as little more than coffee mug coasters. All the while, the television has remained a staple of our daily lives. The average American still loafs on their couches for three hours a day gazing into...

This year the average college student will spend well over $1,000 on textbooks. A staggering sum, especially when added to the rapidly rising cost of tuition. The eTextbook has long been heralded as the answer to textbook costs. But as college kids head back to campus this fall, the vast...

With the imminent launch of Google Me it's clear that the search giant is doubling down on its social media efforts. It began in February when Google paid $50 million to acquire the social answers site Aardvark. In the subsequent months the company has invested approximately $150 million in Zynga,...