Author: Brian Wallace

  Football Connect, an app from OneUp, has changed the way you watch live sports.  This revolutionary live-play social sports game makes watching your favorite sports more fun.  You can earn points by making ‘connects’ during the game, chat with other fans or even trash talk the other team.   Based on their live data, we’ve created this infographic that details the best fan characteristics. The Atlanta Falcons fans are the most strategic, making the most successful swaps that result in point-earning connects.  Who’s talking the most smack?  The New York Jets fans, of course, accounting…

So you’ve created the greatest app known to man. It’s so innovative, so creative that there is no possible way for it not to become the number 1 Andoird app on the market. Or it could just be overlooked. Lost within the 500,000 odd apps already floating around Android’s universe, yours could go undiscovered. But what makes apps more popular than others? It isn’t just the “good” apps that gain fame and notoriety, oh no, there is a much more deep process when it comes to promoting apps. Out love affair with apps is only growing stronger; we are in love and we don’t care who knows it. The average number of apps…

The transition from traditional newspapers to online viewing has had a tremendous impact on the newspaper publishing industry.  In an attempt to recoup some of its lost revenue, many U.S. newspapers have begun implementing paywalls.  Paywalls prevent a user from accessing certain web content without a paid subscription, but most print subscriptions include unlimited access to the pay site. Though certainly not the first to put up a paywall, The New York Times seemed to lead the revolution with 41 publications following suite in the third quarter of 2011.  The success of these paywalls…

Intellectual property refers to creations made by the mind for which exclusive rights are recognized in law form. Under intellectual property laws, owners have rights to intangible assets such as literary, artistic and musical works; as well as inventions and discoveries. In the United States, Intellectual property accounts for 20% of U.S. GDP and nearly 40% of U.S. economic growth. So, what are we doing to protect these rights? SOPA (Stop Online Piracy Act) and PIPA (Protect Intellectual Property Act) were created to help protect others. However, the cons of the bills would be an increase…

Is Facebook affecting the way our minds function?  It’s a safe bet to say that the vast majority of those looking at this infographic will have to resist the urge to click on the Facebook notification icon appearing at the top. It doesn’t matter if you know that isn’t an actual Facebook notification.  It doesn’t matter that you probably have your Facebook page open in another tab.  You still want to click the picture of a notification icon just to be sure nothing will happen.  This is the way our minds have been trained to react to things that have become staples of our society and interactions with…

In the world, 74% of companies use some type of cloud app service. A cloud app, short for cloud application, is a software application in that is accessed via the Internet and is not installed on a local computer. Cloud computing is the delivery of computing, storage and applications as a service to end users. While SAAS, Software As A Service, is a model where software and associated data are centrally hosted on the cloud. SAAS applications are updated more frequently than traditional software. A few popular business cloud applications include; CRM, ERP, accounting software, project management…

Today’s world in America is one dominated by the mobilization of technology. So it’s only fitting that even the Presidential election be looked at from a mobile standpoint. With 88 percent of registered voters owning some type of mobile phone and about half of that number owning a smartphone, keeping up with this years Presidential election can be done in various ways. Over 35% 0f the total U.S mobile audience has access to some form of social network on their phone. Over half those people either posted a comment about a candidate’s campaign or either read someone else’s post either on Twitter, Facebook or…

Voting sounds easy, but have you ever had to organize a poll big enough for the entire united states? I didn’t think so. Two million poll workers get together for each federal election, almost the same amount as worldwide Walmart workers. …

One of the fastest growing technologies on college campuses everywhere is digital signage. Adding a sleek, modern feel, digital signs not only offer aesthetics but are able to convey important information quickly and effeciently. From interactive whiteboards, to kiosks, to digital menu boards to scoreboards, digital signage is quickly taking over in every part of campus life. Instead of cork boards full of text books for sale and tutor’s phone numbers, everything will be organized into a simple, easy to read display that can hold much more than a few pieces of paper. Things like campus events…

If you are one of those people who suddenly has had a change of heart about your career path, don’t worry because you are not alone. The average American changes careers around 7 times in their lifetime. With 71% of Americans who are “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” from their jobs there are several reasons as to why people change careers. So why aren’t people satisfied? Being underpaid is the number one reason for job dissatisfaction, with lack of growth opportunities, no career advancement and feeling trapped coming in 2nd, 3rd and 4th. An even better question is “What are…