Soundwave Powers Music With Big Data

Some say the music industry is in trouble, and has been for years, but Dublin startup Soundwave aims to provide a surprisingly holistic lifeline. Their music discovery app has gained major attention from both Apple and Google, earning featured placement on each…

Garmin’s New HUD Disrupts Automotive Industry

Garmin has released an after-market unit that projects navigation onto the windshield, acting as a heads up display. With Google Glass, Garmin and others, we are seeing that media is becoming even more synchronous with our environments. Like much of…

European Firm Rolls Out Face-Detecting Ads

In a very public move to bring facial recognition technology to the fore, Amscreen, a European outdoor advertising firm, is debuting ads using face detection this week. Called OptimEyes, the technology will let advertisers know how many people are viewing…

Mozilla Officially Launches Firefox OS Devices In Stores

After nearly two years of development, Mozilla officially launched Firefox OS devices in stores, and has opened up payments for developers interested in charging for their apps — or charging for content inside their apps. The first…

Open Source OS, Tinzen Puts $4 Million Up For App Competition

We’ve seen very little competition for iOS and Android, but open-source mobile platform, Tinzen may be one to watch out for. The Samsung and Intel backed operating system is launching an app competition with $4 million at…

Amazon Expected To Overhaul Kindle Fire

Based on insider reports, Amazon is expected to overhaul the Kindle Fire for this year. Though Kindle desirability is second to Apple’s iPad lineup, Samsung’s tablets overtook the Kindle as far as sales are concerned. In an attempt to capitalize on Samsung’s…

The Trigger: 7/9/13