a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Matchstick and Mozilla take on Chromecast with Firefox OS dongle, launch Kickstarter to drive down $25 price

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Gadgets, Insider

ct4a0586

Matchstick and Mozilla today announced its open-source take on the Chromecast: a $25 Firefox OS-powered HDMI dongle. The streaming Internet and media stick will be available first through Kickstarter, in the hopes to drive down the price tag. Jack Chang, Matchstick General Manager in the US, described the device to me as “essentially an open Chromecast.” He explained that while the MSRP is $25 (Google’s Chromecast retails for $35), the Kickstarter campaign is offering a regular price of $18, and an early bird price of $12. The startup has set a goal of raising $100,000. The full breakdown is as…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Matchstick and Mozilla take on Chromecast with Firefox OS dongle, launch Kickstarter to drive down $25 price appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Matchstick and Mozilla take on Chromecast with Firefox OS dongle, launch Kickstarter to drive down $25 price

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 2:28 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Design & Dev, Gadgets, Insider

ct4a0586

Matchstick today announced its open-source take on the Chromecast: a $25 Firefox OS-powered HDMI dongle. The streaming Internet and media stick will be available first through Kickstarter, in the hopes to drive down the price tag. Jack Chang, Matchstick General Manager in the US, described the device to me as “essentially an open Chromecast.” He explained that while the MSRP is $25 (Google’s Chromecast retails for $35), the Kickstarter campaign is offering a regular price of $18, and an early bird price of $12. The startup has set a goal of raising $100,000. The full breakdown is as follows (free…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Matchstick and Mozilla take on Chromecast with Firefox OS dongle, launch Kickstarter to drive down $25 price appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Get noticed by employers with 98% off a Resumonk lifetime plan

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 1:34 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Offers

A professional résumé is key to getting your profile noticed by employers and hiring managers. If you’ve found it hard to land a job interview in the past, it’s time to make a change, Resumonk. This simple résumé creation tool helps you showcase your skills, organize your information and present it beautifully — and all you need is a browser and a few minutes to spare. Resumonk lets you share your skills and experience online easily with a custom URL, and saves time by importing your information from LinkedIn. Plus, you’ll get access to analytics to see who has checked out…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Get noticed by employers with 98% off a Resumonk lifetime plan appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: 
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

September in Africa – All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 12:35 pm
Posted In: Around the Web, Insider, Roundups

Africa

September in Africa was all about startups, with a host of top events and the launch of new accelerators as well as the usual funding rounds, acquisitions and new product offerings. Startup central Startup pitching event DEMO Africa took place outside of Kenya for the first time, with 40 startups pitching to entrepreneurs, investors and international media in Lagos, Nigeria. Speakers at the event included communication technology minister Omobola Johnson, Tony Elumelu, chairman of Heirs Holdings, and Jason Njoku, founder of iROKO. French operator Orange launched its startup accelerator – Orange Fab – in the Ivory Coast, which the company…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post September in Africa – All the tech news you shouldn’t miss from the past month appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: ,
a couple of laughzillas on a blue diamond background

Nokia’s offline maps for Android: We go hands-on

Sep30
by on September 30, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Posted In: Apps, Around the Web, Insider, Product Launches, Product Reviews

IMG-20140908-WA0002

Late in August, Samsung unveiled its new Gear S smartwatch, a Tizen-powered timepiece capable of making calls and going online without a smartphone. Other features, as noted at the time, included turn-by-turn navigation provided by the Nokia-owned HERE mapping platform, which brings genuine usefulness to the wrist-worn contraption. Since then, Nokia has been continuing to flex its mapping muscles following its new-found freedom from the smartphone bustle, teasing a refresh of the Web-based version of HERE, while also revealing it will be used on Tizen smartphones and wearables. But perhaps most crucially out of all this, was the news that…

This story continues at The Next Web

The post Nokia’s offline maps for Android: We go hands-on appeared first on The Next Web.

└ Tags: ,