Kif is a staff writer at Gigaom based in New York covering mobile technology. Previously, he was an editorial fellow for Wired and blogged at Gizmodo. He graduated from Oberlin College in 2012, where he also played NCAA Division III lacrosse for the perennially winless Yeomen. He changed his own legal name to Kif when he was a child for better search engine optimization.
Google introduced standalone apps for Google Docs and Google Sheets to both Google Play and the iOS App Store on Wednesday. Eventually, Google Drive users will be prompted to download the… Read more »
Google(s goog) has been testing this feature for a while, but today it became widely available: Google Drive users on the web can now run presentations straight from Google Drive to a Chromecast… Read more »
The SCiO is a handheld molecular analyzer, developed by Consumer Physics, which pairs with a smartphone through Bluetooth LE. The Kickstarter launched Tuesday morning and a fully operational SCiO starts at $149. Read more »
Sprint plans to offer Spotify trials for customers, with the ability to pay for the service through carrier billing, Sprint CEO Dan Hesse said at an event in New York on… Read more »
According to the Aol mail team, there was unauthorized access to information from 2 percent of Aol email accounts, including address books and encrypted passwords. Read more »
Skype(s msft) group video calling will be free on desktop computers and the Xbox One, said Microsoft in a blog post Monday. Previously, the feature was included as part of Skype Premium,… Read more »
On Saturday, Comixology, the dominant digital comics distributor recently purchased by Amazon, released a new iOS app that removes the in-app comic book store, in a move designed to avoid Apple’s… Read more »