Posted by meredith | 02/17/11 | 1 Comment
This may just be the greatest gift to students since spell check: A new smartphone application that takes the grunt work out of citing books in academic papers. Quick Cite, a $0.99 app available for both iPhones and Android-based …
Posted by youth advisory board | 12/28/10 | 1 Comment
Ed Note: Our second helping of Year In Review coverage comes from Ypulse resident techie Bryan Spencer. Below Bryan shares his picks for this year’s hits and misses in youth tech trends.
Best and Worst of 2010: Technology
Best
Apple …
Posted by meredith | 12/15/10 | No Comments
Today’s Ypulse Guest Post comes from tween expert blogger Ms Twixt who reports back from the “Generation Mobile” forum on teens and technology held by the Federal Communication Commission in Washington, D.C. earlier this week. If you work in youth …
Posted by emma | 11/24/10 | 4 Comments
The economy may not be out of the woods just yet — but as positive signs go, a solid holiday shopping season’s a big one. Retailers are banking on this season seeing a huge growth in e-commerce sales, in particular: …
Posted by meredith | 11/10/10 | No Comments
Today’s Ypulse Guest Post is from Deb Levine, Executive Director and founder of sexual health nonprofit ISIS, Inc. Deb recently attended the mHealth Summit in Washington, DC. and came away somewhat disappointed with the panel on youth, mobile …
Posted by youth advisory board | 10/28/10 | No Comments
Ed. Note: When Microsoft pulled the plug on the Kin this summer to focus “exclusively” on Windows Phone 7, critics and anemic sales pointed to the real motivation behind the sudden strategy shift — a teen market that was just …
Posted by meredith | 05/13/10 | No Comments
Today our Ypulse Guest Post comes from Robin Boyar, founder of thinktank research and strategy, on the growing number of teens and young adults discovering the appeal of location-based services. Adding to the joys of real-life gameplay we heard …
Posted by meredith | 03/17/10 | 1 Comment
Today’s second Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from our resident techophile Michael Hayball on the apps he loves and why. Though the brand of smartphone (Google’s Android vs Apple’s iPhone) might put him in the minority, his apps of …
Posted by meredith | 03/10/10 | 6 Comments
Today’s Ypulse Youth Advisory Board post is from Chase Straight on the Gen Y appeal of Foursquare — the location-based mobile check-in service that’s been building buzz steadily for a while now (see the New York Times, reg. required, …