10May
10May
Aircuity Launches its 2.0 Platform for Smart Commercial Buildings
Aircuity, creator of measurably better environments, announced the launch of its 2.0 platform. Aircuity 2.0 is ideal for a wide variety of commercial buildings looking to significantly reduce energy costs, improve cognitive function and productivity, and achieve quantifiable results as part of a smart building strategy. Read more >>
10May
Heartwarming moment a blind boy
Andrew Borden, 10, was born with ocular albinism leaving him with limited eyesight, but his school and community helped to purchase a $10,000 pair of glasses to help him see better. Read more >>
06May
Legally blind Cardinal O’Hara teacher to get gift of sight from eSight device
Cardinal O’Hara High School technology specialist Ed Allen is pictured at the school last week. Allen, who is legally blind from Stargardt’s disease, will soon have the gift of sights, thanks to eSight glasses and numerous friends who contributed to his purchase of this groundbreaking product. Read more >>
06May
How Utah Jazz Leveraged eSight Technology To Bring Playoff Game To Visually Impaired Boy
Over the course of the 2016-17 season, Barney said he saw a fan at an Indianapolis Colts game wearing eyeglasses provided by eSight, a company that has a high-speed, high-definition camera that magnifies what a fan is viewing and brings it to life in front of their eyes. “I was like, ‘Wow, this has got to happen,’” said Barney of leveraging the eSight technology for a Jazz fan. Read more >>
05May
Friend & Flowers Return With Wasabi, Take on Amazon in “Hot Storage”
In the market for cloud storage and related tech services, there is Amazon—and then there’s everybody else. The Seattle-based company’s (NASDAQ: AMZN) Amazon Web Services business generated $12.2 billion in sales last year, and it controls an estimated 33 percent of the global market for cloud infrastructure services, according to a recent analysis by Synergy Research Group. But that isn’t deterring Wasabi Technologies, a new Boston data-storage startup, from entering the fray. And the 18-person upstart is taking direct swipes at Amazon...
05May
Carbonite founders’ new startup aims directly at Amazon Web Services
Nearly a year after Carbonite Inc. co-founders David Friend and Jeffrey Flowers first raised money for a stealthy new cloud storage startup called BlueArchive Inc., the duo is publicly launching their company with a new name and an ambitious plan to undercut the fastest-growing segment of Amazon.com Inc.'s business. Now called Wasabi, the startup is offering to store large amounts of data at a fraction the price of Amazon Web Services' S3 offering — the flagship product of a cloud computing...
05May
How to size up a new cloud service like low-priced Wasabi
Saving money may be a good enough reason to try a brand-new cloud storage service -- if it can deliver on its promises. That's the equation some enterprises may use when they look at Wasabi Technologies, an object storage startup that says it offers six times the performance of Amazon's S3 service at one-fifth the price. The service is available globally on Wednesday. Read more >>
05May
High-tech glasses bring high hopes
The headset Airey wore was created by eSight eyewear, a Canadian company started by Conrad Lewis, an engineer with two legally blind sisters. Airey's was the third prototype created by eSight. Read more >>
03May