As marathon season gets underway, Nike has released some new long distance runner technology. At the top of the list is a new shoe. The LunarGlide 3 is designed to be light, breathable and fashionable. Nike respects the fact that most runners live in their running shoes, so they have designed the LunarGlide 3 to be both functional and stylish.

Another offering this season from Nike is the Nike GPS sport watch. The watch has all of the typical features of a running watch, but there are a few surprises. The ability to track your (more…)

The largest startup and innovation conference will be held in the Midwest. Five of the best technology startups will be awarded over 150,000 in cash and prizes. The events will includd panels, workshops and keynotes by the founders of successful technology firms.

Over 150,000 will be split between the five winners in cash and services from conference sponsors. Six months of free office space at the new Sync Technology Center will be awarded to the winners. The Sync Technology Center is a large facility in West Loop that provides mentoring services and office space for local technology startup companies. (more…)

Cyber attacks can actually be prevented, but it is much up to the law to help prevent them. That is really the only way that they are going to be prevented. In the mean time, pretty much all you can do is try and protect yourself against cyber attacks. You just have to basically be careful of the sites that you visit, as well as other issues that come about a cyber attack. You shouldn’t give out any of your information online that you do not feel comfortable (more…)

There are a lot of great places to enjoy technology in Chicago but with the pervasiveness of mobile internet providers like clear 4g many people are choosing to use their own tech outdoors. If you’re all about getting your work or studying done in one of the Windy City’s best parks, check out our top 3 list for surfing.

Grant Park: The most obvious choice, Grant made the list because it’s massive and boasts one of the best skyline views in the city. (more…)

Competition in the smart phone industry has increased so much with the leading companies releasing high technology handsets that are aimed to outdo the other competitors. However, whoever can take the rights of the smart phone technology is not really clear despite Apple Inc being the first mobile phone company to enter the smart phone market with the iPad and the iPhone. However other competitors followed suit particularly Samsung Electronics Co and released new products as well. At some point Apple had sued Samsung Electronics Co saying that the company (more…)

The two days of August 4th 2011 to 5th August 2011 will be the day that a seminar dubbed Advanced Adwords Seminar for Success will be held at the Doubletree Hotel Chicago Magnificent Mile which is located on Ohio Street, Chicago, IL. The training at the seminar will about how to make money while using AdWords which is a product by Google Corp. the people who are invited or who the seminar is intended for are persons like, ppc analysts, ppc specialists, online marketing managers, internet marketing managers, search engine marketing managers, marketing directors and (more…)

The Video Game Summit that is going to be held in Chicago on the July 16th 2011 from 11am to 6pm is the eighth one since it began about 8 years ago. It is going to be held at the Heron Point Convention Center, 665 West North Avenue, Lombard, IL which is adjacent to the Fairfield Inn and Suites hotel. The event brings together both the classic and modern generation gamers from around the country to share stories, mingle with each other, exchange games and even compete at (more…)

The Chicago area DotNetNuke Users Group is a group in Chicago that supports users both individual and organizations, developers and other related users of DotNetNuke and those that develop websites for DotNetNuke too. The convention is run by professional based in Chicago and other locations but the User Group is based in Chicago where it holds its meetings and workshops. DotNetNuke is an open source web management system that is based on Miscosoft.NET technology and written in VB.NET. The system allows its users (more…)