Gadgets for the Guru: Get Ready for Summer

Jam out to tunes, play outside, and perfect your golf swing this summer. Enjoy the dog days with these awesome tech gadgets.     iSwimband With summer just around the corner, kids are ready to splash in the pool. One of the top concerns for parents is pool safety. iSwimband is a portable and personal … Read more

Weekend Reads: Improve thyself this Memorial Day Weekend

Since it’s a long holiday weekend, due to Memorial Day on Monday, AZTB has some books to help you kick back, relax and learn a few things along the way. These books offer tips on improving your workplace environment, improving your workplace demeanor, and…well…improving yourself.   You just bought the perfect item. It was just … Read more

ZocDoc “Get Better Better” comedic campaign exposes the awkward of booking doctor appts

It could take days to weeks to book a doctor’s appointment. If need be some patients might exaggerate their condition to cut the long line, even say they have rabies. The headaches of the healthcare system is the foundation of ZocDoc’s, the online doctor booking service, new ad campaign Get Better Better that brings humor to … Read more

Link2Golf lets golfers book tee times with buddies through their smartphone

Between emails, text, phone calls and social media, coordinating friends and tee times for a round of golf can be cumbersome. Phoenix-based startup Link2Golf (L2G) is making it easier to connect with friends, search courses, book tee times and pay for your next of round of golf all through your smartphone. CEO and co-founder Kevin Curry, … Read more

U of A announces new iSchool

The University of Arizona will be opening a new school in July focused on information research and technology. The School of Information, or, less formally, “iSchool,” will focus on developing solutions to information-based problems for technology and information based businesses. “Coming out of any discipline now to be competitive you need to be data literate,” … Read more

Gadgets for the Guru: It's Tee Time – Golf gadgets

Arizona is known for our impeccable and world-renown list of golf courses, and let’s face it, the weather is beautiful. Book your next tee time and take these awesome gadgets along with you. Jam out to music with a portable Bluetooth speaker or figure out how to improve your score.   SupremeGolf.com Considered the KAYAK.com of … Read more

Gadgets for the Guru: Put a little Spring into your step

It’s Springtime and you know what that means…? Time to go outside in the beautiful weather! Enjoy jamming to your favorite tunes, watching TV on your backyard patio, or perfecting your golf swing with these Gadgets for the Guru. Zepp Zepp is a 3D Multi-Sport Motion Sensor and Platform. The wearable sensor that allows users to … Read more

Weekend Reads: It's Not Rocket Science, Coined & Reach

How do you define success? Happiness? These books provide insight and ideas on this turbulent world we live in and how to find your personal success.   Game Changers are a new “tribe” of businessperson, says author Mary Spio in her book It’s Not Rocket Science. They “change our world in some way… by altering … Read more

Anita Borg Institute ranks GoDaddy as top company for women in tech

Co-written with Tishin Donkersley The Anita Borg Institute (ABI), a non-profit organization focused on the advancement of women in computing, announced the Top Companies for Women Technologists Leadership Index and Arizona’s own GoDaddy was listed amongst the likes of Rackspace Hosting and Salesforce. BNY Mellon took home the overall win. ABI evaluated 35 technology companies, 435,000 technical employees and … Read more

6 pillars to enhancing your customer’s experience

Ensuring your customers have a great experience while interacting with your company or startup can be elusive. Sometimes when a customer has a bad experience with a company they’ll drop them forever, which means less dollars for the company. [youtube]https://youtu.be/ETXqLkNopRA[/youtube] Justin MacDonald, Manager of Customer Experience at Infusionsoft, spoke at AZ Tech Beat’s recent Lunch … Read more