Foursquare Updates Android & iOS App With New “Super-Specific” Search Filters
Foursquare has added new search filters that allow Android and iOS users to make “super-specific” searches, filtering by price, locations where users have or haven’t checked in before, locations ‘friends have checked in’, if a location is ‘open now’, and if a location is ‘offering specials’. To demonstrate how specific…
Android this week: Nexus 7 cloned for $149; Google Edition HTC One; Chrome …
Small slate shoppers have a new option to choose this week: Hisense debuted a tablet that looks like a Nexus 7. The Sera 7 Pro tablet uses the same basic hardware as Google’s own tablet with a few improvements, even but costs $50 less. WalMart is the exclusive retailer for Most of the…
Mea Culpa! Best Twitter Apologies
Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer ruffled feathers in the photography world earlier this week when she said “there’s no such thing, really, as professional photographers.” Photographers thought Mayer was dissing their jobs, while the tech executive said all she meant was that updates to the basic Flickr service will give users…
AT&T Prepaid Plans Now Support iPhone 5
AT&T’s prepaid GoPhone brand will now support the iPhone 5 and other LTE/HSPA+ devices. Although iPhone users have been able to sign up for voice service using GoPhone, this is the first time AT&T is opening access to the data network for those customers. This is also the…
Make Your Mac Send Sound Output To Your Giant HDTV [OS X Tips]
At work, I use a big Acer monitor connected to my Macbook Air via an HDMI dongle from Moshi and an HDMI cable. For quite some time, I was content with having the sound come out of the Macbook Air, which I have set up just to the left of…
BlackBerry hanging on with slick designs
It was a pager that had a full keyboard, and we used them to communicate among co-workers in what was then called the Tech Services department. We could send messages to each other, watch that message’s status change as it was delivered and then read by the recipient, and then…
3-D printers may speed robot ‘natural selection’
Nick Cheney at Cornell has developed a way for robots to evolve within days. By Marshall HonorofTechNewsDaily NEW YORK Robots are simply more efficient than humans at certain tasks. They already excel at building cars, exploring distant planets and hunting for explosives, but it turns out that robots might also…
The fly-by, Wi-Fi hacking machine
Denis Andzakovic, 22, and his Wi-Fi security testing motorcycle. Photo: Ben Grubb There’s something unusual about the motorcycle Denis Andzakovic likes to ride. In addition to being able to transport Andzakovic, 22, from A to B, it can also allow him and others to “terrorise their neighbours” by scanning for Wi-Fi Kitted…
Twitter bumps up log-in security after hacks
After well-publicized hacks, Twitter is giving users the ability to add a two-step security process to their logins. STORY HIGHLIGHTSTwitter has added a two-step login option to make users’ accounts more secureThe move comes after multiple high-profile hacksThe AP, Burger King, Jeep and The Wall Street Journal are among recent…
‘Haunting Melissa’: a horror series for your iPad and iPhone
Tablet screen shot of “Haunting Melissa”– the horror story by “The Ring” producer Neal Edelstein is now available exclusively on iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch at the App Store. Listen Now [4 min 36 sec] The producer of the horror movie “The Ring” has a new ghost story out but this…
