How Foursquare Is Forcing Social Networks to Check In or Check Out
AUSTIN, Texas Using your phone to navigate a new city, or even your own neighborhood, used to require a bunch of single-purpose apps. We relied on separate bits of software to find a place to eat, locate a restaurant, and check in upon arrival.Now, even the most basic apps can…
Tech stocks: Zynga, BlackBerry have up, down day
Two companies enjoyed big jumps in their stock prices off buyout chatter. Let’s look at the tech stocks to watch. AT THE CLOSE: Zynga, Blackberry end down for the day UPDATE: Both stocks ended the day down, Zynga losing 5.1%; Blackberry, 2.9%. Zynga leaps. Shares in the social gaming company are up…
Tumblr iOS Update Boosts Camera Support
Blogging platform Tumblr on Monday rolled out a new version of its iOS app, which comes with several improvements and new features. Most notably, the latest iteration of the app (version 3.3) comes with a brand-new camera, which should make it easier to post photos to your blog. The new Also…
iPhone Passbook: Six months on and it still disappoints
Passbook marked a significant, and potentially disruptive, addition to iOS, but six months on from its launch, the iPhone’s digital wallet is yet to generate any significant momentum. The Passbook app for iPhone made its debut back in September with the launch of iOS 6. The central idea: that Passbook As…
Apple’s iPads to fall behind Android tablets this year: IDC
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Shipments of Apple Inc’s iPads will fall behind the growing variety of tablets running Google Inc’s Android platform for the first time this year as smaller-sized devices catch on with more consumers, research firm International Data Corp (IDC) said on Tuesday. iPad shipments are expected to…
Sonic the Hedgehog on iPhone: Cheap Cash-In, or Stroke of Brilliance?
Sega’s newest iOS game Sonic Dash has quickly shot up the sales charts to become one of the App Store’s bestselling games. It’s fun, but it’s also extremely derivative of the mobile gaming juggernaut Temple Run. You might even call it a clone. Should Sega be ashamed of releasing a…
Can I Give Up Twitter? Should I?
Due to some very positive changes in my personal life, I’ve been almost completely off of Twitter since the beginning of November. I just don’t have the time to keep up. Sure, I miss out on a few memes, I have no idea on which projects the geek elite are…
My search for a smartphone that is not soaked in blood
Nokia smartphones. Of all the manufacturers, Nokia appears to have gone furthest to remove illegally mined tantalum from its supply chain. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty If you are too well connected, you stop thinking. The clamour, the immediacy, the tendency to absorb other people’s thoughts, interrupt the deep abstraction required…
ASUS VivoBook S500 / S550 Windows 8 laptops now on sale for $699 and up
The VivoBook S500 offers a uniquely intuitive Windows 8 touch experience along withenhanced computing and multimedia capabilities at a very affordable price of $699* Fremont, CA (March 11, 2013) – ASUS is excited to announce immediate availability of the VivoBook S500 in North America. ASUS VivoBook S500 showcases an attractive, durable, and ASUS VivoBook…
Chinese iPhone 5S Runs On… Android
The ethically questionable Chinese smartphone maker GooPhone is at it again with another iPhone knockoff, an “iPhone 5S” that runs Android 4.1 Jelly Bean. The “i5S” looks almost exactly like an iPhone 5 and, presumably, the next iPhone, given that Apple tends to iterate iPhone industrial design every other year. That’s…
