Foursquare, GrubHub Seamless Partner For Easy Ordering

Picture this you’re sitting on your couch browsing Foursquare to see what your friends are up to. They’re at an awesome Mexican restaurant a couple blocks away, but it’s just so cold outside and you already have your cozy clothes on. You have no intention of actually going out, but…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 5:00 pm

5 things you missed: Facebook Paper, order food from Foursquare and more

  1. Facebook launching Paper, a new way to read your News Feed With Facebook’s latest iPhone app, Paper, users can experience their News Feed and the news at the same time. With a Flipboard-esque vibe, you can scan through content rather than scroll, and find your favorite topics in one place….
Posted on: February 1, 2014 12:00 pm

Apple Said To Be Focusing On Health With iOS 8 And iWatch, Following Exec …

Apple’s plans for iOS 8 focus on redefining health tracking via mobile devices, according to a new report from 9to5Mac, which has a terrific track record when it comes to rumors it has sourced itself. The report details a new marquee application coming in iOS 8 called "Healthbook" that monitors The…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 12:00 pm

Foursquare Can Now Satisfy Your Appetite At Home With Integrated Seamless …

Seamless and GrubHub have partnered with location-based check-in service Foursquare to help you retain your precious pear-shaped physique and avoid exerting even the bare minimum of effort: You can now order delivery from restaurants near you right from within the app, on the Android, iOS and web-based versions of the…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 12:00 pm

Canadian spies illegally tracked travellers using free airport Wifi

A new Snowden leak reported on the CBC reveals that secretive Canadian spy-agency CSEC was illegally spying on Canadians by collecting information from the free Wifi service in major airports and cross-referencing it with intercepted information from Wifi at cafes, libraries and other public places in Canada. The agency is…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 12:00 pm

Facebook looks to nab Twitter’s ‘second screen’ crown in Super Bowl

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – More than 100 million people will be glued to their TV screens on Sunday, when the Denver Broncos take on the Seattle Seahawks in America’s premier sporting contest, the Super Bowl. But two fierce rivals, Facebook Inc and Twitter Inc, will also be clashing head-to-head on a…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 7:00 am

Apple iPad 6 Release Date Rumors: Analyst Says Imminent Launch Of A 12.9 …

According to Rhoda Alexander, an analyst at IHS, a number of larger display panels of different sizes — that could be potentially suited for a larger iPad — are currently being tested by display manufacturers. However, the volumes of the panels do not necessarily suggest that a product launch is…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 7:00 am

Within a few years, a self-powered robot could be mowing your lawn

Around the time of World War II, fuel rations caused Europeans to look to alternative means to power their cars. Some attached hulking tanks to the back of their car that burned wood chips as fuel. Several years ago, George Mason University graduate student Jason Force had a modern idea…

Posted on: February 1, 2014 7:00 am

February 2014 is Chromebook month for me

I received an Acer* Chromebook for Christmas and I haven’t had much time to really work with it. I’ve gone through the short setup, read my Gmail on it and browsed the web a bit but I’ve never really taken it through its paces. I’ve never put it to the…

Posted on: January 31, 2014 5:00 pm

TiVo to acquire Digitalsmiths

TiVo have announced that it will acquire Digitalsmiths, the Pay-TV industry’s most broadly adopted cloud-based content discovery and recommendation service. Digitalsmiths offers personalized video search, recommendations and browsing, social trending, and mood-based discovery which can be used to instantly connect consumers to the most relevant movies, TV shows and live…

Posted on: January 31, 2014 7:00 am