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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…