Foursquare Gives iPhone Users Real-Time Recommendations & Rolls Out 2 …
Foursquare announced three new upgrades today. The location sharing app has extended its ‘Real-Time Recommendations’ to iPhone users, and added two new search features: a ‘Nearby’ button and the ‘Friends at a Glance’ feature that displays most recent check-ins by friends. According to the announcement, the app’s look and feel…
Robotics Invitational & Workshop Competition
Columbia, SC (WLTX) – Robots took over today during the third-annual South Carolina Robotics Invitational and Workshop Competition. Twenty-three teams gathered to compete in this year’s frisbee-shooting, pyramid-climbing, and 3-on-3 challenge called Ultimate Ascent. The teams were made up of high school students and engineering mentors. They built 120-pound robots…
BlackBerry BBM For Android, iPhone Download Delay: Messenger Team …
BBM became popular long before the modern smartphone, as a standout feature on BlackBerry’s slew of keyboard-toting feature phones allowing users email access on the go. BBM for Android and iPhone will offer the same notifications for when a message is delivered and read as on BlackBerry devices — a…
Savvy robot
By RAZANNE CHATILA Published October 9, 2013 at 8:09pm Updated October 10, 2013 at 5:53pm In society today, it seems that technology is ever present. From our smartphones, computers, to other latest gadgets. Even though some claim that this is just breeding a new population of lazier, less skilled individuals, you have to admit…
Without grand plans for China, US, Sony set to lag in smartphones
TOKYO (Reuters) – Kazuo Hirai’s plan to restore Sony Corp to lasting profitability rests in large part on its smartphones leapfrogging rivals to become the world’s third-biggest sellers after the Apple iPhone and Samsung’s Galaxy series. But that goal remains some way off. Sony’s CEO, installed last year with a…
BlackBerry co-founders considering bid for troubled company
Two co-founders of the troubled smartphone giant BlackBerry said on Thursday that they were considering making an offer for the company. Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin confirmed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) that they are considering an offer for the company they set up in…
Qualcomm’s brain chip could turn your phone into a robot butler
If a cell phone can essentially see, hear, and detect movement like a person, shouldn’t it start to think like a person, too? That’s the basis of Qualcomm’s Zeroth processor, designed to emulate millions of the billions of neurons within the human brain. A version of the Zeroth has already…
With Real-Time Recommendations, Foursquare Checks Into Google And Apple’s …
When ReadWrite last caught up with Foursquare CEO Dennis Crowley in the company’s San Francisco office in late August, he proudly showed off a map of the citya secret map, he said, that only Foursquare could build, from the data his users feed it by announcing their location to their…
The downside of smartphone kill switches
Thieves are targeting smartphones like never before.(Photo: Justin Kase Conder for USA TODAY)Tags (Editor’s note: In this guest essay, Tom Kemp, CEO of cloud security company Centrify, examines the pros and cons of adding “kill switches” on smartphones to deter theft) The Secure Our Smartphones (SOS) Initiative, spearheaded…
BlackBerry: Signs of optimism for potential bid
Shares in BlackBerry Ltd. slumped Friday, a day after news broke of a potential takeover bid by co-founders Mike Lazaridis and Douglas Fregin. But at least one observer believes the plan can succeed. California-based tech analyst Rob Enderle said investors favour buyout overtures from former leaders of a company since…
