Archive for the ‘Technology News’ Category

 

Square Introduces Hands-Free Payment with Updated Card Case App

Wednesday, November 2nd, 2011

Forget sliced bread, Square Inc. just introduced new technology that will replace it as the benchmark for “cool”. We thought Square Inc.’s electronic card-reading device for the iPhone was pretty amazing (and it still is), but the start-up just released an update to its Card Case app that allows iPhone and iPhone 4S users to [...]

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Say Goodbye to Netflix with Six Great Alternatives

Friday, October 28th, 2011

You may have seen Netflix’s announcement on Monday that the company lost over 800,000 subscribers since they raised prices by 60%, which went into effect in September. If you were one of the customers that couldn’t justify the additional costs, fear not, there are plenty of alternatives you can explore. Mashable’s Veena Bissram outlined “6 [...]

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“Put Down the Camera & Enjoy the Party” with iPhone’s Dot

Wednesday, October 26th, 2011

Kickstarter is helping to bring great projects to life. The online crowd-funding service platform gathers monetary resources from the general public to fund creative projects, like Dot. Developed by New York-based startup Kogeto, Dot is a hardware iPhone attachment that captures panoramic video. Kogeto founder and CEO Jeff Glasse came up with the idea after [...]

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New Kindle Line to Feature HTML5 & CSS3

Monday, October 24th, 2011

Last month, Amazon’s CEO Jeff Bezos announced that the company would be adding four new models to its Kindle fleet – the Kindle, Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G and the Kindle Fire tablet. The Kindle Fire will be Amazon’s first touch screen color tablet, based on the Android OS. Today, we learn that the Kindle [...]

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Google to Connect Music Beta with New MP3 Store

Friday, October 14th, 2011

In the past year, Google has entered into several new markets and expanded its product offerings with services like Google+ and Google Offers. Five months ago, the billion-dollar company introduced Music Beta, a cloud music service. Up until now, Music Beta had limited capabilities, but according to The New York Times, Google is in negotiations [...]

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Blue Takes Facebook’s New iPad App for a Spin

Wednesday, October 12th, 2011

iPad users and Facebook lovers rejoice! The long-awaited Facebook iPad app debuted earlier this week, and tech bloggers everywhere are feverishly penning their reviews. We’re as surprised as you are that the social networking site waited so long to release its own iPad app, having been delayed several times previously. Barring first-day bugs that left [...]

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iPhone 5: Insiders Reports Underwhelming Changes, October Launch

Monday, September 12th, 2011

In the age of instant gratification, adults are worse than kids when it comes to technology. The minute Apple graces us with the latest iPhone model, rumors start spreading about the next. Ming-Chi Kuo, an analyst for Concord Securities, told AppleInsider on Monday that the fifth-generation iPhone “will sport the same 512MB of DRAM as [...]

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