An interesting new app from Café Amazon, a popular chain of coffee shops in Thailand, that tracks your eye movements to trigger a loud alarm as wake up call if it detects you are about falling asleep at the steering wheel. It then gives directions to the nearest Cafe Amazon to get a caffeine fix ...
Today Google released its unified messaging called Hangouts for iOS, Android and the Web with Google+ integration. Hangouts brings one-on-one and group conversations to life with photos, emoji, and video calls for free. The sender and receiver of this service are required to have the app installed. The app shows if your friends are on ...
Nokia just unveiled its new flagship Windows Phone, the Nokia Lumia 925 featuring a more business like form factor in white, silver and black aluminum casing. The aluminum case stylishly wraps around a dark black Gorilla glass protected 4.5” OLED display at 1280 x 768 resolution. The 925 appears first in Europe but paves ...
Disney Story is a free iOS app that lets users share a photo/video collection from their iPhone with friends and family. The app either lets you select your own photos or it can sort photos from the camera roll by event or moment and helps you transform them into stories that are ...
Microsoft knows that apps are very important for the survival of its mobile platform, even thought the company has tried to lure more developers and the app store now has over 150,000 apps, some popular apps are still sorely missing notably Instagram and Google products. Instagram is acquired by Facebook and since Microsoft invested ...
The last minute hotel booking service HotelTonight offers a convenient way to make your last minute travel arrangement in the US and Europe with unsold rooms at great discount with an iOS and an Android app. The latest version on the iPhone, introduces a new feature that lets hotel guests snap photos and share ...
The power of smartphone is brought in to car in countless ways, whether for navigation, assisted driving or audio entertainment. Automakers are realizing the potential benefits and many efforts are underway for better integration. Until a better solution arrives, a secured mount for your smartphone is an absolute necessity, since fiddling with your handheld is ...
Your current cell phone plan works well, but you have to wonder if the grass is greener on the other side. Or maybe your smartphone is just not as attractive as it used to be, and you want to jump ship to a new carrier with a phone promotion. Knowing what each major cell ...
Announced at the 2013 Shanghai Auto show, Volkswagen will make available its new iBeetle car models. which features an integrated iPhone docking station and a companion app. Once the iPhone is placed in the docking station mounted at the center of dashboard, all iPhone functions can be used in the Beetle; the iPhone can ...
Remember when being at work meant being stuck at your desk? When being "in meetings all day" meant sitting in a stuffy meeting room, staring at projections? Thankfully those days are long over. With the proliferation in recent years not just of smartphones and tablet computers but their associated apps, business is increasingly going ...
This Friday, T-Mobile will debut its iPhone offering in the US along with its “Un-carrier” plan, which requires a down payment of $99 and 24 x $20 installments for the iPhone 5 purchase without contract. Users are still required to pay the data plan on top of the hardware. To sweeten the deal, the ...
Almost every smartphone demo and commercial features the phone streaming some type of TV show or movie. It seems like a match made in heaven. If there's anything consumers love more than innovative gadgets, it's television. It may come as a surprise, then, that as of April 2012, just 20 percent of users reported ...
Glympse, the mobile app available on iOS, Android, Windows Phone, Blackberry, that provides location sharing with anyone for a specified period of time. Glympse just signed a partnership with BMW Group, which will see it provide mobile location sharing for drivers with BMW Apps-ready vehicles and MINI Connected. Glympse already had similar integration with Ford ...
Flipboard, the popular social news magazine just released the version 2.0 for the iPad and iPhone. The online magazine that let users pick and choose topics of interest or prolific sources from partners. The contents then are automatically re-arranged to magazine-like format with enticing photos and text. The version 2.0 makes the search easy ...
T-Mobile, the smallest mobile phone carrier just announced its “Un_carrier” plan. The new plan is aiming to get away fro the traditional 2-year contract with subsidized pricing. The new plan will require the customer to either pay all upfront or a down payment plus installments. Customer will own the device as long as they ...
According to Bloomberg, Apple has just acquired WiFiSLAM, a start-up company based in Palo-Alto, California. WiFiSLAM is specialized in location-based technology that lets smartphone pinpoint its location and friend’s location in real-time to 2.5m accuracy using only ambient WiFi signals that are already present in buildings. It can work as indoor GPS such shopping ...
Windows 8 phone platform welcomes a major popular app, Pandora, the music streaming station that lets user pick a song and the service will stream a playlist containing similar tunes, or just simply play popular tunes by genres, has come to Microsoft mobile platform. Unlike on other mobile platforms. Pandora on Windows 8 ...
While the fight of high-end smartphones took the center stage last week among the Samsung Galaxy S4. HTC One, Sony quietly added two new Android phones to its Xperia line-up. The mid-range Xperia SP and an affordable Xperia L. Sony’s Experia Z and ZL occupy the top end. The Xperia ZL features a 4.6” ...
The most anticipated smartphone of first half 2013 has been unveiled. The 5” Samsung Galaxy S4 was introduced today at Radio City Music Hall in New York City, with similar and slightly larger form factor as its predecessor, which was a huge commercial success with over 40 million units sold worldwide. The new device ...
Google today released a new version of Google Maps for iPhone. The version 1.1.6.5479 brings essentially two convenient features including search in Google Contacts for destination address and the inclusion of a local business search bar. Users now can choose distance units between based on location, Miles or Kilometers. If you are ...