Forecast.io is a new Web app that works flawlessly on Web as well as on your mobile devices. Simply point your browser to http://forecast.io to use. On the mobile devices, after visiting the site, you can save it as bookmark on your homescreen. The Web app can keep your locations across launches and does a ...
With Windows 8, Microsoft pushes users toward the use of modern UI, where each app is taking the whole screen real estate regardless of how much of the screen they really need. In reality, most Windows 8 desktop users still live in old Desktop environment, thus ignoring the new designed apps. Stardock, a ...
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 ...
ChargeBite is a small device containing 3 x 30-pin connectors that you carry on your keychain. In case that your battery is depleted unexpectedly and you happen to have few friends with iPhones around. They can spare some juice to get you going without the need to find an available electric outlet. It ...
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 ...
Apple users have been plagued with several security issues lately. But the best way is to proactively secure your AppleID, especially when it ties with your credit card information. Apple just opened the two-step verification or authentication to all user. You have to apply and wait three days to activated it. Essentially, once ...
Verizon is taking back the messaging control with a new app called Messages, which runs across Android, iOS (iPad only) and Web App. Users can sign up with your Verizon account with your own phone number, which is used to identify you. Messages app supports text, photos, maps, etc.. All messages stay on Verizon’s Cloud ...
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 ...
Smartphones have offered up apps for just about any and every activity that can possibly be done from a hand-held device. And now a relatively unknown digital currency, created and exchanged solely between individuals, can not only be stored with an app, but potentially be used as your primary medium for commerce. What is ...
Google just introduced Keep, a Web service and an Android app that allows users to create note or list to store in Google Docs, the company Cloud storage service. Web users can go to http://drive.google.com/keep and start writing note or list, which is a note with bullocks for more than one items. The contents ...
In order to make Kindle ecosystem more ubiquitous, Amazon has just made the “Send to Kindle” buttons available to Web publishers to add to their contents. When reader click on the button, it sends the contents to their Kindle to read later. The button is an alternative to existing solutions including Instapaper and Pocket ...
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 ...
Today, Twitter released its full touch screen app for Microsoft Windows 8 and Windows RT. The app works on both Intel X86, X64 and ARM based machines. The app features four familiar sections: Home, Connect, Discover and Me along with the support of Windows 8/RT specific such Charm bar and Live tile. The Charms ...
Facebook today announced, the service starts rolling out a new format of your timeline. Unlike the News Feed and the Social Graph Search.; the new Timeline format will come to you whether you like it or not. The rollout will be completed within the next two weeks The new design will show your ...
NetFlix, the movie/TV shows streaming service is rolling out the Social feature to let subscribers share what they are watching, suggestions, ratings, recommendations, etc.. from their friends and family on Netflix. Optionally users can also link to their Facebook account for larger reach. Netflix users can see what their friends have watched by ...
This morning, Larry Page, Google CEO announced the company replaces Android’s chief Andy Rubin by Sundar Pichai, the company’s head of Chrome OS and Apps will now have Android under his wings. Andy Rubin will move to a different position within Google. Andy Rubin came over to Google from the Danger Inc. acquisition. Up ...
Modern browsers offer convenient way to increase your productivity with tabs to keep your Web pages active. Unfortunately it comes with a cost; the more tabs you have the more CPU and memory carved out form your computer. OneTab is a cleaver extension for Chrome browser that basically with a single click, it closes ...