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Google Admits to Acquisition of Plannr, “Everything Is Best”
Google has gone ahead and bought startup “Everything Is Best” and all of their assets, which includes a product dubbed scheduling for hipsters, Plannr. The company, run by Ben Eidelson and Jason Pardo, also offers several other mobile apps including ridepenguin, LoveTap, and SheetIt. However, Plannr appears to have made the most splash in the ...
Intel, Microsoft, and eBay Promote Support for Upcoming Internet Privacy Law
Legislation is slowly moving to catch up with growing anxiety amidst the public at large about privacy on the Internet and the collection of personally defining data by corporations. A new bill, dubbed the “BEST PRACTICES Act” (H.R.5777), introduced recently by U.S. Rep. Bobby Rush (D-Illinois) would help address some of these concerns. The bill ...
Apple Plans CDMA iPhone to be Carried by Verizon
It looks like Verizon subscribers may soon be able to use iPhones with their service and those who only use AT&T for their iPhone coverage may be able to jump ship. Apple has announced plans to start production on CDMA smartphones in their flagship line that will allow users to connect to Verizon. According to ...
Cisco and Jawbone Introduce a Wireless Headset for Cellular and Office Phones
Cisco Systems has made a pact with Jawbone to combine their expertise and engage with the problem of switching between headsets for use with cellular phones and office phones. The Wall Street Journal has the scoop on the story, The companies on Thursday unveiled a headset that allows users to connect simultaneously from their cellphones ...
IPass to Open 150,000 Wi-Fi Hotspots for Android Phones
With their new app for Android phones, iPass expects to give consumers a choice in how they connect to the Internet. The service has rolled out with tens of thousands of hotspots around the world, and the app allows secure access to all of them for a fairly low monthly fee. The driving force behind ...
Mobile Phone Picture Check Cashing Coming to Paypal
This gimmick has been out for a short period of time now from Chase bank QuickDeposit. The app enables people to take two photographs of a check written out to them—front and back—then submit and the bank deposits the check as if it had come through a teller or ATM. The entire process shown in ...
Cisco Headed in the Right Direction with Affordable Consumer Level Telepresence?
The networking-giant Cisco has made a strange move recently in their announcement that they will be offering technologically elegant telepresence devices to the home consumer. This seems a little odd to me because don’t we essentially already have that for anyone who happens to own a computer with a built in webcam or a cell ...
Nintendo’s Earnings Face Downward Spiral, 3DS Game Handheld is No Savior
For the past three years, Nintendo has been an unstoppable juggernaut of financial resolve in the face of falling revenues across their sector—but now it looks like their multi-year streak has come to an end. Even as of last year, the videogame giant saw their profits slipping, and this year they’ve slashed their fiscal year ...
Apple vs Nokia Patent Battle Goes International
Apple has moved to begin a lawsuit against Nokia in Britain in what seems to be the next stage in a patent battle between the two companies. The two technology firms have been locking horns since October 2009 when Nokia sued Apple in the United States over patent infringement. From an update article on the ...
New iOS for Apple TV Firmware Released, Promptly Decrypted
In living proof that as long as there’s a thriving geek fan culture for a device, it will never be long for the new version to be jailbroken: behold iOS 4.1. Most people are perfectly willing to let their devices do the talking for them, accept what’s given, and just run sanctioned software. But there ...