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Google Teams Up With MasterCard and Citigroup to Extend Android NFC Penetration
Looking to push forward as an innovator and bring the digital wallet to smartphones everywhere, Google Inc. has plans to team up with MasterCard and Citigroup to complete the use of Near-Field Communication for financial transactions—the technology, already embedded in Android phones and enabled through recent OS updates, will revolutionize contact-less point-of-sale payments. And, according ...
Look Out PlayStation Move, Homebrew Hacker Hooks Kinect to PS3
In what must be a particularly funny maneuver in Sony’s eyes, a hacker has managed to make the Microsoft Kinect work with a PlayStation 3. In a video demo he’s shown that he’s managed to get the peripheral to operate on the PS3 to the point where he can log into his account, navigate the ...
NPD Group Believes Shuttering LimeWire has Caused Dip in American P2P Piracy
An NPD Group report is right now making the rounds touting an apparent decline in the illicit use of P2P networks to pirate music since the shutdown of LimeWire last October. The study cites a drop in overall P2P piracy from 16% in 2007 to 9% in 2010—among other statistics—which seems to be a strange ...
MocoSpace Announces First Recipients in HTML5 Mobile Game Developer Fund
Last month, MocoSpace—an HTML5 mobile gaming platform—announced a fund of $1 million to help accelerate the development of HTML5 games for smartphones. The fund would then become a jumpstart for a select few developers who wanted to make their way into mobile gaming space. Developers were invited to submit existing games as well as game ...
Visualization: Big Data’s Engine of Discovery and Communication
Anyone who has taken a photography class—or even a presentation class—has heard the constant adage, “A picture is worth a thousand words.” It’s a revelation about how people process information conveyed to them and what we’ve learned is that sometimes pictures can provide faster than a thousand words; but it’s only useful when the producer ...
Angry Birds Rio Hits the Amazon App Store Like a Ton of Feathers (Get it Free: Only Today)
A big hearty welcome back to everybody’s favorite feathered Rube Goldberg engines of destruction and their slingshot in Angry Birds Rio. Amazon.com has just opened an alternative marketplace for Android apps with their very own app store and it’s doing insanely well. In fact, Angry Birds, Angry Birds Seasons, and Angry Birds Rio have already ...
RIM Announces Playbook Pricing Starting at $499
With the iPad 2 released to the market as of April 19th RIM has decided to make certain their offering remains price competitive so they’re releasing their Playbook tablet at a similar price: $499. According to an article published on the Gadgetwise blog of the New York Times, this will make the Playbook the first ...
AT&T Announces Glasses-Free 3D Smartphone as Nintendo Prepares US Release of 3DS
It looks as if AT&T has decided to get in on the 3D action along with Nintendo—who have announced U.S. the arrival of the 3DS gaming platform this month—by revealing their own phone with a 3D display: the Thrill 4G. It will also support a glasses-free screen that permits viewers to see three-dimensional images without ...
Analysts, Watchdogs Dubious About ‘Unthinkable’ Merger Between AT&T and T-Mobile
The wireless broadband industry is currently reeling at the thought of AT&T merging with their long-time competitor T-Mobile USA. Such a move would certainly change the very landscape of the U.S. wireless market and will rock the foundations of broadband and consumer expectations from the three remaining biggest players. Analysts have already begun to identify ...
Verizon iPhone 4 Grabbed 4.5% of the iPhone Market in 2 Weeks
According to a recently released report by Millennial Media the Verizon iPhone has reached a significant portion of the market in just two weeks. The wireless carrier has proudly announced that their out-the-door sales mere hours after the debut of the phone also went extremely well, putting them on the map vs. AT&T who have ...