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You will choose Plastc over Apple Pay, and here’s why
Apple Inc. wants to revolutionize the retail buying experience with its contactless, iPhone-based, Apple Pay service. Plastc Inc. has introduced a competing payment solution that doesn’t reinvent the wheel, which might actually be an advantage. Plastc looks just like a traditional credit card, but it packs an unprecedented amount of technology and features into the ...
Microsoft is thinking outside the Xbox with RoomAlive
With some analysts predicting the demise of game consoles, Microsoft Corp. is hedging its bets by thinking outside the Xbox. Microsoft Research recently published a video demonstration of its interactive RoomAlive project. It’s the successor to last year’s IllumiRoom concept, and it brings several interesting new features to the immersive gaming experience. IllumiRoom paired a ...
Facebook promises to be more careful when toying with your emotions
Unlike the LGBT community, the 600,000 plus users who were tormented by Facebook Inc.’s emotional contagion experiment were not given an apology. The world’s largest social network did, however, provide guidelines on how future experiments would be conducted. Earlier this year, Facebook published the results of its emotional contagion experiment. The experiment was conducted in ...
Ebola is in Dallas, and the contact trace race is on
The patient who was quarantined at Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas has now tested positive for Ebola, making Dallas, Texas the first city in the nation to have uncontrolled exposure to the deadly virus. It’s now up to the Center of Disease Control disease detectives to prevent this exposure from turning into a full ...
Microsoft teleports straight to Windows 10: Here’s 5 things to know
Pulling back the curtains today, Microsoft Corp. revealed its next operating system. Much of what was shown was expected, but the software giant did have a few surprises up its sleeve. Here are the top things you need to know. 1) It’s WAY better than Windows 8, incrementally speaking. What comes after eight? It’s not ...
Facebook knows why you just bought that sex toy
Facebook, Inc. is relaunching Atlas, the ad service it purchased from Microsoft Corp. at the beginning of the year, and its new and improved capabilities could prove to be a threat to Google Inc.’s online ad market dominance. The announcement is expected to be made this week , during the 11th annual Advertising Week conference ...
Pockets are for wallets, not iPhones: Issues with Apple Pay, #bendgate emerge
iPhone users are reporting major software and hardware issues just a week after the release of iOS 8, the iPhone 6, and the iPhone 6 Plus. Apple Inc. pushed out its first iOS 8 software update on Wednesday, but some users who upgraded are regretting it. iOS 8.0.1 was supposed to fix several minor bugs, ...
Facebook’s fleet of jumbo drones will take flight by 2015
Facebook Inc. is revealing more information about its unmanned aerial vehicle ambitions. The social networking giant plans to have a fleet of drones flying overhead at all times, in the future. They won’t be delivering products, like the Amazon Prime Air express package drones that Amazon.com, Inc. is trying to get approved by the Federal ...
BlackBerry’s Passport is a bargain-priced, square phablet for the enterprise
There’s fantastic news out of Waterloo, Ontario, for those of you feeling nostalgic for physical keyboards on mobile phones. BlackBerry Ltd. will begin selling the uniquely shaped Passport smartphone on Wednesday. Originally announced during BlackBerry’s quarterly earnings call in June, the struggling device maker designed the Passport specifically to appeal to enterprise users. The 4.5 ...
Sony eyes developers with sensor-filled Google Glass alternative
Sony has a message for mobile app developers: Wearable technology isn’t exclusively for wrists. It can also work pretty well when worn on the face. The Japanese electronics giant is releasing the software development kit (SDK) for its SmartEyeglass concept today. Hardware kits will be available for developers to purchase, early next year. Unlike the crowded ...