After a customer backlash, Verizon Wireless on Friday dropped a plan to start charging $2 for every payment subscribers make over the phone or online with their credit or debit cards.
Will the Internet ever get tired of animals playing with touchscreens? First there was the lizard that played Ant Crusher with its tongue — now it’s a cat that plays the popular game Fruit Ninja.
Sure, social media sounds like something that increases quality of life, but two recent stories out of the U.K. demonstrate just how easily the opposite could be true: Facebook apparently has the power to not only end your marriage, but also get you fired. Be very afraid.
Siri for Android is here! At least that’s what more than a 1,000 Android owners thought as they downloaded the app from the Android Market.
Did Amazon.com really try and extort a higher commission from a small company selling Kindle accessories and then, when the company refused to pay up, bury the company’s products deep within Amazon’s labyrinthine structure?
It sounds like Verizon’s looking to ring in 2012 with a bill-pay fee for anyone who doesn’t switch to automatic bill payments, electronic checks, or some other form of payment that doesn’t involve single bill paying.
The Tweet Smarter blog has released a chart of 2011′s most popular subjects in terms of how many tweets they produced per second, and the leader by a wide margin is the December 13 Japanese television screening of Hayao Miyazaki’s animated movie Castle in the Sky, which resulted in a staggering 25,088 tweets per second.
An Internet company has sued one of its former employees, saying the worker cost the company thousands of dollars in lost business when he took 17,000 Twitter followers with him when he left the firm.
The iPad is a great tablet, but you know what’s even better? Competition. Unfortunately, there wasn’t much of that in 2011, as Apple’s rivals rushed out clunky, expensive tablets based on Android Honeycomb, which itself was buggy and short on proper tablet apps. Next year will be better — I hope.
Think a regular New Year’s Eve hangover is bad? Imagine how you’ll feel waking up with a splitting headache only to discover you’ve lost your phone and there are 29 comments under a photo of you spraying cheap champagne while singing ABBA’s “Dancing Queen.” Save yourself the trouble by taking a few tech-savvy precautions before heading out on Saturday night.
As an owner of Samsung’s Galaxy S II, I’ve taken an interest in a series of rumors about Samsung’s next flagship phone, the Galaxy S III. There’s not much to chew on at the moment, aside from the requisite spec boosts and a promise of an official announcement in February. So in the vacuum of solid information, I present to you my five wishes for Samsung’s Galaxy S III.
