According to a document circulating to partners, Google Wallet is likely to be announced at some point today.
Google Wallet is an app that gives smartphone owners the ability to “make your phone your wallet”—at least if you own Sprint’s Nexus S 4G, the only NFC-enabled Android phone available for the service’s limited launch here in …
Despite yesterday’s official announcement of Google+’s API, a few voices across the web have been quick to point out the honeymoon period with the social network is probably over.
But from what I’m seeing in my G+ Stream, it seems that the popular Hangout feature is alive and well. It doesn’t exactly take a rocket scientist to figure …
On Wednesday I wrote about a digital Key Ring Rewards app that puts your membership cards (grocery, gym, etc.) onto your smartphone, cutting down on the amount of plastic you’d carry around every day. But what if I told you that soon you might be able to do the same with your physical door keys too?
New door key software—currently …
Another day, another fresh stack of iPhone 5 rumors. We’ve parsed through all the hearsay to bring you the crème de la crème in wild-eyed Apple speculation.
Maybe it’ll have a bigger screen
Unwire.hk posted a few leaked photos of the iPhone 5’s would-be screen protector, which Mac Rumors and a few other blogs picked up on.
Amazon just announced that their Groupon-like local deals service—Amazon Local—will soon be coming to their ad-supported Kindles when the devices are idle. Smart, especially when you consider that the devices are already synced with your Amazon account and you won’t need to manually enter a credit card number for each purchase.
As …
This morning, word spread that Foursquare’s anticipated push notification API would be announced very soon. Co-founder Dennis Crowley confirmed the news via Twitter, adding, “If you are building on the 4SQ API this is a big deal.”
Betabeat reports:
Foursquare’s magical tool that will allow developers to build apps that can remind
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My key ring used to hold a Walgreens card, a Duane Reade card, something indiscernibly faded and a membership to 24-Hour Fitness that made me feel pretty terrible about myself whenever I cried softly into a cheeseburger. It was a sad, plastic lei that did little more than bog down my pockets, jutting out uncomfortably in all the wrong …
Whoa, boy: Facebook surprised us all this afternoon when they announced on their blog that they were adding a whole bunch of improvements to your friends lists: automatically generated “smart lists,” the ability to separate people into “close friends” and “acquaintances,” and a better suggestions mechanism with the ability to control who …
During the Mobile Forward Future event in Seattle, HTC America acting president Martin Fichter walked onstage and told the audience that kids don’t think Apple’s iPhone is “cool” anymore—according to the dorm mates of his daughter at Reed College in Portland, Oregon, anyway. He notes that he saw plenty of college students carrying …
According to a new survey by Nielsen, the most used app by men as indicated by metered device usage is—drumroll, please—Google Maps.
In taking a look at how many Android owners used an app in the past 30 days, the study found that 77.1% of males used Google Maps (disregarding the requisite Android Market app).
(MORE: Guess How …
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Question: My lease is up at the end of the month and I’d ideally like to relocate closer to my job. Craigslist is great, but I really wish there was a website that could help me picture where my new apartment would be in …