Imagine if American Express and PayPal had a baby. That’s what American Express’s online payment system, Serve, basically is. Well, sort of.
Like PayPal, users can link their banks or credit cards to Serve, and receive funds from a linked account or a Serve user with just a few pieces of information. Riding on the trend of
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Get ready to experience the National Mall like you’ve never heard it before. Bluebrain, two experimental musicians based out of D.C., have created a location based album that actually syncs with the sights at the famous D.C. landmark.
How does “The National Mall” album work? The two brothers behind Bluebrain created an app that uses …
Nearly a year after Microsoft scrapped its ambitious Courier tablet concept, a couple of iPad app developers are trying to keep the dream alive.
They’ve proposed an iPad app, called Taposé, that would realize the Courier’s digital journal and scrapbook features. Users would be able to import images, maps and addresses from other apps …
The film festival started by one of cinema’s greatest actors will give special focus to the next game from the makers of last year’s hit Red Dead Redemption.
Announced today in a statement from Rockstar Games, Robert DeNiro’s Tribeca Film Festival has made L.A. Noire an official selection of the two-week celebration in downtown …
Despite the money, recognition and freedom from everyday drudgery that comes from being a celebrity, it’s not all parties and paparazzi for the famous. Occasionally, misinformation and outright lies spring up and often stick around, without their ability to respond–until now.
Introducing ICorrect, a site that lets famous people set …
The latest chapter in the long melodrama that is Metacritic’s dysfunctional relationship with the video games medium came to a swift end last night. The review-aggregating site announced the end of their Career Score feature, which had been assigning an average score to prominent developers based on the scores of games they’d worked on. …
Acer announced the Iconia laptop back in November. Winter set in, months passed, and here we are in late March with the Acer Iconia 6120 priced at $1200 and shipping to retailers next month.
The UPS man dropped the Iconia off at my place this morning and after an awkward exchange wherein he joked that he didn’t think it’d be safe to …
Should you find yourself in need of an extra G, Verizon Wireless has you covered with the first mobile hotspot for its 4G LTE network.
The Samsung 4G LTE Mobile Hotspot goes on sale in Verizon stores starting March 31. It connects up to five Wi-Fi-enabled devices at speeds of 5 Mbps to 12 Mbps for downloads, and 2 Mbps to 5 Mbps for …
The conflict between television networks and cable providers over whether or not existing contracts allow for iPad and VoD distribution is about to get a lot more interesting. Following network complaints about Time Warner Cable’s new iPad app, which gives TWC subscribers access to 32 channels on the device, TWC launched a new website …
If you have a Twitter account, there’s a very good chance that you are one of the millions of tiny dots on this chart.
That’s because Rob Weir has been watching Twitter’s publicly available data since 2009, patiently aggregating it so he had a huge dataset to work with.
Then he began making graphs, plotting individual Twitter …
Last week, we reported on an experiment that proved how bad social networks like Facebook and Twitter were at protecting their users from malware, but it turns out user error might be just as big a problem. A new study claims that a majority of users are unaware that suspicious posts on Facebook could pose a security risk–and that most …
