Bloomberg is reporting that Google and Sprint will be launching a contact-less payment system this Thursday based on near-field communication, or NFC, technology.
Google’s Nexus S 4G handset that’s available from Sprint already has NFC technology built into it, so most of the heavy lifting needs to be done on the retail side with …
Sonar is kind of like a good party host: It introduces you to whoever else is in the room by leveraging what you have in common.
According to their mission statement: “Sonar is a mobile application that helps you learn about and connect with likeminded people nearby.” It works by geotracking your current location à la Foursquare …
If all goes to plan, next year’s Academy Awards will be more up-to-date and allow voters the chance to see more of the nominated movies before choosing their favorites – or, perhaps, things might just go horribly wrong, and some entirely unexpected choices might walk away with Oscars that they didn’t actually win.
The uncertainty …
Apple has just cleared the half-billion mark* for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch apps available in the app store. Whoa, whoa, whoa—asterisk?!
That’s half a billion apps that Apple has approved since the App Store launched back in July of 2008, though, as Fortune points out, “Through attrition, replacement and withdrawal, [the] number …
Twitter has reportedly bought TweetDeck for an estimated $40 million.
London-based TweetDeck has enjoyed huge global success with its Twitter software, first for desktop computers and later for a variety of mobile devices.
TweetDeck appeals to hardcore tweeters who spend lots of their time on the social network. It makes it easy to …
Are American audiences quietly realizing that they don’t actually care about 3D? Hidden in the box office returns for this weekend’s Pirates of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides is a clue that, yes, that might actually be happening after all. Maybe.
Deadline is blaming what was said to be an underwhelming – although only in context of …
When Glenn Beck first announced that he was leaving his daily Fox News show later this year, millions of people were naturally curious about his next venture. But the country’s most controversial talk show host has decided that he will do the next most logical thing to hosting a show: start an online discount website.
Yes, that’s …
The iPad may be the mobile device that most magazine publishers are enthusiastically embracing, but it’s possible that they’re moving in the wrong direction: Female magazine readers, it seems, may prefer Barnes & Noble’s Nook Color.
The New York Times reports that Nook sales of magazines like Cosmopolitan, Women’s Health and O, The …
Throughout the early sixties, the Newport Folk Festival provided a spotlight for folk royalty like Joan Baez, Johnny Cash, and Howlin’ Wolf, under the assumed context that they’d uphold the festival’s acoustic roots.
So when a young, defiantly-haired Bob Dylan—who had previously established himself as the festival’s darling in ’63 …
A lot of people love their cars. But would you friend yours?
Most of today’s cars are as much computer-on-wheels as they are transportation. Toyota and Salesforce.com have decided that if cars are going to be smart, they should be smart enough to talk to us.
Wait, though: not like KITT in Knight Rider. Not that sort of …
What do you do when you’re one of the most popular people on Twitter? Launch your own Twitter desktop app, of course. That’s just what Ashton Kutcher (aplusk) has done with his new “A.Plus” application.
Available for both PC and Mac computers, the application is basically a desktop Twitter client running on Adobe’s AIR platform that …
As if it weren’t enough of a reason to freak out that Lady Gaga’s much-anticipated album Born This Way is out today–on a Monday, even though most albums come out on Tuesdays–Amazon.com has sweetened the deal.
Amazon’s been doing $3.99 sales on MP3 versions of selected new albums for a bit, which ensures them high placement on the …
