TechnologizerSmartphones
Square’s Card Case app is pretty nifty: It lets iPhone users pay for stuff at over 40,000 retail locations without even removing their phone from their pocket. It may be a sneak peek of the way we’ll all eventually pay for …
TechnologizerSmartphones
[UPDATE: As The Verge’s Nathan Ingraham reports, Microsoft’s Ben Rudolph has a laptop, a phone and an apology for Skattertech’s Sahas Katta. Controversy over!]
Microsoft is holding a “Smoked by Windows Phone” contest which is …
Say hello to Robojelly, a robot that moves like a jellyfish, expanding and contracting its synthetic muscles to pump out water.
The most impressive thing about it, however, is how it powers itself — by converting the …
Groupon’s “Reserve” daily deal program, which focuses on fancy tasting menus and other luxury offerings, is spreading to its fourth U.S. city, Los Angeles.
via Groupon Reserve Daily Deals Offers Discounts for Luxury, …
When the story broke about some employers asking potential employees for their Facebook passwords in job interviews, the public was understandably upset. Apparently, so was Facebook.
This morning, the company’s chief privacy …
The new iPad’s been in the media crosshairs all week for alleged battery-related problems. First, we heard the system was notably toastier than its predecessor — a problem naturally exacerbated by using it while the battery …
Of all the old-school games I’ve imagined someone porting to Apple’s iPad, Baldur’s Gate falls somewhere between StarCraft and Ninja Gaiden Black near the bottom of the “doable” list. Not because I don’t have fond recollections …
As someone who doesn’t regularly use Spotify, I often look at the streaming music service with envy. Spotify seems to be making all the right moves, from its U.S. media blitz that made it the center of attention last summer, to …
DuckDuckGo’s commitment to user privacy was more or less an afterthought. If you aren’t familiar with the site, it’s a search engine with a decidedly spare aesthetic that doesn’t log IP addresses or record your search …
TechnologizerComputers
Commodore’s Amiga computer may have been the most dazzling PC of the 1980s. It certainly had the most fanatical following. (I was one of the fanatics.) And now it’s back. Sort of. Okay, not really.
What’s new is a machine …
TechnologizerTablets
In 2010 Apple released its first iPad. It was far from the industry’s first tablet computer, but it was the one that defined the category. Its successor, 2011’s iPad 2, was so thin and light that it reset people’s expectations …
Apple fans can be a little crazy in their devotion to anything with an “i” tacked onto the front of it, but a new survey shows just how far that cult-like following stretches: Nearly half of people who use Apple devices would …