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Folks behind the mobile creation platform ShoutEm are teaming-up with GarysGuide for SXSW 2012, launching the “Austin Party Guide” app to offer the event attendees a “definitive guide to SXSW 2012 parties.” Available as a free download for iOS and Android devices, the application features a categorized events schedule that further relies on location information…
NFC-based contactless payments have been around for the last couple of years but are still waiting to reach the tipping point. According to the latest report by Juniper Research, these transactions will reach $74 billion by 2015, with folks using the technology to pay for goods in-store and as transport tickets. Furthermore, the research company…
If you’re like me, you probably think the Asus Padfone is one of the best devices ever made. Not all of us need a tablet all the time (quite the contrary), and Asus’ baby offers a great way to have both a smartphone and tablet in a single device. The problem, however, is that at…
NVIDIA keeps giving developers extra love at its Tegra Developer Zone. Lately, they’ve spread the word about 4 new apps, not all of which are readily available for download. Here’s what they got: Splashtop THD – the special Tegra 3 optimized version of Splashtop will make streaming content from your desktop to the tablet much…
I’m on the ground here in rainy Austin for the SXSW festival and I made a beeline for the Samsung blogger lounge because Rovio was showing off Angry Birds Space for the first time. You know we had to see how these angry birds would fare in zero gravity. Rovio has pumped out a lot…
All the signs have been pointing to a March 18th release date for the Lumia 900, the flagship device in Nokia’s Windows Phone Lumia series on its way to AT&T. A placeholder page on the AT&T site still has a secretive coming soon placeholder for some device, long after its new iPad page has gone…
As is customary with preorders of hot new Apple devices, customers who waited a few days to pull the trigger on purchasing Apple’s new iPad will have to wait a little longer to get their hands on the device. Customers who visit the online Apple store are being greeted with March 19th as the new…
Vocre will soon be releasing version 2.0 of its app to the iOS App Store and with it comes what I consider a revolutionary new feature: live language translation during video calls. It’s one of those futuristic things you think about as a child and it will soon be accessible to anyone with an iPhone,…
2011 was a turbulent year for Research in Motion as the maker of the BlackBerry watched its market cap rapidly diminish, thanks to poor PlayBook sells and overall lack of innovation. This year started off just as bad with the loss of its two top executives, and the hiring of a new leader chosen from within…
Nimblebit’s Tiny Tower has received critical acclaim by mostly everyone who has played the game and was even a featured title on the App Store a number of times, but the company can only build their success tower so high before they need to move on to their next project. The Game’s Developer Conference was…