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Duracell Powermat-equipped tables are coming to select Starbucks stores in the Silicon Valley area. This expansion follows on the earlier rollout in few Starbucks stores in the Boston area. “Look around any Starbucks and you will see smartphones being placed on tables. Today these phones are losing power as they sit there – but once…
You know that we usually get fancy phones with awful specs. Well that’s not the case with the Sugar smartphone, which stands to change that (stupid) practice. Although it comes with 5.16 carats of Swarovski Gems, the Sugar smartphone packs some solid hardware under the hood. For instance, there’s a 5-inch full HD screen, MediaTek’s…
You’re probably aware of the next-gen city vehicles that will be powered by nothing but electricity. Scooters in particular will be worth watching as many citizens of densely populated areas keep struggling on their daily commutes. You also may know that the in-vehicle consoles cost a lot of money to develop, hence e-scooter makers are…
With its video service still in its infancy, Instagram has taken a note from Vine in debuting a teaser trailer for the upcoming Steve Jobs biopic on its service. Vine, the Twitter owned six-second video clip sharing service, which has been around since January, showcased a teaser for the upcoming Wolverine movie back in March.…
The popular app-based car service Uber has updated its app today on iOS and Android, allowing users to spit up the cab fare up amongst other passengers. This update comes shortly after an update that brought Google Wallet payment option to the Android version of the app. “It’s been said that 4 out of 3 people…
Do your laundry, get a haircut and get back to the gym, Android users. Tinder is upon us! Get ready to slink out of the shadows and join the beautiful, iPhone using people in their search for love (or, well, you know, something) with Tinder’s uniquely streamlined dating experience. Tinder began as an iOS at…
eBay asked two hundred people to live without apps for four days and then asked them to report on the quality of their lives four days after their app-using rights had been restored. The results, represented in the infographic below, show that smartphone owners absolutely love their apps. According to the experiment results, one-third of…
Sorella Stoute is an enterprising little girl. Just shy of 15-months, the toddler has already purchased her first car and conned her father into fixing it up for her 16th birthday. According to KOIN.com, the tale of the car-buying child starts with some innocent play time on her father’s smartphone. Rather than sticking with a learning game,…
Around mid-April, Google released an app that lets users learn about various nonprofits and charitable organizations. The app known as One Today was previously available only for those who had received invites, and is now available today for the general public. The One Today app showcases a different non-profit daily and allows users to donate…
Florida, home of the hanging chad, has earned another dubious distinction. It allegedly has become the first state in the nation to (inadvertently) ban all internet connected devices, including smartphones, says a report in The Huffington Post. The ban went into effect in April when Florida Governor Rick Scott signed a bill that prohibited the…