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You may have heard that AT&T, T-Mobile, Verizon, Discover and Barclay’s have formed a joint-venture called Isis to boost mobile payments through NFC technology but what does that really mean for you? Well, friends, we spoke with Isis today about how it could be different this time and about how your phone may finally become…
It’s been a long time coming, but you can now get the official Google Voice app for the Apple iPhone. This isn’t a major surprise because third-party apps were let back in the App Store a few months ago, but this official version is free and it has support for the iOS 3.1 and above…
Google Goggles has just launched an initiative with a few partners, including T-Mobile, Buick, Disney, Diageo (parent company to Guiness, Smirnoff, Captain Morgan, and other brands) and Delta Airlines. Basically, those companies are making their print ads recognizable to Google Goggles so that when someone takes a picture with the Android or iPhone app for…
Look, we all know that your mobile phone is probably one of the most precious things you carry around with you, along with your car keys and genitalia coming in at a close third. There are a lot of crazies out there that would love nothing more than to swipe your precious phone so they…
After months of playing nice, Adobe CEO Shantanu Narayen made it clear that his company is in a “war” with Apple over developers. Speaking at the Web 2.0 Summit, the Adobe CEO did say that the issues were being overblown by the press but he admitted that there has been friction between the companies. Apple,…
The ACCESS NetFront Life Android browser just hit the Android Market and this web browser offers some unique user interface qualities which helps it stand out from the crowd. The NetFront browser is HTML5-compliant and it’s actually pretty nice for one-handed operations. One of the coolest things about it is that it will actually tilt…
The video below, as corny as the dialogue may be, seemingly ripped right from an infomercial that plays late at night between a spot for the latest Girl Gone Wild DVD and a Snuggi you can use while at work, shows the potential of what a smartphone can do if you let it scan all…
In a perfect world there would be no need to code the same application to run on multiple platforms. Developers could spend their time and energy towards building new features, or make the features their application already have easier to discover. Sadly, that’s never going to happen. It was supposed to with HTML5, but it’s…
Mafia Maps is a new application for the iPhone users, documenting real crimes committed throughout New York over a 70 year period. From Murder Incorporated raising hell in East New York to Crazy Joe Gallo knocking heads in Red Hook to John Gotti gracing the cover of Time magazine, the decades covered here represent organized…
Evernote has issued another update to its iOS application, further making it the note taking app of choice for many iPhone, iPod Touch and iPad users. Here’s what’s new: Support for iOS 4.2, which is mostly important for iPad users as they’ll finally get multi-tasking. Image multi-select, allowing users to include more than a single…