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Placecast unveiled an interesting solution to mobile payments today called ShopAlerts Wallet. It’s an HTML5 mobile web app that consumers can use to find local offers from various brands, plus process payments and store credit cards, tickets, and other payment information. ShopAlerts Wallet isn’t a direct app that users can navigate too. Instead, Placecast makes…
Touchscreen technology developer FlatFrog Laboratories has closed a 20 million EUR funding round led by Intel Capital, with the backing by Invus. You may think we already have/use awesome touchscreen technology, but wait until you read this. By using algorithms to track light travelling inside the cover glass of a screen, FlatFrog’s Planar Scatter Detection…
If TELUS can offer LTE services, why wouldn’t its sub-brand, Koodo Mobile, do the same. That will apparently happen pretty soon, with HowardForums member “newdad” picking up speeds of “14mb down and 12mb” when hooking his unlocked Galaxy Note up in Aurora. Those are not “full LTE speeds” of 75Mbps, but TELUS’ network usually delivers…
As part of the plan to kill its iDEN network and replace it with the new CDMA-based push-to-talk service, Sprint announced that Direct Connect service is now available in its 1xRTT coverage and roaming areas. Up until this point, Direct Connect customers could only use the push-to-talk services in areas with 3G EV-DO coverage. No…
For the past week or so, there have been rumblings of Sprint working on its own NFC-based mobile payment service. Well, the folks over at Android Central has come across some snapshots of what The Now Network has planned. In the screenshots obtained by the tech site, you can see support from the likes of…
NVIDIA Tegra 3-powered in-car infotainment system isn’t good enough for Audi – they also want to provide its customers with on-the-road connectivity. To make that happen, the car company is teaming-up with Sierra Wireless to use their AirPrime embedded wireless modules and make the whole car connected to a 3G/4G network. Still in the development and…
Verizon Wireless announced its plans to rollout more LTE service in large number of smaller markets. Big Red will launch its LTE network in Jefferson City and the Lake of the Ozarks region in Missouri. Moreover, VZ is also soon launching LTE in Bedford, Pa.; Jacksonville, New Barn, and Burlington, N.C.; Seymour and Columbus, Ind.;…
Another display news though not as nearly as interesting as the previous one. This time we have Sharp saying that it’s upgrading its current displays to make them slimmer and clearer. Moreover, the Japanese company’s new technology, called IGZO, will also make future screens more efficient, reducing power consumption along the way. The best part…
If you think you’ve seen it all when it comes to touchscreens, think again. Japanese NTT Docomo and Fujitsu demoed the technology that could potentially change everything. Their two-side OLED screen prototype is not only transparent but can accept your touch inputs from both sides. For instance, one side could be used for dealing with…
Virgin Mobile is releasing a 4G hotspot and USB dongle that will work with the carrier’s $35 unlimited data plans. Toss in the fact that as with anything on Virgin Mobile, there’s no contracts involved, this is definitely a deal worth checking out. In early May, Virgin Mobile announced that it would start selling the HTC…