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Auto manufacturer Volkswagen has embraced mobile technology in a major way. It recently unveiled a travelogue app for journeys in its cars. The company’s even gone so far as to partner with Apple on the upcoming iPhone ready iBeetle model of its Beetle. Now the company will be unveiling an iOS app that uses Augmented Reality to…
Apparently Apple underestimated the power of bling. Its gold iPhone 5S is already out of stock. Space Gray and Silver are still available. The demand for the gold iPhone 5S has exploded, with the blinged out smart phone going for as much as $10 Grand on eBay! Until Apple can get the second round of…
iOS 7 is full of surprises. A refreshed and modern user interface, great new features like Control Center, and tons of cute animations to top it off. Well, one of the ‘surprises’ in iOS 7 that we’re just hearing about is the fact that those cute animation are actually making some users feel vertiginous. Over on…
It’s an annoyance that anyone who flies has to deal with, powering down your devices at take off and landing. The polite but firm voice of the flight attendant telling you “All the way off, please!”. It’s a pain more than ever now, as most of us travel with electronics to entertain us, or to…
We’ve seen all manner of retro accessories for the iPhone. There have been Nintendo NES and Gameboy inspired cases and even old school telephone receivers. Now you can celebrate the 25th anniversary of the Sega Genesis and the many Sega consoles and handhelds that came out afterward with a line of cases and battery packs…
This week we took a look at Quiz RPG: World of Mystic Wiz, a Japanese smartphone game that was only recently translated to English. The game mashes up casual RPG gameplay with trivia and card battling. It’s a unique deviation from a tried and true model of mobile gaming, and it’s a lot of fun…
US Senate Judiciary Subcomittee Chairman Al Franken is known for being a staunch privacy advocate. The comedian turned Senator from Minnesota is known for writing official letters asking the hard questions of governmental agencies and corporations alike. The latest letter from his office, with several other Senators signed on in support, is to Apple CEO…
The iPhone 5S and its little brother the iPhone 5C launched all over North America today. The customary lines outside the Apple stores and media hype blitz are in full effect and the words “iPhone” and “Apple” are on every newscaster’s lips. One of the new features of the iPhone 5S is the new fingerprint…
Xbox 360 owners have been taking advantage of Microsoft’s nifty SmartGlass feature for about a year now, using Windows or Android devices as second screens and controllers for Xbox games. Now Sony’s new companion app for its upcoming Playstation 4 console aims to offer the same kind of functionality. The PS4 app will let users…
Yahoo has updated its app to fit Apple’s new iOS 7 mobile operating system. What users get now is a more refined, lighter, more fluid experience. There are many changes added to the new app, including push notifications, an article saving feature called “My Saves,” and cinemagraphs. Cinemagraphs was added to the mix to bring…