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The Pebble smartwatch has been capturing plenty of attention around the web in a very short amount of time. It launched on Kickstarter about a week ago with a funding goal of $100,000. With 31 days remaining for the project, it already broke a new Kickstarter record: $3.77 million in funding. Pebble is a very…
Amazon is giving more power to developers, as the company is now allowing devs to charge higher prices for in-app buys thanks to new strengthened parental controls. The company sent out an e-mail to developers today that said: “With our parental controls functionality now updated, in-app items over $20 may now be submitted via the…
Walmart has a plan to revamp its stores with a fancy Apple store-within-a-store idea. This concept has appeared at a Walmart store in Arkansas, just 20 minutes from the giant merchandiser’s home office. The new look could expand to Sam’s Club as well. Design wise, the displays feature tall, double-sided, backlit graphics, a clean-looking wood table, live…
Popular Instapaper and Readability competitor Read It Later has totally rebranded. It’s now Pocket and it’s looking to be the latest cool app for saving content on the Internet for later. It also comes with a pleasant new price tag: free. What’s different about Pocket? Well, it takes somewhat of a different aim than Read…
We all love the awesome convenience we get with our smartphones, storing emails, photos, and videos in the cloud and on the go. Unfortunately, that kind of convenience comes with a bit of a price, especially when it comes to the environment. Have you ever thought about the energy it took to get all of…
Gameloft’s Dungeon Hunter 3 may have been greeted with less than stellar feedback from its hardcore fans for not only going the free-to-play route, but also taking the beloved mobile hack-n-slash RPG franchise and stripping it down to nothing more than an arena-style game. I personally rather enjoyed my experience, but one thing I felt…
Setster released an appointment scheduling API for DailyDeal companies, which could then provide the capability to their merchants. The problem merchants face when using DailyDeal sites is that they often find their manpower unable to tackle-on the vast interest these deals bring in, thus generating negative feedback for both the deal company and the merchant.…
O iPad WiFi + 4G, iPad WiFi + 4G, wherefore art thou iPad WiFi + 4G? As you might recall, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission (ACCC) is up in arms about the name of the iPad, specifically that pesky 4G moniker. Apple’s 3rd-generation iPad does indeed have a 4G LTE chip built into the…
Spotify took the US by storm last year after a successful launch in Europe. The music service offers free PC/Mac streaming for all users, with mobile listening added when you sign up for a $10 per month account. While $10 per month certainly sounds like a lot of money to shell out when there are…
Deep down inside, I have a thing for ultra low end phones. How little money can I spend on a device that will do damn near everything my high end smartphone does? Earlier today I was delighted to find out that the Samsung Galaxy Pocket is now available for preorder here in Finland. At 140…