Is FileSonic Toast? If you used the popular Torrent sharing site “FileSonic”, you may have noticed that the site has been down sense Wednesday. This comes a few months after the site started to limit what its users could upload and download, reportedly after MegaUpload had been raided by the FBI for copyrighted material. Eventually, completely disabling any… Read More
Got a 3GS? Why not trade up for a 4S? According to recent reports released by Apple, 3GS devices my be running low in the arsenal of their products. With a release date of late September moved forward to the 12th, the new iPhone5 looks like it may be pushing the (now 3 year old) iPhone 3GS to the curb. According to 9to5mac.com… “until further… Read More
BITESms half off from the big boss!! “ONE WEEK ONLY: biteSMS licenses on SALE HALF PRICE!!! Check out biteSMS, Settings, Themes…NICE!!! Added a ‘mark as read’ icon in the Apple banner roll notification. Added the ability to display the contact pic in the ‘Lock Screen Notification List’ (see biteSMS, Settings, More Stuff, Contact Pics). Better control of Quick Reply. See biteSMS,… Read More
Planning on “Jailbreaking” iOS6 Beta? If you have been following along with all of the guys who are behind the scenes of jailbreaking, then you already know. Some how, amazingly fast productivity has kept them on the heals of the the iOS6 developers. Releasing update after update of jailbreaks. Presently, you can upgrade your iDevice, by downloading the iOS6 firmware… Read More
Owe someone $1B? Why not pay in nickles? Samsung did. Ah never mind. This tuned out to be fake. Oh but I wish it was true. 🙂 This is just TOO good. I read a story in thepaperblog on how Samsung paid Apple in nickles! 30 Trucks full! Seems the laywer forgot to include any clause about HOW to make the payments. Nice. Seems… Read More
Use “DoubleTwist” as an “iTunes” for your Android device on your Mac Well if your like me and have an android device and are using a mac instead of a PC, then you know how much of a pain in the ass it is to figure out how to SYNC your music, photos, and videos with the Droid to your Mac. Well wait no more my friends!!!!… Read More
7 GREAT TWEAKS FOR YOUR iDEVICE THAT WILL GIVE IT A BETTER LOOK, FEEL, AND BETTER FUNCTIONALITY! Today it seems, that as soon as someone gets their first “iDevice” they “jailbreak” so they can customize it. But you really making the best of your devices use? Especially when you just put apps like, flashlight, and sounds boards. Here is a great list of 7 Tweaks that will make your spring board… Read More
Starbucks to start accepting square in the Fall with a $25M tip Just saw this on Squares website. This is a BIG win for the Square folks. This could be the tipping point for more established retailers to move to non credit card based virtual payment systems. This is not all of the news though, Starbucks is going to invest $25 million in Square as part of… Read More
An iphone projector. I can see this becoming a required business equipment. Video I was in brookstone a few weeks back and saw this; iphone pocket projector. This is not the first pico projector I have seen, but seeing it in brookstone means its crossing the mark from a specialty item you see at CES to an everyday item you will see most (semi) professionals carry around with… Read More
Augmented Reality Body Browser I am here at the Augmented Reality Event 2012 in Santa Clara and saw this rather cool demo from Daqri, a southern California augmented reality dev shop. This augmented reality application that runs on the iPad and I will call an AR body browser, allows users the ability to turn on and off various layers… Read More
The Pebble Smart watch gets shinier, and now there is a limit number of pebbles I could be wrong, but I think with the Pebble Smart watch, we are looking at the most successful kickstarter project I have seen, not that I have seen lots of kickstarter projects. Not only did these guys raise enough money to start the company; after being rejects by plenty of VC’s BTW, they are… Read More
T Mobile girl dons black leather; and T-Mobile gets to work Its been a while since the T Mobile Girl, Carley if you will, changed from her girly pink to a bit more edgy black leather, but still with pink accents mind you. So what does it mean? Is suppose to indicate an more aggressive T-Mobile that is going to try get back the customers it… Read More
70% drop in HTC Profits. Not a good sign, but not time to panic yet HTC has been the young upstart in the phone manufacturing business jumping fast on the Android train and getting a good chunk of the phone market after only 5 years. However, this year has not been so promising as shares of HTC fell on the Taiwan Stock Exchange after the company reported a sharp plunge… Read More
Tablets will be like calculators when I was a kid. But it wont be an iPad Late last year when the Kindle Fire came out, pundits were saying, ‘oh this is going to be an iPad killer’ To which most of us in tech with 1/2 a clue basically ignored them and instead asked who was going to win this new market and how long will it be till Apple looks… Read More
The World is Our Playground Charting unknown territory is definitely nothing new for the Danes. Danish companies such as Vestas, Lego, and Unity3D are conquering their industries in a way that would make their viking ancestors proud. Now entering this group is Playingmondo, a platform for creating and interacting with location based experiences. For those not familiar with location-based services,… Read More
Surprise! BlackBerry 10 OS is already being called a failure Research in Motion has become the mobile industry’s punching bag lately and today is no exception, with a new report saying its upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS is all-around awful. A new report from Boy Genius Report asserts that the upcoming BlackBerry 10 OS, which has already been pushed back until late 2012, is basically a… Read More
Year-end stats for smartphones show iPhone is for games, Android is for apps In 2011, the competition between Google Android devices and Apple iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch) became heated. But as new year-end data shows, consumers turned to the iPhone to play games while they enjoyed broader apps on Android. Clearly, the numbers show that iPhone consumers are using their devices for games, while Android users are… Read More
T-Mobile now has an iPhone friendly micro-Sim. Closer… Great, so now you can get a micro sim from T-Mobile. What does that mean? Well, you may know that over one million iphone are running on the T-Mobile network despite the fact that you cannot run 3G. However, what you may not know is that you have to take a pair of scissors (or… Read More
NFC payments, where Visa see’s it going. NFC payments are still trying to take hold, but while at MobileBeat, I’m listening to Bill Gajda, Head of Global Mobile Product, Visa Inc. about the future of NFC. He is saying that in NY taxi cabs and subways are starting to accept NFC payments. Big box stores are just starting to come on board… Read More