The notion of signing up for automated calls and texts from a machine pretending to be your girlfriend sounds pathetic—and I don’t blame you for assuming it is. But here’s why it’s genius. Life is filled with horrible social obligations: forced conversations, stilted smalltalk, uncomfortable appearances. A girlfriend is the ultimate excuse. “I’m sorry, can’t make it, [...]
Homeless guy Mark aka “Madwhite” is raking in a lot more dough now that he accepts Square, Visa, MasterCard or DiscoverCard transactions. In fact, he’s making 4 times what he normally makes because he says now people can’t use the ”I have no cash” excuse. Smart. Once they swipe their credit card, he even lets them [...]
With iPhone day upon us, plenty of us are waiting with bated breath for what the iPhone 5 will truly be like. Even though, heh, we kinda already know. The New York Times has it that you’re in love with your iPhone. Really? All told, it reads similarly to an older study conducted on Apple fanboys to determine [...]
Google Maps has added a new Helicopter View to the navigation service, allowing users to preview their journey in 3D. Recognizing that many users want a more indicative – or at least entertaining – way of seeing their prospective route than either plain maps or birds-eye satellite imagery, the Helicopter View could even let you do your [...]
I never thought I would be excited about a wireless router until I saw the Linksys Home Multimedia Router. The Linksys Home Multimedia Router is a conceptual router designed by Nenad Rajcic to be more than just a small box with flashing lights. The router is designed to be a multimedia hub, letting you check [...]
You’ve known it was coming for quite some time, and now the dreaded day is finally upon you. If you’re among AT&T‘s most data-hungry cellular users, you’re about to feel the pinch. Back in July, the company announced that it would begin throttling the top 5% of its wireless data users in an effort to keep things running [...]
According to Chinese carrier China Unicom at Macworld Asia, the iPhone 5 will run on an HSPA+ network, offering an impressive max download speed of 21 mbps, up from the current max of 7.2 mbps. 4G LTE would’ve offered an ever bigger boost, but the technology probably won’t hit Apple products for a while given [...]
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Ad network InMobi has been asking its customers what they think of the rumored upcoming iPhone 5 (purportedly to be announced at the event in Cupertino next week), and as you might imagine, the response is overwhelmingly positive: 41% of current mobile customers in North America say that yes, they’re planning to buy an iPhone 5. [...]
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When we told you about Facebook’s upcoming new profiles, dubbed “Timelines,” we mentioned that the bold re-imagining of the Facebook experience was likely to give some users pause. If you’re feeling anxious about the pending changes, fret not. The above fan-made video, which brilliantly co-opts Don Draper’s infamous “Carousel Speech” to Kodak on Mad Men, will [...]
It took them awhile, but Flickr finally has an Android app. It provides plenty of browsing, uploading, and sharing features, much like its iPhone counterpart. Additionally, Flickr has added a neat feature called Photo Sessions, allowing you and your friends to view a slideshow of photos at the same time. It includes text chat, so everyone can [...]
Oddly enough, the Kindle Fire already feels like yesterday’s news. Why? Because Amazon won’t stop launching new products. Jeff Bezos just revealed the Kindle Touch here in New York City, noting that this guy’s using an IR touch system, similar to the latest Nook and Kobo, and there’s no keyboard (physical, anyway) to speak of. It’s slimmer, [...]
The iPhone 5 is coming. This is no rumor, no guesswork, no fuzzy photo taken by someone allegedly holding an iPhone 5 prototype. Apple has set the date and the place for a real product launch. Okay, I am getting ahead of myself a bit. The invite does not explicitly mention an iPhone 5. It just promises we’ll talk [...]
Five of the 20 best-selling casual game apps in Android’s Marketplace involve illegal drugs. Virtual illegal drugs, of course! Guess how many are available for the iPhone? Yep, zero. Franklin Brothers (not his real name), president of Grow Brothers, which developed Weed Farmer (it’s like Farmville, but with marijuana as the only crop), blames it on Apple’s closed app market. Grow [...]
Jim Dalrymple of The Loop has received an invitation from Apple (pictured below) for a press event to announce the new iPhone. It will occur on October 4 at Apple’s campus in Cupertino, starting at 10:00 AM PT. Please note that Apple’s typically terse invitation simply says “iPhone.” No “5,” no “4,” no “S.” Which model(s) [...]
Telstra customers woke up to a sun shower of good news this morning, when their provider’s new 4G LTE network went live in Australia — or within parts of it, at least. After months of development and a soft launch in late August, Telstra finally flipped the switch on its broadband network today, bringing LTE coverage to capital [...]
Over the weekend, Dave Winer wrote an article at Scripting.com explaining how Facebook keeps track of where you are on the web after logging in without your consent. Nik Cubrilovic dug a little deeper, and discovered that Facebook can still track where you are, even if you log out. Facebook, for its part, has denied the claims. Regardless of [...]
Amazon addicts and people who obsessively track packages may know this already, but pasting the tracking number into Google and hitting search will bring up a link to go directly to the package status page on whichever carrier has the package, saving you the hassle of figuring out which carrier has your package, visiting their [...]
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Facebook and Apple have reportedly long had a tense relationship, with leaders at both companies often butting heads. When Apple announced Twitter integration into iOS 5, Facebook was conspicuously absent from the new OS, with reports saying Cupertino had deemed Facebook-founder Mark Zuckerberg “a fucking asshole.” Facebook’s lack of an iPad app, a glaring omission [...]
9to5Mac is claiming some giant news about the next iPhone. The specs aren’t shocking: a generous 1 GB of RAM and the iPad 2′s A5 processor. But what Apple’s going to push hardest is Assistant: your iPhone talks to you. From 9to5Mac’s explanation based on “people familiar with the feature and SDK findings,” Siri-powered Assistant is going to [...]
Looking for someone to hang out with today? Grab your iPhone and slurp up the latest update to the Google+ app. Released on Friday, this refresh introduces Hangouts functionality to the iOS crowd, bringing them up to speed with Android users. The app’s Huddle feature, meanwhile, has been renamed as “Messenger,” and supports photos, as well. Plus, iPhone [...]
